Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

http://shopify.com/careers

Shopify is looking to grow the team responsible for building the future of Shopify. We’re in search of back-end developers with a passion for solving hard problems with performant code. If you are interested in creating great products, building new features and improving the existing Shopify features, then please apply!

Developing Shopify

Shopify is the longest continuously developed Rails app on the planet and we care a great deal about code quality. Shopify, in contrast to most other rails shops, always runs on the latest rails version. Many core rails features have been developed within Shopify and have later been added to the Rails framework. We often go back and improve core parts of the Shopify codebase to make it better or more lean. We can do this because we have a positively massive unit test coverage which will immediately sound the alarm when something goes wrong.

We ship on quality instead of on time. When a feature is ready we deploy it immediately to everyone or use an internal system to roll it out to a certain percentage of customers. Various teams deploy new code many times throughout the day.

Shopify's production scale is massive. We host tens of thousands of online stores and regularly see hundreds of millions of requests a day. When you push out new code tons of people will see what you made within seconds. Operating on this level is hard but incredibly rewarding.

Responsibilities:

* Write back-end code in Ruby and Go.

* Work with a world class design and product team.

* Providing beautiful and fast code that improves the code-base of our products in meaningful ways.

* Use TDD to write rock-solid code, utilizing our huge test suite to make changes with confidence.

* Rapidly fix bugs or take your time to solve hard problems well.

* Deploy code to hundreds of servers and tens of thousands of customers in your first week.

* Never stop learning. Shopify is an environment of constant personal growth.

Qualifications and Desired Skills:

* Know Rails or be ready to learn it quickly.

* Proficiency with UNIX commands.

* Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, we use MySQL.

* Strong commitment to quality.

* Experience building and scaling user-focused web application.

* Being awesome and having a love for Shopify - Major Plus!

We're looking for a great DevOps engineer. You'd be a crucial part of our development team. If you're interested, or just want to know more, send me an email at will@helloreverb.com.

Reverb Technologies is the the company behind Wordnik.com; Reverb for Publishers; Swagger, Atmosphere and Scalatra; and other specialness soon to be revealed.

User Interface Designer

Green River (http://www.greenriver.com) is looking for a designer to join our team. We're a Southern Vermont-based consultancy which was founded in 2000. We started writing production apps in Rails in '05 and have grown to a team of nine developers, two project managers, and a UX designer. We focus in the areas of Education, Health and the Environment. We work on many great projects such as a scoring system Starbucks uses to facilitate the inspection of 90% of the farms they buy coffee from[1], an archive of all the LEED certified buildings in the world[2], and storytelling software for people with memory loss[3].

If these types of projects sound interesting, we'd love to hear from you. You'd have the option of either working out of our beautiful Vermont office overlooking the Connecticut River, joining our new Cambridge-based team, working remotely, or some combination thereof.

We're looking for a team member who will:

    * Work directly with clients to design their software using storyboards, mocks, 
      etc.
    * Sketch, prototype, and implement user interfaces for tricky problems
    * Design graphics and information visualizations
    * Contribute to existing codebases and designs
    * Communicate effectively with clients and developers
    * Manage implementation of visual and interaction design
    * Stay engaged with the latest technologies
    * Think about & share ideas for improving how we do things at Green River

    * Solid understanding of user interaction design to maximize usability on 
      a variety of devices
    * Experience producing semantic, responsive design, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
    * Experience working with developers to ensure seamless integration of front-end 
      and back-end functionality
    * Experience designing for mobile
    * Excellent communication skills

-Ben

[1]: http://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/sourcing/coffee

[2]: http://gbig.org/

[3]: http://www.timeslips.org/

Riparian Data is a Boston-based startup that uses big data to make popular corporate software cheaper, faster, and readily accessible from any device, anywhere. We’re currently building a smarter inbox for mobile workers, and we are actively seeking iOS developers, NoSQL champions, and anti-Luddites to help us build it.

Email: hr@ripariandata.com

http://buddy.com/jobs

Buddy.com is building the web services and server-side infrastructure to power the world's device applications on any operating system. We have an amazing product, happy customers, and incredible partners. We think big, we deliver big, and we work with everyone from first time mobile app developers to some of the biggest brands on the planet.

Today we might be working with a developer building the next great game; tomorrow it might be a new shopping application. Our customers are literally building everything you can imagine, and lots you can't - our web services platform needs to be able to support it all.

Why else would you want to consider bringing your talents to Buddy? Well, how about:

  - A fantastic working environment - our spacious offices are located in the Parkplace office building in  downtown Kirkland, putting us close to freeways, bus stops, restaurants and of course Starbucks
  - Free lunch of your choice every day
  - Free "Good-To-Go" pass
  - Company paid cell phone
  - Company paid home internet
  - Your choice of computer and office tech
  - Free snacks & beverages
  - Company provided healthcare including medical, dental and vision coverage
  - Own your schedule - take vacation as needed and enjoy our flexible working hours.