Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

At Mendix we want software to be delivered faster, cheaper and better so companies can innovate with IT and we're building the platform to do that. Our sweet spot is business focussed web apps. We compete with force.com and offer cloud based frictionless visual programming & deployment.

We are HQ'ed in Boston but R&D is in the Netherlands. Company is about 250 people and we received $40M of VC funding.

I'm leading the 10 person strong Cloud team which works with AWS, Golang, Java, Python, Postgres, Cloud Foundry. We build an enterprise grade hosting platform which runs thousands of apps with many more to come.

We're looking for Testers as well as Junior and Senior Developers with an interest or background in Systems.

Besides that we have many other open positions in R&D, from Software Development Managers, Product Managers to React/JavaScript developers as well as Scala engineers. https://www.mendix.com/company/join-our-team/

We typically have 1 phone screen, 1 interview, a take home assignment + on-site review and a meet the team and management session. We offer relocation and have the first interview via Skype if you are not based in NL.

You can email me at jouke.waleson at company domain, I'll forward you to the right people if you are not applying to a cloud related position.

Position: Full-Stack Engineer, Application Engineer, DevOps, Data Scientist, Sales (inside or field)

Application & Data Stack: Golang, Javascript, Docker, Streaming Infrastructure, R, TensorFlow, MySQL, AWS

Team: we're a diverse 6 person company (across Data, Engineering, Chemistry, and Biz)

Analytical Flavor Systems uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to build tools for the food & beverage industry. Our Quality, Process, and Market Intelligence services create real-time predictive decisions metrics at each stage of a products life-cycle. We leverage our predictive models across products & industries for flavor profile optimization, production process optimization, demographic targeting & cognitive marketing - helping companies create and sell the best product to their highest value consumers with every batch.

Our Services

_Quality Intelligence_: Real-time predictive quality control, assurance, and improvement from human sensory data.

_Process Intelligence_: Real-time predictive process control and optimization from human sensory data + manufacturing & LIMS data.

_Market Intelligence_: Linking flavor-profile, demographics, and sales data to find the highest value consumer demographics for a product's flavor-profile.

The Position(s)

_Engineering_: Web-application or Streaming Infrastructure focused full-stack engineer capable of integrating the data pipeline and outputs of machine learning models into an easy to use management platform.

_Data Science_: Data science is central to our predictive Quality, Process, and Market Intelligence services. We didn’t build a data science team to optimize our product's marketing spend, sales funnel, or client retention – we built a data science team to build our product. We need data scientists who can understand our clients and can take a nebulous business goal, create a set of quantitative decision metrics, and build predictive models to optimize those metrics.

The extensive role of data scientists at Analytical Flavor Systems allows us to invest in their education across sensory perception (standard sensory science so they know what we’re improving and replacing), tasting experiences (so they appreciate the products we work on and understand how the data is collected), production knowledge (test batches in our R&D brewery and roastery so they understand the data they work with and how our predictions impact a client’s process), and data science tear-downs (a meeting where the team collaboratively attempts to find and fix problems, try new techniques, and debate the philosophical implications of a model's construction).

_Sales_: We prefer the thoughtful relationship builder to the cowboy negotiator. Most of our contracts are multi-year high-price affairs, so relationships are really important. Plus, you get to spend your time at breweries, distilleries and roasteries (I've personally never been to a sales meeting where beer or coffee wasn't served freshly brewed).

Next Steps

Please submit something awesome to JasonCEO@Gastrograph.com to apply.

We're looking for a full-time entry-level back-end developer to build some infrastructure support services geared towards startups. We do not require a college degree and we also do not require previous professional experience. See the relevant link at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_JknurU5Xmdo3gi5onmKf2ZS...

Once candidates have submitted a complete application, we typically let them know within one week whether we would like to meet in person. Most likely, there are at most two rounds of interviews, the first of which will include some basic coding questions.

1. Experienced C++ Developer

We're looking for an experienced C++ Developer, who is interested in committing to an interesting long term project. You'll be building a replacement for an existing system that processes millions of transactions a day. We need someone that is consistent, patient and highly organised (mentally speaking). There are excellent opportunities for interesting algorithmic work and given the size of the team, for introducing new technologies and approaches.

2. Backend Developer, API / Data Design

We're also looking for someone with strong data design skills who can build a service layer on top of our core C++ product and create APIs that will allow us to build web interfaces for it.

This will be greenfield, so you can propose the language you'll like to use. Keep in mind our entire platform is Linux only.

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It's a small team, an interesting product and nice people.

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