Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Platform Engineer at social data mining startup Little Bird http://getlittlebird.com/blog

Little Bird is looking for a full-time platform engineer to join our development team in Portland, Oregon. You will collaborate with smart and passionate colleagues to help make the server, database, processing, and logic of our innovative web application shine.

About Little Bird

Little Bird offers technologies and services to help our customers grow their knowledge, influence, and business in today’s complex and noisy social world. Whether you're looking to quickly understand who matters in topics that vary as widely as data science or ceramics, engage with the thought leaders in neuroscience or digital story-telling, or monitor the entire field of web comics or astronauts, Little Bird is ready. We're a small team of eight, based in Portland, Oregon, and are expanding quickly thanks to strong investment, prominent recognition, and a growing customer base.

Essential Responsibilities

* Able to communicate effectively with other development team members as well as with all other Little Bird team members. * Able to work independently when given a clear mission. * Able to ask for help when stuck. * Able to ground work within user experience and technical contexts and priorities based on Little Bird’s overall business and technology goals.

Qualifications

Required * Several years of engineering experience. * Knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails or Sinatra, as well as template languages such as ERB. * Familiarity with database query languages and experience with databases like MySQL, CouchDB, and/or MongoDB. * Experience with API data retrieval. * Excitement to live the startup life.

Desired * You want your data endeavors to exceed Abraham Wald's statistical insights during World War II. * You've worked through Leonhard Euler's Königsberg bridge problem. * You can eyeball a function and tell what will happen when it scales from processing ten objects an hour to one million objects an hour. * You can look at code and tell whether programmers were happy/frustrated/drunk when they wrote it.

To apply

Please submit an email with the following links/docs to jobs@getlittlebird.com

* A short introduction to yourself and why you want to work for Little Bird * A PDF of your resume/CV and/or link to your Linkedin page * Link to your github repository * Link to your twitter account

Applications close Wednesday, June 5th

Sococo - Mountain View, CA / Iowa City, IA / Eugene, OR

http://www.sococo.com

Sococo is seeking a full-time Mac OS/iOS developer who has a passion for user interfaces. We've recently deployed the first mobile version of Sococo Team Space on the iPad and we are looking for a creative, flexible engineer to help launch our upcoming iPhone app and enhance and build new features for our iPad and Mac desktop apps.

Must Have - At least 2 years experience in Objective-C, iOS/MacOS - Deep demonstrable knowledge of UIKit/AppKit - An eye for beautiful UI, and the tenacity to get it right - Delivered a consumer product on iOS/Mac OS

Should Have - Experience with CALayers or lower rendering tech - pthread-level multi-threaded programming experience

Nice to Have - Experience with streaming voice and video

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=5598774

Birmingham, UK - Full time - Web Developer

We're a well funded Birmingham based startup looking for a talented developer to join our team. We're a team of three developers growing to six over the next couple of months.

Open to applications from a diverse range of backgrounds, whether you're an experienced dev with commercial experience, university graduate or not done/completed a degree. Just have a passion for development and a project or two to show us.

Key points

  - You'll have experience with PHP. We run Hiphop, make use of Unit Tests and create/path extensions as necessary.
  - You will be designing and working from several internal APIs, and experience with APIs (public or private) is good.

Whats in it for you?

  - Your an early hire - competitive salary and equity.
  - Equipment of your choice.
  - Nice offices based in the Custard Factory.
  - Flexible work hours and days.
  - Free drinks/snacks, cinema pass / gym membership.

If you're interested send me an email - alex [at] hobzy.com

Brightcove - Boston, MA - Android

Brightcove is a leading online video platform. http://www.brightcove.com/

Android Specialist. We are looking for someone to join our team working on native video SDKs. We are a small team of 3 working on iOS and Android. We plan on expanding to other platforms, possibly Xbox, Roku, etc. Right now we looking for someone to come in and own our Android SDK, but who also isn't afraid to hack on some iOS or other platforms if needed.

You:

    - Have current experience working with the Android SDK,
      though you may also have a background in JavaScript,
      Flex/AS3, Silverlight, Cocoa, or WPF.
    - Are able to think within the constraints of memory and
      network availability, yet still deliver sophisticated
      end user interactivity.
    - Understand the importance of proper version control
      and dependency management.  You love Git and Maven, or
      want to teach us how to use better tools.
    - Probably have strong opinions on programming
      languages, tools, and software architecture, but
      aren’t beholden to dogma – you are as interested in
      learning from others as you are in sharing your own
      ideas.

Us:

We foster an atmosphere of learning and knowledge sharing by having regular lunch tech talks and also hosting many Boston-area developer meetups after-hours. Our engineers have 20%-time projects, unlimited vacation, freedom to work from home, and a great office overlooking the water by South Station. But these are just the perks. The real reason we’re here is to make great things.

Not required, but we'd be impressed if you also have:

    - Experience programming with media playback technology
      (any platform)
    - Development experience on iOS, MacOSX, Windows Phone,
      or game consoles (Xbox/PS3)
    - Experience/interest in using RxJava and functional
      reactive programming
    - Links to published apps or your contributions to open
      source projects

Brightcove has more openings Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, our web player has been downloaded more than 10,000 times. If you want a challenge, apply today at http://www.brightcove.com/en/company/careers/.

Seattle - Front-End Web Developer (Full-Time)

Full Circle (http://www.fullcircle.com/)

technology.jobs@fullcircle.com

We are a small team of developers supporting a growing organic grocery delivery business. Originally started by a farmer right outside of Seattle, Full Circle now serves much of Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and we've more recently expanded to include the Bay Area.

Ordered from most important down to least -

You should be:

- super comfortable in HTML, CSS, and rudimentary javascript at the very least

- very familiar with jQuery, AJAX, and web dev tools like Firebug and/or Chrome Developer Tools

- familiar with Photoshop (or GIMP) as well as basic Wordpress usage

- comfortable using Git and a linux shell, e.g. bash

You would hopefully be:

- experienced with LESS, Handlebars.js, Backbone.js

If would be awesome if you were:

- familiar with Google Analytics

- capable in Ruby (Rails)

- experienced templating in PHP