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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#51
Toronto - Uken Games Software Engineer (full time)

Uken is looking for talented software engineers to become members of our core development team.

You'd be working on meaningful things like:

- creating performant, cross-platform games;

- building game features that are deployed weekly to our millions of players;

- writing beautiful, maintainable code with extensive test coverage.

Your background should include:

- proven software engineering skills;

- excellent understanding of web architecture;

- the ability to communicate clearly;

- an appetite to learn, grow, and take on increasingly more responsibility;

- a strong desire to build something that people really want.

It'd be a big plus if you have:

- experience developing games;

- experience building applications for mobile platforms;

- contributed to an open source project (include your github profile);

- experience with the technologies we use: ruby on rails, objective-c, javascript, nginx, mysql, linux.

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

- you'll be equipped with a MacBook Pro/Air, 27" monitors, iOS/Android device;

- stock options and competitive salaries;

- full health, dental, vision coverage;

- snacked-filled kitchen and booster juice breaks;

- catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner;

- convenient location downtown Toronto

About Us

Uken is one of the only true cross platform gaming companies around. We build fun social and mobile games that make people stare, smile, jump, and feel awesome inside. We have a quirky nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries and we’ve done exactly that with HTML5. We work on products that are used by millions of people everywhere and we’re just getting started.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#52
VividCortex - Charlottesville, VA - MySQL Database Performance Management

Positions for both summer interns and fulltime available.

https://vividcortex.com/jobs/

Systems Programming

Our agents, backend systems, and infrastructure are all written in Go (it’s awesome). We are ramping up to handle a jaw-dropping amount of incoming data. Data storage involves MySQL and other technologies in a fault-tolerant, distributed environment.

Operations and System Administration

We’re hosted in Amazon AWS and looking for people who do developer and sysops types of work — writing some server software, setting up some machines, whipping up some Ansible code, and so on.

Front End Development

The web app is backed by a small amount of PHP and Symfony2, and fronted by Angular and D3.js, CSS (Less), and HTML5. There’s a lot of API interaction from JavaScript, and a complex single-page user interface with rich data visualization that’s key for making our customers rave about the experience, not just the technology. We need people who can work in Angular, D3, design, styling, and so forth.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#53
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) looking to add one or two engineers who will focus on strategy and/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, and such hardware 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.

Learn more at http://amacapital.net/careers.html, and contact us at careers@amacapital.net.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#54
MaxSquare - New York City

MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "the local marketplace API". We believe there is a huge opportunity in developing a better way for local businesses to interact with their potential customers and vice versa.

We are well capitalized through angel investors and positioned to leverage several key strategic partnerships once the initial product offering has completed development.

WHAT WE NEED

We are looking for our #2 and #3 hires so we need candidates that thrive in an environment where they would be involved in building the company from the ground up. We are looking for engineers that can understand the whole stack but more specifically: One talented front-end developer comfortable working with multiple platforms with a great eye for UI/UX, and one talented back-end developer that can work on the API.

Right now we have been working with the web2py framework in the application tier, with a MySQL database. We've started development on the front-end using RAD using Sencha Touch to develop an MVP that will eventually be wrapped in PhoneGap. We need someone that can work with the contracted developers to finish the MVP in Sencha Touch, and can work in native iOS, Android, and desktop web frameworks later on.

One of these hires will be assuming the CTO role while the former CTO will be assuming the COO role, so you will be responsible for taking the lead of development teams. The other position is for the senior developer role, and will need to be comfortable churning out code as well as reviewing code from contracted developers.

We are also looking to rapidly evolve so you will need to be comfortable with prototyping and iterating frequently.

WHAT WE OFFER

Compensation in the range of 100-200k for the CTO role, 50-100k for the senior developer role.

A meaningful equity stake and founder title.

Health, dental and vision benefits.

An awesome, huge workspace in a brownstone building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Free lunches, snacks, seamless in the office.

Flexible work hours, no counting vacation or sick days.

Choice of MacBook Pro or 2xCinema Displays

No forced work environment: All we care about is building the product and nurturing a very hacker-friendly culture.

A business that puts solving the problems of our customers first, and money second. We care about creating technology that keeps small local businesses in their neighborhoods. Because who wants to live in a world where every other building is a bank, megabrand or franchise?

Contact me if you are interested: michael@max2.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#55
London UK, DEVOPS Consultant, Freelance / Contractor, On site only!

We're a new consultancy who have a number of contract positions for DevOps people coming up in the new year. We're looking for Puppet, Chef, VMWare, Python skills.

Please ping me at bswootton@gmail.com for further information!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#56
The Wikimedia Foundation :)

We make sure the tech behind Wikipedia and sister projects is up and running smoothly. A rather high number-of-users/supporting-staff ratio. All the work we do is public and open source (https://git.wikimedia.org/). You get to work with other paid staff from all around the world, as well as wonderful volunteers. We are about 200 people now, and have an office in San Francisco (although more than half the staff is remote).

Various positions listed at https://jobs.wikimedia.org :)

Both remote workers and people seeking H1B are welcome (Do check the particular job posting to confirm)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#57
SeatGeek -- New York, NY -- Full Time We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

⇒ Android Developer -- Looking for someone eager to build the Andorid app to accompany an already-successful iOS app. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/android_developer/

⇒ Web Engineer -- We're looking for someone who loves building web apps. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for debate. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#59

Secret: HALF-TIME/INTERN/REMOTE Hey, HN. One of you is perfect for this idea. I am a serial entrepreneur who is currently trapped in the body of a freelance contractor. I have a relatively stable 40 hour a week project, and incoming projects as well that I generally can't take due to lack of resources (time, the most precious one) So here's the idea. You. Are interesting and have some experience in coding (webapps, m…

Sounds like a bad idea to negotiate equity after the project "takes off". Someone is going to be pissed off in that scenario.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

#60
Single founder seeking employee number 1 with potential co-founder status. I've gotten startup to revenue generating stage and ready to start ramping up. im technical myself but plan to move away from development as I scale.

Currently bootstrapping and self funded by I am an EIR at a vc firm so can raise money if/when needed. Right now im generating revenue through both product and services.

Remote or Utah based.

Tech stack is PHP, MongoDB, Backbone.js

Email me: dan at my hn username .com

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