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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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San Francisco: product generalists and systems generalists. What we do: subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise. Just kidding. We're a stealthy team of technical generalists filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've…

Awesome.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can talk about it. We are very flexible when it comes to people we want, it's really about the fit for us (+some openness to switch to full-time eventually)

Sure - I'll put something together this weekend. Also, if it helps, ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch.

Awesome, looking forward to talk to you!

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#253
Potato is a developer-lead agency (no Flash developers! No account managers!) based in London, Bristol, Amsterdam & San Francisco. Our clients include Google, PayPal, a number of startups and other agencies such as BBH & Mother.

We're hiring for a variety of positions in a variety of locations, freelance & full time, including:

Django Developer, London - http://p.ota.to/jobs/django-developer-london/

Technical Recruiter, London - http://p.ota.to/jobs/technical-recruiter-london/

Django Developer, Bristol - http://p.ota.to/jobs/django-developer-bristol/

UX Designer, Bristol - http://p.ota.to/jobs/ux-designer-bristol/

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#254
We're looking for a Django / Python developer for a 3-4 month contract. You'll be helping us build a brand new product from the ground up and expected to provide a lot of input! We're based in Scotland but you can work from anywhere as our whole team works remotely.

Find the job description and how to apply here: http://www.getadministrate.com/about/

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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LONDON, UK. Arguably the most exciting tech position in London. We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year. We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who…

I spent some time at Forward's offices during the last Node.js Knockout competition and it's a pretty amazing office and had a lot of fun coding with the guys there, these people are on it.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#256
London, UK - full time.

Universal Pictures International - Junior Developer/Data Scientist, International Research

We're certainly not a startup, but our department acts like one as much as possible.

We're building tools to forecast, simulate, and model the box office market.  We're developing simulations and models to give us estimates on how the market responds to social media, weather, video games, et cetera, and we're building web apps and ipad apps to present this information to key people in a way they can use and understand.  We need your help taking the project to the next level.

What you'll be doing:

1) Maintaining, debugging, and adding features to our existing apps (browser and ipad) that help people configure and use our simulations. 2) Keeping our software on amazon ec2 online. 3) Help us build new tools to allow people to interface with our newer models. 4) Help us develop new models and simulations that can give us deeper insight into how the market behaves and that can respond to historical and live data as it comes in (machine learning)

What we use:

* A lot of python (web.py) and javascript (jquery, jqtouch) * amazon ec2 for running the simulations * Whatever gets the job done.  We have code written in Racket, and we're certainly not shy about experimenting with your favorite language.  (I'm learning Haskell and plan to be using at work for some experiments, for instance)

Who we're looking for:

This is primarily a programming position, so we're looking for someone who is enthusiastic about coding and the tools they use, has an love of clean code, new languages and technologies, and likes statistics.

Bonus points if you like film, functional languages and mathematics.

Interested?  My contact details are in my profile.  Let's get in touch

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Madrid, Spain Back End Developer / Full time ----- Guildda wants to empower companies and individuals to transact in a new way, by disrupting an archaic industry. As Guildda’s Back End Engineer you will be responsible for delivering an amazing, secure, stable, fast experience to our users. ==Attributes of successful candidates will include== - You are a full-stack developer - Understands the entire LAMP stack and can…

Is your site (guildda.com) live? It returns a 404 error on me, and I don't see anything in Google regarding the company. Sorry if I missed something.

It's not live, we are looking to build the team.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Because people often ask, these threads do work. I got in touch with http://romotive.com after seeing them post in one, and am currently packing up to move to Las Vegas and go work on robots (!) with a great team of kindred spirits, only a few weeks after I first sent them a letter. Good luck to searchers on both sides in finding your own perfect fit.

I'm somewhat curious as to how much ageism is prevalent in these opportunities. From what I've seen, a large percentage of the staff/lifestyle pics associated with these companies show an endless sea of smiling employees in their late 20s & early 30s. Is there room for devs beyond that age?

I haven't feel any of that among the companies I've contacted. I've been pretty selective about whom I've contacted, so there may be some selection bias there. But my choice has always been based on product/position fit, not on employee age. And HN has by far been the best source for things I'm interested in.

I'll admit I often consciously choose to wear my XKCD hoodie when I meet people for the first time. Not that I don't wear it a lot anyway, but ...

I kind of feel like Steve was sort of an existence proof that age no longer represents the cultural divide it might have at another time.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#259
San Francisco: Fulltime

Do you like talking about code as much as you like writing code? Hackbright Academy is looking for instructors for our ten week code school. We teach a blend of practical engineering skills and computer science theory to a small group of aspiring engineers. More information on what we do can be found here: http://www.hackbrightacademy.com.

We're looking for engineers who really know their stuff and are looking for something different. Generalists or specialists of any discipline are welcome; we value communication more than any other specific skill. We write and teach in python and javascript, but that shouldn't matter to you.

Alongside teaching, your responsibilities will include designing curriculum and writing internal tools. We're offering a developer's salary, equity, and an absurd amount of vacation time.

We're not building earth-shattering software here, but we're empowering a new generation of engineers to do so. If that interests you, email me at c@hackbrightacademy.com.

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