Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

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Some positions open:

Livefyre - Mobile iOS Engineer

Livefyre is looking for a seasoned Mobile Developer to bring our real-time conversation platform to the next level of amazing on Apple devices. The Mobile Developer – iOS will lead the charge of Livefyre mobile development for Apple devices – starting with our iOS SDK. We are working with big data, thousands of customers, exponential traffic growth, and are rapidly on our way to billions of monthly page views. This is an incredible opportunity for you to join a growing team solving extremely challenging engineering issues.

    Proven ability in iOS development with 2-3 years of shipping apps
    Expert experience with Objective-C
    Understands iOS performance techniques
    Other strong OO programming experience
    Experience building rich client-side applications against HTTP APIs
    Experience with Java and Android development is a huge plus
    Understands UX and design principles
    Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and design patterns
    Strong familiarity with Git or similar SCM
    Troubleshooting (especially under fire)
    Loves writing documentation

For this key position, you must write solid code, understand complex systems, competently evaluate scalability trade-offs (eg, disk vs cpu vs memory), and quickly troubleshoot issues. You learn fast and are excited to dig into the latest technologies. Our stack includes Python, Erlang, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, HBase, Hadoop, Redis and our own open-sourced solutions. More than anything, you do your best work when you have lots of freedom and can take ownership of your projects from concept to finish.

    BS or MS in computer science or related field
    Has a genuine interest in Open Source and has personal projects
    Experience with NoSQL technologies such as Redis, Cassandra, HBase, and/or Hive
    Knowledge of Amazon EC2 or other cloud-computing services
    Knowledge of Python and its libraries
    You know how to construct a traffic light build status sign
    Humor

    Create and support highly scalable and fault tolerant java based systems.  We deal with financial transactions, so mistakes are literally costly.  We highly value test driven development.  We’re not a TDD team… yet.  You will participate in improving our team to reach TDD nirvana.
    Our systems are designed around a plug-in architecture.  At this time our team owns the plug-in development.   The goal is to provide a platform utilized by the other engineering teams.  We want to build the platform and then get out of the way. You will help build out the missing components to make this a truly self-serve platform.
     We’re constantly looking for ways to improve application performance.  Our systems are indirectly customer facing.  When a customer adds an item to a cart they are using our systems.  Get it working, then make it fast.  When we mention tenured vs. nursery sizing you know we’re talking about GC tuning.  Via code reviews and other feedback you’ll guide junior engineers with your performance coding experience.

 

    Experience at an ecommerce company or other 24x7 critical operation
    Excellent hands-on experience with java (5+ years)
    Know and love RESTful services
    Experience with both RDBMS ( prefer MySQL ) and NoSQL
    Experience working in a Linux/Unix development environment
    Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
    BS in Computer Science or related discipline

Storm8 is looking for world class Software Engineer Generalists to help us develop the next generation of mobile social games! We are looking for fun, energetic software engineers who have a passion for building great products and bringing our games to life. So, if you think you have the chops to deliver something unique come talk to us!

Storm8 (www.storm8.com) is the leader in social mobile gaming with an ever-growing portfolio of 40+ games across 5 brands. We have 400+ million installs across 200+ million devices and are self-funded, profitable and have recently been chosen by San Francisco Business Times as the winner of the “Tech & Innovation Award” in the “Best Gaming/Entertainment” category.

Qualifications

    Software Engineers that have the ability to solve complex problems with simple and optimal solutions.
    Jedi coding abilities; writing clean, maintainable, bug-free code
    Engineers who have the ability to learn different technologies and programming languages quickly
    Software Engineer Generalists with experience in iOS development, Android development, web 2.0, start-up, or social/mobile gaming a plus.
    Strong empathy for users
    Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    B.S. Computer Science or equivalent quantitative field preferred

.CO is hiring a designer, a frontend developer, and marketing interns.

http://www.go.co/company/team/careers

Things you should know about our company:

    * We're a startup with more than 1.5 million customers 
      all over the world.
    * We're growing and are profitable.
    * We're a small team (20+) and we'd like to keep it 
      that way (fine - no more than 50).
    * We offer all major benefits 
      (Yes, that includes delicious pizza on Fridays).
    * We dream big. And we achieve big too. We're changing
      the fabric of the Internet, one URL at a time.
    * Need more? CNET, TechCrunch, and European Business Review.

    * Your brain, commitment, and passion.
    * Your willingness to learn. Experience goes far, 
      but fast learners go much farther.
    * Your curiosity, willingness to take risks, and to
      figure things out - without instruction manuals.
    * Your ability, and desire, to change the status quo.
      Otherwise, you are better off working for [a] .COM ;)

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Our team is looking for a Full Stack Engineer. Is scaling huge systems your game? How about working directly on our systems and applications while you’re at it? We’re looking for DevOps folks who know how to run distributed systems, scale them, and write a little code too. Is all this in your bag of tricks? Let us know! hr@skimbox.co

More about our team, here: " rel="nofollow">http://skimbox.co/team/> But in short, we welcome all manner of ideas, beliefs, hobbies, diets, and toaster oven preferences. Most of us work from around 10-6, some of us work from 9-5 or 8-4. We like Agile, though we've been to Niagara. Some of us have our own offices, some of us share offices, some of us work in the open office. There are no hammocks, but there is a nap room. Attending conferences and taking classes is encouraged. Amassing new skills is encouraged. Voicing your opinion is encouraged. Write to us for more hr@skimbox.co

Help us make weddings awesome for the hundreds of millions of people who attend weddings every year. We are a small team of engineers and designers that has made waves in the last year with our mobile apps for couples and guests. We’ve grown fast and Wedding Party is now used at hundreds of thousands of weddings a year. We’ve been featured on the AppStore for the two months. There are fun design, product, and scaling challenges ahead.

We are looking for: -Rails developer -Android developer -iOS developer

Responsibilities: - Take ownership of one of our major product platforms - Be able to iterate quickly over UX interactions and designs - Be obsessive over details and be ready to ship great code

Requirements: -Experience working on interesting projects -Be prepared to learn and teach -Experience building products with millions of users a plus email: jobs@weddingpartyapp.com