Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

NGP VAN - Boston, MA or Washington, DC - Many Positions

* Software Engineer (Boston or DC)

* QA Engineer or Analyst (Boston or DC)

* DevOps Engineer (Boston or DC)

* SQL Developer (Boston)

* Lots of other non-technical positions

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products available. We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing digital platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.

NGP VAN has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for seven years in a row, and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. We are a successful and growing company with a passion for our employees’ career advancement. We are an open-minded, flexible workplace that values learning and contributions of many different kinds.

Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

We are open to interviewing across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.

Exabeam | San Mateo, California | Full time | On site

Data Scientist:

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• Collaborate with security domain experts, data scientists, and platform engineering team to identify security threats with data-driven methods

• Perform data processing and transformation to maximize informational value

• Conduct research activities including idea proposition, literature review, fast algorithm and learning model prototyping, experiments running, and documentation

• Implement performance-efficient models and algorithms for production

• Be responsible for accuracy and performance of models in production. Review and improve where necessary.

• Work under general guidance with minimal close supervision

• Communicate and demonstrate success of data science-based methodologies for internal and external use.

To get in touch, send an email to

Healx (http://healx.io) | Full Stack Web Developer | Cambridge, UK | Full time | Onsite

We're an early stage life science startup doing computational drug repositioning to find treatments for rare and orphan diseases.

We're hiring a full stack web developer to build interfaces for our internal databases and tools to provide query, display and visualisation capabilities for complex biological data. You'll also work on a web application we're making publicly available to help patient groups, charities and researchers track and understand new rare disease literature and data.

We're ideally looking for experience in JavaScript and Python but will be flexible for the right person. You will work alongside other software developers, scientists and bioinformaticians, using your skills to help solve problems that really matter.

Please take a look at http://healx.io/jobs and get in touch if you have any questions.

Vin65 (http://vin65.com) | Vancouver, Canada | Full Time | Onsite

We're wine eCommerce & POS company, thats been leading the space for over 5 years, we're looking to bring on a new Lead Developer to help push the bar forward, bring in some new technology.

You can apply: https://www.vin65.com/About-Us/Careers/Lead-Developer

Sagan Systems | San Francisco, CA | Fulltime onsite only

Software Engineer | $125-175k

We've had a lot of great folks find us from this post on HN, and we're still hiring!

- We have a modern tech stack (React/Node/GoLang/Docker) and product architecture (real-time pubsub microservices)

- We're super early (~20 people), but well-funded with an experienced founding team of B2B serial entrepreneurs

- We have an environment of mutual respect, mentorship and learning from peers

I’m an engineer at Sagan and enjoying it a lot! Feel free to email me with questions (alice@sagansystems.com), or check out http://sagansystems.com/#hiring

We're also looking for a devops/platform engineer, engineers with security expertise, voip experts, a designer and a VP of product.