Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you allowed to run this company while working for Google?
I don't anymore - haven't updated some of my profiles yet as I've been focused on other things. I'll do that now :)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#942We are a new, tech-focussed energy supplier for the UK market, and we're looking for diligent programmers (especially with Python experience) to join us.
We're building a modern, event-driven infrastructure for interacting with both consumers (via the web, mobile apps and smart-meters) and the industry (eg data flows, consumption forecasting, trading on the wholesale market).
On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Our public site is powered by Django and the Django-REST-framework amongst other things - we also use Pandas, Numpy and Jupyter for analysis and forecasting.
We use AWS heavily, employing most of the Hashistack (Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform) in some form. See, for example, http://tech.octopus.energy/2016/05/05/django-elb-health-chec...
On the client-side, we use React and SASS. For our mobile apps, we use React Native.
We use a Kanban approach to development and use Atlas to coordinate a continuous deployment pipeline. Engineering standards are high. All code is well tested and thoroughly reviewed.
This is a great opportunity for several reasons:
* We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The UK energy market is complicated, dated and process-heavy - there's an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right.
* We have difficult technical problems to solve. With the advent of smart meters, we'll soon be processing millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption.
* There's a great opportunity for disruption in the UK energy market. The big suppliers still dominate, but are not exactly popular. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more disaggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.
* You'll be working for a company that is helping to tackle climate change. We'll be helping move people onto using greener technology and consuming energy from renewable sources. This will all help transition the UK towards a lower carbon future.
Apply via talent@octopus.energy
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#943ABOUT US
BlueLabs helps organizations work smarter by leveraging innovative statistical methods and technology to make data-driven decisions to address new, challenging problems and new opportunities for social good. Our team's pioneering use of data science helped elect President Obama in 2012, and since then, we've worked with campaigns, non-profits, government agencies, and companies to use analytics to deepen their engagement with their constituents.
We're hiring full-stack, back-end, devops, and data engineers, as well as data scientists. In particular, we're looking for folks interested in helping us build out our platform to support a major government outreach program.
Core technologies in our stack include React, Rails, Scala, Mesos, Docker, and Spark. We run on AWS and deploy with Ansible.
HOW TO APPLY
If you are a passionate engineer or data scientist looking to work at an organization where the people care about what they are doing and work hard to achieve it, we encourage you to apply.
Interview process: application -> phone interview -> work sample/coding challenge -> in-person
Get more info and apply at: http://www.bluelabs.com/jobs
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#944Our mission at Retreat Guru is to help retreat centers thrive with state of the art digital tools that allow them to work as effortlessly as possible. In turn they can provide more retreats with less effort. We want more people to experience authentic retreats and reconnect with their innate wisdom, strength and kindness.
We are hiring a web application engineer:
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#945Pearl was founded on the belief that all drivers should have access to the latest car features. The company is advancing the underlying technologies in the autonomous vehicle to improve the experience for every driver on the road today. Created by former leaders in Apple's iPod and iPhone teams and inspired by the world-changing products they helped produce, Pearl is dedicated to improving the more than 1.2 billion cars on the road today.
* Android Developer - 6-10 year experience. Needed Android engineer with deep knowledge of the SDK and experience with resource constrained environments to provide technical leadership for a small team of Android software engineers. Desired experience includes WiFi, Bluetooth LE, wireless low latency video and C++.
* Software Engineer/DevOps - 4-8 years experience. We are growing our AWS team responsible for internal and external services. There is a light need for some DevOps expertise. Our tech stack includes Python, C/C++ and Go.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#946Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. I have taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business. It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this. We are looking to hire a good core…
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#947Healx is a funded startup using genomic data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find existing drugs that could treat rare diseases. There are over 7,000 rare diseases that affect an estimated 350 million people worldwide, most of which lack effective treatment. Healx is a social enterprise using drug repurposing to radically reduce the time to find novel treatments for rare diseases.
We are currently recruiting an engineer with expertise in natural language processing to be responsible for our biomedical text mining work - extracting and learning from millions of relationships in scientific literature.
You'll join a small team of developers with expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning and software engineering. As an early employee in an ambitious, growing startup company you'll be able to make a significant contribution to our technical direction.
For more information please see: https://healx.io/jobs/
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#948We are a Calgary-based, remotely operated company, with our teams currently spread over Russia, Spain, the Caribbean and Canada. Our company creates enterprise-ready fully customizable web applications. We have a lot of challenging work in front of us, and want driven people to join for a new and exciting experience. You will be empowered by our great processes (continuous integration, test-driven development, nicely concern-separated codebase, linting, task management in Phabricator, code reviews, continuous deployment, communication in Slack, unobtrusive meeting practices, open vacation policy and more) and positive work culture.
We have successfully delivered solutions for clients in a variety of areas including energy exploration, operations management, hsse management, agriculture operations, tourism, risk management and learning systems.
In our next phase, we will be delivering solutions to meet a variety of technical needs. We will be working to integrate RFID readers for inventory management, map optimum routes through supply chains and do market analysis, and build front end interfaces to configure complex systems, among other projects.
We are hiring the skill sets below, but are open to hear from anyone who thinks they're a fit or wants to learn more. We are looking to fill some Canadian roles at the moment (preferably in the Calgary area), but are also hiring internationally. All jobs are full time.
Front-End Ninja
Role is a front-end developer with a focus on great UX, attention to detail, extensive knowledge of Javascript / CSS. In particular experience with React, (+Redux), ES6, PostCSS, D3.js, Leaflet, Electron, React Native is a bonus since we work with these technologies. Additional benefits would be node.js, frontend test driven development experience, deep understanding of relational databases, experience creating complex data visualizations, designing drag & drop user experiences, performance testing, and mobile testing. This job will require collaborative interactions and communication with our clients and business partners, for gathering specs and usability feedback and for building custom functionality.
Security Hacker
We are looking for a backend developer with a focus on security. Knowledge of OWASP and other best practices is a must. Enterprise security, data encryption, AWS security, private networks, securing multiple services. Monitoring, alerting, screening for security issues experience. Securing deployments and production environments.
Database Gangsta
Hands-on experience administering large scale relational databases. Proficient SQL skills. Postgres experience. Experience configuring monitoring, replication, foreign tables, off-site backups, disaster recovery. Experience with Amazon / RDS, experience developing APIs, working with queue systems are a plus.
Devops Mafioso / Full-Stack Warrior
We are looking for a client-focused developer ready to solve a wide range of client problems related to meeting their SLA requirements. You should be able to talk to clients, gather and communicate our possibilities around different scales of deployments, replication, data storage, recovery and security needs. You should have experience with both frontend and backend (JavaScript) and be able to quickly prototype proofs of concept, performance test various deployments at scale, write APIs to integrate with client systems. Experience with docker, cloud deployments, microservices is needed. Finally it is important to write high quality documentation and present architectural concepts to both the team and clients.
Apply at https://methodexists.com/jobs
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#949Chalk Talk’s unique platform for curriculum design and adaptive assessment improves curricular outcomes while improving test scores. As the creator of the world’s first set of curricula that caters to the needs and abilities of both American and international students for SAT, SAT II, IB, IGCSE, and Common Core exams, Chalk Talk brings affordable, high-quality test prep, curriculum design tools, and college advising services to high schools across the world. By identifying each student’s strengths and targeting their weaknesses within curricula, Chalk Talk lets students know exactly where they are and exactly where they need to go. Position Overview:
Chalk Talk is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team and build the future of K-12 Education. You will design and build new technology for Chalk Talk's education platform.
REQUIRED: - 2-5 years of experience with dynamic development languages like Python or Ruby. - Track record of successfully building end-to-end products. - Demonstrated teamwork experience. - Experience with full stack web development including HTML, CSS, Javascript, and back ends like Django/Rails and Python/Ruby. - Experience with modern web technologies such as D3, Bootstrap, AngularJS. - Demonstrated skills in building service based architectures. - Committed to documentation of best practices in various layers of the stack. - get-shit-done attitude.
OTHER DETAILS: - This is a full-time position starting in June 2016. - Health and dental benefits. - Flexible work times and vacations. - We are a funded startup company located in the heart of Boston.
If you are interested, you can either check out our open positions at https://chalktalk.academy/careers or email us at apply@chalktalk.academy. Please include the position in the subject.
Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
#950United States Digital Service | Washington, D.C. | ONSITE | $108,887-$160,300 We're looking for the most tenacious designers, UX experts, software engineers, product managers, and others who are committed to untangling, rewiring and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. Most people sign on for one year, but there…