Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)

INENSU - new social games company with a focus on music.

We also have a project funded by a major TV broadcaster and are looking for 2 people to join us - asap!

* Front-End Developer: html / javascript + Flash [bonus]

* Game / User Experience Designer.

http://inensu.posterous.com/pages/jobs-20

http://www.inensu.com/

info@inensu.com

We're a young startup creating an online education platform designed to build a solid foundation in math for kids from preK to 6th grade. We're working on some cool ways to provide every student with a tailored curriculum that adapts as the student progresses.

We're looking for someone who's comfortable in Java (or very similar language) and has a good foundation in web development. You'd be working closely with the lead (only) developer to iterate as fast as humanly possible to put our product in front of kids and parents.

If you're passionate about helping kids learn, send over a few links to things you've worked on (more important) and your resume (less important) to recruiting@thefactortree.com.

http://bigthink.com/job

Email jonah at bigthink.com

Big Think is an online forum where experts at the top of their fields engage with the public about the critical questions of our time. Over the past two years, we've published interviews with 1,500 luminaries from Ted Kennedy and Ricky Gervais to Stephen Hawking and Jason Fried. Now, we're overhauling our web site, introducing new kinds of content, and expanding to TV and mobile devices. We're searching for a top-notch programmer to help make this evolution possible.

As part of a small, fast-moving, and experienced team, you'll conceive and create features across Big Think, from our web and mobile front-ends to the search system to a back-end that connects to an array of services. You may be called upon to improve the load-balancer; support the production team with a script; or design and implement a significant new feature-set. The ideal candidate will possess the flexibility and broad technical knowledge to fill all these roles plus deep proficiency in Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, object-oriented design, and web-scale architecture.

The job is initially part-time, but we hope to find someone with interest in joining us as a full-time employee in the future. You may work at our office near Union Square in Manhattan or in your own space—in New York or elsewhere.

In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg said he couldn't think of another company where each engineer is responsible for 1,000,000 unique users. Big Think is such a company. When you join us, you'll not only have fun building great products; you'll also have a tremendous impact on the world.

The AppNexus Data Pipeline processes nearly 10 billion log records a day (> 2TB of data) generated by our real-time bidding engines and adserving platform. We use this data to create aggregated analytics reports, budget updates and drive optimization engines. This is a large scale engineering problem both in terms of the amounts of data and the processing involved. We are looking for a talented, hands-on senior engineer who will take ownership of all architecture around this stream of work. This is a highly visible role in a critical area of our platform, with the opportunity to lead the build-out at a time when the strategic requirements are still being scoped out. For the right candidate, we expect this role to turn into a team lead position. The immediate responsibilities for this role include architecting performance optimizations to our current, custom-built ETL solution, while building and executing a roadmap to scale up our platform at the rate that our hyper-growth sales requires.

Requirements:

    *  Production s/w development experience
    *  Experience with manipulating/crunching large data sets
    *  Strong experience with data structures, algorithms, time vs space tradeoffs
    *  Experience with databases, SQL, query optimization, data modeling
    *  Strong experience with scripting in shell/perl/python
    *  Excellent problem solving skills
    * Ability to work with modelers/analytics/optimization

    *  Experience with object oriented programming languages ( C++/Java )
    *  Experience with data warehousing solutions (Netezza, Teradata )
    *  Experience with ETL tools
    *  Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce and other large scale data solutions
    * Team Lead experience

If they always called you "nerd" as a kid and you answered "awesome!" then you will love working here. We are dynamic and diverse (we have several entrepreneurs who have started multiple companies, creative writers, artists, and a fashion designer), and we focus our talents on working together to build a massively robust, intricate, and usable ad platform. Even after growing rapidly and being validated by our many customers and industry praise, we've stayed a lean, agile, and efficient organization: the MacGyver of advertising.

That still not exciting enough? How about the $50 million in funding we just received? http://appnexus.com/news/press-releases.php