Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

San Francisco - Parse (http://parse.com)

Parse provides cloud services for mobile developers. Some have called us "Heroku for Mobile." We believe mobile developers shouldn't be writing server code or worrying about servers at all.

About Parse:

- We move fast. We launched our private beta a little over two months after starting the company. Since then we've signed up over 3000 developers and have dozens of production apps in the store.

- We have difficult and interesting engineering problems.

- We build products for other developers. You'll be your own customer.

- We are four very technical cofounders who have been early employees or founders at successful startups.

About you:

- You'll be employee #1.

- You'll be responsible for architecting and implementing features in their entirety.

- You'll write code in Ruby, Objective-C, and Java (so far). You don't need to know these coming in -- we like generalists who can pick up anything.

- You'll have the opportunity to grow into a large leadership role.

We offer significant equity, market salary, fully covered health insurance, your choice of equipment, etc. We're based in San Francisco and are looking for people that can hack in the office with us.

Please get in touch -- email Tikhon at tikhon@parse.com

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 2 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 78MM 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

The company where I work is hiring. I'll spare you the marketing copy. The team is great. Office in the mission district in SF. Great pay too fwiw. email me at mmmurf at gmail if interested. stop by and meet us and read our code.

San Francisco, CA - Kontagent

Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Account Manager, Sales, Full-time, Part-time, Intern, Contract

Let's face it, as an engineer you can work ANYWHERE. You are in demand and if you're good you know it. You don't want to take the time to interview unless you know a company will be good for you.

At Kontagent, we believe that culture is everything. We have a strong community here and people are excited to come into the office. We're tackling big problems, but more importantly we're having uuuuubber amounts of fun doing it. Honestly, its a blast. Your co-workers will be some of the smartest people you know, but also some of the nicest.

We have:

- A game room for the Rockband literate

- A kitchen stocked with delicious food and drinks

- Nerf guns

- Wine and Cheese Thursdays

- Clients that can't run their businesses without us

- A new office with incredible views

- Catered lunch daily and team lunch Fridays

- Beer

- An ACTUAL work-life balance

Read this for more information: http://www.thedatascientist.com/2011/09/21/curiosity-or-why-...

If interested, contact me at the e-mail listed in my profile.

INTERN, H1B acceptable

Generalist or Backend Engineer

Palo Alto - Tinfoil Security (http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com) - 500startups company

About Tinfoil Security:

Tinfoil Security is the simplest way to secure your website. To the user, we provide an easy-to-use reporting interface that tells you where we found vulnerabilities, what they are, and provides a step-by-step wizard of how to fix them. Behind the scenes, we're crawling the site looking for every potential input vector and attempting to infiltrate, just like any external hacker would. The catch is we do this non-maliciously and without leaving a trace. Sound interesting?

We're looking for incredibly smart guys (or girls) who like to get their hands dirty. If you don't know the answer, find it. If you can't find it, build it; but don't reinvent the wheel. If all the wheels suck though, build a better one.

We're revolutionizing the stale and boring security industry, and making website and mobile security accessible to the world, so no business has to continue being the "low hanging fruit." It's absurd that security is only understood by so few developers and business owners in the world, when so much of it is actually pretty simple to understand. We want to change that. Join us.

About you:

You'll be employee #1.

Our entire stack is Ruby at the moment, but we have a strong affinity for Python, Scala, and C, in no particular order. We're of the mindset that you pick the best tool for the job, much as you wouldn't hammer in a nail with a wrench (unless you didn't have a hammer and really needed to get it done fast).

You'll be in charge of a large project, and will be given the ability to take charge of it and make it your own. On the flipside, you should be willing to take on that challenge.

More than anything else, I can guarantee you'll have a boatload of fun, learn a ton, and produce software people really care about; lots of people.

We offer significant equity, market salary, benefits, your choice of equipment, etc. We're based in Mountain View and are looking for people that can hack in the office with us.

Please get in touch -- borski@tinfoilsecurity.com -- we'd love to chat. :)