Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

OptionMetrics began 15 years ago with the goal of becoming the world's most trusted provider of financial information and research derived from the option markets. Today, our data and analytic models are used within over 250 investment banks, hedge funds, and academic institutions worldwide.

Here at OptionMetrics, you'll work alongside a team of exceptionally creative and intelligent developers and quants, collaborating daily to brainstorm and implement our next generation of data and analytic information products. We're small, agile, casual (no suits -- shoes optional), and passionate about our mission and the projects we create. And, since we are self-funded and profitable (no VC's!), we can afford to take the long view, emphasizing quality over expediency in all we do. As a member of our development team, you will have true ownership over your projects from beginning to end, with an emphasis on accountability over micromanagement.

We are currently looking for a junior - mid level software engineer to help rebuild our entire technology stack. You will have the opportunity to work with large data (billions of rows of data), build out a new web application, and have a say in the technology/design choices.

We prefer someone with a Java background.

Please send your resume to Hubert at hchen@optionmetrics.com if you are interested.

SeamlessDocs specializes in digitizing and automating business and government forms and PDFs. The platform is like Google Docs for PDFs. It allows anyone to easily convert any PDF into a fillable, mobile friendly cloud version that can be completed and eSigned from any device. Then it builds a database in real time of the info collected and has workflow and process automation tools.

Due to its government focus, SeamlessDocs has been able to continue to differentiate itself as THE standard in government forms as well as through its government sales funnel expertise. This allows them to avoid repetitive admin tasks and data entry; cutting costs and increasing efficiency.

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Our ideal candidate has strong experience with Scala and writing stable, scalable backend services. Bonus points for experience with additional backend languages such as OCaml, Haskell, Go, C++ (with preference towards functional languages). Candidate should also have experience leading a team of engineers.

. You are actively engaged in software development communities, Open Source projects or projects of your own; where coding in collaboration with other engineers is a necessity. The principles of Agile development, coding standards, unit testing, documentation and communication are second nature. You’ll be successful at SeamlessDocs if you are able to look at existing code, which isn’t always pretty, and say – I love a challenge and I know how to turn that into something beautiful. You follow design patterns that lead others to more elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop efficient web services and APIs.

• Participate in daily code deploys while working on individual or team projects.

• Take ideas and concepts from the business and turn them into tangible components of the site.

• Participate in thorough code reviews with a goal of illustrating quality engineering practices and to produce the highest quality code possible.

Skills / Experience​

• Strong software engineering fundamentals. Interested in Scala not because it's the 'hot new thing' but because its type safety and functional nature enables stable growth and beautiful code.

• Experience using PostgresSQL

• Experience working with large data sets (data mining, data analytics, data manipulation and reporting)

• Experience working with a production environment with zero or very minimal downtime

www.seamlessdocs.com/jobs

Feel free to reach out to me at felix@seamlessdocs.com

Sr Software Engineer - PHP/Python (generally full stack, but light on the frontend development)

I posted this last month and we've filled one of the two available positions.

Hiring process - Resume, 30 min phone call, Take home code exercise (2-3 hrs), in person interview with Dev Manager, Product Owner, and developers.

This position will join a recently expanded small team (was 3, now 5) of all senior level developers to work on the flagship cessation intervention of the foundation. With secure internal funding, we plan to overhaul the becomeanex.org website to make it a powerhouse in smoking cessation. We will be replacing/upgrading every aspect of the site including cms, community platform, web framework, design, tools, and content in order to leverage the knowledge we've gained in performing grant funded research on the platform over recent years.

Truth is a great place to work (we have amazing benefits), that does great things. https://truthinitiative.applicantpool.com/jobs/69531.html

InsightSquared is a well-funded Boston startup. Our SaaS app helps businesses make data driven decisions by pulling their sales, marketing, financial, customer service & other data from APIs like Salesforce, QuickBooks, and Google Analytics and presenting over 400 beautiful visualizations and powerful analytics.

We assemble in small product teams that work fast, have fun, and ship often. Your team of engineering, product, and creative peers will drive the operational and strategic decisions needed to move forward. We build on a modern platform (Python/Django). We ship code to production not just daily, but a dozen+ times per day. We test quickly, learn fast, iterate fast, and focus on code that matters.

We're hiring three engineers:

  - Software Engineer
  - Senior Software Engineer
  - Systems Architect

mperry at insightsquared dot com

Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help.

We are a friendly, ambitious team of ~60 engineers in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food, backed by Sequoia and Google Capital.

We're looking for engineers and SREs interested in working with Go, Scala/Spark/Hadoop, PHP, Angular, iOS, Android, and AWS. We're also looking for data scientists interested in predictive modeling, machine learning, and experimental design and analysis. Join us!

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

Please reach out to jessica [at] thumbtack.com with any questions.