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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - fulltime, SF or REMOTE, international OK, VISA-transfers OK

More than anything, we try to make CircleCI a great place to work. You might love it too if you like:

- working with great people who you can learn from

- to work on developer tools

- building a product that customers love, and pay for

- working with Clojure and ClojureScript

- flat, transparent cultures (we're inspired a lot by Valve and similar companies) [1]

- to work remotely, or to have your own private office in SF [2]

We're hiring lots of roles, esp in engineering, design, dev-success, and dev-marketing.

[1] http://blog.circleci.com/kindness-is-underrated/ [2] http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

Check out https://circleci.com/jobs for details

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England. https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA (office is in central sq.)

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Strategic Maritime Risk Planning (waze for ships, https://www.waze.com/)! We’re working in the largest, least sexy, most invisible industry in the world — 90% of everything has been on a ship at one point in time.

The problem -> To try to decrease costs, carries have been increasing the size of container ships. The only problem there is that as container ships get larger, the variability in the global supply chain goes up (e.g. a large ship being late causes a headache to more people than a small one).

How we fix it -> We track every ship on the water and run a bunch of analysis on our data sets so that we can help our customers smooth out the rough edges. (One company we're working with spends 6.5 mil every month on “late fees” because of these rough edges).

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Web/data stack -> clojure + postgres/cassandra/redis/rabbit + ruby on rails + hadoop/EMR + node (we’re a SOA shop)

Mobile -> iOS, android in the near term

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

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We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors (a16z)!

Looking for help on mobile, frontend, and data science sides! Would be thrilled to find a CTO to grow the tech side of the company with me, but I'm also happy to find engineers who just want to build great things.

If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at marc@weft.io!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

#5
StoryWorth (https://www.storyworth.com) FULLTIME, SF, YC-funded

I'm hiring for two founder-level roles at StoryWorth: Head of Marketing and Partnerships, and Head of Community.

StoryWorth makes it easy for people to privately record their family stories. Each week, we email our customers a question about their life, for example “What do you remember about your grandmother?” or “Tell me about the day you got engaged”. All they have to do is reply with a story, either by email or by phone. We save their stories and share them privately with their family.

We have a launched product with paying customers across the country who love our service. This is an opportunity to be part of the founding team that is going to help every family in the world record their story for generations to come.

You're a good fit for these roles if you crave a ton of responsibility on a small team. You'll get to define your strategy, and then you'll actually get to execute on it. If you're the kind of person who learns by doing, you'll be learning faster than ever before.

If you're interested in either position, I'd be happy to tell you more about each specific role. Send me a short note about yourself at nick@storyworth.com, I can't wait to hear from you!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Periscope - fulltime in SF. Visa-transfers OK.

Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast. Customers typically see a 100x-10,000x speedup of their analysis queries on the day they install.

We also write the popular High-Performance SQL Blog (https://periscope.io/blog) which gets tens of thousands of monthly uniques, and espouses our marketing philosophy of helping analysts wherever we can, whether or not they end up buying.

We’re hiring marketers, designers and engineers! See:

* https://www.periscope.io/outrageous-marketer

* https://www.periscope.io/user-experience-designer

* https://www.periscope.io/data-obsessed-engineer

We’re a team of 4 ex-Google and Microsoft engineers and PMs. We have venture funding, paying customers, > 25% m/m revenue growth, and a spacious loft apartment in SF to work out of.

Email me (harry@periscope.io) if you have questions!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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DuckDuckGo (remote or local in Paoli, PA). If you're a DuckDuckGo user who is excited about what we're trying to accomplish, then check out our hiring page at https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring

In particular, we're looking right now for:

-1 or 2 Back-end (Perl) engineers.

-1 Front-end (JavaScript/CSS) engineer.

-1 Operations (Chef/Site-reliability) engineer.

-1 Desktop/mobile Web designer.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

#8
Citymapper (London, UK) - Help build the world's most loved urban navigation app!

https://citymapper.com/apps/

We're looking for great people first and foremost, but especially the following roles:

- Lead DevOps engineer (Python, AWS, Salt)

You will be responsible for our platform in the cloud.

This isn’t a “systems administrator” role. You will shape the tool chain, deliver features, and ensure that the moving parts of our system can communicate.

Experience with Python and AWS required.

- Experienced Android and iOS developers

We’re reimagining mobile UIs for finding the best ways to get around cities. We’re looking for mobile developers who both care deeply about the “little big details” of mobile interfaces, and who know the grotty implementation details required to make things work across a range of device types.

If you’re looking for a project that improves people’s lives on a daily basis, if you want to craft elegant and fun UIs out of the tangled thicket of transportation options, or if you have a passion for public transportation, get in touch!

If you’re interested, please contact me at emil@citymapper.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

#9
Nokia/HERE (Formerly Navteq) — Chicago

As an organization, we have a long history with map data. Now we’re looking at interesting ways to use it to change driving. Cars of the future (and present) have onboard computers, tons of sensors, and internet connections over the cell network. If you could hook that up to our map data, you could do some really cool things.

To see what we’re up to, check out http://360.here.com/tag/connected-driving/

We’re looking for strong Java developers and strong testers to make this happen. We’re building on AWS, so experience there is a plus.

The things I’ve enjoyed most since starting here a few months ago:

- Interesting problem space

- Interesting tech stack

- I get to wear sandals to work

- Team running group that goes for a run together every Wednesday morning before lunch

- Company gym

- Quickly-growing team

- Good medical insurance coverage

Interested? Questions? Email me at roman.zabicki@here.com I'd love to talk to you.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

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Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No remote work – must be willing to work at our Amsterdam office.

Silk [1] is looking for Front-end Developers and Javascript/TypeScript and Haskell Engineers. We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with information that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end [2]. Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.

For more info & open positions: https://jobs.silk.co/

[1] https://www.silk.co/ [2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.

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