Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by egonschiele » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:09 PM UTC

Nashooo wrote: post #206

egonschiele wrote: post #103

Etsy | San Francisco or REMOTE | Software Engineers | Full-time I'm hiring four engineers for my team at Etsy. We're the international team. We have a really interesting product challenge -- how to make Etsy better for our international buyers and sellers. * product engineer roles * good learning environment for people with less experience * lots of growth potential for senior folks, our team is growing and we need l…

Does Remote include Europe?

No, should have clarified -- almost anywhere in the US is okay, and Toronto is okay.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by egonschiele » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:10 PM UTC

nnd wrote: post #145

egonschiele wrote: post #103

Etsy | San Francisco or REMOTE | Software Engineers | Full-time I'm hiring four engineers for my team at Etsy. We're the international team. We have a really interesting product challenge -- how to make Etsy better for our international buyers and sellers. * product engineer roles * good learning environment for people with less experience * lots of growth potential for senior folks, our team is growing and we need l…

How important is experience with your particular tech stack?

Not important, but full stack experience is needed.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by egonschiele » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:11 PM UTC

sevilo wrote: post #291

nnd wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How important is experience with your particular tech stack?

wondering about the same, I'd be really interested in Etsy as I have been a seller myself. I come from more of a front-end background with some knowledge of working on the backend as well, but don't have extensive experience with the BE technologies mentioned in the posting

What kind of backend experience do you have? We don't need you to have PHP experience, but you should know one scripting language.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by discordianfish » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:11 PM UTC

sytse wrote: post #322

mdekkers wrote: post #316

year end bonus that is influenced by your work during the year, our profitability and where you live You should pay me for the value I bring to your business, where I chose to live shouldn't have anything to do with how much I get paid for remote position. Gitlab pull the same trick, and wrap a complicated set of metrics around it, but it still comes off as cheapskating.

At GitLab we pay market rates instead of paying the same wage for the same role in different regions. Paying the same wage in different regions would lead to: 1. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team. 2. Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income then ones in low-wage countries with the same role. 3.…

Why would somebody from a low-wage region accept a lower wage if they could work for high-wage region company which just pays them as their other employees?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by shipdog » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

Nashooo wrote: post #206

egonschiele wrote: post #103

Etsy | San Francisco or REMOTE | Software Engineers | Full-time I'm hiring four engineers for my team at Etsy. We're the international team. We have a really interesting product challenge -- how to make Etsy better for our international buyers and sellers. * product engineer roles * good learning environment for people with less experience * lots of growth potential for senior folks, our team is growing and we need l…

Does Remote include Europe?

Does it ever....:(

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by jsmeaton » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australia's online retail industry and Australia’s largest pureplay online retailer. Our software engineering team have end-to-end responsibility from idea to launch for all kogan.com built apps - including Kogan.com and dicksmith.com.au as well as purchasing optimisation and other internal applications. We see our high volume, large scale apps as an exciting opportunity for innovation and revolution - both in technology and business. We welcome new technologies, ideas and ways of working.

To give you an idea on our stack we use Python and Django on the backend; React on the frontend and tools/technologies such as: Elasticsearch, AWS, Trello, Docker, Postgres, Redis and eClaire (our open-source Trello card printer for our physical wall https://github.com/kogan/eClaire). We run an Agile practice - adhering to our processes and refining them through retros.

Check out what some of our engineers have written: https://devblog.kogan.com/

Our careers page has a pretty good rundown on our team and hiring process: https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/ Our in person interview is generally focused on debugging a python script or javascript on a laptop, with full access to google/docs/tools you prefer. We want you to succeed. We're interested in how you get there.

If you've got any specific questions about our team or process I'll be happy to answer below.

We're looking for juniors, seniors, and everything in between. If you’d like to apply, send an email to dev.jobs@kogan.com with the subject line beginning with "HN: " and some content about who you are.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by jxub » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:15 PM UTC

whamlastxmas wrote: post #203

purpleidea wrote: post #162

Can we start mandating that posters include approximate salary ranges. Too often you end up finding out the salary is way less than is fair for your experience, etc... Knowing in advance would save everyone a lot of time and $.

Try the stack exchange job board and filter by salary there. It's just an unfortunate reality that most won't post a salary, and that many times it's smaller companies that post here and don't have the money for senior or more experienced developers.

> many times it's smaller companies that post here and don't have the money for senior or more experienced developers.

I think that if they don't offer market rate salary for senior enginners they should let it know in advance instead of making them apply and either losing their time or lowballing them (best case most of these companies are hoping for).

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by itsdrewmiller » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:22 PM UTC

NGP VAN - Washington, DC and Boston, MA

We are growing fast and hiring for so many technical positions:

https://www.ngpvan.com/careers

NGP VAN is a technology company whose team members do exciting and meaningful work that has a significant impact on promoting civil rights, social justice, and environmental responsibility.

Employees enjoy an unusually generous set of benefits, including 12 weeks paid parental leave, profit sharing, 100% premium-paid health/dental, and an ongoing education allowance. NGP VAN is one of only a handful of companies to be recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for 10 years. Inc. Magazine also recognized us as one of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2016.

We were named one of the Coolest Companies of 2016 by DC Inno. We've also been named one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. The Wall Street Journal wrote “NGP VAN is something of a secret weapon for the Democratic Party and the labor unions and progressive groups that use it.” We have also won the AAPC award for Best Use of New Technology, and the Campaigns & Elections Award for Most Innovative Product.

Join our team and work alongside more than 200 smart, passionate, and innovative co-workers, many of whom are industry recognized as experts in their fields.

NGP VAN believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes us a stronger company and better partner for our clients. We’re committed to hiring people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation or gender identities, marital status, religions, and disabilities. Women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.

Keywords: ONSITE

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by clmcleod » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:28 PM UTC

dorchadas wrote: post #374

clmcleod wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had a few requests for details, so I'll post some of my responses here in the comments. Re: common technologies - ASE/SSE: Python is the main language used in these positions. We work in a variety of other languages (Java, C, C++, bash, Perl) as genomic tools are written in all these languages. We've done some experimenting in Rust ( https://github.com/stjude/fqlib ), and we're just getting started in seeing how…

I'm assuming you're the hiring person behind the positions, but I would like to make sure I address the cover letter correctly. Should I address it to you? Also, is the remote option available on the associate job(s)? I'm not against moving to Memphis, but would prefer remote.

Sure! You can address to me, or you can just address it "to whom it may concern" (there are a few HPC positions in those job postings, so that would be a different manager). We're not going to count it against you either way :).

My advice on the cover letter is to just be honest about your situation. If you're only going consider remote, let us know that. If you prefer remote but would consider on-site as you say here, let us know that too! It's all going to come down to a discussion about whether we're the right fit for you and you're the right fit for us, so it benefits both sides to be as candid as possible (just my two cents).

If you're thinking about applying, it doesn't hurt to email me and just say that you applied from the HN post so I can keep my eye out for it!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

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Post by shanev » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

The Internet lets anyone, anywhere broadcast a message to the rest of the world. It connects the 4 billion people on the Internet to one another. It’s undoubtedly the greatest invention of humanity. But the ease of sending information unfortunately also allows misinformation to spread. How do you reconcile these two opposing forces, openness and trust? One solution is to hinder or to censor. But that’s been tried before and miserably fails. But imagine if information policed itself by the people creating that information.

At Trustory, we're looking for full-stack engineers to help build this for the world. Our tech stack is primarily Typescript, React Native, Node, GraphQL, and Go (Golang).

We value ethical, curious, and passionate people. We don't care about your grades. We don't care about your pedigree.

We are building TruStory in a decentralized manner, using blockchain platforms like Cosmos SDK and Ethereum. You’d be one of our first hires, and get a chance to work with some of the most experienced engineers and advisors in the industry.

https://www.trustory.io/careers/

shane+hn@trustory.io