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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#251
Airtime (http://airtime.com) - San Francisco, CA

Airtime is looking to hire a software developer who can help us build a platform that brings people closer together by allowing them to have great video conversations over the Internet. We are an early stage startup founded by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. Our main office is in NYC, however we are currently looking for a developer for our SF office.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, a fast learner and passionate about building good software. He or she has a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, experience working across different technologies, and the ability to think critically about problems and choose the right course of action.

  Requirements:
  - 2+ years of software engineering experience.
  - The ability to write high quality code efficiently.
  - Passion for learning new technologies and the ability to do so quickly.
  - Understanding of modern web programming practices.
  - Self-motivated and possessing strong communication skills.
  - Willingness to travel to New York City.

  Pluses
  - Experience with Flash/ActionScript3.
  - Familiarity with video codecs, protocols and wire formats.
  - Experience developing iOS and Android.
  - Ability to work with small teams.
You will be located in San Francisco. You will be working with a small engineering team in San Francisco and a larger engineering team in our main location in New York City. You will be traveling out to New York City periodically to work (and party!) with Airtime NYC.

To apply, please visit https://www.airtime.com/jobs and follow the instructions at the bottom of the page.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#252
SHIFT (http://www.shift.com) is hiring in our Santa Monica office.

1) Front End Developer (http://jobs.shift.com/apply/BWRv4y/Front-End-Developer.html)

We are looking for a Front-end developer that will be a pivotal member of our team. You will be working closely with our backend engineers & design team to help implement a fully AJAX/HTML5 driven application using AngularJS. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology and is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable and solid code.

2) Back End Developer (http://jobs.shift.com/apply/bAVkng/Back-End-Engineer-Python....)

  - Extensive experience with Python 2.7
  - Experience with various DBs (We use MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis)
  - Experience with architecting & optimizing code for performance and resource management
  - An understanding of how/when/why to use backgrounding via Celery tasks
  - Experience with or a desire to learn TDD
  - An understanding and love for the DRY principle.
  - A positive attitude and enjoy working in a team environment
  - Thorough knowledge of MVC frameworks (We use Flask; while experience with Flask is a plus, it’s not required)
  - Thorough knowledge of various debugging methods
  - A strong desire to keep learning (we move fast, use cutting-edge tech, and constantly have “ah-ha” moments solving complex problems)
  - A personality that balances humor, maturity, professionalism, motivation/drive and the ability to hang shot for shot when we drink (unless you really, really don’t want to)

Read about some of the awesomeness that we do here: http://tech.shift.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#253
COMPANY

- Name: Slice Data

- Team: MIT, Berkeley, Google Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Yahoo Research

- Investors: a16z, SHV, more

- Customers: Fortune 500s down to SMBs

- Product: machine learning applications for non-technical users to help their businesses more effectively capture and retain customers

- Looking for: smart hackers, ideally strong in data mining, who are also excited to join an early-stage startup and grow with the company

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Interact with customers, analyze their data, understand their pain points, and develop new product features and new products

- Build predictive models using sophisticated algorithms and data extracted from the web and other sources

- Develop and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to manage and process customers' large, confidential datasets

QUALIFICATIONS

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Math or related fields

- Ideally experience with analyzing data sets, formulating data problems, and building machine-learned models

- Familiarity with Python, Java/Scala, or R preferred

CONTACT

- https://www.slice-data.com

- hiring@slice-data.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#254
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone and iPad developments.

This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.

You'll be leading iOS development for Karoo (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/karoo/id544368641?mt=8), and for our flagship app, Care.com that isn't in market yet because you'll be helping us build it).

You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.

Email or tweet me if interested: kfriedson@care.com / http://twitter.com/kfriedson

More about the role: http://www.care.com/careers-p1089.html#SeniororPrincipalSoft...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#255
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Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java), PHP Developers and a Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Linux, Nginx, HBase, HAProxy, Memcached, and OpenTSDB) TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers at every layer of our technology stack. http://tumblr.com/jobs We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massi…

hey Matt, could you give me an email where I can contact you directly, would like ask you some things personally.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#256

One of the best and untapped resources for jobs in NYC is the Made in NY list - http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc ---------------- We (Warby Parker) are proud to be on it! Here are some of our open roles: * Principal Engineer, Computer Vision - http://wp.theresumator.com/apply/oPMSOg/Principal-Software-E... * Principal Engineer, Core Services - http://wp.theresumator.com/apply/FOHYC7/Principal-Software-E... * Principal Eng…

Where is the about section in the website and how do i know what are you trying to build?

Google for Warby Parker. They're arguably the fastest growing online eyeglasses retailers.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#257
London, England - Full Time - Local Only (with flexibility to work from home on occasion)

Optim.al (https://www.optimalsocial.com/) is currently hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on a variety of projects that cover real time bidding, analytics, data science and front end web applications.

Requirements:

    * BS or MS degree in computer science, maths, information science, 
      or related field.
    * Good understanding of web technologies HTML, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
    * Must be able to demonstrate that you're a great 
      programmer in any one of Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, 
      F# or Kotlin
    * Must be happy to work in either Python, Ruby or Java
    * Must have a good understanding of a Unix based operating system
    * Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework
If you love programming and would like an interesting job with a steep learning curve and a wide variety of challenges, please get in touch. You can email me personally at jamie@optimalsocial.com or use the following Jobvite link: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oYH2Wfwn&s=HackerNews

No recruiters please.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#259
Mobile Developer @ Frank & Oak in Montreal, Canada.

http://www.frankandoak.com/about/jobs#job12

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enhance, build, optimize our Frank & Oak mobile application Ensure strong optimization and functionality and monitor app technical performance Work with our UX specialists to ensure optimal experience Analyze, review, and modify, mobile systems by designing, maintaining, documenting, testing, developing, and monitoring

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor/Master degrees in Computer Science or Computer Engineering is a plus Solid knowledge of mobile development technologies (iOS, Android) Great knowledge of web development technologies (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML) Ability to work independently. Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Proficiency in both French & English is a plus

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

#260
post #252

SHIFT ( http://www.shift.com ) is hiring in our Santa Monica office. 1) Front End Developer ( http://jobs.shift.com/apply/BWRv4y/Front-End-Developer.html ) We are looking for a Front-end developer that will be a pivotal member of our team. You will be working closely with our backend engineers & design team to help implement a fully AJAX/HTML5 driven application using AngularJS. A great fit for this role is someone w…

Would you consider having a summer intern?
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