Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

-- Principal Front-end Engineer --

Symantec's eBusiness team is rebuilding our global stack with one that relies on modern open source technologies. We do over a billion in revenue online each year. We are seeking an experienced engineer to be a technical lead for the front-end engineering team.

You write code every day, enjoy delivering complex projects, are passionate about leadership, and looking to grow into a management role. You make others around you better and people love working with you.

Skills:

Great developer and teacher

Strong understanding of utilizing MV* for front-end applications

Experience developing, deploying, and running NodeJS applications in production

Please reach out to peter_mcrae at symantec.com.

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Available roles [1]:

Head of Finance

Product Manager (Synthesis)

Senior Software Engineer

Technical Project Manager

Production Manager (Shenzhen)

Graphic Designer

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We are a design and technology startup based in Dalston, London. Founded in 2009 by Roland Lamb, our products increase the bandwidth of interaction between people and technology. The Seaboard GRAND is our first product and demonstrates our patent-pending SEA Interface technology. Praised by Hans Zimmer, it has been pre-ordered in over 30 countries and won the Design Museum's Product of the Year Award 2014. Our recent Series A of $12.8m [2] has just been followed by $3.7m with Horizons Ventures to scale production and build our presence across Asia [3].

We pride ourselves in making ROLI a great place to work and are looking for the right people to grow our team. If you are looking for a healthy and challenging working environment in a vibrant London startup, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

If you are interested, feel free to contact me directly at jack [at] roli [dot] com. Highlights include:

• Join a fast-­growing team with an exceptionally diverse range of skills, interests and talents

• Participate in cutting­-edge design and innovation that will change the way people physically interact with technology

• Take advantage of our in­ house recording studio, fully equipped kitchen and state­-of-­the-­art design lab

• Enjoy a daily team vegetarian lunch and fresh bread baked daily in the office, limitless home­made GOLDnola and the outpourings of our juicer

[1] https://www.roli.com/careers

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/05/21/rolis-new-mus...

[3] https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/horizons-ventures-backs-roli/

—— About us ——

Kifi.com is a recommendations network, designed to help us outsmart information overload together. As Kifi automatically learns your interests and your friends’ interests, it helps you find and discover only the good stuff, from the right people at the right time -- anytime, anywhere. We're well funded and are growing quickly.

We use several fun technologies like Scala, Lucene, Akka, Play Framework, browser extensions, AngularJS, Gulp, etc.

—— Front-end Engineer ——

Build the product, bridging our backend to an excellent user experience. Day to day, you will work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create a modern and easy-to-use product. You’ll strongly influence which technologies we use across our whole stack and how we incorporate them. We use AngularJS, gulp, etc.

• Highly proficient in JavaScript and HTML/CSS

• Well versed in HTTP semantics and web API design principles

• Good knowledge of at least one backend programming language

• Comfortable learning and using new web technologies to build rich applications (think WebSockets, MutationObservers, CSS Transforms, SVG …)

—— Mobile engineer ——

Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. Define and implement APIs (library and network) for mobile apps. Our mobile engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (storage, server, multiple mobile platforms).

• Prior iOS or Android experience

• Passionate about user experience

—— Lead Designer ——

We’re looking for a talented designer to join our founding team. You will be working closely with our founders and our experienced team (previously from Google, Facebook and Linkedin). You will be responsible for all design aspects of our consumer product, UI/UX Design, mobile design, website design, and brand design.

• Passionate about understanding consumers needs and designing accordingly

• Loves designing for a variety of platforms and products (web, mobile, tablets, etc.)

• Know which details matter and when to push back and say “no.”

• Communicate your designs to the team with patience while being open to feedback

—— Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer ——

Kifi is dealing with massive amounts of user events, analytics data, social graphs and web documents. You will be asked to design and build a new breed of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval systems that will be of large scale with tight throughput and latency requirements.

• Proficient in at least one JVM language and can easily pick up Scala

• Passion for elegant and efficient algorithms and data structures

• Experience with implementing high quality ML/IR systems

There's a few more positions listed at https://www.kifi.com/about/join_us. If you're interested, the best contact address is careers@kifi.com. If you have any questions or want to chat more about what we're working on, feel free to drop me a line directly at andrew@kifi.com.

We're looking for

* A Rails backend person. Postgres, Rails 3.1. Knowledge of AWS is a big plus.

* An Android person, with deep knowledge of Android, including the whole OS (Cyanogen mod). Some design skills along with this would be nice.

Other stuff that's nice: Erlang, C++ (Qt).

It's a good company, doing something that helps people in the real world. The wages are good by Italian standards (at least 1600 net, and willing to discuss working with a Partita IVA), but Italian wages are in general not that high .

Pure remote work is probably not something that would work well, since you need to be able to interact with the machines we work on. Some remote work might be ok if you're able to come in often.

Contact: davidw@dedasys.com

Informa Investment Solutions, Inc. is seeking a senior developer to join our web applications team at our office on the shores of Lake Tahoe. If you love designing and building modern, responsive web applications that make it easy for business users to run sophisticated investment analysis software, we would like to talk to you. We’re an established company with actual paying customers and we want to make our little corner of the world a better place for our users.

We use standards-based HTML, JavaScript and CSS, along with state of the art technologies – Canvas, SVG, RequireJS, Backbone, Marionette, and LESS – to build cross-browser interfaces and advanced data visualizations. The backend is a mixture of C#, Java, C++ because we believe in using the right tool for the job, and we are regularly evaluating our tools to ensure that. Our development process is agile and we release our web products approximately once a month.

Our offices are a five minute walk from the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe and Heavenly ski resort is a fifteen minute drive from the office. As a developer you’ll also get your own private office and even though we mostly develop on Windows, all our developers have Mac hardware. We prefer to hire generalists who are as curious and excited about technology as we are. All of us enjoy learning new technologies and tools; we have a small team and each developer should be able to work on every aspect of the system.

To get a feel for one of our software products, please visit zephyrondemand.com and click Try Zephyr Analytics.

Please note: this is a full-time position in our Zephyr Cove office. Remote work will be considered based on experience, but total travel time to the Zephyr office can be no longer than 3 hours. If you're interested, please email matt.motherway -at- informais.com (and put “Hacker News” in the subject). Thank you.