Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)

Multiple Positions: Data Engineering, Data Science, Frontend, Full Stack

“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist, January 16, 2016

Powering applications from consumer electronics to the IoT, EVs, medical, aerospace, and grid storage, batteries enable our modern world. However battery performance remains the key bottleneck impeding adoption of these technologies. Voltaiq is changing that, using software.

Voltaiq is developing a powerful cloud-based platform for data analytics, machine learning, and visualization to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and battery-powered products. We have customers, recurring revenue, and funding, and we’re growing our team to meet customer demand. We’re growing our team (currently 6) with product-focused developers who have a passion for shipping well-crafted software.

Candidates should be:

- Strong coders in one or more of: Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, Go.

- Experienced with Git, development on Linux/*nix, SQL and relational databases.

- Degree holders in CS, Physics, Math, Engineering, or related, and interest in energy and solving hard science problems using data.

- US Citizens.

Some specifics:

Data Engineer / Data Scientist

- Advanced database usage including scaling, distributed systems, ETL pipelines from multiple different data sources.

- Python analysis tools: numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, and machine learning, supervised learning, neural and bayesian networks, advanced statistics.

Frontend

- AngularJS, SASS or similar.

- Frontend build tools: gulp, bower, nodejs, obfuscation, minification.

Full Stack

- Web framework (eg Django) and deployment stack (cookies, sessions, websockets).

- Asynchronous messaging (eg ZeroMQ).

- Webserver deployment: AWS, Salt, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.

Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.

Send a resume to jobs@voltaiq.io.

Thanks, HN!

Digital H2O, a water-focused SaaS company, is looking for talented software engineers to join us in building products to solve the challenge of sustainably managing, monitoring, and forecasting water supply and demand in cost-effective ways.

Digital H2O offers an agile work environment where you can have a large impact on the direction and success of the company. As a Senior Software Engineer you are given the opportunity to own products and features from start to finish, design to delivery, using the best tools for the job at hand. In return we offer a competitive salary, full health benefits, 401K matching, annual bonuses, relocation assistance, a generous paid vacation policy, and more.

There are many products a Senior Software Engineer has the opportunity to help us build, including:

  - Our water market intelligence platform using Python, MongoDB, Pandas, AWS, and more to build a comprehensive view into the world of water demand and supply
  - Water forecasting and modeling analytics using Python, Scikit-Learn, and proprietary machine learning techniques
  - Customer-facing Data APIs powered by NodeJS, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS
  - Platform designed for receiving and analyzing real-time industrial water data from  field deployed remote monitoring sensors
  - New products from the ground up

  - Significant software development experience and language familiarity (Python is our primary language but we believe talented engineers can quickly learn new languages)
  - Comfort and familiarity with at least one SQL or NoSQL database
  - Experience with developing and consuming web services and SaaS products
  - Strong collaboration and communication skills to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

  - 3+ years professional experience
  - Experience scaling data and infrastructure to one, to ten, to hundreds of terabytes, and beyond
  - Familiarity with Amazon AWS
  - A love of Pandas, NumPy and other Python data packages
  - A degree in computer science, statistics, environmental science, or related STEM field
  - An ambition for solving complex problems while working both autonomously and with a team

Not complaining or anything, but it would be good to set the expectation straight beforehand.