Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries) looking for experienced Magento developers.

Chalkfly.com is looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, first-rate development team. As a software developer, you would responsible for end-to-end product development, from architecture, to development, to rollout. You must be comfortable participating in design and code reviews, as well as delivering accurate estimates, providing regular development progress feedback and consistently meeting project deadlines. Our developers are effective at explaining complex ideas and concepts to non-technical team members.

This is a full time position that would work out of our downtown Detroit office. Occasional telecommuting (like one day a week) is on the table, but we really need people who can be in the office most of the time.

Here's our stats:

    Company size: 19

    Current dev team size: 5 (and hiring as fast as we can find good people)

    Stack: LAMP

    Version Control: Git

    Bug Tracking: Github Issues

    Project Management: Basecamp

    Mac or PC: Dealer's choice. We currently have 2 devs on mac and 1 on PC.

    Office style: Open floor plan, collaborative working environment, very casual.

    Dev methodologies: We borrow elements of various frameworks, but in general we work in monthly sprint cycles, daily stand-ups, weekly overview meetings.

    Hours: The dev team likes to have people here by 10am most days.

A word about Detroit: The city gets a lot of bad press. It might not look like an attractive option to people who are considering offers from NY or CA, but I would really encourage people to at least take a look. We're in a building with about 20 other tech start-ups who have all received funding. There is serious investment happening in the city right now. Two months ago I looked up and Warren Buffet (completely unannounced) was 10 feet away from my desk (he's partnering on several projects in the city). We sit right across from the Detroit Twitter office. We're on the same block as the Detroit Google office. Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers play, is 100 yards from our office. Ford Field, where the Lions play, is another about 300 yards away. The part of the city we're in is clean and safe with newly built downtown living alternatives. All I'm saying is: give it a look.

If you're interested in finding out more, shoot me an email at evan@chalkfly.com.

Coolhouse Labs - http://coolhouselabs.com, Harbor Springs, MI.

Coolhouse Labs is a digitally-focused startup accelerator based in Harbor Springs MI, a small resort community on the shores of Lake Michigan. Each summer we invite 5-10 tech startups to be a part of our mentorship-driven accelerator program. Our goal is to help early stage digitally focused entrepreneurs build awesome products that their customers are passionate about.

This summer, we’re bringing a team of developers and designers on board to work with the each of the startups in our program and provide them with the resources they need. We're looking for 3 developers and 3 designers (senior, mid-level, internship) to work with us in-house for 3 months over the summer.

Developers will be primarily responsible for working with the startups coming in to Coolhouse Labs summer program to help them with early stage product development.

Designers will be working with the startups in the summer program to help them with web design (marketing sites as well as app design), branding, marketing identity, mobile and web based product UI/UX design, and other various graphics for the program and startups.

Perks

  - Free housing for the summer!
  - Fast-paced environment with lots of hands on learning.
  - A chance to work closely with startups and help play a role in shaping their brand and product.
  - Sailing, outside “conference rooms” overlooking Lake Michigan, and plenty of BBQs and tasty treats provided throughout the summer!

Please send appropriate portfolio, code samples, etc., and a short introduction of yourself to blake@blakeowens.com.

Looking forward to chatting!

Contino - London - www.contino.co.uk - No remote

We are looking for DevOps freelancers and contractors who can be available on site at our London based clients.

We have opening in the Linux, Puppet/Chef, Ansible, Python, Postgres, VMWare spaces at the moment.

Please get in touch on benjamin.wootton@contino.co.uk for more information.

mCASH - Oslo, Norway - http://mca.sh

Product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgPQkHfp0Y

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who share our belief in mCASH's potential to revolutionize payments, and that have the guts to see that vision through.

mCASH is a startup that integrates with banks, merchants, webshops and apps to allow purchases and person-to-person transfers. Following a successful launch in the Norwegian market last month and a fresh $7.2mm USD in venture capital [1] from Northzone [2] and Entreé Capital [3], we are looking to scale up our team and expand internationally.

There are many small and big projects in our pipeline, and we always strive to improve on what we already have. As a member of our small team you'll have a big impact on the trajectory of mCASH and shaping the company and product as we continue to grow. We're an international team, with seven nationalities represented at the office.

As an mCASH employee, you are passionate about your own field of expertise, yet have the capacity to contribute to all parts of mCASH and are invigorated by the challenges we face.

The cornerstone of mCASH — our payment infrastructure — is built on Python, and we have launched native apps for iOS and Android. We are in the fortunate position that we get to write bleeding edge payment- and data analysis applications from the ground up — we'd like you to join in and help us!

  == Requirements ==

- A college degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics or a similar field

- Ability to write elegant, well-documented and unit-tested code

- Solid knowledge of least three different programming languages

- Knowledge of Python in particular, or a similar language

- You like to KISS :-*

- A gutsy, proactive and I-can-do-this attitude that fits well with our start-up mentality

- A thorough understanding of the technology stack used in modern web applications, from front-end to back-end

- Statistics and machine learning experience is a plus

- Strong algorithms and data structures background is a plus

- You understand that knowledge sharing is fundamental in a fast-growing business

- Open Source contributions are a big plus - show us something you're proud of!

- You are based in (or willing to relocate to) Oslo

Faced with problems to solve, you are quick in evaluating the solution set, are critical to your underlying assumptions, communicate efficiently with your colleagues, and apply appropriate technologies at a high pace.

  == What we offer ==

Competitive salary and equity, pension plan, 5 weeks of paid vacation, free health care, computer of your choice, standing desks, high-end mobile phone and gadgets, free snacks and beverages, etc. Furthermore, at such a fast moving company you’ll find opportunities rather than boundaries in every single role. Your role may involve, but is not limited to:

- Fraud detection and prevention

- Determining out who wants what products at what price

- Detecting system anomalies

- Real-time analytics and metrics

- Rapid prototyping/mocking of new ideas

- Developing and maintaining back-end systems using Python

- UX and front-end development across all of our platforms

Our offices are located in the heart of Oslo, in close proximity to public transportation, cafés, restaurants, shopping centers, the sea and parks.

Send an email to jobs+hackernews@mcash.no to apply.

PS: .pdf or .txt > .doc(x)

[1] http://pehub.com/2014/02/norwegian-mobile-payment-provider-m...

[2] http://northzone.com

[3] http://entreecap.com

Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start!

Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 21 person team spread across 14 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $350,000 in March, and we have $580,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our total funding to date is $450,000 which we raised in December 2011, for which we gave up 14% of the company. I'm sharing all of this because one of the highest values we have at Buffer is to be fully transparent, and I'd love for you to be part of the incredible journey we've embarked upon.

At 16% month over month revenue growth on average in the last 6 months, we're seeing increasing demand to build out the product further and help our fast-growing customer base with all their social media problems. To achieve this, we'd love your help with some interesting engineering challenges. Do any of these areas stand out for you? I'd really love to hear from you:

    - Reliability Hacker (we're sending 450,000 posts to
      social networks every day, our architecture is still
      not ideal)
    - Android Lead (our Android app has half a million
      downloads but currently no full-time developer!)
    - iOS Hacker (our favorite people who use Buffer are
      all crying out for an iPad app)
    - Growth Hacker (our landing page conversion is at 7%,
      we'd love your help improving it and many other
      metrics)
    - Frontend Hacker (last month 130,000 people used
      Buffer, we'd love to improve our dashboard interface
      and extensions for them)

Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS).

    - We're completely open about salary and equity, in
      fact here is a spreadsheet of all individual salaries:
      https://docs.google.com/a/bufferapp.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgrWVeoG5divdE81a2wzcHYxV1pacWE1UjM3V0w0MUE&usp=drive_web#gid=1.
      It's most likely you'd fall into a range of
      $85,000-$150,000 and 0.1%-1%.
    - We're a fully distributed remote team, and we come
      together 3 times a year for super fun retreats.
      The last one was in Thailand in December, our next
      is Cape Town in April!
    - We have a big focus on culture, that's the main thing
      we think about when someone joins the team. Here is
      our slide deck of values:
      http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-03 

I'll read through emails with our CTO Sunil, I hope yours might be part of that. Send him a quick note at thenexthacker@bufferapp.com. If you'd like you can check out more details about all the areas we need help with at http://jobs.bufferapp.com

I'm excited about the chance to work with you. If you have any questions about our culture, product or journey so far, add a reply to this - I'll be checking throughout the day to get back to you :-)

- Joel (Founder/CEO)