Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

Kira Talent (https://www.kiratalent.com) - Toronto, Canada

At Kira Talent, we help employers spot high-performers earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.

A bit about us:

  * We’re a small team (you’d be #7), based in the heart of downtown Toronto
  * We’re well funded and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company
  * We’re hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend
  * We think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design.

Fun Fact: Every single one of our developers has committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour.

Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:

  * Building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming
  * Re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS
  * Designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike
  * Presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team interally

We use Python/Django, AngularJS, ActionScript, MySQL (and some MongoDB), but you’d be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)

Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems – http://tyvak.com – Irvine, CA – Embedded Software Engineer

Tyvak provides Nano-Satellite and CubeSat space vehicle products and services that target advanced state-of-the-art capabilities for government and commercial customers to support operationally and scientifically relevant missions.

We build high performance small satellites using commercial off the shelf components running Linux. Our team is currently 11 engineers in various disciplines. You’d be the 12th and the second with a full time embedded software focus.

We’re looking for someone with specialization in embedded software development, preferably with experience in mobile and low-power SOC platforms, such as OMAP, DaVinci, and SAM series.

A full job description is available at http://tyvak.com/careers. Please respond to HR@tyvak.com if you’re interested.

Harry's (http://www.harrys.com). Fulltime or Intern. New York City.

A bit about us:

We built Harry’s with one simple belief: everyone deserves a great shave at a fair price. As such, we seek to provide our own brand of exceptional shaving products direct to our customers online. We launched on March 13th and have been humbled and flattered by the early customer response, and we're now looking to bring on more talented engineers to help make every one of our customers happy and change the world, one 5-o'clock shadow at a time.

We're looking for outstanding full stack engineers and data engineers who want to solve thorny e-commerce problems in {customer marketing, web performance, customer experience/support, operations, supply chain management} in innovative ways.

Technologies: our web site is built on Rails, we're hosted on Heroku, our data is stored in Postgres, and we write a lot of Python to consolidate data from various sources and analyze it.

For the full stack engineer who thrives on shipping features in the face of complex problems and processes:

Our custom e-commerce platform powers the entire business, from the HTML on our homepage all the way down to our supply chain. We’ve got fun problems to work out every day, at every level of the stack, all with the hope to make purchasing and shaving with us the best experience out there. We’re looking for someone genuinely excited by the opportunity to make millions of peoples lives easier and build the Harry’s platform of tomorrow. Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Design and implement core features of the production website

* Build infrastructure to support various external features and other units of the business

* Think about performance all the time, and proactively make changes to make our platform better

* Determine ways to operate more efficiently (e.g. optimizing our inventory and shipping algorithms)

For the statistically inclined engineer who communicates with data and hacks on data problems:

Data plays an integral role at Harry's, informing every facet of our business. We are constantly working to understand the behaviors of tens of thousands of customers, tailoring offerings to them so that we can make them happy and drive continued demand. To that end, we're looking for a statistically-inclined software engineer who is well-versed in building data systems and wants to use data to inform decisions at Harry's in a forward-thinking way. Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Build infrastructure to automate data collection, storage, processing, and presentation.

* Instrument our website and marketing communications to gather the data we need.

* Test changes we make to our site, emails, packaging, shipping options, -- everything, really -- relentlessly.

* Produce, analyze, and present data to users in a context that allows them to make meaningful strategic decisions.

* Use your sheer intellectual horsepower to figure out and communicate how to better delight our customers.

If interested, email jobs@harrys.com with why you're interested and relevant links (e.g. Github, projects, LinkedIn).

Remind101 FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Hi HN Reader,

We are looking for a full stack or backend engineer and a growth person (the word "hacker" seems to offend some) to join our team of 12. If you would like to apply, please send me your linkedin and preferably github profile.

Thanks,

David | Cofounder, Remind101 | David@remind101.com

---Brief---

Remind101 is solving a major communication problem in education by connecting teachers with students in real time and keeping parents involved. Used in over 10,000 schools, we are one of the fastest growing, venture-backed startups in education and believe we can enrich the lives of students by making teachers more effective.

---Positions---

Full Stack / Backend Engineer: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/540

Growth Person: Fill the funnel, improve conversion. Experience with SEO or event based email marketing a plus.

---Contact---

David@remind101.com

Tweaky.com - San Francisco or Remote - H1B welcome

Tweaky.com is a marketplace of marketers, designers and developers that help small business owners improve their business online.

We launched 12 months ago with funding from the founders of 99designs. We are profitable, growing 25% month and month and in the process of setting up an SF office.

We're now hiring our second engineer who will work with the CTO to scale the business and on new feature development.

The tech stack: * Ruby on Rails * MongoDB * Backbone.js * Rspec/Capybara * Heroku

We are looking for great people over a specific role, and great hackers over experience with any specific language.

We are mostly from Australia so happy to sponsor international candidates looking to move to the Bay Area.

Want to make a big impact at a small, fast-growth company? Send me anything you think might be relevant to ned@tweaky.com