Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Udacity - Mountain View - F/T

At Udacity, we're working on fixing higher education. Since our first online AI class (co-taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig), we've grown to hundreds of thousands of students and have course offerings in computer science, physics, biology, entrepreneurship and more.

We also recently the world's first accredited, top-notch CS master’s degree completely online for a fraction of the price in partnership with Georgia Tech. You can see HN discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6509335

We're looking for:

- Front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineers. To read more about our stack and what we're working on, go here: http://qr.ae/NuSm7

- iOS engineers to work on our first-ever iPad offering

- A Curriculum Director to help us build out our first comprehensive computer science curriculum

Sounds interesting? Email jobs+hn@udacity.com

If you've only seen the first set of our crypto challenges (you have to finish the first 8 problems before you get the next set), and you're wondering what the remaining 56 (soon to be 64) problems are like, the crypto challenge Sean just posted is much more representative of the whole than anything in set 1.

We use set 1 primarily to weed out people who aren't serious about writing code.

Mobile Developer and Teacher - Seattle, WA - LIFFFT (www.liffft.com) (not the car sharing company)

LIFFFT is a consulting company built by some of the most experienced Startup Weekend facilitators in the world. We started this company so we could get very, very good at early stage product development - specifically using Customer Development and Lean Startup methodologies.

Our goal is two-fold: 1) Consult with large and enterprise companies to help them learn and adapt these product development methodologies into their own organizations. We have done extensive work with Nordstrom and their Innovation Lab, and have recently been expanding our client base.

2) Use the consulting to bootstrap our own products, which we will spin out into separate companies. You laugh and say that's what everyone tries to do, but we have already successfully done this once.

What we are looking for We're looking for iOS developers with experience leading and teaching groups, who don't believe in reinventing the circle (much less the wheel) every time you run into a problem, and who believe in a "Discover the problem, then build the solution" approach to building products.

Email: Zachary@liffft.com if you're interested. Please include any links (resume, linkedin, github, portfolio, etc etc) you feel are relevant.

London, UK - Rentify - Software Engineer (Rails)

We're a small tight-knit team that wants to change how rentals are done. The rental industry is old, antiquated, and ready for a push. We think we have the right recipe, and so does Balderton Capital, who invested in us for our Series A.

We don't do deadlines, or assign your day to day work to you, or tell you how to get it done, or make your decisions. You're smart, professional. You don't need us to tell you how to do your job. Of course, we don't mind helping if you get stuck.

Here's how we hire: http://bufordtaylor.com/post/62455729428/how-we-interview-en...

Here's how we work: http://engineering.rentify.com/post/47385480838/in-engineers...

Responsibilities:

  * Lead by example – by writing good code, talking about good code, and then drinking beers with the team to celebrate all the good code everyone wrote
  * Design and development of new product features and enhancements
  * Communicate with non-engineers to define requirements and deliverables
  * Know what technologies are out there in case you need to use them
  * Periodically teach your co-workers all the great stuff you learned via tech talks, brown bags, blogs or open source

Requirements:

  * You ideally have Ruby on Rails experience. (We’ll still talk to you if you’ve done something with Django or node.js)
  * You want to work in a startup (a.k.a. a place that works hard and plays hard)
  * You feel comforted when you write a good unit test
  * You must have a Bachelor’s knowledge level of computer science via education or experience
  * You know when to use Postgres/Mysql vs Mongodb/Redis
  * You understand the full stack (servers, RoR, javascript/css/html)
  * You have to be able to travel to central London every day

Please email me at buford@rentify.com

San Francisco, CA - CardSnip.com

We're collapsing the small & medium business financial stack with smart purchasing cards, analytics, and data-oriented payment processing. We do all this without breaking the existing merchant banking relationships and using quirks of the existing networks to our advantage. We're currently a small team, but we're getting close to closing our first round and we're looking to bring on some generalist engineers with both web and backend experience.

Buzzwords: Python3.3, Django, Tornado, Postgres, d3.js, scss, lxc and Salt Stack. Oh, and we have three 3d printers in the office.