Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

Verivo Software - Waltham, MA, USA & London, UK - http://www.verivo.com/

We offer a mobile enterprise app development platform, have established our business and are growing rapidly. A sample from our over 200 clients include: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Ameriprise, CSX, Allstate, Thomson Reuters and First Solar. We're looking for talented

* Software Engineers - Client side (iOS/Android/BB/WP/HTML5) and Server side (.NET/IIS stack)

* QA/Automation Engineers

* UI Engineers

* Product Managers

* Enterprise Sales Representatives

For more details, check out our careers page: http://www.verivo.com/about-us/careers/

If interested, feel free to reach out to me: ntikku@verivo.com

Cambridge, MA / San Francisco, CA - Full Time or Intern

Web Developer at Locu (http://www.locu.com)

# Exceptional software engineering talent

# Exceptional cross-browser JavaScript/jQuery, HTML and CSS skills, or the ability to learn quickly

# Experience with Python / Django is a plus

# Previous experience building rich, interactive websites

# Basic design skills (Photoshop), ability to work with designers

# Experience in designing dashboards and user interfaces is a plus

# Previous start-up experience is a plus

Front-enders, "desingineers" and full-stack all welcome for this position - as long as you enjoy hacking on cool new products and features. :D (We're not explicitly recruiting for pure backend or pure design positions right now, but we're open to resumes there as well - see http://locu.com/#jobs for details. If you're a perfect fit, we'll find a way to make it work.)

Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) by creating the world's largest semantically-annotated repository of real-time small-business data. We are about to launch MenuPlatform " rel="nofollow">http://www.menuplatform.com>, our first product, which helps restaurants better manage their online presence.

Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@locu.com. Please specify which position you're applying for, as well as "HN", in the subject of your letter. Learn more about our open positions at http://www.locu.com/#Jobs

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Founded less than a year ago by MIT graduates and researchers, Locu http://www.locu.com> has the backing and support of some of the best angel investors in the country. We are looking for more exceptional talent to join our team and help us achieve our vision. We are committed to building a cutting-edge technology giant with a fun and challenging work environment. We have a culture optimized for learning and continuous improvement. We are 10 people with very diverse backgrounds, and growing.

Toronto, Ontario (Mississauga) – Vena Solutions (http://venasolutions.com)

Vena Solutions is a pioneer in a new area known as Spreadsheet Process Management (SPM). We deliver a next generation software solution for business-critical spreadsheets in the Finance and Accounting departments of companies. Our flagship product, Vena SPM, delivers the only complete web-based spreadsheet management solution in the market. We are looking for passionate developers and engineers who are looking to join the ranks of a top-notch team where people have fun and strive to create innovative software.

Responsibilities Include: - Participating in the entire software development cycle - Analyzing, designing, and developing new features and products - Solving complex business problems for our world-class client organizations - Building new software on the latest technologies

Skills and Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or closely related field - Software development experience using an Object Oriented programming language like Java, C++ or C# - Strong command of Object Oriented design and development - Sound knowledge of Software development practices - Strong verbal and written communication skills

Additional Assets: - Hands-on experience in Java - Hands-on experience in JavaScript - Hands-on experience with SQL databases - Exposure to REST and/or web services

For more information about Vena Solutions please visit our website at www.venasolutions.com To apply please email careers@venasolutions.com and include 'HN' or 'Hacker News' in the subject

Mountain View, CA - fulltime or intern

Room 77 - https://www.room77.com

We're changing travel search by giving people full transparency in their search for a perfect hotel stay. Using the staggering amount of data we've collected and analyzed, we'll actually find and request the best hotel room for you. Some projects you'll work on:

- computer-generating views from any room in the world

- building the first deep-text hotel search engine (eg. search "eiffel tower views" in Paris or "jetted bathtub" in New York)

- super-fast search across all major providers (we show Expedia results faster than Expedia)

- finding better ways to extract and expose data like hotel freebies and fees

...and many other things that contribute to a fast, easy travel planning experience.

If you're interested in information retrieval, machine learning, NLP, or computer visualization, you'll have a great time solving brand new problems and creating a genuinely improved and useful hotel search.

Check out our jobs page: https://www.room77.com/jobs.html?s=HN

LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA. Local only. Our search back-end team is growing, and we are looking for an experienced manager for it. Job description pasted below.

Email dbasch AND iperisic at linkedin dot com

Responsibilities:

· You will lead an innovative team of software developers to design, build and maintain our search infrastructure. · You'll lead through uncertainty and collaborate with other engineering teams, Business Development, Legal, and teams across the organization to make things happen to achieve desired results.

Requirements:

· Deep Software Technical Skills: You are deeply technical, understand how to break down problems and design extensible solutions. You have ample development experience in Java (preferably also C++ or other JVM-based languages such as Scala), as well as scripting languages. You know how to scale systems to a billion calls per day, how to parallelize requests, and how to build infrastructure and APIs for softwareservices. You have experience building large-scale information retrieval solutions, and understand search engines inside and out. You are intimately familiar with concepts such as garbage collection algorithms, parsing, lexing, building inverted indexes, ranking algorithms, etc. You have deep knowledge of the fundamental concepts discussed in books such as Modern Information Retrieval or Managing Gigabytes. · You likely have a BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or closely related field.

· Management and Cross-Organizational Influence: You have demonstrated successful leadership in building and leading small, high-performance engineering teams. You understand the value of relationships and are highly effective at influencing cross-organizational teams to implement internal component APIs to meet the needs of external consumers. You communicate effectively to all levels inside the company and with partners. · You're a very hands-on technical manager who can influence and lead the architecture, design and development of a scalable, high performance, and high reliability platform.