Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

San Francisco, CA - Pushpins

Help Us Kill the Paper Coupon!

Pushpins – an venture-backed startup founded by two Harvard graduates who have previously started companies focused on retail point of sale systems and commerce analytics.

Our goal is to create a massively scalable self-service digital coupon platform to shift the 400 billion paper grocery coupon business to mobile.

We have developed and integrated a cloud-based solution into thousands of grocery and drug stores across the country. Our iOS application was the #2 productivity application on iTunes and has been featured by Apple multiple times.

We are looking for strong strong object-oriented developers with experience with PHP/Java and MySQL

Want to join the team? http://www.pushpinsapp.com/jobs/

Amazon.com - Seattle WA - No remote, but willing to relocate based on experience. H1B is possible, again, depending on experience.

I am looking for a strong Systems Support Engineer for our growing team. We like to describe our organization as a Startup within Amazon, as our part of the business is still growing rapidly and our engineers can have a lot of influence on where the product goes. For this role in particular, I am looking for someone with a strong infrastructure/hardware bias to help us make the changes we need to scale our business over the next ten years without having to lift a finger.

Job description below. Contact me at ${hn_username}@gmail.com if you have any questions.

The Amazon Seller Services team is looking for a great Systems Support Engineer to keep our systems running and our customers happy. You should be comfortable in a Linux environment, be able to automate everything you did yesterday, and willing to troubleshoot and solve new problems on a daily basis. Come join one of the fastest growing teams within Amazon.

Responsibilities:

-Maintain stability and performance of our systems via tickets during business hours oncall shifts

-Diagnose and troubleshoot new production issues that affect our customers

-Create and maintain standard operating procedure documents for new issues identified

-Automate operational tasks to assist with our scaling needs

Requirements:

-Proficiency in a scripting language (Ruby, Perl, Python, Shell)

-Familiar with SQL databases

-Comfortable navigating a Linux environment

-Basic understanding of web application architectures

Bonus points:

-Written a Rails application

-Deep knowledge of Oracle databases

-Troubleshooting experience

-Ticketing experience

Yeah, I think you should start a "Who is looking for work?" thread instead, and keep Who Is Hiring for folks that are hiring.

Earth Aid - Boston, MA - Full-time Data & Rails Engineers

Earth Aid ( http://earthaid.net ) was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're newly venture-backed by Point Judith Capital as well as strategic and angel investors who have built and scaled some of the most successful businesses today. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. We have offices in San Francisco and DC, and we're now consolidating our dev team and HQ into an awesome brand new headquarters in Boston.

We empower households to track & contextualize their electric, natural gas, and water utility usage. We value data, clarity, focus and beauty. We are looking for people who do too --- people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. We want the best and the brightest. People who work hard and play hard. People who want to make an impact. This is an opportunity to not only work with a dynamic group of people, but also the opportunity to build a platform that's revolutionizing the way we look at energy consumption.

To learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fun company culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones, check out: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net

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Two Highlighted Opportunities in the Boston Office ->

Data Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change & the future of energy. Analytics: Use tools like mapreduce, hadoop, and AWS to drive insight into energy usage. Performance: Store the world's energy data in a way that makes it easy for web engineers to create experiences on top of it. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Reliability: Build tools that make it easy to know what is happening throughout the system and that allow Earth Aid to be constantly available for our users. Security: Create an infrastructure that both allows us to be certain that our user data is safe while at the same time allow the flexibility to perform analytics and quickly iterate.

Ruby on Rails Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change and the future of energy. User Growth: Create a clear and impactful experience that drives us toward many millions of users. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Product design: Envision and execution on product features and entirely new products. Visualization: Create beautiful and meaningful visualizations that impact consumer energy usage.

SF, CA : ROI-DNA web consultancy

We're looking for devs to join a rapidly growing web consultancy. We're a group of friends who came together to help all kinds of web business increase their awesomeness. Initially, we focused on marketing + strategy, but clients always wanted help with implementation, so we started doing a bit of dev work. Now we're doing lots of dev work from building mobile apps to simple JS tweaks to full-stack rebuilds to large CMS implementations.

Anyways, if you're game to play with lots of different technologies and clients, give a shout. And we're looking for all kinds of dev help. We'd love you to join us forever and ever and ever, but we're realistic: consulting is often a temporary thing as you plot the next steps in your career and that's fine with us. We're also happy to help you increase your runway if you're working on your own thing. Need awesome design work, some strategy, a bit of social media advice? We're happy to help you when you help us.

More here: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/2516921876.html

Web: www.roi-dna.com

Email: jobs@roimarketinginc.com [our old domain...]