Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

Benzinga is looking for a Django developer, a front end dev, and a Drupal dev either REMOTE or local full-time in Detroit, MI.

We're a financial media company, a poor man's - lest we say everyday man's - Bloomberg competitor, and a financial product SaaS all forged together into a powerful trident that is attacking the high seas of Wall Street in a relentless pursuit of transparency.

And conquer we shall! We've grown 100% quarter over quarter all this year. Our team has surged to 30+ people and the waves of revenue washed together to form a rushing roar with just one of our products going from nothing to $100k/month in just 9 months.

Being a media company we find our way into all kinds of cool stuff. Our office is furnished with things like a $3000 high-end bed that was sent to us to review. We got to talk to and get pictures with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) when they came to Detroit last week.

But, you interject, finance is one of the toughest startup seas to sail upon! The old boys club runs an ironclad ship with no visible decks for boarding. Avast! We've built a battering ram of a business in just a few short years that has pummeled its way deep into the heart of Wall Street. Old Ironsides has warmed itself to Benzinga and once a taste the thirst cannot be quenched.

We've recently became Microsoft's premier finance partner alongside 3 other companies, all worth over a billion dollars and established for years. As of this Christmas season we will be installed by default on 500 million desktops and tablets via Windows 8 Finance. No download necessary. That's right mateys, we're in the source code.

And if you happen to trade or invest yourself you'll find us inside almost all of the major brokerages in the US.

So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag? Well, our team is crazy ambitious, motivated, and experienced with shaking shit up. If you know your tech, and want on deck this is the place to do it. Your exact technical background and language of choice doesn't matter as much as your motivation and your ability to adapt quickly. We are a young team and we're especially looking for sailors who've got some salt in their whiskers who can help us scale from millions to hundreds of millions.

Why be a ninja when you can be a pirate? This ship is forging a new course, send an email to dev-us@benzinga.com to board!

uSwitch.com -- London, UK. http://www.uswitch.com/ We're a comparison website for insurance, broadband, mobiles, gas/energy providers and finance services.

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Hiring:

Backend, Frontend and DevOps - full time. We're looking for experienced developers to expand our team and help us deliver new products.

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Tech stack:

Backend: Apache, nginx, Varnish, puppet, capistrano, Ruby (Sinatra and RoR), PHP (mostly legacy - we're moving away from it), Clojure, MySQL, mongoDB, R, Hadoop

Frontend: Responsive HTML5, JS / CoffeeScript, HAML / Twig

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About us:

* regular dev catchups across all teams / show & tell to share experience

* we host / sponsor / attend hackathons and conferences

* we maintain healthy work/life balance - no extra long hours, weekends are for you to relax after a beer on a Friday in the office / local pub

* we deploy to production multiple times a day

* we'll give you the tools you need to do your job (Macbook or other machine of your choice, whatever software you need) and help you progress (budget for conferences, books and time to learn new tech)

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About you:

* able to own a problem and work with others towards a solution

* you're open minded and flexible - you can pick up new skills / languages

* you can work well in a team environment (occasional remote work is ok, but we're mostly in the office)

* skilled at table tennis or table football (optional)

* comfortable in *nix

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Next steps:

Contact me directly - tomasz.tomczyk@uswitch.com - I'm a developer in one of the teams you could be joining, tell me about yourself (whatever you think represents you best) and ideally let's meet up - will give you a tour of our new London Bridge office and talk about the projects we've been working on.

Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 16 people (5 engineers) across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)

We'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 1.1 million users and our annual run rate is over $2m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business. We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

    * Reliability Hacker (Devops engineer) 
    * Happiness (Support) Engineer
    * Backend Hacker

Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.

    - we have over 150k monthly active users. 
    - 8000+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper 
    - 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, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
    - More stats and stack details here:
      http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2013/

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’ll:

    - work closely with Sunil on technical architecture and Joel on product. 
    - ship to thousands of users 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 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 totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have over 1.1 
      million users and generate $195k/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

- Email our CTO Sunil thenexthacker@bufferapp.com

KeepSafe - San Francisco - H1B welcome

We're looking to hire Android develpers and iPhone developers.

-- The company --

KeepSafe wants to solve the consumer privacy problems. We work to empower every user to be in control of their data. To do this, we need to make Privacy and Security Technology easy to apply for the average user on all popular platforms.

Our first product is a vault for Android and iPhone. Over 15 million customers use this product and but our plans are much bigger than that. Happy to share more in person: zouhair AT getkeepsafe DOT com

We're a team of 9, all of us write code. We raised Series A from Floodgate and SV Angel in July.

-- Jobs : Mobile developer (Android or iOS or both) --

Your job is to build easy-to-use apps that make privacy, encryption and security technology useful for average users. We are looking for ambitious developers who will take KeepSafe from to 150 million users.

Requirements:

  * Excellent knowledge of the framework including the limits
  * Sound understanding of programming fundamentals
  * Strong programming skills. Code speaks stronger than degrees.

Benefits:

  * Market salary 
  * Meaningful equity
  * Medical, Dental, Vision

SEATTLE, WA. A plucky startup is dragging the manufactured goods supply chain into the 21st century.

Our job is to help manufacturers organize product data to help moving the goods - catalogs, inventory, supporting documentation, orders, and so on; all stand to benefit from solid data architecture with increasing accuracy, reducing cost, and real-time analytics.

WANTED: Experienced web developer - HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery. Backend is C#/ ASP.NET MVC.

Your first task, should you chose to accept it, is to create a wholesale catalog & ordering web app on top of our existing back end data API. We expect half of the usage of our products to come through this web app (and the other half through the native apps).