Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)

Lightswitch is looking for an experienced web developer to join our team to help us build our core technology, new website, public API’s, etc. We are ambitiously building a company to solve a tough problem – making custom video production easy and affordable for every small business in America. We are a startup with real revenue and the same committed investors that built Groupon – this is a great opportunity for you to make a huge impact at an early stage company. We have an energetic and highly motivated team and are looking for more of the same.

This job is located in Chicago, IL. If you’re interested, send a resume along with a link to your Github profile to technology@lightswitch.com.

Your responsibilities

Be creative in solving technology problems and disciplined in testing and implementing solutions Support web app and back-end in production

What we’re looking for:

* A minimum of 5 years experience in web application development with PHP

* A minimum of 5 years experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

* MVC framework experience

* Expertise with jQuery and Backbone

* Fluent with SQL

* Unit testing

* Comfortable with the command line

* Experience working with and building RESTful API’s

* Attention to detail

* Someone who is always learning new technologies and how to improve the ones they already use.

* Sense of humor, plays well with others

Even better if you have:

* Video experience

* Active interest in and regular contribution to the development community

* Experience managing Linux, Apache, and other server side services

* Experience with LESS CSS

* Mobile development experience

A rare opportunity for a Linux/C++/SQL developer to work at the leading edge of live video analytics and big data management!

Crowd Vision is an exciting early-stage London-based technology company with ambitious near-term growth plans. The company has a unique software product that automatically analyses crowded scenes from video feeds in real-time to provide actionable intelligence to a wide range of customers.The company is now investing in further developing and optimising the product. R&D plans are in place and include optimisation of architecture, algorithms and user interfaces. In addition a new remote web-based service variant of the product ("Cloud Vision") is being designed, developed, tested and productised.

The company’s new Tech Hub, now being formed, will be led by the CTO (and the original developer of the software) and include a Hub Project Leader, a Software Developer, and other Technical Support staff focused on product management and technical support to sales and customers. The Tech Hub will be located in central London in a pleasant creative environment intended for tech businesses. There will also be the opportunity for some home/mobile working amongst the team. The Software Developer will be a key member of the Tech Hub and involved in several different projects that require coding skills and experience.

The job will be fulltime and based in London. There may be a need/opportunity to travel on a limited basis. The chosen candidate can start immediately if available.

The ideal candidate will have: • Excellent coding skills in C++ and SQL • Solid experience of working in a Linux environment • Experience of and/or keen interest in: video processing, data extraction algorithms, big data management, the cloud-based real-time environment, user interfaces • Experience of, and respect for, best practice software development standards

For more information / to apply: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=3314124

Seeking EE's with manufacturing experience and iOS devs

At Romotive, we build smartphone robots that can be controlled from any smart device anywhere in the world. Because software for Romo is distributed through the Apple App Store and the Android Market, our users can download new behaviors and personalities for their robots at the click of a button. We provide continuous support for our dedicated developers through the Romotive SDK, allowing anyone to build and distribute new apps for Romo.

We're a venture-backed company that counts Stanford University, Tony Hsieh, David Cohen, David Tisch, Lerer Ventures, and PivotNorth Capital amongst its investor team. We've built thousands of robots in the last few months (in our apartment), and we're setting up distribution agreements with retailers across the US to sell 100,000 robots before Christmas of 2012. The team is comprised of Harvard students, YC founders, iRobot alumni, etc. We're currently located in Las Vegas as part of Tony Hsieh's investment fund, but spend a great deal of our time in Palo Alto / SF.

We're looking for funny and brilliant people who design and build awesome hardware and software. We're looking for engineers, designers, and people who love robots. We don't care if you have awesome job offers from every bank and consultancy on the planet. If you match the above description, reach out to us and let us show you why you want to be building robots instead.

Reach out to us at founders@romotive.com. We want to meet you.

Real Geeks is looking for a top-notch software developer to help it expand its business. We are a small team with big ideas getting ready to take the online real estate world by storm.

We are looking for someone comfortable with web programming, familiar with scripting languages such as Python and Javascript, knowledgeable about database systems (we use MySQL and MongoDB), and willing to learn. Design skills and Javascript / CSS mastery is a plus. We are using the newest open-source technologies to create dynamic websites for the real estate sector.

Hundreds of real estate websites running a CMS built in Python+Django with a MySQL datastore - Real estate data is all stored in MongoDB, served up over an HTTP API written in Python/Tornado - Varnish for our front-end caching as well as load-balancing our MongoDB servers - Redis for general caching, non-persistent datastore use and task queue - Beanstalkd for a simple task queue - Celery for deferred task processing - Puppet and Fabric for server administration

Real Geeks is based in Kailua, Hawaii on the windward side of the beautiful island of Oahu, and is looking for someone willing to relocate to Hawaii. It would be great if you were up to go surfing with us at the end of a long day of programming.

Send your resume to jobs@realgeeks.com