Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

VERSUS IO, http://versus.io

VERSUS IO or 'The Google of Comparisons' offers product comparisons in natural language generated from raw data. The pilot with cell phones is online and generated already strong traction: 2,1x avg. growth per month, 400+ first places on Google and rolled-out in 17 languages incl. Chinese. We are using RoR 3.2, PostgreSQL, HAML, SASS, Redis, Coffee, YML, Github and some magic code creating natural text and narrative content in different languages.

We are looking for:

=> Lead Software Engineer Ruby on Rails

=> Lead Software Engineer Frontend

=> Software Engineer Interns

We offer:

=> Be with an awesome team and top-notch architects

=> Contribute to a cutting-edge product employing newest technologies

=> Be right in the center of Berlin-Mitte, one of coolest neighborhoods and startup communities

Berlin is calling! If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

To apply or if you have any questions, just send us an email with your CV and a short note about yourself to:

ramin (at) urge (dot) io

Crawl Engineer and Big Data Enthusiast

We're looking for someone enthusiastic about open source, net neutrality, open data and keeping the web truly open. Common Crawl is dedicated to building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data in order to enable a new wave of innovation, education and research. If you're looking to do work that matters, come join us!

We're set to do amazing things this year, and there is no better place to hone your big data skills than helping us manage and process our 50 TB corpus. Plus, you'll be working within a passionate community and have the chance to interface with plenty of talented researchers, educators, startup folks, and an incredible advisory board.

Responsibilities

  * Improve the stability, scaling, and visibility of our distributed web crawler
  * Use, improve, and extend our post-crawl, Hadoop-based data processing pipeline 
  * Design and build mechanism for specification and execution of custom crawls

  * You can architect and code for a system with tens of billions of documents
  * Strong coding ability in Java 
  * Strong coding skills in at least one scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl...)
  * In-depth knowledge of HTTP and are familiar with web crawlers
  * You have development and administrative experience with Hadoop and HDFS
  * Ops experience with Linux or other UNIX
  * Some familiarity with AWS, including one or more of EC2, S3, EBS, and EMR
  * Like to build useful, thorough documentation of code and systems
  * Self-starter wiling to take ownership of projects

Udacity is leading the way in massively open online courses. We started with http://www.ai-class.com and took the lessons learned from that experience to build http://www.udacity.com/, a website delivering quality higher education to people all around the world. We have new and exciting technology and classes in the pipeline and we need great engineers to help shape this movement. Check us out at http://www.udacity.com/ and feel free to send me a message if you're interested/have questions ih@udacity.com.

We bring resident referral programs online leveraging leading social networking sites.

Our company services the multi-family residential real estate market and has been in business for 5 years. In 2011, RentMineOnline was voted the "Best New Company in Apartment Marketing," and has participated both in SeedCamp (2008) and FbFund (2009) incubator programs.

We are looking for talented and energetic engineers of all skill levels to help us grow our company. As a member of a small team (2 in-house developers and 4 remote), you will have the opportunity to see an immediate impact from your efforts in all areas of our business.

How we operate:

    Our server stack is Rails 3, REE, passenger, nginx, MySQL, redis, and ubuntu
    On the front end we use jquery, jquery-mobile, and prototype 
    Our code lives on github.
    We integrate with Amazon Services, Facebook Platform, LinkedIn and Twitter.
    We deploy daily, often multiple times a day
    We're always evaluating technologies that can help 
      us operate better, faster, and smarter.

What you need:

    Strong work ethic
    Ability to write clean code and tests
    Exerience with a web framework - Rails preferred but not required
    Understanding of relational databases - 
       you should know how to write a non-trivial join or select
    At least some shell experience - a command line shouldn't be foreign to you 

    1+ years of rails development
    Experience maintaining your own server
    You've rebased more than a few git branches
    Facebook platform development
    Intermediate statistics/machine-learning