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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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Kentik | San Francisco | Full Time | Remote | Visa

Do cool things with network data. Kentik receives trillions of events a day. Our custom stack built on go, node and c receives, indexes, queries and displays realtime information on a large slice of the Internet. Hiring in all areas. Kentik is a 1 year old vc backed startup.

https://www.kentik.com/careers/

• pye+hn@kentik.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

#212
Quotient solutions is looking to fill some positions on a few projects. Remote workers welcome, just need stable internet, slack, jira, and a burning desire to make some cool stuff. Here is what we need:

-iOS and Android developers with Ibeacon experience. Adept at working with web services and web APIs as well as a strong conceptual grasp of beacon technologies. Shoot us a note and include the types of beacons you have worked with and why you think you'd be a good fit. Include standard stuff (resume, availability, salary)

-Next we have some open positions and projects that really need a full stack nodejs developer. Nodejs, sails, angular, grunt, mongo, rethink. Don't need all but if you are strong in this stack of tech... We would love to meet and see if we can work together. Include some confident,non cocky, reasons why you are awesome at this and good to work with. Include standard resume, availability, salary.

Outside of the above we always need thing from time time in just pure JavaScript, Erlang, AWS administration. We are ready to meet some cool people and work on some fun projects.

Shoot me an email at jobs@quotient.net please no recruiters.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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AimBrain | London, UK | Engineering | FULL-TIME (ONSITE), INTERNS (prefer onsite, but OK REMOTE)

AimBrain is the mobile biometric authentication platform. We help our clients to know if their users really are who they say they are. The platform currently consists of three modalities - behavioural, facial and voice.

Our founding team is highly technical and consists of ex-ARM, European Space Agency and CERN engineers and doctorates working on the most recent machine learning advancements to deliver the best solution for mobile biometric authentication.

Founded in July 2014 and based in London, we are backed by a highly respected London VC and are rapidly expanding our team to deliver multiple projects with the major UK high street banks and security companies.

We are currently hiring for full-stack and machine learning positions to form the founding team which will grow with the company. We are also looking for kick-ass iOS/Android/Web developers on either CONTRACTING or INTERNING basis.

* Ping us at: https://aimbrain.com/joinus :)

* Or drop us a line at: founders [] aimbrain.com

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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Slice | http://careers.slice.com/featured-jobs/ | Palo Alto | FULL-TIME| VISA

Slice was founded by Stanford Graduate School of Business entrepreneurs who have built, sold, and taken companies, including FiberTower, SQL Financials, and Clarus, public. Funded by A-list investors, including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, DCM, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Slice has attracted top talent and has been acquired by Rakuten, the #1 shopping site or Amazon of Japan. We are building the most powerful e-commerce data set in the world, and we’re JUST getting started. We are hiring world-class senior software engineers, sales, technical leads, data analysts, and machine learning engineers. You will be surrounded by an elite team of seasoned entrepreneurs who foster an environment of innovation, creativity, and learning. You will play an instrumental role in product development, subsequent iterations, and launches, an opportunity not found in larger corporations. Slice provides the opportunity to network with and be mentored in a small 1:1 setting by industry veterans and investors in the the heart of Silicon Valley, and we want to rapidly expand our team in 2016.

Website: http://careers.slice.com/

New video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8OKR85KMk

Resumes/websites/portfolios to sean+resumes@slice.com and hannahft [AT] stanfordalumni.org.

Delighted to address questions in an informational interview or call!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

#215
StealthTorontoREMOTE or ONSITEFULL or PART time

iOS engineer

Startup is at the intersection of interior design and tech. If you have appreciation for high quality physical things and materials, love making things accessible and have an app in the App Store, please get in touch ilyaspekhov@gmail.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

#216
Voleon | www.Voleon.com | Berkeley, CA | Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer - Quantitative Hedge Fund

The Voleon Group is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques. We are looking for an exceptionally capable software engineer. You will architect & implement new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems.

We seek candidates with a proven track record of writing correct, well-designed software, solving hard problems, and delivering complex projects on time. You should preferably have experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience with building large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems, or latency-sensitive programs is a bonus.

Required experience: - Go/C/C++/Python in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness. - TCP/IP networking, multi-threading, and server development. - Common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.). - architecting and designing highly available systems. - architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure. - Large codebases and building modular, manageable code.

Preferred experience.: - Debugging/performance profiling, use of tools (strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc.) - Build and test automation tools. - work with well-defined change management processes. - diagnosing RDBMS performance problems, exploiting indexing, using EXPLAIN PLAN, optimizing at the code layer, etc. - working with messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) as well as distributed caching systems.

Interest finance is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary hiring factor. Benefits and compensation are highly competitive. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to Charles@Voleon.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

#217
Voleon | www.Voleon.com | Berkeley, CA | Senior Machine Learning Researcher - Quantitative Hedge Fund

The Voleon Group is a technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques. We are looking for an exceptional researcher.

We are a science-driven systematic trading firm, built on the principle that statistical machine learning provides the best solutions to the scientific problems we must solve.

We are looking for a PhD-level scientist to join us in developing predictive models and other components of automated trading systems. You will apply modern statistical machine-learning methods to large, high-dimensional data sets. The work will range from data preparation to model development to production software implementation.

We are successful and growing. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential.

We hire on the basis of exceptional talent. If you excel in a technical field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or operations research, then we encourage you to contact us.

The following criteria, while not all requirements, illustrate the demands of this role: + Background in modern statistical methods / machine learning

+ Evidence of strong mathematical abilities, e.g. publication record, graduate coursework, or competition placement

+ Substantial programming experience and interest in software development techniques

+ Competence in solving large-scale computing problems

+ Track record as an applied researcher

+ Demonstrable clarity of thought (not optional)

Interest in financial applications is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary factor in our hiring.

Benefits and compensation are highly competitive.

The above job description is just a starting point in terms of possible duties and seniority. We can be very flexible for the right person.

Email CV/request for more info to Charles@Voleon.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

#218
VividCortex | Charlottesville, VA | INTERNS, ONSITE | https://www.vividcortex.com/

VividCortex is the best way to see what production database systems are doing. Our database monitoring platform is used by major companies like King, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and Etsy to monitor their MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis servers.

We're looking for interns to join our young, lean, energetic company with a great get-it-done culture.

Our technology stack consists of AWS, Kafka, MySQL, and Go on the backend; Symfony, AngularJS, and D3 on the frontend. Our exciting technical challenges include high-performance database protocol decoding, statistical anomaly detection, adaptive fault detection, time series storage, and stream processing.

Interested? Please contact me at preetam [at] vividcortex.com!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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Sourcegraph | Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco | Full-Time | Onsite

Help us change the way development teams collaborate and build software. Used by tens of thousands of developers, Sourcegraph is the only intelligent, hackable code host that groks code at a language level. Some of the largest companies in the world use our platform for semantic search, jump-to-definition, code review, and integrated code discussions. Our small but growing team of 20 is looking for full-stack engineers who want to build the development platform of the future.

Check out our product and full source code (Go, ES6, and React) at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/.tree/README.md, and watch a demo video at https://sourcegraph.com.

If interested, please email sqs@sourcegraph.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)

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Tradesy | Santa Monica, CA | ONSITE full-time

Positions with the Data Science Team:

We need Software Engineers who can help us in the following areas:

Software Engineer (Data Pipeline Engineer): Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, Zookeeper, some numpy and pandas for minor analysis

Software Engineer (Data Scientist): Experience with Machine Learning systems, Stats, Data Analysis. Expertise around NLP, Image Processing, Recommendation Systems is a plus. We train production models that impact business bottom line: search, fraud detection, product recommendations. We're looking for someone who can leverage our Data Pipeline tools (and more if needed) to take models from prototype to production.

About Tradesy Data Science:

Tradesy is a marketplace with a current focus on high end fashion.

The Data Science team touches many high leverage aspects of the business:

Pricing Recommendations Product Search Product Recommendations Analytics and its Data Pipeline

We're growing quickly and so is our data. We've got a nice mixture of images as well as textual information that we're tapping into to improve the marketplace. We're looking for strong engineers with strengths in the above mentioned areas, but if you are a strong generalist with the right background and can ship end to end products we would be interested in talking to you.

Submit via https://www.tradesy.com/jobs/#jobs-at-tradesy or email me directly: diego@tradesy.com

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