Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Shopify

Shopify is the best platform for online stores, as well as a diverse company of happy polyglots who hack on everything between UX, data warehouses, and low-level CRuby VM performance issues. We value personal growth, and developer quality of life in a huge way and show it by having safe deployment systems anyone can trigger; facilitated retrospectives + off-sites with Corey Haines; GitHub and PRs for everything; small, mixed teams of folks with 0 to 30 years of experience, and encouragement from the still-hacking CEO to give back to open source on company time.

http://shopify.com/careers – apply to any dev/ops job and mention HN and I’ll give you a hand.

Here’s a sampler of the current teams at work:

Reports

High throughput + realtime tools for customers; we hired the author of SkyDB to continue making it more awesome. People on this team have backgrounds in low-level kernel work, Smalltalk VM development, and deployment of national wireless systems.

Stack

The right thing to do should be the easiest thing to do; this team works on things like implementing Kafka across the entire Shopify system to let anyone pub/sub to any call-site, opening the door for easy instrumentation/experimentation.

Performance

We’re in the process of sharding Shopify in order to isolate and better service stores experiencing $3000000+/hour flash sales. People working on IBM’s specialized JVM are now hacking here, while also contributing context threading patches to CRuby off the side of their desk for fun.

Point of Sale

If you like making beautiful hardware + beautiful software that you can see used by customers who tell you this is the Holy Grail of retail systems, then you go here.

Operations

Engineers here work on projects like Chef, distributed cloud+iron failover systems, DDOS mitigation stuff and our new datacenters.

More teams

Data (giant, columnar data-stores + PhD withbackgrounds in finance and astrophysics)

Admin (Batman.js + UX professionals + designers who code)

Self help (machine learning for people learning)

Apps (JS SDKs for seamless iframes + APIs)

Checkout (provide low-latency experiences while dealing with high-latency payment gateways; don’t drop any of the zillion$$$ going by)

Platform + Growth (biz dev science + gamification of ecommerce education)

Internal tools (Fast Company-covered staff bonus system aka “Unicorn”, Bayesian classification of customer questions assigned to support experts, hand-made phone queueing systems wrapped around Twilio, etc., etc.)

Billing (hard-core testers need only apply)

Payments (integrations with Stripe + fraudster f-ing)

Core/API (everything not here)

(more but secret)

Seeking full-time programmers, and data analysts to work in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, Canada. We’ll help with visas. Seeking operations staff anywhere (remote friendly).

http://shopify.com/careers – apply to any dev/ops job and mention HN and I’ll give you a hand.

How would you like applications to be made?

SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

⇒ Android Developer -- Looking for someone eager to build the Andorid app to accompany an already-successful iOS app. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

⇒ Web Engineer -- We're looking for someone who loves building web apps. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for debate. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

⇒ Product Person -- A somewhat non-traditional job. We're looking for someone who takes on PM-ish responsibilities while still being a member of the dev team: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/product_person/

Wizpert (http://www.wizpert.com)

New York City - Full-time Growth Hacker

Wizpert makes expert advice more accessible than ever before, by instantly connecting users for a live chat with a wizpert on a wide range of topics. We recently launched our first topic – computer programming, bringing live chat help to software developers everywhere.

Job description: We’re hiring a highly analytical growth-hacker to grow our community, and increase engagement and revenues.

Skills & Experience: - An experienced growth-hacker, with a proven track record in successful user acquisition in a B2C start-up (at least 3 years) - Experience with: email marketing, social media, influencer marketing, content marketing, landing pages, paid traffic, SEO - Entrepreneurial, with strong technical and quantitative skills (programming experience is a plus) - Expert understanding of social media, analytics, and A/B test implementation, and an intimate knowledge of Google Analytics - Experience with funnel analytics cohort analysis - Excellent copy writing skills

Responsibilities: - Manage and optimize user and expert acquisition across channels - Initiate and execute creative grass-roots marketing initiatives - Maximize user engagement through email and content marketing - Develop test plans, quantify impact and execute recommendations based on testing - Work closely with product team on in-product marketing and gamification

Interested? Get in touch with us at jobs@wizpert.com

NYC Full-Time - SinglePlatform (a Constant Contact Company)

http://www.singleplatform.com/careers/

Frontend, backend, Ops, QA, etc.!

(Rated as a "Crain's NYC 2013 Best Places to Work"! http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20131009/SMALLBIZ/13100...)

We're a small-business data aggregator charged with getting the "last mile" SMB data (menus, services, hours of operation, address, etc.) for all businesses in the US (restaurants, spas, salons, etc.) and providing that in an API for our publisher network (YellowPages, Yelp, FourSquare, Seamless, #{Your App}, etc.) to distribute it far and wide.

Our customers (small and medium sized businesses) love us and we're taking an active role bringing them more customers - and helping them stay in business. It's a great mission, and I hope you'll want to be a part of it.

We primarily work with Node.js/Couch and Python/Django for our merchant tools (what the SMBs use) and AWS/Ansible on the Ops end.

We're looking for both senior and mid-level frontend, backend, ops, and QA people. Although we're a part of a bigger company (were acquired by ConstantContact almost two years ago), we're still a startup at heart. You'll be a member of a small but strong product team, doing fun things, working with great people. But you won't have to worry about whether or not we're broke next week, won't have to take a below-market salary, forgo awesome health insurance -- and your stock options actually have value (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:CTCT)!

Feel free to drop me a line at mrogish@singleplatform.com for more info!

Thanks!