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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#81
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 13 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)

I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We just crossed 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead to scale Buffer as we start to focus on Buffer for business.

We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

* DevOps Engineer

* Backend Engineer

* Front-end Engineer

Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.

    - we have over 150k monthly active users.
    - 6700+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Zapier
    - we release changes several times a day
    - we have an entirely data-driven process, with Einstein and Buffer-Metrics, our custom built a/b testing and metrics tracking framework.
    - Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk/Auto scaling, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
More stats and stack insights here: http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2...

We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.

If you're interested in coming on board, you will:

    - work closely myself on technical architecture and Joel on product.
    - ship to hundreds of thousands of people who use Buffer and iterate quickly
    - work with our metrics team to make smart changes
    - be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers on issues and features
    - be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing with others
    - be a Buffer user 
    - be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you'll have help and support from us to move to where you want to be
    - have experience working with another startup or building side projects before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:

    - we are entirely transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have 1 million users and generate $175k/mo. Ask me anything else!
    - within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we have a formula for the distribution.
    - we're all very focused on self improvement - we have daily standups where we discuss our current improvements. This could be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging, exercise, learning a language, etc.
    - here's our culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03
Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency)

Equity: 0.5-1%

If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): http://jobs.bufferapp.com

- Sunil (CTO) thenexthacker@bufferapp.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#82
Prometheus Research (Telecommute; New Haven, CT)

Build our deployment infrastructure and open-source RexDB SaaS to help medical researchers who study childhood psychiatric disorders.

* Solid Python (You'll be Mentoring Others)

* Strong Written Communication (reST, etc.)

* Experience /w Networking, VMs/LCXs, Packaging

* Experience /w Linux, Processes, Messaging

* Working Knowledge of HTTP, HTML, Javascript

* Practical Obsession for Clean and Secure Code

* Collegial and Helpful On-Line Demeanor

We manage data for extraordinary research. For over a decade, Prometheus Research has employed our innovative software tools to build, maintain, and manage customized systems for multidisciplinary research projects. We enable clients to acquire, centralize, utilize, share, and preserve their research data in a manner that lowers costs, increases efficiency and ensures data integrity.

You'll be helping us with some of the harder parts: system logistics, process automation, SaaS provisioning, and providing general support to data scientists. You'll be reporting to Clark, who lives in Chicago; you may either work on-site in New Haven or from your home.

Please contact Clark C. Evans

http://www.prometheusresearch.com/jobs/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#85
Nairobi, Kenya

http://kili.io

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Launching public cloud to the African continent using OpenStack. Amazon Web Services won't come here so we're building it right now.

The company is in the seed stage but you'll be working with me (former NY startup CTO), this guy James (awesome local DevOps person), and another guy Anthony (Princeton grad with a finance background).

We're just getting started but have a server up already and will be launching to the beta list later this week.

I can pay for a plane ticket and a small salary but this won't be about big monthly dollars - rather it will be about doing something super cool in a place that's super cool and where on the weekend you can literally drive out of the city and camp where you hear hippos at night and see lions during the day and hike an extinct volcano.

Oh, and you'll also become part of an amazing tech community that's thinking big.

Contact me at adam@kili.io if you're interested in doing 2 months or more or if you just want to find out what it's all about.

Cheers,

Adam

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"Go where there's growth" - Eric Schmidt

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#86

Custommade ( http://www.custommade.com/ ) - Cambridge, MA Full-time devs. Frontend Backbone.js / jquery. Backend Python work, would likely be working with Django. We're a two-sided marketplace that does matchmaking between professional artisans / craftsmen and buyers. You post your dreams, we find someone to make it real. People come up with some crazy ideas like a custom made quidditch set / proposal ring: http://bl…

Where in Cambridge are you located? MIT end or Alewife end?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#88
Whistle (Mission, San Francisco, CA) - http://whistle.com - Local, relocation offered

Whistle is a growing technology company building new products for owners and vets in the >$60B pet industry. Venture-backed, our first product is an on-collar device that measures your dog's activity, giving you a new perspective on day-to-day behavior and long-term health trends.

Lead Android Engineer — We're looking for a pragmatic Android engineer to bring an awesome experience to our Android users. Ideal candidates should have strong experience with Android, including multiple published apps to the Android Market, and have had some experience leading teams.

Apply at jobs@whistle.com, or see whistle.com for more information.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#89
New York, NY - CB Insights Full-time, H1

www.cbinsights.com/jobs

Bootstrapped to 7-figure subscription revenue business. Building the rating agency of the innovation economy. National Science Foundation-backed

Looking for

- full stack devs

- tech industry analysts (a Nate Silver of tech)

- product adoption manager

Among others

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

#90
London, UK - Six to Start - Django Web Developer

We're the indie game developers behind the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game, Zombies, Run! — and we're currently working on a new game with the Department of Health and the NHS that'll get everyone walking more every day. The games we make literally improve people's lives!

We are looking for a “full stack” web developer that is fluent in every layer of a LAMPy stack, from bash command line all the way up to the web console.

Our mobile games come with rich online experiences like ZombieLink, our massively-popular service for Zombies, Run! (a game with over 600,000 players). And our future games incorporate multiplayer elements, for which an industrial strength server core and beautiful website will be an essential ingredient.

Primary responsibilities include: Developing web features for our cutting-edge new mobile games; Developing and designing high-end, responsive websites to promote our products in style across desktop, tablet and mobile devices; Server cluster maintenance and provisioning (we are big fans of Linode but have a keen eye on Digitalocean for our future products).

We're a small, bootstrapped, profitable company that makes people's lives better. Position is full-time and based in London.

See more info at http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2013/django-web-app-deve... and email us at hello at sixtostart dot com.

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