Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)

Root Labs - Oakland, CA

We are a fully-funded startup with a major paying customer, building a web-based service for analyzing and searching code. You will be in charge of building a large, distributed computing system for parsing and indexing code for our search engine. We've been creating the code analysis tools for existing customers, and we need you to build the automation framework to help us scale. We are building something really uncommon for a HN hiring thread, so contact me even if you're just curious!

We're solving problems that will have a major impact on the software industry. For example, one goal is that independent, open-source authors have a way to get paid for their work.

You'll team up with us to implement solutions to some challenging problems. (But don't worry, you don't already need to be an expert at all of these).

    * Nearest-neighbor search in high dimension (or knowing how to
      avoid this by projecting to a lower dimension)
    * Classifying code by various metrics (structural flowgraph analysis,
      symbol sequences and frequency, etc.)
    * Map/reduce deconstruction of complex queries
    * Distributed computing design, cluster management, software deployment,
      load balancing 

Being a good programmer is the most important part. We mostly work in Python and C/C++. We use PostgreSQL, Redis, and Riak for a lot of the existing components.

You need to understand distributed computing, fault detection and error recovery, messaging, etc. An interest (but not expertise) in low-level details like compilers, operating systems, and reverse-engineering is a good plus.

We have much more details and contact info here:

http://www.rootlabs.com/developer-job.html

If you have any questions, you can also just email me at the address in my profile. Thanks!

Amsterdam, Netherlands, FULL-TIME - REMOTE options

Experienced hacker in one or more: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jquery, backbone, etc).

We answer questions like: how much less co2 is emitted if everybody switched to electric cars. How can you replace nuclear plants with alternatives.

We're a charming Dutch (almost grown up) startup, with Central office location, great engineering-driven team. Healthy work-life balance.

Our code is both a lot of plain Ruby code, front end code, admin code, glue code. There is something for everyone.

You are an experienced hacker, you think lean and pragmatic and solve problems creatively. You're proactive, prefer fixing over complaining. Order of preference: Dutch, Europe, World.

send me a mail with short introduction and code samples (ruby, javascript) to u57i942v0n@tempalias.com

McLean, VA (Just outside Washington, DC)

Ringio ( http://www.ringio.com ) - Full Time

Ringio provides internet phone service to small businesses to improve the quality of their phone interactions. We're looking for a few great software engineers to help take our product to the next level. If you're interested (or know someone who is), read more and give us your info at http://ringio.wufoo.com/forms/ringio-software-engineer/ or email nick AT ringio.com

Major areas of development focus:

* Modern HTML Applications - We’re very excited about the JavaScript frameworks that have grown in popularity the last few years (like Backbone.js, ExtJS, or SproutCore). We’re interested in using web technologies for our mobile and desktop applications, so if you’re experienced with (or just interested in) JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SCSS, WebSockets, or BOSH, there’s a lot of research and development to be done.

* Voice Technology - All calls using Ringio run through our voice systems to enable things like on-hold music, call screening, and transfers. We have a lot of new voice functionality that we’d like to build, as well as technology we’d like to integrate. This is fairly unique to our industry and involves some interesting timing, concurrency, and state management problems.

* API Development - Integration with CRM systems and reselling partners requires APIs for large pieces of our platform. We need help expanding our APIs, making sure they’re usable and secure, and testing that they’re working correctly.

We’re Looking For People Who Are:

* Smart software developers

* Familiar with object oriented programming. We use Grails and Java for our major systems. Grails, Groovy, or Java experience isn’t required, but you’ll be expected to get up to speed quickly.

* Familiar with Unix/Linux command-line systems. Logging into a Linux server to count the number of ERROR lines in a log file grouped by hour wouldn’t be difficult for you.

* Excited about joining a startup

* Authorized to work in the US

* Able to work from our McLean, VA office (flexibility to work from home sometimes, but most time will be at the office)

If you're interested, check out http://ringio.wufoo.com/forms/ringio-software-engineer/ or email nick AT ringio.com

Conshohocken, PA - Monetate (Suburb of Philadelphia, PA)

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT). We've got existing high-volume customers.

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* Backend Software Engineers

* Front-end Developer

* Systems Engineer

* Web Production Designer

Feel free to contact pat at monetate.com