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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#11
Forio Online Simulations (San Francisco, South Beach area) http://forio.com/about-forio/careers-at-forio/

If you're interested in developing rich internet applications and data visualizations around simulations and games for us in San Francisco, I would love to hear from you. We are hiring across the entire stack and looking for client-side and server-side developers.

Some of our current projects:

- a venture-back tech game/sim for MIT

- simulating game-theory style price moves between two competitors for a beverage company in North America

- national health simulations with the CDC

- several business simulations and games for Harvard Business School Publishing

- on-going data visualization, ui and compiler work for our core platform, Forio Simulate http://forio.com/simulate

Benefits:

- job security, market salaries - we've been cash flow positive for years

- collaborate, share, and learn from other talented developers in a pleasant work place

- reasonable work hours - working late nights and weekends is unusual

- good software development practices - QA, unit testing, usability testing, git, bug tracking, etc.

If you're interested or have questions, email mbean@forio.com and I can direct you to the right people.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

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I really wish we could figure out a way to stop posting these on Saturday, which guarantees the hiring thread won't be on the front page on a weekday.

I could be wrong, but I think Saturday is a great day for these threads. The work week is mainly relevant to people in 9-to-5 jobs. If I were looking for a job (I'm not) I would generally avoid doing the search during the week. Why? At least on Wall Street, people get fired if their bosses figure out that they're looking for jobs. Once you start searching, you've effectively quit as they see it.

That said, I'm coming to the conclusion that one should always be looking for jobs at least in a limited sense (networking, skill building). It's not disloyal. It's just smart. Jobs end, sometimes suddenly and involuntarily. It's a fact of life and people need to be prepared.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#14

New York, NY Bookish is hiring Scala and Rails engineers to work on a project that puts Reading Rainbow to shame. Lots of interesting work around recommendations, big big data, ereading, and everything in between. http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Software_Engineers_Scala_Ruby_...

How is Scala working for you guys? I am learning the language and trying to get it to catch on at my company (which uses a lot of Java but has really smart people who could pick up Scala easily IME).

Having almost finished Odersky's book, I've reached the conclusion that Scala is somewhere between (a) the best language out there, and (b) at risk of getting into over-complex C++ territory. I'd have to take it to 25,000 lines at least before I could have a reasonably useful opinion on it. It looks fun, though.

MongoDB: what are the advantages of it? How does that work out for you? "NoSQL" is interesting to me because I've never used any of those products. I worked at a company that tried to use sharded MySQL, which is pure hell if you want (a) anything more than a key-value store (because you're multi-sharding and have to keep consistency) and (b) performance at the same time.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#15
Northern Virginia On-Site Full Time

Simulation services company seeking C++ developers for 3D / 2D visualization, first order physics and statistical sensor modeling, UI and application integration, and distributed computing. Fast moving environment where a small group of developers are responsible for design, development, QA, and technical support. In business since 1995, with continuous growth since and a current backlog. Reach us at careers@kinex.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#16
San Francisco, CA and London, UK

Meraki - http://meraki.com

Meraki is the leader in cloud networking and we have over 18,000 customer networks around the world. You can see a sample of customers who rely on Meraki at: http://meraki.com/customers. We were funded by Sequoia and Google, and are based in the Mission district of San Francisco.

Our cloud infrastructure has been developed from the ground up, and we pride ourselves in its reliability, resilience, and performance (we have a 99.99% uptime SLA). Our wireless access points and routers make network management simple, and our relentless focus on user experience delights our customers.

We’re looking to hire in San Francisco and we have a few positions open in London as noted.

// Engineering

On the front-end, distributed web application lets network administrators quickly sift through historical operating data, perform diagnostics, and navigate a huge space of possible network configurations through an intuitive interface. Our multi-site, hosted backend system provides services for all of those thousands of networks and millions of client devices. Your work will be widely deployed and used by millions of people, and you will be able to collect an incredible amount of data about how your code is performing. Our team is small enough that you will work on problems core to our business; we are also growing quickly, with a proven model for our technology, so your work will reach many customers and have a huge impact.

* Front-end: sharp and creative UI engineers who love to work with Javascript, CSS, and Ruby on Rails. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#ui_eng

* Back-End Systems: familiarity with C++, Ruby or Python, an understanding of databases, and especially experience running a live service or building production systems. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#bs_eng

* Firmware: fluent in C, some device driver experience, with a love for building new products and things like bringing up new platforms. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#fw_eng

* Hardware Program: passionate for research, product specs, engineering, project management, and manufacturing/quality (ME, EE or similar). http://meraki.com/company/jobs#hardware-program-engineer

// Marketing

* Technical Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, a solid technical background, and the skill to tackle a wide variety of activities, such as launching new products, providing technical education to customers and partners, building collateral and competitive positioning to assist Meraki's rapidly growing sales team, and more. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#product_mktg

* Marketing Manager: excellent analytical and communication skills, creativity, and a passion for growing a business, with the ability to run a wide variety of campaigns and activities, from launching new demand generation campaigns, increasing partner productivity, promoting customer evangelism, and running advertising and branding campaigns. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#mktg_mgr

* Marketing Events Manager: highly organized, energetic, and creative person to execute our fast-paced events program. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#events_mktg

* [London] Marketing Manager - Europe: excellent analytical and communication skills, creativity, and a passion for growing a business, with the ability to run a wide variety of campaigns and activities, from launching new demand generation campaigns, increasing partner productivity, promoting customer evangelism, and running advertising and branding campaigns. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#mktg_mgr_emea

// Support

* Inside Pre-Sales / Technical Support Engineering: sharp, energetic, and pre-sales and technical support engineer who can work closely with many groups within the company, including sales and product management, as well as with engineering to diagnose and resolve critical escalated issues, identify, reproduce, and document bugs. http://meraki.com/company/jobs#tech_support_eng

// Sales

We have many openings for sales positions, including inside sales, regional sales, channel sales, sales engineers, and strategic sales. Our London office is also looking for sales representatives, with a focus on DACH and other areas within Europe, Africa, and Russia.

Interested? Feel free to get in touch with me: pablo@meraki.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#17
FreeAgent (Edinburgh, UK), a startup making accounting easy and fun. We've just moved to a new office in central Edinburgh.

We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who value the work/life balance.

Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...

Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Email us at jobs@freeagentcentral.com. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#18
San Francisco, CA

Rally is changing the way fundraising works online.

We are hiring full stack web developers looking to make large individual contributions to a very small team. We have a RoR stack, practice TDD heavily and push code daily.

If you want to know more contact me at andrew@rally.org

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#19
Mountain View, CA

Maginatics Inc. is hiring: http://maginatics.com/jobs.html

We are currently in stealth but looking for smart, hands-on developers with a strong background in algorithms, distributed systems, storage systems, security, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) systems. If this sounds like it's up your alley, we would love to hear from you at jobs@maginatics.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

#20
Cambridge MA & Seattle WA Brightcove - brightcove.com/careers

We're an online video platform (the second largest source of video traffic after youtube) looking to hire DevOps & QA engineers, as well as product managers.

We're large enough to face cool scaling problems but still feel like a startup.

Send me an email if you've any questions (in profile or sneubardt@brightcove), i'm a software engineer and love it!

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