Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

An NPR interview with one of the Co-Founders of Crimson Hexagon, Gary King about his research involving the censorship by the Chinese government. The research was done using data from Crimson Hexagon's platform

Acquia is looking for great cloud engineers. Positions for junior and senior candidates are available. Come help us grow our cloud which runs Drupal, Solr and other open source technologies on thousands of AWS machines and is rapidly expanding.

Acquia provides commercial support and hosting for Drupal projects and large scale Drupal websites. We were recently named the fastest growing software company in America by Inc magazine and the 8th fastest growing in any industry.

If you have great experience scaling the LAMP stack, building automated toolchains to manage servers on AWS or open cloud stacks and if you have a passion for working with some of the largest companies in the world or managing thousands of servers then let us know.

Cloud Engineer position details are available here: https://www.acquia.com/careers/job-listing/cloud-software-en...

Positions are also open for Drupal experts, JavaEE Architects, Sysops, Devops and more.

Neumitra is solving daily stress for health, productivity, and happiness

We're adding generalists to grow our mobile and web platform with our biosensor. Stress and stress-based disorders become manageable with software personalized by your physiology. We value passion for your craft and our long-term mission.

rob at neumitra.com

Skills: Objective C and the iOS SDK | Git

Nice to have: Heroku experience

About us: We’re making professional communication accessible to all. Over the last century technological advances have disproportionately favored the wealthy. SendHub is leveling the playing field. Founded to help educators communicate in under resourced communities, we now have users across the US in politics, retail, faith groups, sports, education and many more.

We have thousands of users, we’re sending hundreds of thousands of messages a month and we’re growing fast - 60%/month across users, usage and monetization.

What you’ll be doing: Working closely, and at speed, with our small team to make best in class mobile communication apps. You’ll be involved in almost every part of the software life cycle from specs discussion to implementation to testing and pushing to production. We push multiple times a day and you’ll likely push to production within 24 hours of starting.

Our Philosophy: We believe in building a wonderful product and taking care of our people. To ensure our team executes - you’ll get autonomy, recognition and regular feedback. We expect a lot of each other but we wouldn't want it any other way. We're hungry and we need you to be too.

Benefits: Health, dental, meals and smart colleagues who will challenge you everyday.

We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station) and while we're flexible on remote working, you'll need to be around the office.

If you're interested, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com

What we do and who we are looking for:

It's simple - we want to build the world's best hotel search engine. Best place to search (fastest, most relevant, most results), best place to research (data insight, recommendations), and the best place to shop (metasearch engine, finds lower prices from more sources worldwide).

Travel is a big market and there hasn't been much innovation in the last ten years. We were founded on the belief that consumers deserve to get transparency and a fair deal and we believe that tackling hotel search is a great way to help travelers make more informed decisions and save some moolah. It's not the sexiest space to be in but the travel space is the 2nd largest commerce category and we think we can own a piece of the pie through a better product.

Our engineering team is 15+ and growing and we're hungry for more talent because we've got big problems to solve. We look for people who work comfortably across the entire stack. We run on Ubuntu, AWS and no specific language knowledge is necessary though we use a lot of C++, PHP, and Javascript. We don't believe in micromanagement so you'll need to be someone who is self-motivated, not scared off by things you've never done, and willing to make mistakes and know when to ask for a helping hand. Most of our engineering comes from Google, Facebook, Yandex and other top tier companies as well as top tier schools.

On the marketing side, we need some firepower to get the word out there and build smart ways to analyze and optimize the paid traffic we're getting. If you think it would be fun to compete in SEM against larger, more well-funded companies and you don't find it at all scary, we want to talk to you. If you've done large scale email program build outs (things like automated price alerts, segmentation), we want to talk to you.

What's it like working at Room 77?

We're located a stone throws away from Red Rock Coffee in the heart of Downtown Mountain View. We're a diverse bunch and we like to do a lot of team events. Lunches are catered and we have a keg on tap, standard valley benefits apply including equity and competitive compensation. You also get a travel stipend and a travel agent card to get massive savings when you take some R&R.

Who believes in us?

We've raised $13 million to date from VCs like General Catalyst, PAR, and Sutter Hill and companies like Concur (TripIt). We're lucky to have both angels and advisers that have started companies like Expedia, MTV, HotelTonight, Nor1, and Zillow. We're well connected to the industry so you don't have to worry about us having to bang on doors to get to the right folks, all we need to focus on is building a killer product that makes people fall in love with us.

If you think this sounds interesting or you just want us to buy you a coffee when you're in Mountain View, reach out to us. Engineering positions, check out https://www.room77.com/jobs/software_engineer.html?s=hackern... . Marketing/Analyst positions, send resumes/portfolios to jobs@room77.com or reach out to me directly: roger@room77.com.