Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

Bain & Company, Development Lab | DevOps Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full Time

As our clients navigate the migration to a digital economy, the Bain Development Lab provides application prototyping and development to help deliver real, actionable results to supplement our consulting work. That means we build apps. A lot of apps. And we need great engineering teams to build them.

Responsibilities - Collaborate with the application team to determine the best infrastructure to deliver a given project

- Use best practices to automate the provision of this infrastructure wherever possible

- Manage releases of software to the client throughout a project, especially once the software is in active use during MVP release or pilot

- Work with the client and broader Bain team to successfully manage deploying to client environments

- Understand available client technologies and resources

- Work alongside client engineers to provision appropriate infrastructure

- Advise client teams on scaling and maintenance strategies for apps going forward

- Contribute back to the broader team, identifying services and frameworks that can be reused or enhancing those you’ve used from others

- Collaborate with Bain’s internal IT group (TSG) on networking and other configuration topics, taking advantage of existing standards and best practices

- Mentor other engineers on the team as well as client engineers in DevOps

To apply: https://goo.gl/CS9quD

Bain & Company, Development Lab | Engineering Team Lead | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full Time

As our clients navigate the migration to a digital economy, the Bain Development Lab provides application prototyping and development to help deliver real, actionable results to supplement our consulting work. That means we build apps. A lot of apps. Which means we need to reinvent as few wheels as possible and get the most out of our own work and the broader development community.

Responsibilities - Be part of the global team that determines our technology stack

- Stay up to date on the latest trends to bring in the right technologies to make our work better – not just the coolest new thing

- Know when to buy vs. build - don’t reinvent the wheel

- Think about security as an inherent part of our frameworks and build it in

- Own the continuous improvement of our software development life cycle, ensuring that each team and app builds on the best of those that came before

- Serve as a coach and mentor to the Engineering Practices team within the Lab, as well as ensuring quality delivery from third party engineers who augment our capabilities by supporting their integration and coaching the Lab team on how to best collaborate.

- Support our clients as they improve their own engineering capabilities

- Support the Head of the Development Lab as well as members of other Bain teams in developing IP around modern engineering practices and how they can be best implemented within client businesses, bringing hands-on knowledge and expertise

- In some cases, work directly with our clients to help them solve specific challenges around strategy or adoption of modern software engineering practices

- Support the growth of the Lab by playing an active role in hiring

- Identify sources of engineering talent to bring to the Lab, including their own networks

- Assist the Dev Lab Head in defining the interview process for the Lab, including taking the lead on developing the technical portions of the process

- Interview engineering candidates for their team and others

To apply: https://goo.gl/79xGxu

Thesis | San Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA | Software Engineer | ONSITE & REMOTE | Full-time | $100k-180k with equity

We are a cryptocurrency production studio backed by a number of well-known investors in the space. We have opportunities across both of our products.

Keep [1] is a new project built on Ethereum that adds a privacy layer to public blockchains. Check out a video of our tech lead, Antonio, explaining our work [2]. We're interested in folks with networking or applied cryptography experience, ideally with demonstrable implementations in Go, C++, or Rust. Graduate work is a plus.

Our payment product, Fold [3], is implementing Lightning and building a cross-currency checkout process. We’d love to hear from any Docker / Kubernetes / Django experts out there.

We embrace remote work, and our team hails from all over. If you're a sharp engineer looking for the right opportunity to break into the cryptocurrency space, email work at thesis.co.

[1] https://keep.network

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDMBzYxnqw&t=5244

[3] https://foldapp.com

BondLink | Junior/Senior Software Engineer | Boston, MA, US | ONSITE | Full Time

We are a small team of Scala engineers using advanced functional techniques to ship reliable, rot-proof software. We use lots of shapeless and scalaz, a free monad based program/interpreter architecture, monadic logging, and more. If these things are familiar you will feel right at home, if they are interesting to you and you want to learn, you will find a safe and supportive environment to grow on the job.

About the company:

BondLink provides a SaaS platform to bond issuers in the $4 trillion municipal bond industry. We have raised a large Series A, we have strong revenue growth, and we are already working with many of the largest issuers in the country.

The company was founded by a former Massachusetts Assistant State Treasurer who raised nearly 25 billion in funding for the state and set the gold standard in the industry for transparency and investor outreach, partnered with a multiple-time startup founder with several successful exits under his belt.

We have deep expertise and credibility in the industry we serve, great product-market fit, a strong footing with a ton of momentum, and a great handle on our software delivery.

If this sounds like something you'd want to be a part of, shoot an email to kevin(at)bondlink(dot)com