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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by rodrickbrown »

OrchardPlatform - http://orchardplatform.com | Backend Scala | Full-time | NYC | Onsite

The Orchard Platform team is growing! Join our talented team of engineers from Google, Admeld, Bloomberg, and Lab49. We're currently hiring senior-level polyglot Backend Engineers with experience in functional programming (Scala) and interest in learning Apache Spark.

Strong algorithms, data structures, and coding background in C++, Java, Scala; exposure to other functional languages like Haskell is a plus Knowledge of modern web frameworks, languages and protocols Experience with (Apache Spark, Flink, Scalding, Akka, Storm) is a plus! Prior experience with multiple relational and columnar data stores such as MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Vertica Familiar with software engineering best practices, e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation.

We use Mesos, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Vertica, Accumulo/Hadoop and tons of other modern tech.

See https://www.orchardplatform.com/company/careers/job-posting/... for more details.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by whocanfly »

somberi wrote: post #634

Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. Some of you might have followed my posts over the last year, and some have asked why I held back on the name of the company. It is JioMoney, and we are live now. We launched last week and are the top trending app in the Finance section in play store. The problem scope is large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/under…

Excited by the Jio launch. Congratulation! Any QA/Test Automation roles? Where are your offices in Bangalore?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by vinuta5 »

davidshariff wrote: post #628

Amazon Prime Now | Software Engineer, Front End | Relocation Assistance | Full Time | Seattle Prime Now provides Amazon Prime members unparalleled convenience and ease of mind by offering one-hour, ultra fast delivery as well as two-hour scheduled delivery of tens and thousands of essential products. Check out the Prime Now video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhdgfULOufc . We are seeking talented developers to j…

Hi David,

Thank You for posting about this. I am really very interested to be a part of this initiative and looking forward to work in a startup like work environment. What are the requirements and experience level for this?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by whocanfly »

iglookid wrote: post #95

Locus | Full Time | ONSITE, VISA (Bangalore, India) | https://locus.sh/ | careers@locus.sh Locus is hiring back-end and front-end devs. At Locus we have an ambitious goal of Scheduling & Tracking the World transport movement. We are aware of how audacious the goal is, but we have made our initial strong footholds and have the path to move forward. Founded by a team of ex-AWS engineers, comprising of graduates from pr…

Your career page mentions housing as a perk. That's a first for me. I do not match any profile but I'd recommend friends.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by 35bge57dtjku »

tlb wrote: post #527
dominotw wrote: post #163

>The interview process is several phone screens, a take home coding challenge, and finally an on-site interview. It has become really arduous to switch tech jobs these days. I've been spending close to 20-25hrs/job-application even before on-site interview which is another 2 days of time sink. I've used up a major chunk of my vacation this point just for tech interviews. Feel angry and powerless. Maybe next year!!

Startups trying to hire talented & motivated people have to interview around 10 candidates for every hire. By conservation, the average job seeker has to go to 10 interviews, and some will need to do a lot more than 10. So don't assume there's something wrong with you unless you've racked up >50 rejections. Is (10 * a few days) to change jobs is an unreasonable burden? I subscribe to the rule of thumb that you should…

> Is (10 * a few days) to change jobs is an unreasonable burden?

It's the quality, not the quantity.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by 35bge57dtjku »

spitfire wrote: post #274

I'll post to this thread because this is very relevant for the hiring companies. Hunter and Schmidt did a meta-study of 85 years of research on hiring criteria. [1] There are three attributes you need to select for to identify performing employees in intellectual fields. - General mental ability (Are they generally smart) Use WAIS or if there are artifacts of GMA(Complex work they've done themselves) available use th…

"That might work great for other companies, but..."

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by cj »

◎ Localize | Full-stack Javascript Engineer | San Francisco (SF) | Full-Time | Onsite

Localize is building tools in the B2B SaaS space to simplify the translation of applications. As our 4th engineer, you'll have full control over large parts of our product. You'll receive a competitive equity grant & salary with full benefits. Apply: Email jobs@localizejs.com

More details: https://localizejs.com/jobs

You should be able to:

  —  Navigate our stack: Javascript, Node.js, Backbone, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Handlebars, Less.

  —  Manipulate native browser APIs (DOM w/o jQuery)

  —  Understand MVC patterns and UI design

  —  Learn quickly, act autonomously, think analytically.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by braindead_in »

Scribie | San Francisco, CA | Speech Recognition Engineer | Full Time | Onsite

Scribie is an audio/video transcription service where we manually convert interviews, meetings, teleconferences, podcasts and other spoken audio files to text via our 4-step process which guarantees high accuracy. We have tons of high quality data, audio files and their corresponding transcripts. We would like to build a ASR system and use our data to train it with the aim to eventually achieving a high enough accuracy to replace the first step our process which is manual typing.

The key skills we are looking for are:

- Hands-on experience with speech recognitions systems, eg. Kaldi

- Knowledge of major components of an ASR systems

Drop me a line at rajiv@scribie.com if you're interested in taking up this challenging position.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by janbernhart »

Optiver | C++ Core Applications Developer | Amsterdam | Onsite | VISA sponsored

In order to be successful in our trading domain, we constantly need the most advanced technology, trading software and connections to the market. In short, we need the best technologists to develop, optimise and support our systems and tools. With 12 datacenters and thousands of servers we run ten thousands of trading components executing hundred thousands of trades every day.

Requirements: A solid grasp of computer science, knowing your algorithms, memory-, and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems, relational databases, etc. We welcome both senior and junior ‘great minds’. Next to C++ (14) we use Python and C# (for GUI’s).

Interested? Contact janbernhart-AT-optiver.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

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Post by hartror »

Biarri Rail | Melbourne, Australia | Web & Python & C++ Engineers | Onsite | INTERNS welcome

We are a profitable startup using mathematical and algorithmic techniques to optimise long term and operational/real-time planning for freight railroads in USA and Australia. We see it as our mission to save our clients from traditional enterprise software with its long lead times and big bang deployments. As a member of our team you will be working closely with our clients to produce mission critical software that is easy to use.

We're always looking to talk to smart people who get things done and who doesn't like trains?

Email: jobs@biarrirail.com

http://biarrirail.com

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