Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

Kaplan Test Prep - NYC

Software Engineers (Full Time)

Kaplan Test Prep is an Education Software company in downtown Manhattan. We are looking for .NET Developers to join our Engineering team. Since 1938 we have been an organization with both deep roots in NYC and a passion for helping others gain access to better futures and careers via our educational products and services.

The majority of our work is web development using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and Visual Studio. We have many interesting and challenging problems and we are constantly implementing new technologies and supporting new lines of business.

We are proud to be members of an Engineering team that delivers technology transforming the lives of our students. The Engineering team believes in the following principles:

  * Write maintainable, high quality and high-performance code  
  * Test-driven development and continuous integration  
  * Be empowered to use the best tool for the job  
  * Work in a collaborative team environment using agile development methods  
  * Build products our customers love to use and achieve their educational goals

Requirements:

  * At least 3 years experience developing scalable, high performance systems
  * Writing HTML and CSS using industry best practices
  * Using modern JavaScript patterns and libraries
  * ASP.NET and C# development using .NET 3.5+ and Visual Studio 2010+
  * Solid experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  * Excellent communication skills both written and oral
  * Ability to work well within an Agile team and with external supporting teams

Check out our Engineering blog: http://engineering.kaptest.com

Please send your questions and resume to jobsintech@kaplan.com

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 #8), 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, analytics

  * we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design

  * every single one of our developers have 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 internally

We use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, 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. :)

Atlanta, GA - MailChimp

I am hiring for two roles on the Infrastructure side:

Systems/Coding: http://mailchimp.theresumator.com/apply/6Il9br/Infrastructur...

NOC/Networking: http://mailchimp.theresumator.com/apply/8ZRfKP/NOC-Engineer....

MailChimp is a unique place. We have ~3.5mm users, send ~6bn emails/month, and sit at ~80k queries/second hitting our dozens of database shards during a typical day. We are growing rapidly, adding 7000+ new users/day with that rate increasing every week. On the infrastructure side we do some neat stuff to support that scale and growth rate, working closely with developers to build and support our applications.

The engineering teams are still small, our benefits are unmatched, and internally we function much like a startup aside from established stability and abundant resources. There are no sales people, no investors, no board, no phones, no useless meetings, and engineering teams are trusted to make good decisions with resources with minimal oversight.

If interested, use the links above to apply. Your information will come directly to me.

Work Market (http://www.workmarket.com) - NYC (Manhattan or Huntington, Long Island - your choice).

We're building an enterprise freelance labor platform. We're backed by USV, Spark Capital, and Softbank, and our founders have a very successful track record in the startup world.

We are looking to hire for two developer roles: backend with a focus on data analytics, and front end dev.

For the data engineer role:

* search & recommendation engine to help workers find the best jobs, or help businesses find the best workers

* visualizations in the application to help businesses and users understand their work history and patterns

* deep data-mining and analysis to help us improve our own matching algorithms

* Lots of work on the 'data side': mysql, map reduce, "big data", warehousing, analytics, etc.

* Search - help refine our usage of Solr

For front-end engineer:

* Constantly refine and simplify our existing user experiences

* Keep pages light and speedy

* help build real-time push (websockets)

* we use Backbone.js, Jasmine, Bootstrap, and others

Our tech:

* Our stack is Java/JVM, Spring MVC, MySQL, Redis, and others

* We practice continuous deployment and ship roughly 50 releases per month.

Apply on our web site: https://www.workmarket.com/ats/index

Also, some of them are not actually WFH, e.g. this one requires relocation to Portland: https://www.wfh.io/jobs/16/