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

#171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

22K full-time in London? That's a typo, right? Or are you looking for recent grads or interns?

I doubt it's a typo. Junior developers are starting on very low rates in the UK these days. I met a mid-level PHP Developer working for a major firm in the UK a few weeks ago, and he was earning £14k!

You get what you pay for.

There are a few companies that try with these kind of "pays" - mostly looking for "coders" basically trying to undercut even Eastern European offshore rates (min. US$20/h) but in London (£14k est. hourly rate - 2760h p.a. £12k -> US$6.8/h - this is basically the UK minimum wage)

And then there are others that are looking for different types of people - those that design and invent things, get something done reliable without constant control, architects and creators.

The second group like anywhere else demands multiples of that pay and gets that easily without much discussion. Have a look around on this page what others in London are offering for entry / mid level positions and even for that you see multiples of the 14k offered.

I consider it appalling (trying) to pay such low amounts in London for full time work - amounts that will not be enough to cover even the most basic living in this great but one of the most expensive places on this planet.

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

#172

  San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend
  Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers -
  Full-time; H-1B OK

  Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn
  advertising market by 2014) through a number of initiatives
  that help local businesses better connect with their consumers.
  As part of this vision, we created one of the world's largest
  semantically-annotated repositories of real-time small-business
  data, which is now distributed and viewable on sites like
  OpenTable, Citysearch and TripAdvisor (and more). We recently
  launched Locu.com, our local business facing product, that
  combines great tech and beautiful design to help local
  businesses better manage their online presence.

  Our beautiful offices are in downtown San Francisco, CA (Union
  Square) and Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square). Check out photos
  and learn more about our other perks: http://locu.com/about/jobs/

  Frontend Engineering
      
    If you are passionate about building products that will touch
    millions of merchants and hundreds of millions of consumers
    through the applications powered by our local data APIs, Locu
    is the right place for you. [JQuery, Less, Django, etc.]
      
  Backend engineering
      
    We started Locu out of MIT to solve real-world problems by
    leveraging the latest research in computer science. If you
    are looking to solve some of the most challenging problems in
    machine learning, NLP and human computation, you'll feel
    right at home. [Python, Django, Node.js, Postgres, Redis,
    AWS, etc.]
     
  Design
      
    We're looking for visual designers who are excited to
    redefine what the future of local business data looks like
    across web and print, and to create tools that put modern web
    technology in the hands of merchants.

  Interested? Drop us a line at jobs@locu.com. Please include
  "[HN]" in the subject of your letter. Learn more about us at
  http://locu.com/about/jobs/.
Link (photos!): http://locu.com/about/jobs/

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

#173
Twitter (http://twitter.com/jobs)

Looking for new grads, (junior||senior) full-time and interns! H1B welcome.

San Francisco, CA

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Note: I am looking specifically for candidates for my team. However, if you would like to apply to any other jobs at Twitter, feel free to contact me as well.

Looking for one or more of the following:

- Front-end/full-stack experience

- RoR, javascript (use of JS libraries and frameworks is a plus)

- HCI, UX/UI experience

- data visualization experience

My team is responsible for the product and infrastructure behind an internal tool that monitors services running across Twitter. We're talking big data, big visualizations and big problems.

If any of the following piques your interest:

- fast, iterative and incremental development cycles

- full creative control of a web tool used by all engineers at the company

- fun collaborative efforts with a small product team (we are only 2 people right now!)

.... then contact me and let's chat more!

email: audiotape at gmail

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

#174
Remote/SF/Dublin/Portland/Buffalo - Full-time - Frontend Developer

At Engine Yard, we're building new technologies that allow our customers unprecedented control in managing their mission-critical application architectures in the cloud. We believe that the best platform for our customers is one that provides them the flexibility to run any software, on any servers, and on any infrastructure provider that they want.

We're looking for a frontend developer that wants to be instrumental in building highly-functional, client-side interfaces that bring that vision to life.

I'd love to hear from you if:

- you enjoy writing JavaScript and have significant experience building complex user interfaces with one or more open source frameworks such as Angular or Ember

- you are eager to make an immediate contribution in a small distributed team of talented engineers and designers

- you appreciate the ruggedness of prototypes, the power of promises, and the beauty of functional programming

- the idea of building a client-heavy frontend that interfaces with one or more REST apps seems natural to you

- you understand the software stack and have probably done your fair share of backend development in your career, but it just doesn't excite you like building the customer-facing aspects of software

- you love to build awesome things and are not afraid to show it

If you have any questions about this position, feel free to contact me directly (check my profile).

Check out the official job description and/or apply for this position at http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oPEaXfwk&s=HN

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

#175
New York, NY - Full Time - Application Engineer

Bitly is seeking an application engineer to create the next generation of our social media sharing product, enabling social media producers to better understand, engage and interact with their audience. This is a great position for you if love building products that generate insights from massive amounts of data and simplify workflow to make your users the hero.

You obsess about software quality, scalability, and usability You have mastered at least one server-side programming language (Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++) You have experience with a relational datastore You have some experience with non-relational datastores You have experience with Javascript, HTML and CSS You are a hacker at heart, with wide and varied interests

Bitly is based in NYC's Union Square. Benefits include Macs with huge monitors; a kitchen filled with your favorite treats; flexible hours; frequent guest speakers; company-sponsored training and conferences; excellent health benefits; equity; and a chance to do work impacting millions of users and the underlying fabric of the social web.

Apply at http://bit.ly/15nLfsB

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

#176
London – Full Time – Engineers

Rentify is hiring Ruby engineers of all skill levels to join its central London team. We are a venture-funded startup creating software to help landlords market, manage, and make money from their properties. Funded by the best VC in Europe & with an outstanding management team. Competitive pay, unlimited vacation, all the perks of startup life and a great new office. george+HN@rentify.com.

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

#177
San Francisco, CA - Do (http://do.com/jobs)

Do is on a mission to build the best tools for small teams and businesses across the world. We're hiring developers and designers at any level for backend + frontend web and mobile (iOS and Android). Tech: Ruby, CoffeeScript, Backbone, PostgreSQL, Redis, iOS, Android. And we're a Salesforce company. Solid funding, great benefits, competitive comp, and a great team!

Ping me at azethoth@do.com

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

#178
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US - but our office culture is so great that you might really want to be here beside us!

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We were recently named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review (http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr50/2013/). We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our new Palo Alto office is still small, so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.

You can email me personally at jake@factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

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

#179
Liftopia - http://www.liftopia.com/q/iLVt Downtown SF

Hiring: Senior Software Engineers + Lead Platform Engineer

Liftopia is in a major growth phase (millions of dollars per week) and needs to bring on Senior Engineers and a Lead to build our next generation platform. We power the ski industry with yield management and e-commerce.

Next gen is greenfield so specific language background isn't that important, though familiarity with a framework or two is expected.

Other than meeting high reliability demands of big e-commerce, some challenges will be: adaptive travel search, pricing analysis and real-time dynamic repricing, plus real-world interaction projects.

- 33 employees, with a lean dev staff of 6 doing weekly releases

- Revenue!

- Backed by: First Round Capital, Chris Sacca, Dave Morin (Path), Erik Blachford (Expedia), Sam Shank (Hotel Tonight), Sand Hill Angels, and others.

- Top retailer of ski lift tickets on the web

- Downtown SF

- Unlimited Vacation

- Top-shelf hardware of your choice

- Dog-friendly office

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

#180
www.elationemr.com (San Francisco, CA) Full-Time; Remote OK Engineers and Designers

We work in a world (electronic health records) where it's normal say, " can do some interesting things, but it's too bad it comes at the cost of massive productivity for the primary users [doctors, nurses, and other clinicians]."

If that sounds as broken to you as it does to us, read a little more about what we're doing (https://www.quora.com/What-product-is-ElationEMR-building), and drop us a line.

jobs@elationemr.com

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