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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Beer/Wine Industry | Philadelphia, PA / Burlington, VT

Vermont Information Processing is seeking more devs to help us continue to lead the way in business solutions for beverage suppliers, distributors and retailers. We work with the largest brewers to the latest craft sensations.

Positions available:

- Java web services dev for our growing service-oriented architecture

- Xamarin .NET/C# dev for cross-platform mobile apps

- Full stack dev (PHP, JS) for our middleware and everything around it

VIP is an Employee Owned Company (ESOP) with a long, successful and profitable history. So the phrase "act like an owner" is actually reality here.

The Philly branch office is located just north of the border in Trevose.

Contact michael (at) vtinfo.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Komponant - Bangkok/Remote - CTO/Cofounder

Komponant (Techgrind Incubator W15 batch) is seeking a Cofounder/CTO to help us create a new music application, SING. To create vocals, music producers still have to resort to traditional, costly, time-consuming, uncertain methods. SING will enable them to create perfect vocals in the box, eliminating the need for singers, hardware equipment and live rooms. It will also open mind-blowing creative possibilities. Together we can make a big impact on the music industry by introducing a disruptive innovation. We will work together to specify, design, and build our first product, SING. Your skill sets : - Core OO language skills (C++) - required - Web-app front-ends & back-ends - a bonus - Experience in Text-To-Speech technology - a bonus - Experience in Audio Engineering & Signal Processing - a bonus You also need to be able to find elegant solutions to complex problems, and to have a strong interest for music/music technology. You will get the chance, if so desired, to work in a rewarding environment in central Bangkok (work permit included). Your application will be considered regardless of where you live. Remote collaboration and company retreats on a Thai tropical island sound just great! This is your chance to grow, learn, and drive innovation. More info, demo, and contact: www.komponant.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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NoRedInk in San Francisco (or remote, up to 6h time zone difference from Pacific) Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but while some student's cant even right the write words. Then there was NoRedInk. NoRedInk helps students quickly improve their grammar and writing skills. We've got a small, technically excellent engineering team. We exte…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that your job search has been frustrating, and I'm sorry you felt misled by our careers page. I'd prefer not to comment on our decision in this public forum, but feel free to reach out to me offline (you have my contact information of course) if you'd like to discuss further.

Then you should change your job description so you can quit wasting everybody’s time, having to reject candidates who don’t fit your mysterious criteria. Also, “good fit” is one of the reasons our industry is so stuck in white male hegemony. Just saying.

The nature of your responses suggest you probably weren't rejected solely for your work history.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Pachyderm (YC W15) - SF Bay Area We're building an open source ecosystem of infrastructure tools for collaborating on large-scale data analytics. Learn what we're about: https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop... . Looking for our first hire (company is just founders right now). Smart, ambitious engineers who think there should be a better alternative to Hadoop. Our codebase is written in Go, but…

https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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San Francisco, CA | Web Developer (frontend, backend, sql) Brain Health Registry We're working to accelerate the development of cures for brain disorders by driving down the time and cost of finding research participants through an innovative online registry. Seeking a developer who excels at Javascript & UX/UI and is no slouch when it comes to backend or SQL. Bonus points if you know our stack (C#/MVC/Azure), but ex…

Your link is broken. I think this one is the same thing: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/employer/Brain%20Heal... Also, is Remote an option?

Doh! That was the backend link. That's the position. Here's the proper link: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/86788/web-developer-b...

I'm open to remote and have floated the idea. Willing to press the issue for an great candidate.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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SmartGift | New York (NYC) | Senior Software Engineer | on-site preferred, but REMOTE for the right person (with occasional travel to NYC)

We're building the next generation of gifting and we're looking for a senior full-stack web engineer to help us.

If you like working fast, building REST APIs that will be used by millions and creating complicated e-commerce systems, we want you. You'll be given responsibility, freedom, challenges, and the chance to determine your workplace. Not to mention, we offer more equity than you could get at most places.

If you think of technical debt like a curse that will come back to haunt your future self, contact me (Matthew Davidson) at matthew at smartgift.it.

If you're looking for a little puzzle to do, write a code snippet (in any language) that converts the word "hiring" into decimal Unicode points and then concatenates their decimal representations back into a string. Use that string as an email address to apply (E.g., the word "hey" would be 104101121@smartgift.it). Be sure to attach the code snippet as well as a cover letter and resume.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Tolq.com | Amsterdam / The Hague, Netherlands | Developer, Frontender

Tolq.com is a young, fast growing startup, working hard on making translation of websites as easy as a couple of clicks.

Our solution is a javascript snippet placed in a website. After the client places an order via our platform, they are served with a translation by professional translators. We provide both the interface for the client as for the translators.

Our backend is mostly written in Rails frontend by React. We also have some Node parts lingering around, some Clojure and generally, we're very open to trying new things.

We are a easygoing, flexible startup. We value autonomous, creative work where you grow with the company. You can work from anywhere as long as you enjoy what you do and love creating beautiful code.

See http://www.tolq.com/jobs for full details and contact information.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Mirror | San Francisco | Software Engineer, Interface Engineer (Web, QT), Product Designer Mirror is a smart contracts platform. We are leveraging blockchain technology to provide hedging and risk management tools that are more accessible, affordable, and globally available than their contemporary counterparts, and with minimized counterparty and clearing risk. Our vision is to realize the promise of the Bitcoin bloc…

What are the killer advantages of using a distributed ledger for storing contracts as opposed to centralised ledgers? Are you going to spin up an altcoin or are you planning to try and stuff your contracts into Bitcoin transactions?

We have no plans to support any coins other than Bitcoin, though our platform is being built in a way that it could if any gain similar adoption and acceptance as Bitcoin. We'll leave that to the market. And our platform writes only the multisig transaction to the blockchain, the irl data and everything else is offchain, client and mempool only.

Decentralized, p2p ledgers are thus far good at a subset of contracts in which no off-ledger is enforcement is required. Aka, they're good at cash-settled (bitcoin-settled) contracts, in which all parts of the contract creation, joining, settlement, and clearing can be cryptographically enforced, and a real-world legal system is not required to guarantee ownership transfer.

For example, if you want to sell the title to your house or car, if there are problems or disputes the real world isn't going to recognize some title transfer deal done on the blockchain and you'll have to resort to the irl legal system anyway. But any kind of pure financial contract is potentially game.

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