Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

Hiring: FE Engineer & Head of Marketing/Biz-dev

iknow.io is a data-driven knowledge sharing community for curious people. We take raw data about Movies, Music, Sports, Economics, Politics and more and make it possible for regular people to analyze and extract useful information from it. We also enable them to browse, share and discuss the fascinating insights they discover using our tools with one another.

While there are mountains of raw data out there, only scientists and programmers can currently make any real use of it. Our mission is to make that data accessible and useful to everyone.

Our team has extensive experience working with large, complex data problems and in building and nurturing online communities.We are currently a team of 4 people, and are looking to add 2 more talented individuals to the mix soon.

1) FE Engineer: You have a great design sense and some serious engineering skills. You think the famous quote, "there are only two hard things in computer science, cache invalidation and naming things" is spot on. Whenever you're browsing the web, you're constantly noticing things that could be tweaked and improved. You're a pragmatist who's ok with ignoring IE6 users. You've built complex, popular web-based applications before. You want to join an early stage startup where you can quickly prove yourself and become the FE engineering lead. Our FE Stack includes python (django), javascript (jquery, backbone), html and css. Deep familiarity with all of these is a big plus, but not necessarily required. Experience with mobile app development is also a plus.

2) Head of Marketing & Business Development: You're a natural born deal maker. When you throw a party, too many people show up. You know how to build, execute and analyze the effectiveness of a marketing campaign. Bloggers and reporters know you, and love you. You believe product design and marketing are one and the same. You're ready to join an extremely talented product & engineering team and show them that everything they thought they knew about how to really promote and grow a new site from the ground-up is wrong.

If you fit the bill for either of these positions, and you think what we're working on sounds intriguing, then we'd love to hear from you at jobs@iknow.io. Thanks!

Our mission: To build the conduit through which every piece of journalistic content in the world flows. We're doing this by reinventing the way content is distributed, consumed, and shared across the social web.

About the company:

NewsCred is the world’s leading syndication platform for high quality journalism. Our mission is to build the conduit through which every piece of journalistic content in the world flows. We're doing this by reinventing the way content is distributed, consumed, and shared across the social web. Along the way, we're breathing new life into the news industry, an institution with fundamental importance to our lives.

The Work

NewsCred was founded by three engineers; our commitment to pushing the technology envelope is encoded in our DNA. Whether you're:

• improving our search infrastructure using the latest techniques in information retrieval and natural language processing, or • analyzing terabytes of usage logs to discover what content performs best for our customers, or • building a revolutionary content consumption UX,

you'll get to pick the best tools for the job. We encounter unprecedented challenges everyday. You’ll be the architect and implementer of the solution.

The Stack

We’re not dogmatic about specific technologies but here’s a list of some of the stuff we’re using:

• Python • Solr • Django • Backbone.js • MySQL • MongoDB • Puppet

The Team

The engineering team at NewsCred consists of some of the most brilliant, considerate, and fun-loving people you’ll ever meet. We’re really diligent about who we hire so we can be sure that everyone has a great shot at being both successful and happy.

We organize ourselves into small, autonomous teams that are as self-sufficient and independent as possible. This allows us to maintain our scrappy, entrepreneurial culture as we grow.

About You

You love creating software so much that it’s disconcerting to your family and friends. You’re an expert in your favorite technologies. You find few things as satisfying as reading and writing beautiful code. You want to push some code on your first day. You’re irresistibly curious about the latest emerging technologies. You may or may not have a computer science degree.

The Perks

• Competitive salary • Insurance - medical, vision, and dental • Free monthly metro cards • Awesome office in the Flatiron District of Manhattan • Happy hours on Thursday • Free lunch on Fridays • Outings with the team - karaoke, bowling, funky formal, kickball team • Simple vacation policy: “Be reasonable”

Nextdoor is the private social network for you, your neighbors and your community. It's the easiest way for you and your neighbors to talk online and make all of your lives better in the real world. Thousands of neighborhoods are already using Nextdoor to build happier, safer places to call home.

Nextdoor's mission is to bring back a sense of community to the neighborhood, one of the most important communities in each of our lives. We're backed by Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Google Ventures. More about us here: https://nextdoor.com/press/

We're hiring for the following positions, and awarding a $10K referral bonus to anyone who refers in someone we hire (pending completion of their 60th day of employment).

Software Engineer: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=424 Full stack engineers, working primarily in Python, Java, or Scala on AWS.

Software Engineer - Android: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=425 Help us build our v1 Android application!

Software Engineer - Infrastructure: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=427 Deep experience scaling systems on AWS and building great reusable software components.

Software Engineer - Internal Tools: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=428 Help make our employees more productive and happy.

Geospatial Software Engineer: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=426 Work to assemble the largest repository of residential housing information and neighborhoods on the web.

Director of Engineering: https://nextdoor.com/jobs/?gh_jid=439 Build and lead teams of stellar engineers.

Apply online or refer in folks via jobs nextdoor.com.

We help publishers of all sizes make more money by showing readers great recommendations of more things to read (both related and not). We've got cool clients, the most innovative product in the space and we're poised for big growth in the next few months.

Things we don't do: crappy outbound traffic arbitrage links.

We build products that are good for publishers, writers and readers. That's in our DNA.

We're lean and nimble; have an awesome roadmap full of fun tech challenges; and looking to find the right person to lead our tech team. The stack? Currently, PHP, Nginx, Apache, Memecache, MySQL, jQuery, a dash of PostGRES. Future? Likely some Python, maybe Go, maybe Redis, maybe some NodeJS. Whatever makes sense.

There will be some machine learning stuff, some big data, some UX challenges, etc. The ideal person is someone who is passionate about making online publishing better; who has track record of leading teams to ship quickly without burnout; and who wants to learn more - but doesn't make stack decisions based on the cool new tool they want to learn.

http://contextly.com/jobs/

What we offer: a fun challenge working on a product used by millions daily, great co-workers, significant equity.

There's no timeframe on the hiring, so if it's something that sounds good for 3 months from now, drop us a line.

Put CTO in the subject line and tell us a bit about yourself. info@contextly.com.