Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)

ConcR’s mission is to predict if a cancer therapy will work, and how. We are developing custom modelling frameworks in collaboration with astrophysicists from Durham, to enable us to model a broader range of the tumour biology than is currently possible, and through that enable accurate predictions of therapy efficacy to be made with less data. Our first product is focussed on helping accelerate the development of cancer drugs before they are used in clinical trials. Our later ambition is to develop a tool which greatly enhances a doctor's ability to choose treatment for their cancer patient.

We are looking for a software engineer to join the core team as lead developer. The role will involve taking the models developed by our bioinformaticians and turning them into a product. The work will initially involve developing a research platform which runs intensive bioinformatic computations, whilst protecting confidential patient data. Later you and your team will go on to develop a system which receives clinical data from hospitals, runs our models on them, and sends the results back to the doctor. You will ensure the software is highly robust, and is built to medical standards, ensuring patient safety (with help from a regulatory advisor). We intend to hire further software developers, and you will be in charge of building the software team, and providing direction for it.

If hired we would be able to offer a competitive salary and stock options. We are flexible on working remotely or on-site. Our tech stack is primarily built around Python and Julia.

If interested please contact apply@concr.co

We're hiring Software Engineers to join us in Berlin, Germany, or remote, to help us grow our software with a holistic approach: Back-end, front-end, server infrastructure, testing and continuous delivery pipelines.

Please don't hesitate to write us, we're looking for kind people from different backgrounds and identities to bring in a fresh perspective. We're commited to continue building an inclusive place for you to grow professionally with us. We're a small, friendly group of multicultural (CH, DE, RU, ES, US) startup veterans.

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Our SaaS is used by VCs (Venture Capital firms) and their portfolio companies. They love our products because they help find talent for the companies in which the VCs invest.

Our SaaS architecture is written in strongly typed, modern PHP 7.4, using the Symfony framework. In our CI/CD pipeline, we use, and we contribute to PHPStan and Psalm because they help us write reliable, solid code.

We have another product written in Clojure, because we believe that learning other programming paradigms helps us to grow as developers, independent of the language used.

We love working with PostgreSQL and expose public and private APIs directly through PostgREST because we strongly believe that a server request should be handled within 100-200ms max. Help us optimize queries and learn about EXPLAIN ANALYZE execution plans with us.

We are strong believers in Server Side Rendering, with AJAX requests done by little helpers like Intercooler (now htmx.org) or Turbolinks, added for an interactive Look&Feel.

We help VCs aggregate the jobs postings of their portfolio companies. To make this work, we constalntly have to expand our knowledge about CSS and XPath selectors, web crawling techniques, and headless browser instrumentalization via WebDriver and tools like Selenium.

Our CI/CD pipeline runs on GitLab and deploys our SaaS products after running tests and making sure that no regressions will happen. We run Trunk Based Development in a truly agile fashion: We take the "Kaizen" principle seriously. No heavy-weight processes our hour-long meetings. Promise.

We run rented Linux servers and are experimenting with *BSD because while we run parts of our infrastructure on the AWS and Google Cloud, we understand the tradeoffs of cloud offerings and learned how to operate our own Nginx servers, caches, load balancers, and monitoring tools. Doing all that helps us assess much better when to "roll your own", and when to buy a ready solution. After all, we are engineers and like to tinker, but at the same time we're enterpreneurs, and know when to prioritize.

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If you feel at home with PHP or Clojure, PostgreSQL and Linux, and maybe even some more of the above technologies, let's talk.

I'd love to get to know you, apply here: https://airtable.com/shrtecukkCL3YMCrC

* Sales Engineer -- Work with Pachyderm's OSS and Enterprise customers to ensure their success. This is a customer facing role that bridges support, product, customer success, and engineering.

* Core distributed systems/infrastructure engineer (Golang)- You'll be solving hard algorithmic and distributed systems problems every day and building a first-of-its-kind, containerized, data infrastructure platform.

* Documentation Engineer - You'll lead the implementation of our comprehensive docs strategy; creating content such as new tutorials, architectural diagrams, API docs, and training courses.

* DevOps -- Pachyderm is hiring a deployment and devops expert to own and lead our infrastructure, deployment, and testing processes. Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, testing infra, and running large-scale, data-heavy applications is important.

About Pachyderm: Love Docker, Golang, Kubernetes and distributed systems? Pachyderm is an enterprise data science platform that offers Git-like version control semantics for massive data sets and end-to-end data lineage tracking and auditing. Teams that find themselves struggling to maintain a growing mess of advance data science tasks such as machine learning or bioinformatics/genomics research use Pachyderm to greatly simplify their system and reduce development time. They rely on Pachyderm to do the heavy lifting so they can focus on the business logic in their data pipelines. Pachyderm raised our Series B led by M12, Microsoft’s venture arm (https://www.pachyderm.com/blog/pachyderm-closes-16-million-s...), so you'd be getting in right at the ground floor and have an enormous impact on the success and direction of the company as well as building the rest of the engineering team. Check us out at: pachyderm.com http://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

Earlier this year, our self-driving delivery robot R2 became the first autonomous vehicle to receive an approved exemption from the US Department of Transportation. R2 then became the second autonomous vehicle to receive a driverless testing permit in California. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we set up contactless delivery services with R2 at temporary care facilities in California to carry food, water, and medical supplies to patients and doctors with the goal of decreasing points of contagion.

Today, we’re excited to announce another first for Nuro. For the past few months, R2 has been testing on city streets fully autonomously in three different states. No drivers. No occupants. No chase cars.

R2 on the road: https://medium.com/nuro/r2-on-the-road-295dedacebeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFYljZc968I

Open roles include:

* Full-Stack Engineer

* Robotics Reliability Engineer

* Perception Sensor Engineer

* Software Engineer, Mapping & Localization

* Sr. Software Engineer (Backend), Operations Platform

* Software Engineer, Perception Infrastructure

* And many more!

To apply or view all open roles: https://nuro.ai/careers#see-open-roles