Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Our web application is at the heart of our busy e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases, but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalising specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is one of the UK's leading private shopping clubs, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

What we do: We're a software security consulting firm that helps build security into the SDLC. We work on a wide variety of projects involving static analysis, penetration testing, architecture review, threat modeling, etc. We deal mostly with the private sector and the types of applications we work with are varied from mobile to webapps to video games.

DO NOT apply directly to our website. Email your resume to dirtyb1t34@gmail.com

We're all consultants so we tend to travel a fair amount. As I said, the work is varied and you can really focus the type of work you do based on your interests and skills. It's definitely a fun place to work. The people here are really smart and there's lots of room to grow your skills. We're looking for everything from interns to principal consultants and we have positions open all over the place including: - Northern Virginia - Boston, MA - Santa Clara, CA - New York, NY - Bloomington, IN - London

You can read more about the jobs here: http://www.cigital.com/careers/jobs/

Conductor is changing the way marketing thinks about SEO. Our Searchlight platform collects and analyzes more than 4 TB of internet search data each week. Clients use our data to create better content on their websites and optimize for natural search.

Collecting huge amounts of heterogenous data is not an easy engineering feat and we're leveraging some of the newest open source technology to make Searchlight. Java forms the backbone of our server side architecture with Hadoop, Mongo , Redis and Kafka running in the database. The client side of our stack includes Javascript, JQuery, backbone.js and handlebars. Engineers commit code daily, we push to production often, and we are quick to iterate to make our process better.

We're looking for engineers to join our Infrastructure and Applications Teams. Knowledge and interest in one or more of the technologies listed above is a requirement. Besides the technical stuff we like to hire folks who have a genuine curiosity in learning how stuff works.

You can take a look through our open roles and apply here: http://www.conductor.com/about/careers/engineering

http://yearbookmachine.com/jobs/graduate-php-developer

Yearbook Machine is a fast-growing technology startup company, supplying leavers' yearbooks to schools and universities across the UK and Europe. Since being founded in 2009 by recent Cambridge and UCL graduates who noticed a gap in the market when making their own leavers' yearbook, we have had considerable success: over the past two years our sales have grown more than tenfold and we are now the market leader in the UK. After a particularly successful academic year in 2012-2013, we’re expanding our development team and are now looking for an ambitious Junior / Graduate Developer to help us to continue to grow.

Your job will involve working on many different aspects of our software and technology systems. We’ve managed to automate a highly complex design process, allowing us to create customised book layouts at the push of a button. This has involved bringing together many of the latest and most exciting software technologies and combining them in new ways to build a genuinely innovative piece of engineering. While we won’t expect you to understand it all straight away, you’ll be given the freedom to work on whichever parts of the system most interest you, and will be supported by the rest of the development team in learning the best practices of modern software engineering. This will include opportunities to get involved with: front-end development using the latest OOP JavaScript frameworks, back-end development, DevOps and automated server provisioning using Chef and Vagrant, automated testing, continuous integration and automated layout design.

Working at Yearbook Machine is not the corporate grind: we’re a small group of like-minded, focused individuals working to create a product we genuinely believe in. We work hard but our environment is relaxed and friendly. Our office is based in a light and airy converted warehouse in central Shoreditch, which we share with another design startup. We're currently a team of just 6 people, 5 of whom are developers.

Requirements

  - 2:1 above in Computer Science or other similarly technical degree subject
  - Experience with OOP and at least some knowledge of modern software development paradigms such as MVC
  - A genuine passion for technology: we’ll be interested to see what you’ve been doing in your spare time!

  - Highly competitive, above-market salary
  - Generous stock options
  - The best equipment: Your choice of computer and monitor(s) and a comfortable chair
  - Job satisfaction: we make a product that is fun to build and that our customers love!