Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

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.

Kodable (http://www.kodable.com) - Full time, Mountain View, CA

What could be better than impacting the lives of millions of kids? Kodable teaches kids the fundamentals of programming starting before they can read. Used by over a million kids around the world, Kodable is designed to encourage everyone to learn programming. Over 50% of Kodable users are girls, and it has been used in over 100 countries.

We're a team that knows how to work smart, have fun, and get results. We're passionate about empowering people with great educational tools and 21st Century skills. We’re looking to hire our first full-stack engineers (including a CTO) to bring Kodable to more platforms and build Kodable 2. You will be given the freedom to shape the future of programming education for the entire world!

We have an iOS app written in Objective-C with a backend in Parse, and a web reporting system written in Ruby and Sinatra. Experience with these languages in a plus, but we’re mostly looking for experience. The position includes a lot of responsibility, you’ll make key architectural decisions for the future of our codebase, so you should have experience working on a production application in use by 100k+ users. We also offer generous equity - we consider our first hire to be nothing more than a late co-founder, and feel you should be compensated accordingly :)

If you’re interested, email jon@kodable.com or to learn more visit http://www.kodable.com/jobs

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

https://citymapper.com/apps/

Full-time in London, UK. We will consider remote work for exceptional candidates.

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

- Lead DevOps engineer (Python, AWS) 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.

- Software Engineer (Junior and Senior)

We're looking for great engineers to solve the big problems. We use a lot of Python, and some C and Java. We're building an omnivorous transport data processor that fuses together loads of data sources. And we're building the world's best transit routing engine. We're also interested in people with data analysis and natural language processing experience.

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

TechEmpower - Los Angeles area, California (El Segundo, near LAX)

You may recognize us from the Web Framework Benchmarks that have been discussed on HN periodically: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Work Hard, Have Fun, Be Nice

Let's be honest: you became a developer because you like to build things. Interesting things, useful things, cool things. It's like building with Legos, only you get paid, and there are always plenty of the right color pieces.

At TechEmpower, we build things. Interesting things. Cool things, mostly in webapp form. We build them as individuals, because we're creative people. We build them as teams, because we like to help each other grow, and because we know that collaboration improves even the best code.

Having the best people doesn't hurt, either. We've got most of them already, and we're looking to find the rest. You can build things with us. What's the catch? We're pretty darn selective.

To work as an individual, you have to be motivated and creative and thoughtful and serious. To work on a team, you have to be respectful and energetic and open and absolutely not a jerk. We need developers who can work on every part of an application, from the data store to the page–sometimes known as full stack developers. And to be a full stack developer, you have to know technology and want to learn more technology, because those acronyms just keep coming.

Our clients expect us to work with them, not for them. We help them define their problems, and we provide solutions, on time and on target. We're service-oriented, and you should be too.

Still reading? Please apply! And check out our Web Framework Benchmarks while you're at it. We pretty much wrote the book on that one.

Just so you know:

   Teams range between 2-6 people
   Developers are exposed to 3-4 projects per year
   All development is done on high-performance workstations with 4K displays. A lot of code fits in 3840x2160 pixels!
   We maintain an informal, comfortable environment, just like the old college computer science lab, but with grown-up hours
   Everybody's nice

The technologies we use vary over time with our mix of projects. Here is a snapshot of what we're using now:

   Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, Ruby, PHP
   Tools: Git, Jenkins (Continuous Integration), Sonar (static code analysis), Eclipse, IntelliJ, Ant, Maven
   Web: Dropwizard, .NET MVC 5, Play, Django, Rails, Mustache, Handlebars, Backbone, Angular, Knockout, JSP, Servlets, jQuery, etc.
   Mobile: iOS, Android, PhoneGap
   Hosting: AWS (EC2, RDS, etc.), Rackspace Cloud, Linux deployments
   Data Persistence: ORM (Hibernate, etc.), MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB)

We don't expect new hires to have experience with all of these, but we do expect you'll learn more about them every day.

If this sounds like the kind of place you'd like to work, please apply here: http://jobs.techempower.com/hn2

Full-stack Python/Django developer Local or remote

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Rock Kitchen Harris, Leicester, UK - http://www.rkh.co.uk

Hi! I'm looking for a super elite, super friendly, super smart Django developer to help a small and excited team work on lots of client projects plus our own apps. We've been around for 32 years and we're well established, but unlike a typical agency dev team, ours is small, fast and independent.

We have all sorts of clients with differing needs, but we'll trust you to work on huge projects like Police.uk (hundreds of thousands of visits a day) pretty quickly if all goes well.

We're just about to move into a stunning new office in a 1930s bank (complete with our own café and kitchen, and next door to the pub). Ideally you'd work in the office on a shiny new Mac at a shiny new desk, but if remote works best for you then that's cool - we'll provide whatever tools you might need and hope to see you now and again for fun and games and beer.

### Essential life skills ###

* Python and Django experience - you know it inside out, but you're also smart enough to know when rolling your own is a bad idea and when to stand on the shoulders of existing libraries, packages and apps

* Server chops - you're comfortable with UNIX-based technologies, the thought of spawning and killing thousands of load-balanced AWS servers for high profile sites doesn't scare you, and you could survive a whole day without touching a mouse if you needed to

* Passion - you love what you do, your Instapaper queue is off the scale, and you high-five yourself when something actually works(!!1)

* Initiative - you appreciate the need for 'project people', but you can focus on the end goal and pretty much get on with things without being micromanaged

* People skills - you recognise that non-developers think differently and always click the wrong button, but you're ok with that and understand how important they are in the grand scheme of things

* Taste - you can spot bad code or an ugly design as well as you can spot efficient code and pretty things

* A clean record - we do a lot of work with sensitive government data, so we'll have to do background checks to get you security clearance (and a cool ID card) for certain projects

### Stuff we use every day that doesn't at all scare you ###

OS X, Ubuntu, tmux, Mercurial, Git, GPG, PostgreSQL, AWS, VPC, nginx, Gunicorn, supervisord, Python, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached, HTML, Less, jQuery, Jenkins, Selenium, CloudFlare

### How to apply ###

Please send a CV/resume and covering note directly to me: psculthorpe@rkh.co.uk

Or, better, surprise me! Perhaps your blog really tells us about you, or there is something really impressive you've created or worked on you can share, or your Github commit history is huge. Anything more than a boring CV tends to stand out! Let's talk.

Thanks for reading :)

Paul Sculthorpe Director, Rock Kitchen Harris