Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)

Sr Software Engineer | SF | Full-time | H1B | FiveStars (http://www.fivestars.com/story/)

Apply here: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oj3TWfwV&s=Hacker_News or email: dev(dot)jobs(at)fivestars(dot)com

Why you should apply: Here at FiveStars, we take pride in that we're not your typical web company. Our product faces both business owners and users, which places unique demands on our engineering team. Our web developers have built an API that interfaces with our desktop application, an analytics and tool-based dashboard for business owners and managers, and a consumer facing web application. The breadth of challenges we face is unparalleled -- whether that be handling and analyzing immensely large and interesting datasets or developing user experiences for millions of individuals.

  You'll be responsible for the following:
  + Plan, architect, develop, release and iterate on web features
  + Work across the entire web stack, from frontend to backend to database
  + Learn quickly and adapt to the rapidly changing web environment
  + Maintain, administer and improve system, network, and deployment infrastructure
  + Love to pair program and don't mind reviewing code (maybe even enjoy it)

  Why we should want you:
  + 3+ years of experience developing and releasing web applications
  + Expert knowledge using MVC frameworks in rapid-iteration environments
  + Experience with open source database technologies in production environments
  + Familiarity with MongoDB/Redis
  + Direct experience scaling application code and databases for millions of users
  + Making pages with HTML/CSS isn't a problem

  Why we should really want you:
  + Expertise in Django and Python
  + Developed scalable RESTful APIs for production use
  + Knowledgeable about web security and authentication protocols like OAuth
  + Experience with managing asynchronous job queues and workers
  + Experience setting up, configuring, and managing replication on Postgres/MongoDB/Redis

Wiredcraft - Shanghai, China & San Fransisco - Full-time & Intern - (http://www.wiredcraft.com) --sales--

We're a fast growing team with a presence in Shanghai and SF helping startups, Fortune 500 and governments tackle technological challenges. Our clients include the United Nations, CNN, Nvidia, Popcap Games, Axel Springer and the World Bank among others. We are working with cutting edge technology and at scale. Part of our team is also working on our own product (http://devo.ps), building a SaaS solution to a very complex and ambitious problem.

Our team is mostly composed of engineers and we are currently looking for people to help us scale our sales effort. We are looking for both full time and interns to join us starting now.

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What you would do

Depending on your skills and interest, you would be involved with the following sales responsibilities:

-Scale our existing sales channels, -Develop new sales channels, -Build up new partnerships, -Develop new business opportunities, Keep in mind that we provide both services and product, both of which you would likely get a chance to help us with.

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What we expect from you

More than anything else, we are interested in hiring smart and motivated people. You background is secondary (one of our staff used to be a fireman), but it would be nice of you to:

-Not be an arse, -Have a broad understanding of our space (technology, data and large organizations), -Want to be challenged and learn (which probably imply failing at first), -Speak English fluently (native English speaker would be preferable). -Bonus points for people with experience in online sales and online marketing, especially with analytics tools.

Why joining us?

* Our clients rock. * Our team rocks. * We build awesome technology (not that you would care that much). * We take extremely good care of our colleagues. * We're very much a startup: you'll get to actually build stuff and take decisions, having an impact on the future of our company.

Send us your Github profile at bot@wiredcraft.com or ping us on Twitter and Weibo. Want to know more? Check out http://wiredcraft.com and http://devo.ps.

Stealth - Munich, Germany - Full-time, permanent Candidates can come from anywhere around the globe and do not need to speak German.

We are an ambitious, Munich-based, start-up looking to build the next generation search engine. We’re looking for equally ambitious talent to join our team as we research, develop, and apply state-of-the-art search and data technology. Our office culture is centered around curiosity, playing with new ideas, and pushing boundaries. It is a place to experiment—so we’re most interested in candidates who are passionate about learning. Candidates must also be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with challenging and, at times, demanding team. We are a team who are driven to push technology to the next level.

The technologies we’re working with include, but aren’t limited to:

. Map-Reduce . Social signals . Distributed systems . Machine-learning/Boosted decision trees . Text mining . NLP . Feature Extraction . Distributed Learning . Big data . Indexing, Fast-Tiers . Web-Crawling, Deep-Web

Candidates must have a background in mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or something similar. He/she must have good coding fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages quickly. An interest in attacking challenges around state-of-the-art technology is a must.

. Preferable: knowledge of Python/C/C++ . Preferable: knowledge of either Machine Learning, NLP, Distributed Systems, Crawling, Indexing, or Data Science.

First step in the recruitment process is an online coding challenge. Submit your CV/resume to jobs@cliqz.com and we will send you the challenge.

Vreasy - http://www.vreasy.com

Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain)

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We are looking for a backend Developer

Vreasy develops and markets disruptive technology in the property and travel market. US style tech startups are a rare breed here in Europe and with Vreasy, you will feel like you are back in San Francisco working on new technology for a very novel product. We're growing rapidly and want more people to join us in our office that is two minutes from the beach here in Barcelona!

The position:

* We are looking for a backend developer who is versatile in both backend and frontend webprogramming, but specialised in one of the them, preferable in backend

* Knowledge and experience of OOP in PHP and how to use it in larger codebases

* Knows Git from inside out

* Comfortable with Test Driven Development - we are doing continuous deployment with CircleCI

* Works well in a agile environment

* Good team player - we work hard but also really enjoy each other’s company

If you also like to play tabletennis and would like to spend some lunches on the beach, that would be a plus.

So, please send a message to jobs@vreasy.com with an application or send an email to victor@vreasy.com (me) if you have any questions.

Elasticsearch is hiring! Most of our positions are location-independent (remote), but a few are for the Los Altos area.

Generic Hiring page: http://elasticsearch.com/about/jobs/

------------------------------------------ About Elasticsearch ------------------------------------------

We build an open source search and real-time analytics engine. Elasticsearch is built on top of Lucene, so it benefits from the amazing capabilities that Lucene brings to information retrieval and general search. Elasticsearch is distributed right out of the box and is designed to scale horizontally - sharding, dynamic cluster resizing, transparent search routing.

The company is almost entirely distributed. I live in Charleston, SC - my colleagues live in Amsterdam, Prague, Barcelona, Bucharest, Nashville, Atlanta and San Francisco. The talent at this company is truly amazing, I feel like a small fish in a very big pond every day. And it's a great feeling, I've learned so much since joining the company.

If you want to get in with a company that is making waves, learn from truly excellent developers about distributed systems, then Elasticsearch is the place for you.

Ok, enough gushing. Here are the positions (I've never made a job ad before, I'm just a dev...if you have questions let me know!):

------------------------------------------ Front-end Developer [Los Altos] ------------------------------------------

Our sites are built in WordPress (yeah, sorry...) and we need someone that is capable of building custom features, managing scalability/performance and can generally mash WP into submission. For example, we have a custom plugin that imports Jekyll docs from Github and converts them to WP pages.

* Strong experience in PHP, WordPress customization, HTML5/CSS3, JS

* Rapid prototyping of our two web properties

* Build landing pages to support marketing campaigns

* Responsible for performance, scalability, latency on client, etc.

Email zachary.tong@elasticsearch.com with a resume or portfolio, I'll send back some more details.

------------------------------------------ UI/Visualization developer [Remote] ------------------------------------------

A problem with "big data" is that it is often very hard to visualize. We are working on ways to make data more manageable, and are looking for someone to take a lead role in developing/creating new visualizations.

* Strong JS developer (framework agnostic, although we do have a lot of Angular and Ember folks here)

* Experience with a visualization framework (ideally D3)

* Worked with large amounts of data, and be capable of transforming this data into a visualization

* Portfolio would be great!

Email jobs@elasticsearch.com

------------------------------------------ Distributed Systems Developer [Remote] ------------------------------------------

Distribution and management of data across a cluster is what defines Elasticsearch. We are looking for someone who will own this part of the core product and work to improve our distributed model. Ideally the candidate will have previously implemented Paxos, RAFT, Zookeeper or some other distributed algorithm.

* Strong Java programming skills

* Experience with distributed systems, node communication and management

* Knowledge, use or development of cluster management algorithms like Paxos, RAFT, and Apache Zookeeper

Email jobs@elasticsearch.com

http://elasticsearch.com/job/distributed-systems-software-en...

------------------------------------------ .Net Developer [Remote] ------------------------------------------

We have programmers working in many different languages (Python, Ruby, PHP, etc) but are lacking .Net. We are looking for a dev to take the lead on all things .Net

* Innovate and lead our .NET development efforts and contribute to technical architecture, design, code, and test areas that you own.

* Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team, and documentation team to execute on product deliverables.

* Evangelism of our product to the .NET community at large.

Email jobs@elasticsearch.com

http://elasticsearch.com/job/net-software-engineer-2/

------------------------------------------ Java Software Developer [Remote] ------------------------------------------

Catchall job category. Are you a great Java programmer? Have you worked with Elasticsearch before? You should apply! We are always looking for more core developers.

Email jobs@elasticsearch.com

http://elasticsearch.com/job/software-developer/

------------------------------------------ Support Manager [Remote] ------------------------------------------

* Insuring customer issues are resolved within our committed service level agreements.

* Drive market-leading customer satisfaction rates, with proactive engagement of unsatisfied customers to ensure issues resolved.

* Build out the internal team, tools, and processes to optimize an efficient and effective support structure. * Develop real-time metrics, which track performance of the support organization.

* Maintain strong relationships with our technical team for the delivery of support, and sales team in the selling our support products.

Email jobs@elasticsearch.com

http://elasticsearch.com/job/support-manager/