Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

We currently have a vacancy for a senior developer in the Lab an innovation team inside O2 on the UK's leading mobile networks. Ideally you are experienced with Ruby inc Rails and Sinatra it helps if you have a passion for mobile and a desire to build new things.

Our team of 16 is based in Slough, we get to build prototypes and beta on the O2 network and even have our own dedicated test GSM network. We also occasionally through massive developer events like HACKED at the O2 in London.

If your interested please get in touch kevin.prince@o2.com.

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

Many people believe that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu - ways in which we are trying to re-shape and accelerate science:

- Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal, and the paper being published. We need to remove that time-lag and introduce instant distribution of scientific ideas.

- Better peer review. Right now the peer review process takes 12 months to complete, and only surfaces the opinions of two academics - academics who may be biased, uninformed about the subject area, or just in a bad mood when writing the review. 2 people is too small a sample size. We need a faster and more robust peer review system, one that surfaces the opinions of the entire scientific community, across a variety of dimensions, and in real-time.

- Multi-media. Right now, scientists only share papers in PDF form. We need to bring about a science where scientists are incentivized to share data-sets, code, videos, blog posts, and comments on all these media. Right now 50% or more of the world’s scientific output does not get shared, because the system of credibility metrics only rewards one kind of format, the paper. We need to change this.

- Open access. We need to bring about a world where a villager in India has the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor in Harvard. When you open up access to the world’s scientific literature to the 2.5 billion people who are online right now, magical things can happen.

It's an exciting time for science. Science is transitioning from a 17th century way of sharing ideas, based on the journal system, to a faster system of sharing ideas on the web. Science is a foundational part of global growth: almost every innovation in medicine and technology has its roots in a science paper.

We need talented and passionate engineers to help us accelerate science. We have made a good start: 2.9 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 13,000 join each day. We're a 12 person, engineering-driven, team based in downtown San Francisco. Technologies we use include Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, and Mongodb. 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)

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://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/ (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/ (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. We will handle re-location, including visas, though unfortunately we are not currently hiring remote employees.

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

Jobs@WebAction.com

WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in May 2012 and it is currently in stealth mode.Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and generous equity for the right candidates. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today. Job Description: You should be a self-starting senior web UI developer with a desire to lead and mentor others. You excel in a fast-paced agile environment and will be able to collaborate with back-end engineers to design interfaces and architect interaction models, and with the product team to wire-frame and prototype ideas.

Desired Skills & Experience for Front-end Position: -Excellent JavaScript knowledge necessary – please be prepared to show us examples of your work

-Experience with HTML5/CSS3

-Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.)

-Experience with visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js)

-Know how to build drag and drop web diagramming UIs (such as mxGraph, gliffy, drawio)

-At least 4 years professional experience building sophisticated JavaScript applications At least 7 years experience in software development BS/BA in Computer Science or related field is a must

-Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

-Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment

-Must be able to multi-task

Pluses: -Experience in user interaction design and user experience

-Knowledge of back-end web frameworks

-iOS or Android experience

For the Platform Engineering position, you should have the following interests/credentials:

Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

Candidates must currently reside in the USA. If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.

Front End Engineer

Radically improving the UI for data analysis is the core challenge of our company. As our first hire and only front-end specialist, you'll drive the function and feel of our UI, creating entirely new ways of interacting with data. You’ll meet weekly with the designer of the TiVo UI (an advisor of ours) to sketch out solutions to extremely challenging usability problems, which you'll then implement. You'll code in HTML, CSS/LESS, Ruby, and Coffeescript, using Bootstrap, Backbone, Underscore, jQuery, and d3. And as the first hire, you’ll earn significant equity and help shape our culture.

The ideal candidate:

. Excited about taking responsibility and ownership over big pieces of the product

. Comfortable with UI and UX challenges. Graphic design skills are a bonus (we currently have none)

. Interested in data analysis

. An extremely talented programmer, skilled with front end tools like HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Coffeescript

. Familiarity with the other tools listed above is a bonus

. Deeply concerned with system reliability, code quality, and front end architecture

. Open to asking for help, taking feedback, collaborating, and generally being a team player

. Humor. Has a sense of it.

Back End Engineer

Statwing's users demand larger data, more complex analyses, and faster interaction. We'll need to optimize regression, graph, and dozens of other statistical algorithms to efficiently handle wildly diverse datasets. Those analyses will sit on a robust data-handling system that finishes analyses before our users even know they need them. And Statwing's deep interaction and data exploration needs to feel like it's happening locally even when it's not.

The ideal candidate:

. Excited about taking responsibility and ownership over big pieces of the product

. Comfortable with efficiently handling and processing relatively large amounts of data.

. Interested in data analysis.

. Very comfortable with Python. Some experience with Clojure is a bonus.

. An extremely talented programmer, skilled in dealing with performance tradeoffs and bottlenecks.

. Deeply concerned with system reliability, code quality, and back end architecture.

. Open to asking for help, taking feedback, collaborating, and generally being a team player.

. Humor. Has a sense of it