Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)

Kaggle - San Francisco

Kaggle is a platform for data science competitions, that is changing the way data science is done. We've already solved problems for NASA, Wikipedia, Ford and Allstate (see some of the problems we've solved here: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3296837.htm).

Kaggle is hiring outstanding developers to join its core team. As a Kaggle developer, you'll be building the platform that helps solve many of the most valuable problems in data science. You'll guide the development of tools that automate the process of setting up a competition, verifying winning models, and integrating those models into our customers' operations. The tools you will develop go the heart of Kaggle's mission and technology offering.

More information at http://kaggle.theresumator.com/apply/3s1xdU/Developer.html

BranchOut, San Francisco, Soma

FULL TIME software engineer (Backend, Frontend, DB, Search, Mobile)

http://business.branchout.com/about-jobs

INTERN - Madison, WI or remote (unpaid for the time being).

Codiqa (http://codiqa.com/) is a small and growing startup making mobile web development easier and faster for everyone. We have an embedded version of our drag-and-drop tool live directly on http://jquerymobile.com

We are looking for a developer and a stats+marketing intern. As a developer, you will help hack on our Backbone.js drag-and-drop builder and our Python+Django backend.

As a marketing intern, you will help us run experiments such as targeted ads and landing page tweaks. You will also help us engage with certain types of users and pitch them on our product's strengths. You will also analyze the results of any experiments and make our marketing more effective.

We are bootstrapped, and independence and ownership are a strong part of our core values. We love what we do and we are passionate about changing what it means to have a job. We don't count hours, and we do things our way.

Interested? Send me an email at max AT codiqa DOT com

SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME-ISH :)

I've mentioned before that we have a couple of engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480

We're ready to hire a couple more in this vein, so if it sounds interesting let me know!

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Advantages for you:

- you get 2-3 extra weekend days for fun and profit

- we provide health insurance and all that jazz

- if some weeks you don't have lots to do and want to work more, and other weeks you have lots to do and want to work less, we can be flexible

- we're profitable and growing! so if you decide "wow I really love Verba and want to spend every waking moment there" we can make that dream come true

Advantages for us:

- you have more time to learn new things, meet new people and generally be a friendlier, happier, more knowledgeable person in our workplace

- we can hire faster with less anxiety (instead of the "gulp i just committed $100k/yr" feeling, we have the "smaller gulp i just committed $50k/yr" feeling :)

- you get to be a part of what we're doing, we get to hear about all the cool stuff you're doing, and that can only lead to good things for both of us

Anyway, I've included our spiel and "what we're looking for" summary below, so shoot me an email if you're interested (ragalie@verbasoftware.com).

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The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

We're a B2B company working with just about 200 colleges and universities, and we're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck. The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

Be sure to check out our website (http://www.verbasoftware.com) so you can read all about our current products and hear people say nice things about us.

Coffee Meets Bagel - San Francisco, CA. Full time - Experienced Python/Django web developer Coffee Meets Bagel ( http://coffeemeetsbagel.com ) is a new innovative online dating startup making waves in New York and Boston and looking to expand to the west coast soon. We've recently been featured in TechCrunch, Glamour, BostInno, and several other major blogs and publications.

About the Job: We're looking for an experienced Python/Django web developer to join our early stage team as we scale our service in terms of geography and users, apply machine learning techniques to our algorithms, refine our revenue model, and continue to keep our customers happy. You will have an opportunity to work with and learn from a highly experienced technical advisor and great engineers. This is a market with huge opportunity and we will look to you for best practices around architecture, deployment and scaling the service to millions of people.

Requirements: - 2+ Years of Python development experience with some knowledge of Django or similar web frameworks. You will be able to contribute to our Django code base from Day 1. - A strong knowledge of the fundamentals of networking, operating systems, and security. - A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related discipline from a 4-year program. - Agile. Intelligent. Creative. Problem-solver. Startup lover. You like finding and working with outstanding engineers and want to help us build an awesome engineering team.

Bonus: - Experience building back-end systems on a high-traffic, low-latency web site. - Knowledge in Machine Learning/Graph Theory/Large-scale Data Analysis is a plus - Experience working with, and contributing to open source software projects is a plus—show us your github account or other online projects if available.

*Also looking for engineering interns, front-end developers, and marketing/PR intern. http://coffeemeetsbagel.com/jobs/