Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange markets.

We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infrastructure, down to the networking code that ties us in to financial markets. We are a very small team (I am the only employee) and are looking to add one or two engineers who will focus on strategy or on infrastructure.

No experience or specific knowledge of finance is required. However, you do need to be at least interested in financial markets and to be able to implement your strategies carefully in C++.

An example of a project that a member of our infrastructure team could work on is a system for logging to non-volatile memory. We generate large logs that cover everything from prices to transaction data. NVDIMMs are a form of RAM that survives power loss. Hardware like this has been on the horizon for a while, but it is just now becoming available to early adopters. Writes to NVDIMMs will be nearly instantaneous and immediately durable. This project will be to develop an NVDIMM-based system that simultaneously functions as a log, an IPC mechanism, and a searchable database for analysis. Making this work will involve a number of pieces: kernel drivers, CPU cache control, lock-free synchronization, a daemon to write everything back to long-term (i.e. less expensive) storage, and more. If this works well, we plan to open-source all the pieces.

Please visit http://amacapital.net/careers.html to learn more, and, if interested, apply to careers@amacapital.net.

Want to use your skills as a force for good to improve education for all? Here's your chance.

At Educreations, we believe that the world's best teachers should be available to all students.

As a first step, we've made it extremely easy for teachers to teach online. Our app (top-100 overall, top-10 in education) transforms the iPad into a mobile lesson recording studio, and millions of teachers and students in over 20k schools are using it learn from each other anytime, anywhere.

Educreations is looking for some sharp, passionate people to help us redefine online teaching and learning. We were part of the first cohort of Imagine K12 and are funded by Accel Partners, NewSchools Venture fund and other top angels.

We've set out to make a dent in the future of teaching and learning and if this sounds like something you're interested in, get in touch.

We are looking for:

    Strong Python or Objective C Engineers
    Visual Designers

We've got plenty of positions in all offices for backend devs, iOS devs, Android devs, and also JS+frontend devs. Check out our job site and drill down: https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/vacancies/

Also, right now I'm working as an engineer on our backend infrastructure team in NYC and want to specifically call out an opening we have on this team. The role description (at http://spoti.fi/13zEPmT) should give you some idea: my team is building the infrastructure that all devs at Spotify use to build their features and services on top of. Great way to make a big impact, and also involves playing with a lot of fun tech like Cassandra, LXC, and Docker :-)

I've been at Spotify for a year and a half and it has been a great place to work as a developer. Let me just list the ways:

    - Really smart people with very diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
    - Problems that are actually pretty tough & challenging at scale.
    - A hacker culture, where solving or building things is what's valued.
    - Getting to travel between our offices and exploring new places.
    - Speaking of travel, 4-5 weeks of vacation depending on your location.
    - Excellent events with great music and bands (look up "Spotify Sessions")!

Feel free to reach out to me directly (rohan@spotify.com) if you have any questions or want to talk, or feel free to fire off an application through the jobs site.

We are a digital agency who specializes in creating beautifully functional eCommerce apps for high profile clients and brands. (We work with many high name fashion brands if that interests you).

Applicants should send an email to techny@pod1.com with their resume or github profile.

We're looking for the following:

Object Oriented JS experience (and Javascript that goes beyond jQuery). JS Framework experience (backbone, underscore, require, d3, etc..) A keen eye and ability design to convert .psds into functional web pages. SASS experience.

Previous Magento exposure, or, at the very least, some PHP, Python, or other scripting language experience.

We offer very competitive payment if you have the ability to provide the aforementioned skills and can hire immediatly.

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Recent college grads are also encouraged to apply for a JUNIOR role if have the skills, but don't have professional experience.

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Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest standard of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun + we have Car2Go and Drive-Now (these are world's best smartphone-supported car sharing systems with brand new cars at every corner, cheaper than owning a car or riding a cab). In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension.

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Earlybird, Mozilla and many more).

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Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.

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