Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

San Francisco, Barcelona, Tokyo

Midokura (http://www.midokura.com)

Distributed systems, and networking developers / Front-End Developers / Integration Engineers / Sales Engineers

What we do: Distributed, de-centralized, software-defined virtual networks as a service for infrastructure as a service clouds. (SDN, Network Virtualization)

That's a lot of words, basically we're building scalable virtual networking for public and private clouds based on OpenStack and CloudStack. We're a team of 22 spread across 3 offices (Tokyo, Barcelona, and SF). We're venture backed, and hoping to grow our team to ~50 by the end of next year. We are offering competitive salaries, great benefits, and pre-IPO stock options. Since we're located in three great cities, you'll get to travel the world to work with teammates from the other offices.

We are challenging ourselves and learning things everyday, and want to find members who enjoy these challenges to join our great team.

Email adam at midokura.com. H1Bs welcome.

San Francisco: Full-time Experienced Web & Mobile Software Developers

Scoot & Doodle http://youtu.be/DYh1RqXfaEY

Scoot & Doodle is an award winning, angel funded start-up dedicated to helping people have fun building strong relationships with their friends and family through playful, creative, collaborative experiences and some serious face-to-face doodle time.

We successfully launched our product on Google+ Hangouts last March. We now have close to a million G+ followers. We've already won a Parents Choice Silver Award and a Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award. http://scootdoodle.com

We are deep in development on our follow-up product set to launch in the New Year. We’re looking for thoughtful, no-nonsense team players to come work with us. We share a sunny, loft office space with several other up-and-coming start-ups in the Mission district.

We offer a flexible, family-friendly environment.

Desired Developer Experience: * iOS development * Extensive Rails and JavaScript * CSS3 and HTML5 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Points For: Agile team experience (pair programming, refactoring, TDD/BDD)

Tell Us Your Story: jobs@scootdoodle.com

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Streak.com - San Francisco, CA (full-time engineers)

We’re building a product that people love to use. Even though we sell to businesses, we aren’t an enterprise company - we’re a technology company maniacally focused on a great product. Companies (that you’ve definitely heard of) use Streak everyday to make their teams more effective.

Join us and help tackle this enormous market by building great products.

Some Details:

   - we’re looking for smart fast learners
   - you’d be hire #1 so expect to be wearing lots of hats
   - Future founders, this is a great way to get real experience on what its like starting a company - on our dime.
   - we aren’t looking for a specific skillset but you can expect to work on our backend, front end JS app or our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and then specialize once you’ve had exposure to the full stack

Obviously:

   - Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)
   - We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing
   - We’re very well funded by elite silicon valley investors

Email us at first@streak.com if you are interested.

San Francisco, CA. Full time. Remote is fine too.

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

We believe that science is dysfunctional, and we are working on fixing it. Almost every innovation in medicine and technology in the world has its roots in a science paper. If we want to speed up the world, we need to speed up science.

There are many inefficiencies in science:

* it's too slow (there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal and it being published)

* all the world's research ends up behind extraordinarily expensive paywalls, even though it was authored and peer-reviewed for free by the scientific community

* it hasn't moved out of PDF-land yet (scientists haven't been provided with the incentives to share things like data-sets, code, videos, and other kinds of rich media).

We are working on fixing this. We dream of a world where research is shared instantly, as soon as it's finished; where scientists share their full scientific output (data-sets, code, videos, and comments on all this media), and not just papers; and where a villager in India has as much access to the world's scientific output as a professor at Harvard.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accomplish this mission. We have made a good start: 1.8 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 3,500 join each day. But there is much more to do.

We're a 10 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd. We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. We are looking to hire a range of positions:

* full stack engineers

* growth engineer (optimizing our growth and retention channels)

* iOS engineer

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://tcrn.ch/T42VWC (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://tcrn.ch/R6Pgrr (The Future of Science)

We want to hire world class engineers. We want you to join us in building the future of science whether you are based in San Francisco, New York, Delhi, or Beijing. Remote work is fine. We will handle re-location, including visas, if you would like to re-locate, but re-location is not necessary.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu