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

#181
Seattle - Full time - H1Bs welcome.

Amazon Route 53 - http://aws.amazon.com/route53-jobs/

We are building and operating a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. We are looking for great engineers to join our team. Please email your resume to route53-jobs@amazon.com or apply online at the link above.

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

#182

MA. Cambridge and the greater Boston area. Full time. I work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory ( http://www.ll.mit.edu ), a research and development center run by MIT that does work for the government. My group has about 20 people in it and does application security, reverse engineering, and other low level systems stuff. Knowledge of things like assembly, operating systems, and systems are pluses but not required. It's grea…

I have a question related to MIT-LL: How particular are they about GPAs for graduate school? I'm given to understand they filter heavily on them for undergrad, but is that still the case for MS/PhD?

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

#183
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Chicago, New York, Mountain View Matasano Security Do you like to break things? Was your childhood room full of toys you'd taken apart and put back together in ridiculous ways? You may be just who we're looking for. At Matasano Security, some of the most interesting companies in the world hire us to break their code/hardware in terrible, terrible ways, and we're looking for people to join the team. Security experienc…

Thanks for writing this detailed description of the expectations of your interview candidates. I'll probably apply once i'm 100% comfortable with the requirements (like knowing Ruby, writing my own fuzzer, etc)

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

#184
San Francisco, CA

Sociable Labs is building the future of social commerce and we're looking for a few more engineers to help. Your technology stack is less important - we're looking for smart people with great communication in a passion for learning.

Our product is essentially a more advanced version of facebook's social plugins, with a strong focus on analytics, A/B testing, and ROI. See a couple of examples at http://www.backcountry.com/mens-clothing ("These people have asked their friends..." section in the center below the fold) and http://www.active.com/running/stockton-ca/run-and-walk-again... ("Connect with friends" section on the right)

We have a modular JavaScript front end that works with the Facebook platform and makes use of cutting edge technologies like localStorage and CORS (cross-domain ajax).

Our back end is Java / Jetty / Postgres on Amazon EC2. We're using Guava, Guice, and a number of other interesting pieces to keep clean, testable code. We're also using Apache Hadoop for analytics.

We offer competitive pay, great benefits (including the best PTO policy I've ever seen), and an enjoyable working environment.

More details about the company and the jobs here: http://www.sociablelabs.com/Careers

I work on the front-end but feel free to ask me questions about anything. If I don't know, I'll get you to the right person. Reply here or email nathan@[company site].com

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

#185
post #80

Klick Inc, Toronto Canada Digital agency. We're just shy of 200 employees and growing. One of Canada's 50 best managed companies. We're looking for Web and Mobile Application developers, Front end web, Project Managers, Senior project managers, Account managers, Reporting analysts, Creative designers. If you're a programmer, we're language agnostic with respect to your past experience, mostly .NET in practice (and ra…

Just as a response to Ave's comment above,

I've chatted with Alex a couple times and he is a good guy, so take my good data point with the bad.

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

#186
New York, NY. Full time.

We’re hiring at Shelby.tv… like lots of other companies. So why come work with us? Because you want to put a dent in the universe. These are some of the things we do at Shelby:

  Work with (and watch tons of) online video
  Process updates in real time from a growing list of firehoses
  Use the best technology for the job (Rails, Mongo, Node, Redis, Beanstalk…)
  Develop and contribute open source
  Love the modern web (HTML5, CSS 3, JS, modern browsers)
  Stay the fuck away from IE 
We're looking for great people that never want to stop improving. We'd would love to find a bad ass front end person (own the product UI and everything else our community sees) who is looking for a wide range of opportunities & responsibilities. But these “positions” are buried in this post because they’re more like guidelines.

We’re backed by some of the best investors in the game and we hang our hats in our own office at 23rd and Park in NYC (though we’re cool with people working remotely).

More info here: http://shel.tv/qWsIxv

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

#187
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1Bs welcome.

Academia.edu is an engineering-focused company whose goal is to revolutionize the way that researchers share research. We are the largest and fastest-growing platform in the world for academics to share research. Over 700,000 academics have signed up, and 90,000 are joining each month. The value that the site provides is that we help academics distribute their papers to a large audience quickly, and we also help them keep up with the latest papers in their field.

We have about 2.7 million monthly unique visitors, and that number is doubling roughly every 7 months. The journey is 1% complete - we are just getting going.

We're a 6 person team based in downtown San Francisco. We have a strong engineering culture. We're a Rails site, and we also use Redis, MongoDB, Beanstalkd, Varnish, Solr, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Memcached.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. The kinds of things you would be working on include:

★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)

★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)

★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site

What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering

We have raised money from Spark Capital (investors in Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare), and angels including Mark Shuttleworth (from Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture.

For anyone interested to learn more, please email me directly at richard [at] academia.edu.

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

#188
SF, CA - full time

Love games? We have a job for you.

Betable is looking for a self-motivated, full-stack senior software engineer to join our founding team. We want someone who is passionate about web development and can help us build a world class platform.

Betable is committed to challenging the status quo by building disruptive technology that helps developers monetize their creativity in a very lucrative, proven way. We expect that millions of people around the globe will engage with this product & that it will transform at least two multi-billion dollar industries - gambling & gaming.

The company is backed by Atomico Ventures, the venture capital fund started by the founders of Kazaa, Skype & Rdio, Niklas Zennistrom & Janus Friis, as well as various top tier angels. Our Advisory Board includes Chris Larsen, Founder of Prosper and E-LOAN, Roger Dickey, EP/GM at Zynga and Founder of Mafia Wars and Fishville, Owen O’Donnell, CFO of Betfair, CFO of King.com, CFO of the Financial Times and Director of Rank Interactive, and Ash Muarya, Lean startup evengelist and author of, “Running Lean.”

We are looking for people who are great coders in any language and are flexible to adapt. We need those with both platform experience to build our API and front end experience to build our suite of consumer facing sites.

We offer great compensation, flexible scheduling, and a fun, hard-working startup atmosphere. If you're interested, drop us a line at Tyler@Betable.com to find out more.

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

#190
San Francisco, CA - Yammer. Fulltime; H1Bs considered.

Yammer is an awesome tech startup masquerading as an enterprise software vendor. We're building an enterprise social network (an internal communication and collaboration tool. Like Facebook.) and we need your help.

We build our product with insight and wisdom gained from the consumer social networking space, but we charge enterprise prices (and our customers pay them!) We're fighting some big serious competitors (Salesforce/Chatter, Jive, and VMWare/Socialcast) and this space has never been more exciting.

Yammer is really changing the way people get work done. We have actual challenges to overcome and we're doing our best to make a kick-ass product that makes our users happy.

Tech we use: Ruby/Rails, Scala, and JavaScript. We have Obj-C and C# stuff too.

Some bullet points for you to skim:

• Amazing group of smart engineers to work with. Really.

• We hack in Ruby/Rails, Scala/JVM, Javascript/JQuery/Node.js/Adobe AIR, Obj-C for iOS, and some MSFT/Sharepoint stuff.

• Competitive compensation. Enough said.

• Delicious catered lunch and dinner daily, with a 3PM snack cart. Also a fully-stocked beer-and-beverage fridge.

• Fancy Apple hardware of your choice (you can have a PC if you really want one.)

Some links for you to read more:

• Our jobs page: https://www.yammer.com/jobs

• Our Engineering blog: http://eng.yammer.com/

• A blog post about why it's so awesome to work here: http://eng.yammer.com/blog/2011/5/31/shameless-recruiting.ht....

Feel free to get in touch: bkudria@yammer-inc.com

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