Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)

Predata | NYC | Full-Time | ONSITE | http://www.predata.com/ | jobs@predata.com | $75K-130K + up to 1% equity

Predata builds tools for understanding political risk around the world. Our platform allows strategic decision makers across the federal, financial, and corporate sectors to collect and analyze open-source metadata signals (digital conversations, web traffic) and process them to understand how they relate to real-world geopolitical events.

Our leadership team has has successfully exited several ventures, and our CEO was previously National Intelligence Officer for East Asia intelligence at the CIA and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia at the Pentagon.

Our engineers often participate in client meetings and bring insights back to the codebase. We value people who are lifelong learners, think originally, and are interested in real-world problems. Finance experience is a plus.

Stack: - Python, numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels - Django, Flask - CoffeeScript, Mithril.js, D3 - PostgreSQL, HDF5, Redis, bcolz, ElasticSearch - RabbitMQ, Selenium, PhantomJS - Docker, AWS - We're pragmatic about using the right tool/language for the task at hand

Full Stack Engineer

Help design and build new infrastructure and products. You'll be involved in everything from designing data structures to scaling architecture to assessing user experience. You care about security, testing, and deployment automation.

Data Engineer

Work with data that has an impact on the real world. You'll help us ingest, store, process, and query large data sets — this includes building ontologies, designing data pipelines, and transforming data to make it more useful.

Frontend Engineer

Work on complex visualizations that allow an analyst to go from high-level overviews to deep-diving explorations. You've built complex frontend applications, are passionate about information design, and know how to squeeze performance out of layout engines.

Crowdstrike | Irvine, Sunnyvale, Seattle, DC, Remote | Fulltime | ONSITE or REMOTE | http://www.crowdstrike.com/

Crowdstrike Stops Breaches.

We're hiring software and devops engineers to take the lead on automating our software and systems. Give us a shout if you're interested in the following areas, with other information listed at http://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/

  * Cassandra/Elastic/Spark/Splunk Scaling and Automation
  * Chef/Python/AWS/Openstack Scaling and Automation
  * Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud and Datacenter Growth at Scale
  * Securing systems internally and externally with a focus on automation and visibility

This company doesn't hire devops positions, we have a real devops approach - very egalitarian and enabling of engineers. There's tremendous mutual respect and as a result, we get a lot of leading edge stuff done very efficiently.

Come join us! Reach out to Jodi Franco or see us at http://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/. You're welcome to ping me at alan dot hannan at crowd strike dot com for any questions. I manage a team here and enjoy my job and coworkers.

KickBack Rewards Systems | Full Time | Remote (US primarily; will consider international for the right candidate.)

  KickBack Rewards Systems
  http://www.kickbacksystems.com
  http://careers.kickbacksystems.com

KickBack Rewards Systems is a privately held company that specializes in customer specific marketing and payments for over 3000 US clients. Our clients include a half-dozen Fortune 50 companies, one of them is an anchor partner in our national coalition loyalty program. All of that dribble means we have a market, a product fit and are now continually adding value and enhancing our platform.

As the CTO and Director of Software Development I need some help! You will be joining a medium sized department of 40 who all commit to their projects as a labor of love and their lives work. If you are interested in any of these positions my contact information is located under my profile.

Our stack? C (embedded device), Python (RESTFul web services), AngularJS, D3, MySQL, Chef, Ansible and I am certain I am missing two dozen things.

I manage the engineering, devops, qa and product teams. That means I get to guide our culture and values through hiring the right people and by setting the standard. I also get to reinforce boundaries, protect the team's interests and ensure I'm facilitating an environment at KickBack that allows for a world-class engineering team. At KickBack you will be joining an open, transparent and honest environment. You'll be treated with respect and you won't be required to lower your standards. Yes, we're a for profit business so at times compromises need to be made but they are discussed, debated and the negatives are understood very well when we do so.

We're like any other company, we have some technical debt but we strive for perfection in ourselves and in our software product as much as the free market and customers allow. At any rate, we think our approach to management and operating a software development business is a breath of fresh air.

I need to fill the following roles:

  - Senior Frontend Developer 
  - Senior Python Developer
  - Senior Test Automation Developer
  - Product Owner

If you're interested in applying or hearing more, please email me.

NOTE: KRS has a healthy intern program but we keep a very personal and 1:1 relationship with our interns. Unfortunately, at this time I'm not able to take on any more interns but email me in six months once these roles are filled by exceptional candidates and my team leads and developers are ready to mentor future experts.

Spire Global - http://www.spire.com | Locations: Glasgow; San Francisco; Singapore; Boulder | Onsite only

Global IT Infrastructure Lead (Boulder); Desktop Support Engineer (Boulder); Spacecraft Operations Engineer (All offices); API Developer (SF/Boulder)

Please visit our careers page to learn more: http://www.spire.com/careers

Keywords: Satellites, Space, Linux, C, Python, embedded systems, RTOS, microcontrollers, AWS, electronics and hardware, distributed systems and networking, EE, PCBs, etc.

Overview: Spire is a nano-satellite powered data platform. We build and launch small remote-sensing cubesats to capture valuable data for weather prediction and Maritime domain awareness.

We are a fast moving, energetic start-up applying agile development principles to a traditionally sluggish and overly-burdened industry (and having fun doing it).

You will never be bored at Spire!

Please email Darin@spire.com if you are interested in learning more. Previous work in satellites not required.

Purple | Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Software Engineer (Clojure)

Purple is a well-funded startup of about 15 people, backed by an Uber co-founder, and revolutionizing the way people get gas.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who can thrive in a startup environment to help us continue to build and test our backend web service and mobile app platform. You would work closely with our small engineering team in a relatively flat organizational structure. You should be confident taking ownership of your specific piece of the product while being comfortable reaching across the full stack. We want people who are aware of latest trends and know how to adopt the most appropriate technology. We're looking for someone who is a strong advocate for the best engineering practices.

Most of our codebase is written in Clojure and ClojureScript. While prior Clojure experience is not a requirement, serious candidates must have an interest and willingness to learn Clojure as well as any technologies we are using that they may not currently be familiar with.

Minimum qualifications:

- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong experience in one or more general purpose programming languages

- Strong experience in at least one scripting language (e.g., JavaScript)

- Interest and ability to learn new programming languages as needed

- Working knowledge of Git

- Ability to communicate with non-technical team members to meet product needs/goals

A big plus, but not required:

- Clojure and ClojureScript experience, or:

- Experience in at least one functional programming language (Scala, OCaml, Lisp, Haskell, etc.)

- Familiarity with the JVM and related tooling

Purple is a great team! We are small, savvy, and fun. We have an office based in Westwood. We offer a competitive salary, flexible work schedule, health insurance supplement, and unlimited vacation. Come join our growing team!

How to apply: Send resume and GitHub username to: chris at purpleapp.com