Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

Notting Hill, London, England, U.K.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy and successful e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles thousands of purchases, but we can and do update the live site with new code anytime we want - multiple times per day - without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and deployed on Amazon Web Services; we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous integration. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share cool ideas whether work-related or not. Our developers are generalizing specialists whose typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, tuning a SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles, especially developers of all levels of experience.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is the UK's leading private shopping club, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many familiar from the high street. The company has about 80 employees and a substantial annual turnover. The firm is growing quickly after a recent investment round.

Folsom Labs, San Francisco CA, Full-time/Intern Software Engineer

http://www.folsomlabs.com

We're building the next generation in solar (PV) system design tools; basically we make it very easy to analyze the potential value of a new PV systems by leveraging an advanced physics simulation engine. We've been in beta for about a year, and are formally calling it 1.0 in a few weeks. We've got a lot of great traction, and almost universally stellar feedback from our users. We've also recently received a federal grant[1] to help fund our next generation of products (and a round of hires).

Everyday we get to deal with a range of problems that few startups get to offer – we have a pretty modern web-stack [2] (that we actually need, not just to be trendy), but also get to solve interesting physics/optimization problems on a regular basis, while also acting as industry thought-leaders. It's a really unique place in both the solar industry, and as a software company.

We've made it this far as a two-man team, and we're poised for a lot of growth in the next year, so it's about time we brought on some help. If you're a full-stack engineer looking to do some really interesting work (and occasionally put your undergrad physics courses to real use), we'd love to hear from you.

– Paul

paul.gibbs@folsomlabs.com

[1] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/incubator_projects...

[2] AngularJS (frontend), Python/Flask (API/Backend), Cython/C (Physics Simulation Engine)

Is remote a possibility for an intern? And are internships available for high school students?

Planetary (http://planetary.io) - REMOTE, New York, NY or St. Louis, MO.

Looking to hire a head of Business Development. You'll help seek out potential leads, bring in new clients, and close new contracts.

We are a young design and development agency; you'd have the opportunity to really drive the direction and growth of the company. Technical or design experience is a huge plus.

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At Planetary, we have designed and developed just about everything there is to design and develop — games for a Super Bowl campaign, internal apps for startups, point-of-sale applications for large national brands and dozens of issues for a number of periodicals. In doing so, we've learned the particularities of each different medium, but more importantly, we've gained a sublime handle on how to partner with our clients and become an integral, valuable part of their design and development process.

Whether for small brands, large brands, medium brands, brands without a brand, all the work we've done in the past few years has been intent on providing a talented team, clear communication, plain expectations and flawless execution. That's what you can expect from Planetary. Strong design and quality development with an unrivaled attention to detail.

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If you're interested, send me a little blurb about yourself along with any relevant links or information (résumé, Github, Dribbble, etc.) and why you're interested: team@planetary.io

SurveyMonkey ( http://www.surveymonkey.com )

Offices in: Palo Alto, CA, USA Seattle, WA, USA Portland, OR, USA

Job Description:

Survey Monkey is looking for software engineers who have a passion for solving complex and interesting problems. In addition to scaling site, we are looking for people who can help with advanced analysis and data visualization, natural language processing, and new storage architectures.

Requirements

* Experience writing top quality software for high-volume/high availability websites, including being involved in building critical user-facing components.

* Comfortable working in a Unix environment

* Experienced in working with multiple databases and datastores (Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc.)

* Love Python

About the company

SurveyMonkey is the world's largest survey company, but there's really much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period. We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the insights and information they need to make better, more informed decisions.

We help customers collect over 2+ million online survey responses daily. SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and organizations of all shapes and sizes.

* What Python is used for:

Our primary services/applications are all built on top of the Pyramid Webframework. We use pylibmc, ansible, jinja2, sqlalchemy, and many other open source python libraries to power our infrastructure.

We are planning to do our first Python3 and PyPy deployments in 2014. Along with moving from weekly releases to continuous deployment.

* Contact Info:

Contact: John Anderson

E-mail contact: johna [at] surveymonkey.com

No telecommuting