Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

CLI is only a pro and not an absolute requirement for a unix based dev?

AMA Capital -- Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

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, designing and implementing our own trading strategies and infrastructure. 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 an infrastructure project is designing and building 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.

Little Bridge World - Hammersmith, London, UK

Little Bridge mixes video game sensibilities with language learning. We teach English to millions of children in more than 30 countries. We've got a unique mix of social networking with learning, where kids can make friends all over the world to practice their English, with enough help along the way that they'll never get stuck. The company is currently expanding from web clients onto tablet and mobile and is revamping it's products to better fit how kids learn today.

Cloud services are essential to what we do, and we're looking for a lead engineer looking for a challenge who is comfortable in coaching a team to build a robust and scalable solution which includes messaging, scoring mechanisms, achievements and a whole lot more. We're developing layered services using PHP and Zend Framework, MySQL, noSQL and message queuing among others. Essential skills also should include developing applications for HA and scalability in cloud environments (clustering, replication, load balancing), Linux admin, Apache/Nginx, IP networking, network/application security, unit testing and release management. Although the current server infrastructure is developed using PHP we are open to using other languages and technologies if you can justify the changes within technical and commercial constraints.

We don't require a formal education in computer science but we expect a working knowledge in areas such as time and space complexity of common algorithms and data structures, operating systems fundamentals, database theory, concurrency and experience with dynamically and statically typed languages. Ultimately we want someone who understands and can discuss technological details at a fundamental level and is able to justify design choices and lead a team through the use of solid technical arguments.

An interest in educational products is a must!

Send an email to jobs@littlebridge.com, with a CV and a little about yourself and let's talk.

We deploy to Linux but developers can use Windows on their own machines. Of course, Django requires some CLI usage and you have to know that. In my opinion, the CLI rooks and training will be available as necessary.

EnergySavvy - Seattle, WA

We're currently hiring Software Engineers (Senior and otherwise), Dev Ops, Lead Designers, etc.

EnergySavvy is looking to grow our amazingly productive development team. We know that politics and bureaucracy never make for great products, so we focus on results and creating high-quality, user-centric software. Ideas and innovation thrive in our open, meritocratic culture.

Software engineering is the heart of our company. We rely on developers to work across the company to drive features and come up with innovative ideas. Our engineering team iterates rapidly with a focus on clean coding. This means a leaner specification process and an excellent end product that's been built with the type of feedback you can only get by trying out aspects of each feature as they're developed.

As a software engineer at EnergySavvy, you’ll work with Django, Python, jQuery, nginx and PostgreSQL, and deploy your creations early and often to live customers. We don't care if you've never tried Python or Django. EnergySavvy embraces smart software engineers who are eager to learn, and if you've created great projects in Rails or other MVC frameworks, you'll pick it up fast.

More info at http://www.energysavvy.com/