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

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Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start! February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 person team spread across 12 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $333,000 in February, and we have $520,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our t…

Hi Joel, I see that the reliability hacker position wasn't filled yet, are you looking to hire DevOps/System Engineers or looking at hackers only?

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

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Blue Apron (New York, NY): Software Engineer

Blue Apron (http://www.blueapron.com) is an NYC-based startup delivering original recipes and premium, seasonal ingredients needed to prepare them, in exactly the right proportions. We've raised $8M from First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, among others. Forbes recently named us one of the hottest startups of 2013 [1].

Since launching in late 2012, we're now delivering over 450,000 meals each month nationwide. We continue to grow extremely quickly, and we want to work with talented, passionate individuals that will help us enhance the experience of cooking at home.

Our engineering team is building software to manage the daily procurement, preparation, and shipment of our product at a massive scale. The nature of our business carries with it unique supply chain and logistical challenges that requires custom solutions and data analysis, the likes of which this industry has never seen before.

Our stack: Ruby on Rails, RSpec, PostgreSQL, HAML, Bootstrap, SASS, JQuery, AJAX, Git, Heroku

About you:

- You've taken features or products from concept to completion and have experience working with production web applications.

- You communicate your ideas clearly, and are capable of designing and implementing complex, scalable solutions.

- You want to build software that has impact on the lives of customers and coworkers alike.

- You are always learning and are excited at the prospect of mastering new technologies and techniques.

- You write tests to improve the quality and reliability of your code.

- You help teammates improve when reviewing their work and appreciate feedback when they reciprocate.

This role comes with health insurance, a flexible vacation policy, and competitive salary and equity. To apply, please submit a short email outlining your experience and why you are interested along with your resume to jobs@blueapron.com.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emjl45himd/blue-apron-4/

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

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Flipboard: Palo Alto primarily, but NYC, Seattle, and Vancouver are options for the right candidate. We're hiring across the board, see a partial list here: https://flipboard.com/careers/ Company is about 4 years old now, and we've raised a serious amount of capital to transform the media space. I run our publishing platform ( https://flipboard.com/publishers/ ), which we're investing in heavily this year in order to…

Talk about synchronicity, I was watching my gf browsing Flipboard today and daydreamed how you guys scrape everything! It must really be a jolly old mess of hacks :) Do you hire from abroad? Greetings from Italy! (native english speaker)

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

#264

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start! February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 person team spread across 12 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $333,000 in February, and we have $520,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our t…

Are you at all considering hiring interns for the upcoming summer?

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

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Healthcare.gov I'm part of a small team that's been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums. We'll always remember what Mikey told us in December, after the site was back up, could handle a non-trivial amount of traffic, and people who wanted health insurance could finally get it: "1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year. It's not an exagg…

It looks like the average across the whole population in the U.S. is 8 in 1000 people will die each year [1]. [1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN

I bet a huge percentage of people dying are over 65 and have Medicare. You need numbers for those outside of that safety net to compare.

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

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Postmates Inc. - San Francisco, CA

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Postmates runs one of the largest real-time delivery fleets in the country. Building a software platform that is reliable, scales and stays agile under demanding product needs is a serious technical challenge. Postmates isn’t just another ad platform or mobile app for delivering static user generated content: We have real customers paying real money for a real service, all under an hour.

We are currently hiring for multiple roles on our software engineering team. Checkout our openings and follow the link to get a detailed job description and information on how to apply.

* Software Engineer, Backend

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-backend

* Software Engineer, Frontend

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-frontend

* Software Engineer, iOS

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-ios

* Software Engineer, Android

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-android

* Software Engineer, Javascript

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-javascript

* Software Engineer, Infrastructure

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-infrastructure

* Software Engineer, Data Science

http://postmates.com/jobs#software-engineer-data-science

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

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Jello Labs - Senior Engineer - New York City - http://jellolabs.com/jobs (fulltime, onsite)

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We are changing the way mobile eCommerce works. We are well funded, have an amazing team and we're growing quickly.

We have a high quality team with engineers from Google, Foursquare, Ebay, Chartbeat and Medium - among others - check out http://jellolabs.com/team

We love writing GoLang, PostgreSQL, AngularJS and ObjectiveC - if you want to write Go as a full-time job you should come join us. We play board games on Wednesdays, do code reviews and care deeply about moving fast while having reliable systems.

More details at http://jellolabs.com/jobs, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.

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Lead iOS Engineer

We're looking for an iOS developer with a great sense of UX, that can both build the best iOS app out there and also help give valuable feedback on building some industry-leading world class UX.

More details at http://jellolabs.com/jobs, or simply email hey@jellolabs.com.

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

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post #261

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start! February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 person team spread across 12 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $333,000 in February, and we have $520,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our t…

Hi Joel, I see that the reliability hacker position wasn't filled yet, are you looking to hire DevOps/System Engineers or looking at hackers only?

Hi Michael, we're certainly in need of help in terms of DevOps and Systems Engineering challenges too. Our architecture has a lot of room for improvement and we'd benefit a lot from having someone focus on systems. Let me know if you have any more questions here!

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

#270
Sift Science - San Francisco, CA. Full-time.

Sift Science (http://siftscience.com) uses large-scale machine learning to fight online fraud. It's a problem that cost U.S. merchants > $10B last year, and 70% of it is organized crime. Attacks have rapidly evolved in breadth and depth, but current rule-based systems don't scale. We're looking for engineers of all flavors -- distributed systems, web development, data visualization, and of course, machine learning. We're a tight-knit team that likes board games, yummy food, and solving challenging technical problems. Check out https://siftscience.com/jobs We're also looking for account managers, integration engineers, and someone to lead our B2B marketing efforts. jobs+hn@siftscience.com

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