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

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Seeking object oriented software developer to build next generation API for a leading cloud communications service provider in Newark, NJ.

We look for: 1) A passion for programming. You probably have side projects you do for fun just to build your skills. 2 ) Ability to learn quickly. You have experience being thrown into a project and running with it. 3) An exceptional coder who finds it fun to build new things 4) Ability to work collaboratively on a team of like-minded people.

www.phone.com/careers

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

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Backend Engineers, All Levels | Coffee Meets Bagel | San Francisco | Full-Time | On-site https://coffeemeetsbagel.com/jobs/

Hey I’m Karim, CTO at Coffee Meets Bagel. I’m looking to hire some backend engineers from mid level to senior to lead (engineering manager).

Our stack is Python, Go, C*, Redis, Elastic Search, PG, Spark, …

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating app that focuses on quality over quantity. We're growing fast and looking for great engineers to help build new features which help our users fall in love.

We have a super fun office near Union Square right off the BART line and you'd get to work with a bunch of very smart, driven, passionate, and fun people all dedicated to helping our users find love! https://jobs.lever.co/coffeemeetsbagel/70425a5d-b1a1-44c8-88...

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

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TribalScale | Toronto, Canada | Orange County, California | Full time | Onsite | http://www.tribalscale.com/

TribalScale is a mobile first company that specializes in connected devices and the Internet of Things. Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, TribalScale is a rapidly growing Product Development firm that aims to collide the physical and digital worlds. Our team members have a history of partnering with some of the world’s most premium brands, helping to shepherd businesses into the connected age. We are growing extremely fast and looking for talented software engineers to support that growth. Some of the platforms and environments that we have worked on and will be working on are: Mobile apps & Web Services (iOS, Android, Smartwatches, Google Glass & Other Wearables, Connected Home,Smart TVs, Beacon solutions

We're hiring for many roles including:

- Software engineers

- Junior QA

- Designers

Please apply here https://tribalscale.workable.com or email tlui [at] tribalscale.com if you’re interested in learning more.

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

#714
Calthorpe Analytics | Berkeley, CA | Onsite | Front/Back End Software Engineers

Help us build SimCity for real! We help urban planners answer questions like "where should we put housing and jobs for the next 1.5 million people in California?", "what are the carbon impacts of adopting this transit policy?" and "what will the average commute time be in the year 2040?".

To answer these questions faster and in more detail we're hiring software engineers to build the next generation of UrbanFootprint, the world's most sophisticated urban planning and data analysis platform.

Our specific hiring needs at the moment include:

* Mid-level to senior back end or full stack engineer to help build the storage, query, and analysis components of the app * Mid-level to senior front end engineer to help build our React/Redux/MapboxGL app

Our stack is rapidly evolving but you'll be sure to run into at least: * Python + Flask + Postgres/PostGIS * ReactJS + MapboxGL * Large-scale data acquisition, storage, versioning * Data analysis using tools like Pandas and Apache Spark

We have real clients, are well funded, offer competitive compensation, a fantastic location in Berkeley, CA, stock options, and a chance to be part of something in its early stages.

What we do: http://calthorpeanalytics.com/

Open positions: http://calthorpeanalytics.com/hiring.html

Interested? Send a cover letter and resume to softwarejob@calthorpeanalytics.com

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

#715

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…

yikes.

There are existing tests available to test for being a sociopath...

this is super dehumanizing.

how about, do the work sample test and a few phone calls with somebody smart. You're going to scare off a lot of very picky people if you seem like you're going to be an irritating test focused person - yes lots of us do well on tests, I really don't want to talk about it every day.

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

#716
Rails Machine | Savannah, GA | Remote (U.S. Only Please) | Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Rails Machine, your primary goals will be to ensure our customer’s applications are available, fast, and secure. Our customers need the best service, support, and products, and we need you to help us deliver.

We offer two main products: managed infrastructure and managed operations. Through managed infrastructure, we provide automation, infrastructure, and scalability in our own data center on our own hardware. We provide both bare-metal and virtualized hosting options for our customers, and you’ll work directly with them to ensure their goals are met through automation, analysis, and hardware. And via managed operations, we provide custom, consulting-based solutions on top of any cloud vendor, as best meets the customer’s needs.

We give our customers the ability to reach out to us like they would an internal DevOps team!

You’ll work with virtualization and container technologies, and setup and automate high availability data clusters (MySQL Galera, PostgreSQL replication, Redis failover, ElasticSearch clustering, Memcached, MongoDB etc.). You'll manage application instances built with Ruby-on-Rails and Elixir/Phoenix (to name a few) and layer on top of those management, orchestration, monitoring, and alerting for fleets of instances. If you’ve ever wanted to work at a scale that few companies do, you’ll find the right challenge here at Rails Machine!

Responsibilities:

* Manage availability and performance problems for customers; automate resolution to prevent reoccurrence

* Pair with other SREs and Systems Administrators, document solutions, knowledge sharing

* Release and maintain open-source software and projects

* Author blog posts and participate in the community by going to meetups, conferences, etc. as a Rails Machine representative

* Creates and maintain system architecture, design, and implementation

Minimum Qualifications :

* Proficient in Ruby with additional experience in C/C++, Python, Elixir, Java, or JavaScript preferred

* Significant experience with config management or automation framework, like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Capistrano

* 4 years maintaining production infrastructure on a Linux environment

* Intermediate Ubuntu system administration skills

* Strong customer service skills

* Self Motivated and Diligent

* Ability to participate in on-call/pager rotation

* U.S. Residents only please

* Hiring Junior to Senior Levels

Tell us how why you'd be the perfect addition to our team by emailing us at hiring @ railsmachine.com

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

#717

Ford - Autonomous Vehicles | Dearborn, MI | On-Site | Visa | Full-Time | Intern, recent graduates, and experienced positions available in both research and engineering. Research, develop, and deploy fully-autonomous, SAE Level-4, vehicles to meet the needs of global markets and transform the transportation industry with a trusted name/brand. Looking for technical leaders, change agents, and those with a passion for t…

I would love to apply for an internship position but my god is that career site awful. Mid-way through applying it just does nothing but returns "Error You have encountered a system error. We apologize for the inconvenience."

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

#718
Ebates | San Francisco, CA | San Mateo, CA | Onsite | www.ebates.com | INTERNS, VISA

Ebates is a profitable, high growth e-commerce company based in San Francisco. We offer a casual but fast paced environment where creativity and effective teamwork and collaboration are rewarded. We are changing the way people shop online, and we strive to provide the best possible customer experience - not to mention cash back on every purchase, with no strings attached. In 2015, members spent over $5 billion on Ebates' websites and since the inception of the company, have earned over $500 million in cash back. During the peak days of 2015, 5% of all online shopping went through Ebates!

I'm currently a senior iOS engineer at Ebates and we're looking to grow the mobile team! Open positions in mobile: - Engineering Manager or Director - Android Engineer - iOS Engineer

We have a lot of other open positions throughout the rest of the company.

Apply at https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/ebatesinc

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

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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 join us to build the most intuitive user experiences on mobile, tablets and desktops. Prime Now is an early stage initiative with a fast paced, highly collaborative start-up like environment inside Amazon.

You will implement the features and user interfaces of Amazon Prime Now to deliver compelling user-facing products. When you're not working on customer facing features, you will be architecting efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications capable of performing at scale.

If this sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at primenow-hiring@ (amazon.com) with your resume and a brief introduction.

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

#720
Pyramid AI | New Delhi | REMOTE OK

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Pyramid AI is a creative AI startup (in stealth). We are making a sophisticated portrait painting AI which is simple to use.

We are hiring engineers who are passionate about machine learning, neural networks and AI. Must have previous experience of making side projects in one of these areas.

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How to apply: send a cover letter and resume at stomatrix@gmail.com

Please include the following with your application

+ details about three specific programming task you worked on. Give us some background on the task - why was it important? And then describe how you worked it out, and what the result was. + details of your favorite book and why you like it + the number 42 in the subject

Some keywords: AI, machine learning, neural networks, creative AI, chatbots, messenger.

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