Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by prophetjohn » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

PolicyGenius | Full-stack, Front-end, DevOps Engineers | New York City (NYC)

We're growing fast and hiring for all engineering roles. Shoot me an email at josh at policygenius dot com if you have any questions. You can read more details about each role at http://careers.policygenius.com

About us:

PolicyGenius is an NYC-based insurance tech startup with a mission to help people get the protection they need and make them feel good about it. We are changing the game by making insurance shopping faster, friendlier and more efficient for the online consumer. Since our launch in 2014, we’ve achieved rapid growth in a notoriously difficult industry and established ourselves as a pioneer in a now hot space (insurance, if you can believe it). We're at an exciting inflection point, having raised a $16.25M Series B, and we're focused on building out our powerhouse team.

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

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Post by latch » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

Second Spectrum | Los Angeles, Lausanne, Shanghai | Full-time | On Site

We create products that fuse cutting-edge design with spatiotemporal pattern recognition, machine learning, and computer vision to enable the next generation of sports insights and experiences.

We recently became the Official Optical Tracking Provider for the NBA (think of the data!): http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2016/09/22/the-nba...

You can learn more about what we do from our various videos (I recommend our CEO's TED talk for a good overview): http://www.secondspectrum.com/videos/

Engineering roles:

IT / Hardware / Systems Technician, Video Systems Engineer, Mid/Sr Full-Stack Engineer, Sr UI/UX Engineers, DevOps Engineer, Machine Learning Software Engineer (a strong SE fundamentals and experience (as a generalization, not a pure data scientist))

Creative roles:

Creative Director, UI / UX Designer, Motion Designer, Animator, Producer/Editor

You can apply through email at work@secondspectrum.com. Happy to answer any questions you might have: karl@secondspectrum.com

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

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

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Post by kbaker » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Venture Research Inc. | Plano, TX (Dallas, TX, DFW) | Onsite Only | http://www.ventureresearch.com

Interested in RFID? In improving inventory and replenishment processes in hospitals, labs, and clinics? In automatically tracking pallets, containers, and other assets around a facility? Come join us!

Venture Research is a leader in the RFID industry and is consistently pushing the leading edge of what is possible using RFID. We have a variety of opportunities available for both fast-paced new product design and development as well as for development on some of our long-term stable products. 17 year old small but growing company, privately held, with excellent benefits, 401K matching, paid health insurance and highly competitive salary and bonus structure.

We are hiring for the following positions:

* Senior .NET / Backend developer: C#, VB.Net, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Oracle, JavaScript and JQuery. .NET MVC a plus.

* Embedded firmware engineer: microcontroller development using primarily NXP Kinetis parts.

* Embedded platforms engineer: C, Linux, Android NDK. Experience with hardware co-design, Python, QT, Django, React a plus.

Please email resumes to hr@ventureresearch.com, or use the email in my profile. Thanks!

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

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Post by JonnyB_Amazon » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Amazon development Centre (Scotland) is looking for experienced software developers with strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Our development centre in Edinburgh is responsible for devising and growing innovations for Amazon around the world. Small teams of developers, designers and leaders run major parts of Amazon’s business, technology and operations. From interactive UI design to large-scale distributed systems and machine learning, we do whatever it takes to deliver great products and experiences for our customers. Our work is characterised by high scale, complexity and the need for invention. We offer great opportunities to work on big data, machine learning and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

We use a wide variety of languages including Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript; Open Source technologies including Linux, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS; and we build on top of Amazon’s world-leading AWS platform.

For more information take a look at our microsite - http://www.amazondc.com

Feel free to get in touch with me – contact details in my profile - if you are interested in having an informal chat about roles here.

(Please note, I only recruit for the Edinburgh Dev Centre, so cannot help you with other roles/locations)

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

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Post by wahnfrieden » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Top Hat | https://tophat.com | Toronto, ON, Canada | Full-time

Top Hat is hiring for a few roles: mobile dev (native iOS, Android), director of mobile, and full-stack web developer (Python, Django, Javascript, React.js, AWS, Ansible). Salary ranges based on experience from $80k to $120k.

We're a profitable (and valley VC funded by some of the best funds in the world) education startup that helps make class more interactive, fun and engaging. Top Hat helps professors make every lecture count by transforming mobile devices into powerful engagement tools, inside and outside the classroom. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

Send your resume/github account to olivia at tophat dot com.

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

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Post by jasonshah1233 » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Mediafly | Sr. iOS Engineer | Chicago | Full Time | Onsite

Mediafly is a high-growth, fast-paced software-as-a-service company that helps enterprises turn their content and data into compelling mobile experiences. Our products tie web-based content management with native, fully branded mobile and tablet apps. We have a lean, growing team of passionate engineers and professionals that love to build great products and solve big problems. Our team is highly collaborative and a lot of fun. The best ideas, design and implementation win. We love to design, build, ship, and improve our products to make our customers’ lives better every day.

Lots more about who we are looking for and what we do, here: https://www.mediafly.com/who-is-mediafly/careers/senior-ios-...

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

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Post by watterssn » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Quri is transforming retail execution by providing real-time, store-level visibility into the performance of products and promotions in 150,000 retail locations across 6,000 cities. Partners like Procter & Gamble, Heineken, Nest, Unilever, Kraft, Nestle, Coke, Kimberly Clark and 200 other global companies rely on us to unlock growth and increase the ROI of their $1 Trillion in trade spend and new product introductions annually.

We're looking for experienced engineers to join our small (about a dozen) but growing team of focused, dedicated, and passionate technologists who thrive using a variety of tools to solve real world business problems.

Parts of our stack include: react / redux / relay / graphql / rails / postgres.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/quri/44ffd19f-54fa-466f-9cda-1544f1bd6...

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

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Post by alexthornton » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

Locus Energy: http://careers.locusenergy.com/

San Francisco, CA; New Delhi, India. Remotes, interns and those needing visas are encouraged to apply.

About us: We’re dedicated to the proliferation of sustainable energy solutions. To that end, we build tools and services to monitor, analyze and manage the performance of tens of thousands of solar power systems. We’re a mature startup with a close-knit team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Our organization provides some structure while still leaving plenty of opportunities to make your mark. We’re not perfect but constantly improving. We value folks who offer a new perspective and play nicely with others.

About you: You’re passionate about sustainable energy and want to play a part of pushing our society in that direction. You are thoughtful, curious and ask questions when you don’t understand. You take ownership of your responsibilities and see them through to the end.

Perks:

- Relaxed work atmosphere. Flexible working hours and work from home policies.

- Conveniently office locations accessible from public transportation.

- Health insurance, 401k, and all the other benefits of a real, stable company.

Open roles:

- Software Engineer. https://boards.greenhouse.io/locusenergy/jobs/457887#.V_J0_Z...

- Senior Software Engineer in New Delhi, India. We're growing our business into India and are hiring a local software team to go with it. You'll be part of our core engineering team and will help provide an Indian perspective. Only locals to New Delhi, please. https://boards.greenhouse.io/locusenergy/jobs/273120#.V_J09J...

- Sys Admin / DevOps Engineer. https://boards.greenhouse.io/locusenergy/jobs/262398#.V_J07J...

- Embedded Software Engineer. https://boards.greenhouse.io/locusenergy/jobs/468022#.V_J1hp...

- Business Development Manager, Residential Solar Monitoring. https://boards.greenhouse.io/locusenergy/jobs/273848#.V_J4hZ...

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

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Post by bqe » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:28 PM UTC

DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | Software Engineer/Security Researcher | ONSITE

We're a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce. We take all of the security critical information and then alert on what's important, generate reports, and show cool dashboards.

We use AngularJS, Typescript, Java 8, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and we're built on AWS.

The engineers we're looking for are serious about security, performance, and UX. We're trying to build a useful, secure app that solves real problems. Read about our engineering culture here: https://www.defensestorm.com/cybermind/engineering-culture/

If you want to know more or apply, contact me directly at sean@defensestorm.com. Thanks!