Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

What: With PayGarden merchants can accept big-brand gift cards as payment - imagine Stripe, but instead of credit cards, your customers can pay with Starbucks, Walmart, Amazon (& ~100 more) gift cards.

See our partnership with Watsi [0] - turning major brand cards into life-changing healthcare for people, or Private Internet Access [1] - making VPN payment anonymous.

How: Our systems handle millions of dollars, built primarily with Clojure/Script, ReasonML, & a dash of Rust.

Us: If you've ever done any work with Clojure or Reason, you've likely seen someone from our tiny, incredibly high-leverage team of Xooglers & YC alumni. We've:

- contributed to the cljs compiler [2],

- built cool open-source Clojure/Scripts apps [3],

- given [4] dozens [5] of talks [6] on [7] fun and cutting [8] edge development

- run the #sfcljs & ReasonDojo meetups

You: Love working with others, taking ownership over business concerns while jumping into other parts of the stack to help out. An internal drive to continuously improve, while remaining humble.

jobs@paygarden.com with "HN" in the subject, & link us to your favorite project!

[0] https://www.paygarden.com/watsi/donate-your-gift-card

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

[2] https://youtu.be/mty0RwkPmE8?t=23m30s

[3] https://precursorapp.com/blog/clojure-is-a-product-design-to...

[4] https://youtu.be/t6CRZ-iG39g - OneGraph

[5] https://youtu.be/i9eu9e7gN0Q - Unikernels in the real world

[6] https://youtu.be/QWfHrbSqnB0 - Truly full-stack apps in OCaml

[7] https://youtu.be/Yp7MmskzF9Y - Generating & Running 1,000,000 Selenium tests in 60 minutes

[8] https://youtu.be/wjHTsaqwMIE - Polymorphic Codebases

Game Closure is behind Everwing, the top game on Facebook’s Instant Games platform. In parallel, we’ve built the world’s most advanced javascript game engine for messenger games. We’ve raised more than $30M, and we have more than a million users per engineer at the company.

Our technologies and games have already been in front of many tens of millions of users, and we’re adding millions of new users monthly.

The Game Closure team is growing very rapidly. We need senior engineers for game development and game engine technology roles. These are high leverage senior positions. Remote workers are welcome. Our teams are already highly distributed because we’re looking to build the best engineering team in the world.

Outside of our games, we have projects for hosted real-time multiplayer gaming, social gaming, cross-compilation to native platforms, React integration, and many other core infrastructure tools that we would welcome your support on defining and creating.

Please email linda@gameclosure.com

Subject: Game Closure Core Engineer: YOUR NAME HERE

Please include a personal note about your background and interests so we can prioritize your application!

Best, Ben Garney VP Engineering, Core Tech

GoCardless is building a payments network for the internet. Since 2011 we've been focused on simplifying Direct Debit for small and medium companies (who previously had no access to it) and we've expanded to serve the largest companies (think newspapers, utilities) and connect with existing payment systems in countries all over the world. We already support the UK, Europe and Sweden and are aiming to expand to more countries over the next year.

As an engineering team at GoCardless we care most about stable, reliable, understandable code. We rely on automated testing, code review and a culture of frequent constructive feedback. We define and manage our own roadmap and run projects in whatever way works best for us.

Our stack: Rails, React, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Docker, Chef, Terraform. We also have a bit of Go (for Infrastructure) and Python (for Data).

We love learning new things and contributing back to the community. We open source everything we can[1] and regularly host meetups and hackathons at our wheelchair-accessible office Between Farringdon and Old Street. We have a bi-weekly bookclub within the team and give internal (and external) talks about things that interest us.

Interview process: an intro call, one technical video interview, then a couple of onsite interviews (coding exercise and some chats - no whiteboards!)

For more info and to apply: https://gocardless.com/jobs. If you've got any questions, drop me an email (it's in my profile).

[1] Notable examples are Statesman (https://gocardless.com/blog/statesman/) and Coach (https://gocardless.com/blog/getting-started-with-coach/)

Remote and/or onsite. We’re looking for somebody who can build a modern and secure Mark 2 version of an existing system from the ground up, for a relatively new but booming online investment startup. In this environment, the candidate should be aware of current security practices across the entire stack and be able to implement them without guidance. The candidate should arrive with plenty of energy to drive forward and enforce best coding/engineering practise in a small team (~5).

Just like everybody else, we want a top-quality engineer with an eye for detail as well as an appreciation for timelines… ;) What we can offer you in exchange are super-flexible hours and a competitive salary (and potentially stock options) based on your profile.

  -- We expect somebody roughly like this: 10 years+ 
     commercial experience, or, ability to demonstrate that 
     you have this level of expertise and maturity.
  -- You should know your way around, but not be limited 
     to, PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL, Python, *nix command line 
     and AWS. We are open to new languages and stack if it 
     is justified.
  -- If you cannot write a basic regular expression from 
     memory, please do not apply.
  -- Knowledge of Spanish would be a big plus.

Hey founder of Notion here. You can think of it as the next generation Microsoft Office meets Minecraft (and actually a visual programming language behind the scene).

This is our product:

https://notion.so

We made a graphic novel about why we exist:

https://notion.so/about

Read more market-related comments on Product Hunt. (Notion was one of the fastest voted of all time):

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-2-0

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-for-ios

We are < 10 people at the moment. The business is growing fast and profitable. We have a beautiful artist loft in the SF Mission district, with the best investors out there (notion.so/about). You need to be able to build things and think conceptually. Email me directly at "ivan@makenotion.com"