Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

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Test Automation Developer

litl is looking for a Test Automation Developer to join our growing Copley Square-based software team. litl is the company that brought you the litl webbook, a computer that lets you enjoy the web without worrying about anything else and winner of numerous national and international awards. litl is currently bringing multiple consumer photography applications to market.

litl is searching for a motivated developer with testing experience to help the testing team identify automation opportunities in our existing test suites, develop automated test cases and maintain the testing environment. As a Test Automation Developer you will work as part of the larger development team that's building exciting mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows mobile.

Skills & Requirements

Solid proficiency in Python, Ruby or a similar scripting language (experience in Objective-C and/or Java would be a plus). Familiarity with UI test automation frameworks. Adaptable and flexible to changing priorities. Self-motivated and comfortable working in both team/solo environments. Excellent written, verbal, and organizational skills. Desire to work in a fast moving environment where code quality and system stability are a priority.

Potential Responsibilities

Develop, maintain and refine a suite of automated test cases (functional, smoke, load, regression). Extending the functionality of test frameworks to fit our evolving needs. Document and maintain testing environments. Executing automated and manual tests. Tracking results of automated tests and logging defects. Verification of bug fixes. Review technical design specs and provide recommendations on specific testing challenges and strategies.

About litl

We're a small computer company with big ideas. Located in Boston, we also have people in London, Brazil, the Greek Isles...you get the idea. Our 60 person team consists of software developers, hardware engineers, industrial designers, user experience experts, graphic designers, software testers, evangelists, logistics gurus, and top-notch customer support. An unlikely mix, perhaps, but what we have in common is passion for creating compelling user experiences. Our four-year pursuit has been continually fueled by enthusiasm and excitement about our diverse set of projects. The results are always simple, useful, and delightful.

jobs@litl.com

Job Title: Front-end developer using Rails 3.2, slim, coffee script, jquery. Ember.js is a plus.

AFAR Media is a well-funded travel media start-up spanning print and web. We have big monitors, stand-up desks, and fancy new laptops. Your coworkers will be be developers, designers, project mangers, and (this is the cool part) magazine editors, meaning you'll work with a wider ranger of personalities than the standard developer scrum.

This job is ideal for someone who loves to travel for fun (the position does not require travel, but a fulfilling life does, and one of our great perks is a yearly travel stipend). No arbitrary requirements here, if you are an expert or a least have a hacking willingness to learn and a good attitude, we want you. Our team is small, and all opinions are considered (and frankly, needed) from product design through delivery.

If you are interested, please send an email to jobs@afar.com.

My team is working on monitoring and alerting for all of the different services at Twitter. Zipkin (https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/) is an example of the kinds of tools our team is building right now. The two central components are a dashboard/charting monitoring service as well as our own alerting system.

Most of our infrastructure challenges stem from the sheer number of writes we need to deal with as well as the temporal nature of what we're doing - all of our writes need to happen within certain time periods and reads have to be consistent within certain time-frames to avoid engineers being woken up at 4am due to incorrect data from a dirty read. Given that we're the service which observes all the other critical components - our reliability requirements are also a huge challenge.

The product challenge on this team is making sense of a whole lot of data. So there is a lot of cutting-edge data visualisation work. You have certain services running on thousands of nodes and teams want to use our product to quickly find outliers and scan their dashboards with key metrics. This means you have potentially thousands of timeseries with thousands of data points on the screen at the same time. This is a JavaScript gig where you get to think about algorithms and performance on a daily basis. We're also an internal tool, so we have the option of targeting cutting edge, modern browser features. In reality it means 90% of your time is working on cool stuff and not on getting IE to work.

I think the biggest benefit of working on our product team is that you a level of autonomy which is hard to find on a user-facing product. So if you're the creative type who doesn't want to be micro-managed or told where to push those pixels, I think this is a really good gig.

Right now we're looking for experienced engineers for both infrastructure and product. Our infrastructure is JVM-based and written in Scala, with some Python. Our product is written in JavaScript and we have some Ruby to deal with. Knowledge of these platforms is beneficial, but solid experience and passion for this problem domain is even better.

A systems position: https://twitter.com/jobs/positions?jvi=ospeWfwL,Job A dataviz position: https://twitter.com/jobs/positions?jvi=og12VfwY,Job

The dataviz position doesn't accurately reflect the open rec we have for my team, so don't worry if you don't match the skills exactly.

I work on both infrastructure and product for the positions I described, so if you're interested you can send your resume to me directly at david @ dmclaughlin.com to speed up the process.

Also - we're hiring across the board at Twitter so also take a look at all open positions here: https://twitter.com/jobs