Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

We are looking for energetic full stack Technologists to join our team at Big Spaceship. Big Spaceship is a digital agency in Brooklyn that brings together product design, brand communications, and social content to help businesses thrive. We’re also a little weird, extremely collaborative, and sometimes communicate entirely in gifs and emojis.

This role is part of the larger technology team. You will work day in and day out with a great, full-service digital team to find innovative solutions to brand challenges and bring digital campaigns, platforms, and services to market. You will not simply be responsible for coding; you will be an integral part of shaping our clients’ brands through concepting and technology. We are looking for someone who loves to wear multiple hats, who pushes the whole team to produce more compelling work, and who can bring something unique to the table with both creativity and technical skill.

ROLE + RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Collaborate with designers, strategists, analysts, and developers to create compelling campaigns, platforms, and services

- Drive innovation in both our clients’ and Big Spaceship’s systems, processes, and technology stacks

- Spark creativity across the entire team

- Track industry trends and find opportunities to apply them to our work

- Mentor and train junior developers

- Help source and vet technology partners that can bring the work to the next level

SKILLS + EXPERIENCE:

- 3-5 years of front-end development experience in an agency environment or similar

- 1-3 years of experience with a modern JavaScript framework (Angular, Backbone, Ember, etc.)

- Understanding of MVC concepts, preferably with experience applying them in JavaScript

- Expert knowledge of XHTML, HTML5, CSS3

- Experience with responsive web design techniques

- 1-3 years experience in backend languages like PHP or Python

- 1-3 years experience in SQL or noSQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL, Mongodb, etc.)

- Experience with Git or Mercurial version control

- Experience using JIRA or a similar issue tracker and project management tool

- Strong communication and problem-solving skills

- A passion for digital culture and inventing solutions to tomorrow’s challenges today

- The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across disciplines

To apply please visit http://www.bigspaceship.com/careers/#technologist-full-stack

1aim - Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time, Visa

1aim started 3 years ago as a technology company. We develop (and manufacture) hardware, create software solutions and provide IT-Infrastructure. Our first products are access systems and we are now expanding our offering to new smart home/building automation products aswell. We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams, as well as getting rid of management overhead and daily standup meetings.

We have almost no rules, we provide you with opportunities for your personal growth and flexible working hours. You will work in a fast moving, young team. Right now, we are hiring new engineers for the following areas:

- (Frontend) Web Development

- Backend Development (with a focus on high security/cryptography)

- App Development (Android and/or iOS)

- Electrical Engineering & Embedded Software Development

- Mechanical Engineering

If you see yourself as genuinely creative, are fascinated by hardware and love great challenges we'd like to work with you on creating the "connected future".

We do not care about your academic degrees or where you are from, but about the stuff you did and what you could create in the future given the right opportunities. If you are interested in working at 1aim, write us an email at work.hn1aim.com and tell us about the projects you worked on that you are the most proud of and which technological feats of the past inspire you.

We provide visa assistance, limited relocation support and free housing until you find your own place to live.

any remote positions?

Voleon | www.Voleon.com | Berkeley, CA | Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Voleon Capital Management LP is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques. We are looking for an exceptionally capable software engineer. You will architect & implement new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems.

We seek candidates with a proven track record of writing correct, well-designed software, solving hard problems, and delivering complex projects on time. You should preferably have experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience with building large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems, or latency-sensitive programs is a bonus.

Required experience: - Go/C/C++/Python in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness. - TCP/IP networking, multi-threading, and server development. - Common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.). - architecting and designing highly available systems. - architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure. - Large codebases and building modular, manageable code.

Preferred experience.: - Debugging/performance profiling, use of tools (strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc.) - Build and test automation tools. - work with well-defined change management processes. - diagnosing RDBMS performance problems, exploiting indexing, using EXPLAIN PLAN, optimizing at the code layer, etc. - working with messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) as well as distributed caching systems.

Interest finance is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary hiring factor. Benefits and compensation are highly competitive. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to Charles@Voleon.com.

Ci | Melbourne, Australia | Full-time

Embedded developer / interface designer. We design + create integrated systems for modern, connected environments. Our projects range from building intelligence to immersive telepresence to large format display solutions. Here's some drone footage of a real-time rendered 50,000px wide, 0.5km long screen we recently put into the MCG: https://ciasia.box.com/project-ribbon-video. More projects over at http://ciasia.com.au/whatwedo.

For the full description and to apply see http://www.seek.com.au/job/29283437.