Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

WonderHowTo.com Seeks Tech Blogger/Moderator (Work Remotely)

WonderHowTo is a place for both tech geeks & amateurs to gather and learn about what's new, and how to make the most of it.

We need a writer/community admin to help answer community questions, cover the latest hot releases on the web, mobile, & desktop, and write in-depth tutorials to help non-technical people learn everything from how to secure their wifi network to controlling their privacy on Facebook. You should have deep technical knowledge, yet be able to write accessible and interesting articles that regular users can follow and find interesting.

This candidate would head up an all-things-tech World as a community admin (learn more about WonderHowTo Worlds here), and should be capable of:

- Keeping an active forum going - Writing interesting, joe-user readable tutorials - Posting latest news in software, apps, privacy issues, & helpful tricks on getting things done faster - Build a following on the site & across the nerdier social networks (ex: Google+)

Please note: Candidate must be savvy with both OS X, & Windows (*nix would be a plus), confident in troubleshooting tech-related issues, have strong writing skills, and participate in tech forums/blogs.

Option to work remotely... from anywhere!

TO APPLY

Please send the following to rmansur@wonderhowto.com:

Your resumé, plus 1-2 writing samples, preferably on the topic at hand. Please show proof/link to online communities you're active in.

Akamai Technologies is looking for software, QA, network and systems engineers in the following locations:

  Cambridge, MA, USA
  San Mateo, CA, USA
  Bangalore, India

We're also hiring for many other roles in these locations as well as many other places around the globe.

I've been working here for just over a year as a Sr. Software Engineer, and this is just a great place to work. The company is very technology driven, creativity is encouraged, and while we are very robust and careful in our practices and procedures, (especially operations and release management) I feel like developers and managers are given a lot of independence to make important technical decisions, which leads to giving us the ability to really make a difference with every thing we do. That's something special to have in a company of this size, IMO.

So, the careers page is here: http://www.akamai.com/careers

I know my group is looking for skilled SQA engineers, but company-wide we need everything from battle-hardened linux admins to C++ gurus, to Java/Perl/Python hackers and everything in between. My own group develops in Clojure. My co-worker is currently prototyping algorithms in Haskell.

Since I do get a referral bonus, don't forget to send them my name if you submit a resume!

  (bash -c 'echo moc\!iam@k@ diff@css | tr " @!" "@a." | rev')

San Francisco, CA - Blurb

Blurb lets people tell their stories - currently through print-on-demand books, but increasingly through other venues.

We are both established and growing like mad (we were #47 on last year's Inc 500). We have a great group of people and a lot of fun challenges in the year ahead. We just launched a bevy of new products (our iPhone app is getting great reviews).

We play with fun tech: Ruby, Rails, SproutCore, git, RSpec, Cucumber, Haml, SASS, RabbitMQ, Puppet, Obj-C, and more.

We have great benefits, a great work/life balance, and we're in a great location close to the BART, CalTrain, and lots of food options.

We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, back end, API, Rails, iPhone, and more.

http://www.blurb.com/join_us

Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round)

Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly.

Our students answer over a million math exercise problems per day, all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises, http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/), and Sal's videos have been viewed over 74MM times.

Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine.

We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs

Anywhere - McKinsey & Company's Application Development Group

Looking for software engineers that care about quality software and want to work in small, mainly autonomous development teams. You'll have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and be expected to constantly learn and grow.

Desired Qualities:

* Disdains repetition and automates annoying tasks

* Balances beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code

* Has contributed to open source projects, participated in some technical community, or has written or spoken in public about your area of interest

* Improves our development process by proposing tools and approaches

* Relentless at refactoring and improving code quality

Email work_for_it_appdev@mckinsey.com with link to github account, blog, or other online community participation