Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

Colourbox | DevOps Engineer | Full-time On-Site | Odense, Denmark

Colourbox is looking for a DevOps Engineer with an extensive background in Linux and system administration. You will be a part of a strong development team working out of our headquarters in Odense, Denmark. You will work on Scandinavia's leading stock image website Colourbox and the associated media handling platform Skyfish that helps users organise, share and edit images.

Our customers include major public and private clients such as the Danish Ministry of Justice, a large part of the municipalities in Denmark, Ørsted and DSB. We are experiencing high growth and need you to help create optimal conditions for continued future growth. The platform you help develop will create a fantastic user experience for our users and also convert new visitors into paying customers.

You will work closely together with the entire team to ensure the stability and maintainability of systems and infrastructure. The primary focus will be on maintaining, evolving, automating and documenting systems and infrastructure. You will also work on new systems to support new features. You will maintain our AWS infrastructure, consisting of Linux servers that run open source software such as NGINX, MySQL and Elasticsearch, and custom built services written in PHP, Python, Go and C.

Your Qualifications

Engineers come in all shapes and sizes, but we expect you to at least match the following requirements to apply:

  * A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or similar
  * Good communication skills (written and verbal) in English
  * 5+ years working as a Linux system administrator, developer, or similar
  * Strong knowledge of Linux
  * Experience working with AWS
  * Experience working with MySQL
  * Proven development skills in PHP or similar languages
  * Experience with one or more of the following technologies and terminologies is a big plus; Jenkins, Elasticsearch, NGINX, TDD

We Offer; A full-time position, working in our office in Odense. You will be offered a competitive wage with the ability to be influential while enjoying professional freedom with responsibility. We offer flexible working hours, a pleasant office environment, a pension plan, awesome lunch, and a supportive work climate with ambitious and energetic international colleagues. You will become part of an expanding, successful international business. If this is you, we want to hear from you! Send your application to jobs@colourbox.com. If you have any questions, also email jobs@colourbox.com. https://www.colourbox.com/jobs/devops-engineer

Colourbox | Senior Backend Developer | Full-time On-Site | Odense, Denmark

Colourbox is looking for an experienced backend software developer with an extensive theoretical background, who is interested in working with data mining, data analysis and high-performing web applications including search engines, image processing and cloud infrastructure.

You will be a part of a strong development team working out of our headquarters in Odense, Denmark. You will work on Scandinavia's leading stock image website Colourbox and the associated media handling platform Skyfish that helps users organise, share and edit images.

Our customers include major public and private clients such as the Danish Ministry of Justice, a large part of the municipalities in Denmark, Ørsted and DSB. We are experiencing high growth and need you to help create optimal conditions for continued future growth. The platform you help develop will create a fantastic user experience for our users and also convert new visitors into paying customers.

You will be involved in data mining and data analysis and create new and innovative solutions. You will help implement these new solutions and make sure they work fast, are robust and scalable. You will also work on our existing solutions, improving and extending them to adapt to the ever-changing needs of our customers. You will be involved in the whole process from analysis through design to implementation. Our services run on our AWS infrastructure, consisting of Linux servers that run open source software such as NGINX, MySQL and Elasticsearch, and custom built services written in PHP, Python, Go and C.

Your Qualifications

Developers come in all shapes and sizes, but we expect you to match the following requirements to apply:

  * A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or similar
  * Good communication skills (written and verbal) in English
  * 5+ years working as a software developer
  * Experience working with Linux
  * Experience working with MySQL
  * Proven development skills in PHP or similar languages
  * Experience with one or more of the following technologies and terminologies is a big plus; Machine learning, Python, Go, Elasticsearch, TDD, AWS, refactoring techniques

We Offer; A full-time position, working in our office in Odense. You will be offered a competitive wage with the ability to be influential while enjoying professional freedom with responsibility. We offer flexible working hours, a pleasant office environment, a pension plan, awesome lunch, and a supportive work climate with ambitious and energetic international colleagues. You will become part of an expanding, successful international business. Interested? If this is you, we want to hear from you! Send your application to jobs@colourbox.com. If you have any questions, also email jobs@colourbox.com.

https://www.colourbox.com/jobs/backend-software-developer

Risk.Ident GmbH | Scala Developer, Data Engineer, Full Stack JavaScript Developer, DevOps Linux Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE in Hamburg, Germany (we support relocation)

Become the Sherlock Holmes of the web and help our clients to detect the fraudsters among their customers. In this never ending race, we are fighting the bad guys with technology!

Please see https://riskident.com/en/jobs/ to apply or email me: jana@riskident.com

Online fraud is organized crime and on the rise. Every month we have to process over 10 million online transactions. So think about the scale of our software. We have to make decision in real-time, based on our trained machine learning models. We believe in software with high code quality. That’s why we chose Scala as our main language. As we take functional programming seriously, we try to constantly improve ourselves, but we also understand the cost of being pure functional. In order to provide a streaming platform, we use technologies like Kafka, Akka, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and many more. Get in touch to learn more!

OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

OpenRent is the way people rent property online - a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £11.5bn worth of property, to over 1 million registered users, without charging any admin fees.

We're VC backed, profitable, and with plenty of ambition. We're looking for generalists, thought-leaders, and those with a passion for solving real-world problems.

You'll be working in a close-knit team, directly with the founders. You'll have full autonomy to work on, and figure out how best to solve, the biggest problems in the industry. We find problems and improve customer experiences via code every day.

- Head of Marketing | 30k-80k + equity

- Customer Experience and Product Development | 21k-29k + equity

- Engineering (all levels) (C#) | up to £95k + Equity

https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

Recent press coverage: - https://www.openrent.co.uk/press

Contact via the form online or email in my profile. Look forward to meeting you!

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