Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

I’m looking for the right person to lead a small data engineering team, which is part of a larger (50+ person) global engineering team building Aladdin Wealth (https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin/products/aladdin-wealth), a revenue-generating FinTech SaaS product for the wealth management industry. We apply BlackRock's sophisticated risk analytics to millions of individual investors' portfolios to help them and their financial advisors create better portfolios. We have live production clients in 15+ countries around the world and we process and analyze millions of real customer portfolios on a daily basis.

You will have the opportunity to dive deep into the business, learning Aladdin, portfolio management, investment analytics (factor risk models, VaR, tracking error, historical scenarios, etc), and the wealth management industry. I lead the global engineering team and this role will report directly to me. Full job descriptions and application instructions at the below link, but you can reach out to me directly if interested: msahn@blackrock.com

https://blackrock.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/BlackRock_Profession...

Role/responsibilities:

* Manage and lead a small team of Data Engineers working primarily in Python, but with some R and Perl, as well

* Be a hands-on engineer, developing and releasing code, yourself, and reviewing PRs from your team

* Work closely with Product Managers and Implementation team to build robust and efficient data pipelines through automation

* Work with other engineering team leads and partners to continuously improve operational processes and procedures

* Design and develop data analysis tools to generate actionable insights based on customer and team generated requirements

Note for VISA applicants: We can only consider applicants that are already in the US with existing work authorization (H1B transfers, OPT, etc).

On REMOTE work: We do not offer fully remote work, so you must be in the US already and able to work from our NYC office at least 3 days a week. You can work remotely from home up to 2 days per week.

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. The Search Orchestration Layer team at Etsy builds and maintains the bridge between Etsy’s user experience and our search models that help Etsy buyers and sellers discover and celebrate handmade goods from all over the world.

We are currently looking for senior engineers specializing in Scala or Rust who have experience working within either search, data platforms & pipelines, infrastructure and observability.

Role description is here: https://careers.etsy.com/global/en/job/JR1115/Senior-Scala-E...

We are a new stealth robotics company working on something big, a bit about us: - Seasoned founders comprised of serial entrepreneurs and industry leaders. - Top-notch engineering team comprised of people from Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Zoox, Google, Cornell. - Decades of experience in autonomous driving, augmented reality and AI. - $XX million seed-stage from top tier Silicon Valley VCs. - Two engineering offices in Palo Alto, California and London, UK. - Competitive base pay, very meaningful equity with employee friendly terms, and great benefits.

We are looking for: - Video Streaming Engineer (Gstreamer, h264, WebRTC) - Embedded Engineer (Development of drivers for RTOS Linux, HIL, ISO-26262) - Mechatronics Engineer (HW / SW integration and testing, sensors, CAD)

If you are someone who enjoys building new things and want to hear more please consider applying to join our team in Palo Alto, CA or London, UK (remote positions also welcomed) please reach out to jobs@orcamobility.ai

Does writing a protobuf message excite you? What about the term “service mesh”? Are you driven by high quality code, risk isolation, and fault tolerance? Great, keep reading.

We’re on the hunt for a talented Senior and Mid-Level Backend Engineers that will help transform the ancient world of specialty insurance with robust, distributed systems and clean, backend API architectures. We are converting prior monolith architectures to microservices and rapidly adding various system integrations as the product matures.

PolicyFly offers competitive pay and meaningful equity in an early stage (yet stable and well funded) startup!

With customers in the UK and US, PolicyFly has grown quickly to become the market leader as a best-in-class platform for specialty insurers to transact and bind insurance worldwide.

Technologies: Go, gRPC, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Python, etc.

To learn more and apply for one of these roles, please visit: https://jobs.lever.co/PolicyFly

Fern Creek Software is hiring experienced software engineers to join our fully remote team. Experience with specific tech stacks isn't a requirement, we're looking for individuals with a track record of solving difficult technical problems.

Our interviewing process is straight forward. Get to know some of our current senior engineers, then a small take home project you'll be compensated for. No LeetCode. No whiteboarding.

If you're interested email me at anthony.minor@ferncreeksoftware.com