Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

Worldreader is a non-profit on a mission to bring digital books to every child and her family, so that they can improve their lives. Every month over half a million people use Worldreader’s library of 40,000 e-books to read in 40 languages in countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Philippines.

You will join our small technical team in San Francisco in an office that is fun but very serious about our mission. We are located a short distance from the Civic Center BART station.

We are looking for a senior node.js developer to help design our next generation architecture, migrate to a more unified architecture as well as develop some of the new critical pieces.

http://www.worldreader.org/about-us/jointheteam/careers-unit...

Hiring Process

* Submit email a resume with a cover letter

* Short introductory phone call with HR

* Complete a take-home assignment. You can convince us to look at a Github project you created instead.

* Conduct a 30-60 minutes phone interview covering your project.

* Conduct a 2-3 hours in person interview in S.F. and a Skype call with our team in Barcelona

* We check your references.

* We make you an offer.

Zoomer is focused on helping high volume delivery restaurants wow their customers and grow their business. We've taken a unique approach to changing the food delivery space - a platform to handle an extraordinarily high volume of concurrent deliveries from restaurants that already deliver (i.e. pizza shops with their own delivery drivers). We are backed by some of the best investors in the world, including Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, First Round Capital, SV Angel, and other amazing funds and individuals.

Zoomer connects high volume delivery restaurants with independent delivery drivers. Restaurants leveraging the Zoomer platform are able to provide a better & more consistent delivery experience for their customer, which ultimately leads to a stronger bottom line. Independent drivers on the Zoomer platform have the ability to create their own schedule & increase their earnings. And of course, customers receive their orders dramatically faster.

We’re making key hires to expand our globally distributed core team. You’ll have a ton of impact – lots of freedom to evolve our processes, systems, partners, platform, stack and apps. We follow strong engineering practices, put an emphasis on testing, and deploy rapidly. Our team is distributed across North America and Europe.

Help us build cutting-edge technical solutions to:

  - tough logistics problems, quickly routing orders to optimal drivers
  - on-demand prediction and forecasting models
  - scalable compute and data infrastructure
  - multiple mobile apps - for restaurants, drivers, and diners
  - range of complex real-time front-end interfaces
 

  - Logistics technology engineers
  - Ruby engineers
  - DevOps engineer
 

Kensho is applying machine learning and quantitative modeling to timeseries, graph and unstructured data to make computer driven insights faster, more accessible, intuitive and beautiful.

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+ Software Engineers -- Create beautiful web apps, dynamic visualizations, meaningful and non-flaky tests, composible and scalable infrastructure, cutting edge site reliability (SRE), neatly flexible operational frameworks, thoughtful APIs, practical yet robust security, and powerful frameworks for data processing.

+ Machine Learning Engineers and Scientists -- Create advanced machine learning pipelines, NLP systems and new data modeling techniques at scale using python, R or similar.

Our Interview Process:

* We hope you'll share a project, paper or resume with us that highlights where you shine, with a short note so we can appreciate you as a person. Please say hi at jobs@kensho.com or https://www.kensho.com/#/careers

* As a small team, we'll reach back out to a few individuals to chat with a team member via phone, video or, if you are local, in person--to show and discuss your work, projects and code

* We may ask you to do a programming or data science challenge (* We'll invite you to our Harvard Sq. headquarters to meet more of the team, where we hope you'll interview us too

* We'll discover we are peanut butter and jelly together, and wish we'd met sooner

* Having made you a non-exploding offer, we think you'll want to sign it

* You'll join us and have a lot of fun, get to play with fascinating data, models and technology alongside delightful, hungry and creative people

* Something about being on a mission to change the world (hey, we're a start up)

Who We Interview:

We scan your resume for at least one outlier experience, be it your undergraduate CS program, PhD program, open source contributions, research, publications, or previous/current employment.

Stack:

Functional javascript (react, canvas), python (numpy, pandas, scikit-learn et. al.)