Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

Squad (YC W18) | Android / Fullstack Engineers | Full-Time | San Francisco | REMOTE | https://squadapp.io Squad is a new way to hang out with your friends––sharing screens, watching YouTube & TikTok while chatting live on video together. It’s the next best thing to hanging out IRL. Our novel approach makes screen time more connective and collaborative for Gen Z.

Our mission is to reduce loneliness by bringing people together to engage in meaningful and fun experiences. We’ve raised a $5M seed led by First Round and have a fast-growing userbase, mostly of teen girls.

We are a distributed team with a hub in San Francisco. You’ll be implementing fun and engaging features to delight our growing user base. You will be deeply involved in the design process, and own features from conception to roll out.

- Android: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/squadappio/view/P_AA...

- Fullstack: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/squadappio/view/P_AA...

We’re also looking for a couple of contractors for specific projects -- on the web and iOS.

I recently wrote about our cap table and shared all of our investors because I firmly believe early employees should know who they are working to make richer and more powerful in the world. Read it here: https://medium.com/allraise/your-companys-cap-table-matters-...

We’re a creative, diverse and fast-moving team that’s passionate about building the future of social communication. If you are driven by ownership and impact, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to ping my cofounder directly with any questions at ethan@squadapp.io

CompanyCam | Lincoln, NE or Remote (US) | Onsite | Remote OK | https://companycam.com

CompanyCam is a photo-based app for construction contractors, landscapers, roofers, and more. We’re in the business of creating time for people by providing simple-to-use, visual-first communication and accountability tools to help contractors get shit done every day. By documenting work with photos, contractors can mitigate damage claims and stay in touch with their team members in real-time, even when they’re not at the job site themselves.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/companycam

Here are our open roles:

- Backend Software Engineer: https://careers.companycam.com/backend-software-engineer/en?...

- Full Stack Software Engineer: https://careers.companycam.com/full-stack-software-developer...

- Mobile Engineer: https://careers.companycam.com/mobile-engineer-react-native/...

Tech Stack: On the web, we’re a Ruby on Rails shop with a React.js front-end. Other items in our stack are Sass, Webpacker, Postgres, Mongo, Kafka, S3, AWS Lambda, Terraform, and Docker.

On Mobile, our apps are primarily built with React Native alongside some custom native libraries in Java, Objective-C, Swift, and C++ for core functionalities. We use Apollo and GraphQL, alongside Redux for local state management.

Bridebook | Senior Backend Developer | London, UK or REMOTE

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer to help shape the future of our business as we continue to scale towards being a global leader. You will be responsible for a key part of our mission, and provide the strongest possible base for accelerating and scaling our product in the near future.

More info: https://bridebookcouk.homerun.co/senior-backend-developer

Requirements: - Expert in TypeScript - Expert in relational and NoSQL databases, particularly with GCP (e.g. Firebase, BigQuery, RTDB, Firestore, Security Rules) - Database processing - creating and maintaining custom scripts and migrations - Proficiency in caching (Redis) and search engines (ElasticSearch) - Authentication methodologies and general security principles - Experience with cloud services like AWS and GCP; usage of Docker and Continuous Integration

Yale University (yale.edu) | New Haven, CT | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite

Yale University is a world-renowned institution of higher learning and research, dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.

The Application Development team at Yale's Information Technology Services department is looking for a Software Engineer. We’re an in-house custom development “consultancy” building and maintaining small to medium sized web and mobile applications in support of research, teaching and learning, and other University activities. We also run the Student Developer & Mentorship Program where we train and hire students to work on some of our custom development projects.

We're looking for a developer to build high-quality, well-tested, and robust web and mobile applications (our primary stack is Rails and React), make and guide application architecture decisions, and help to support and remediate existing applications. Ideal candidates will be self-motivated, collaborative, and passionate about education and mentoring others.

To view the job description and apply please visit https://bit.ly/57352BR. If you have any questions please reach out to me at oren {dot} kanner {at} yale {dot} edu. Thanks!

OpenReview | Full Stack Software Engineer | Amherst, MA | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full Time | https://openreview.net/

OpenReview is building a next generation platform for transparent scientific peer review, advanced reviewer-paper matching, and API-enabled knowledge bases for scientific communities. We are seeking an experienced full stack JavaScript developer to join our small and passionate team working across universities and nonprofits. We aim to revolutionize the scientific peer review process by working with machine learning researchers, open access advocates, and a broad community of open source developers.

Are you inspired to develop new tools for research and excited to work on open source software? Join us! Email your resume to jobs@openreview.net or reach out to me directly at the email in my profile.