Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by wbailey » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:12 PM UTC

San Francisco, CA

Are you excited by the opportunity to revolutionize an industry?

InvestCloud, born in a garage (it's what Californian companies do, after all), is driving a high-speed design and technology revolution that is transforming the way the financial industry uses, processes and interacts with data.

Today, any investment manager can have access to a first-class integrated investment platform through the cloud, with InvestCloud. We are the first true cloud platform for the securities market. Since the launch in January 2012, we have over 100,000 users in excess of 1 trillion assets, accessing information securely from any location with any device.

We are looking for bright and talented individuals as we advance our cutting edge proprietary technology.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Candidate:

The InvestCloud team is looking for a creative and analytic product developer in the San Francisco Bay Area with the technical skill, architectural acumen, and the drive to deliver innovative solutions to the challenges today’s investment managers face. You are a full stack developer, with experience in modern web frameworks and are passionate about owning the design and implementation of feature set as a whole. You enjoy not only coding in all layers of the stack, but care deeply about code quality, performance, and execution. Additionally, you are a skilled technologist with an interest and experience in the asset management industry, and you are excited by the opportunity to change the way that the global finance industry uses and interacts with data.

Key Responsibilities:

- Designing, developing, automating, and executing new server-side features.

- Drive and deliver the next generation of features and functions to expand the InvestCloud product offering.

- Find ways to leverage new technologies to increase the scalability and performance of the platform.

- Recognize opportunities to expand the product suite to capitalize on new market opportunities.

- Develop and architect new product features.

- Working with other teams at InvestCloud to implement the operations plan for our applications.

- Ensuring that we are continuously raising our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deploying.

- Make informed decisions, and be comfortable with celebrating your successes and learning from your failures.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with highly available, multi-tenant, cloud-deployed applications.

- Commitment to a high standard of software quality and best practices.

- A BS/BA in Computer Science, or related field, and a strong interest in investment management.

- Experience in multi-threaded application environments.

- Knowledge of modern web frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django.

- Experience with Git.

- Expertise in object oriented programming languages (Java, C#, C++, etc.)

- Proven track record of willingness and ability to learn and master new languages and frameworks.

View other job openings here: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/InvestCloud/

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

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Post by wbailey » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

San Francisco, CA

Are you excited by the opportunity to revolutionize an industry?

InvestCloud, born in a garage (it's what Californian companies do, after all), is driving a high-speed design and technology revolution that is transforming the way the financial industry uses, processes and interacts with data.

Today, any investment manager can have access to a first-class integrated investment platform through the cloud, with InvestCloud. We are the first true cloud platform for the securities market. Since the launch in January 2012, we have over 100,000 users in excess of 1 trillion assets, accessing information securely from any location with any device.

We are looking for bright and talented individuals as we advance our cutting edge proprietary technology.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Candidate:

The InvestCloud team is seeking a talented print reporting specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area with the technical skill, architectural acumen, and the drive to deliver innovative solutions to the challenges today’s investment managers face. You have the experience of delivering simple, smooth design solutions that dramatically improve the usability and productivity of our software. Additionally, you are a skilled technologist with an interest and experience in the asset management industry, and you are excited by the opportunity to change the way that the global finance industry uses and interacts with data.

Key Responsibilities:

- Drive and deliver the InvestCloud print reporting suite.

- Find ways to leverage new technologies and plugins to increase the scalability and performance of the platform.

- Develop and maintain InvestCloud library of reports.

- With limited direction, prioritize, organize, and schedule work assignments and projects.

- Quickly analyze and recommend solutions that accommodate technical requirements/ limitations.

- Participate in brainstorming and other idea-generating team sessions.

- Multi-task and work efficiently under pressure.

- Make informed decisions, and be comfortable with celebrating your successes and learning from your failures.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with highly available, multi-tenant, cloud-deployed applications.

- Proficient understanding of a variety of reporting technologies (BIRT, Excel, SQL, SSRS, Tableau, Crystal Reports, etc.)

- Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and experience generating print reports using one of the above technologies with services.

- Experience working in an Agile development environment is preferred, e.g., Scrum or Kanban.

- Experience developing end-to-end Business Intelligence solutions is desired.

- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database architectures.

- Must be attentive to details.

- Ability to complete multiple projects simultaneously within specific time frames.

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

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Post by jasonchen913 » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:14 PM UTC

MongoDB - (New York, Texas, Palo Alto, Sydney)

We are always looking for great talent. Below are some of the many roles we have open. If you think you fit the bill, i'd love to chat. Please send me a ping @ careers@mongodb.com

--- Technical Services, Community Location: New York, NY --- This team specializes working with the most important people - our community. We are looking for tech savy individual who enjoys working on open source projects and being the face of the company. Development background is required.

---- Technical Services Engineer: Location: New York,NY / Palo Alto,CA / Austin, TX / Sydney --- Team members will apply strong problem solving skills and will acquire a broad understanding of our products as well as a wide range of innovative customer applications and environments, from Foursquare to CERN to Metlife and everywhere in-between. At the end of the day, you’ll be able to look at these groundbreaking applications and say that you had a hand in making them happen. If you have a strong Dev, Ops, or DevOps background, you might be a great fit!

--- Solutions Architect (Technical Pre-sales Engineer/consultant) Location: Palo Alto, CA --- SA's are responsible for guiding our customers and users to design and build reliable, scalable systems using MongoDB. The Solutions Architecture team at MongoDB is made up of seasoned software architects, entrepreneurs and developers who take direct responsibility for customer success, including the design of their software, deployment and operations. A development/distributed systems background is required.

--- Consulting Engineer (Field/implementation/post-sale Engineers) Location: New York, NY --- As a technical consultant, you'll be MongoDB's ambassador to our clients and other MongoDB users. You'll deliver advisory consulting to and lead comprehensive training sessions with MongoDB's clients, helping them solve mission-critical challenges in areas as varied as schema design, performance optimization (both in a database and in an application), software architecture, production operations. A development/distributed systems background is required. ---

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

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Post by S4M » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

tj_dstillery wrote: post #43

tj_dstillery wrote: post #42

We're hiring engineers! #10 on Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC. #47 on Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies. We handle many billions of events per day, we're hooked up to all the big ad exchanges, and we've got a world-class data science team. But we're also still pretty small on the engineering team, and everyone gets their hands dirty and makes a real impact. You'll learn a lot. We write mostly Java. Hadoo…

some more information: We play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, we have a company band, we work sane hours, we don't track vacation (and not in the 'so nobody ever takes any' sense), and we Get Stuff Done. You'll learn a lot from working here, regardless of your current level of experience. You'll work directly with a world-class data science team (winners of multiple KDD Best Paper and other awards) that keeps us on t…

It's good to know that you play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, but a more relevant information would be your location and/or if you accept remote applicants.

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

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Post by thoughtpalette » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:22 PM UTC

transparentrees wrote: post #249

Chicago. Developers. Transparentrees. We're looking for developers with experience in Rails, Backbone.js, JavaScript, CSS, Vim, TDD, Agile methodologies, and pair programming. If your tests are design-driven and you enjoy tackling new projects and systems, we'd like to talk with you. To apply, come on over to the site and tell us a little about yourself and include links to your work (Github profiles preferred). Than…

If you're the Ryan I know, hello! You should definitely add a contact email or the company site to your HN profile so people can contact you. No google results for that company.

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

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Post by jekdoce » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:25 PM UTC

nrp wrote: post #129

Oculus VR - http://www.oculusvr.com/company/careers/ - Irvine, CA We want everyone in the world to experience the impossible. We want your help building the virtual reality hardware and platform that takes people to beautiful new universes. Oculus is up to over 80 people (primarily engineers), and we are expanding quickly. In addition to a huge variety of positions in Irvine, CA, Oculus is looking for software engine…

Will you have people working in the Bay Area?

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

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Post by thoughtpalette » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #308

lolwutf wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be transparent and say: I think it's crazy you expect developers to take a 45 day risk/trial period, in order to work at the company. I'm an experienced dev (3+ years of wholesome experience + a solid work portfolio) and I could even deal with the rather significant pay cut I'd be taking... but a pay cut + risking not having employment, when I'm already settled in a current job? No thanks. But good luck.

> I'm an experienced dev (3+ years ... This is still "barely out of school, hardly knows what he's doing" stage :) Edit - downvote me all you want, but if you are to show up on the interview and declare that you are in an "experienced dev (with 3+ years)", the interview will conclude quickly. It's not that you have just three years of experience, it's the fact that you think it's a lot. It's not. This makes you cocky…

I'd say 3 years at a certain company can gain you loads of experience rather than 8 years at a different one. Context is key here as well.

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

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Post by emperorcezar » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC

lolwutf wrote: post #287

joelgascoigne wrote: post #19

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…

I'll be transparent and say: I think it's crazy you expect developers to take a 45 day risk/trial period, in order to work at the company. I'm an experienced dev (3+ years of wholesome experience + a solid work portfolio) and I could even deal with the rather significant pay cut I'd be taking... but a pay cut + risking not having employment, when I'm already settled in a current job? No thanks. But good luck.

I have to agree. What I think is a big deal here is for developers with families. 45 days is 45 days without health insurance and other important benefits. There is COBRA, but that's two months of paying that bill. For most family plans that's 3 - 4k in expense.

That said, it really depends how much they are paying the prospective employee while contracting. If it's enough to make up for that then it might be worth the risk to some people.

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

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Post by simoes » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

Datawheel: Boston / Cambridge MA @ the CIC

---- BACKEND DEVELOPER ----

Backend Developer

We are looking for someone to aid in the maintenance and development of our server-side technologies as our client list (and data needs) grow.

Personal Qualities ------------------

  - Self-starter, able to work independently
  - Familiar with working on a small fast-paced team
  - Willingness to learn and develop new technologies

Requirements ------------

  - 2+ years experience with back-end web languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Node, Java, etc.)
  - Prior experience dealing with the problems inherent in storing and accessing large datasets
  - Familiarity with either structured databases or schema-less data stores
  - Base knowledge of front-end web languages  (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.)
  - Experience with AWS is a plus

Benefits --------

  - Leadership role
  - Laid back work atmosphere
  - All the snacks the CIC has to offer
  - International travel (2 trips to Brazil already planned for 2014)

MORE INFO HERE: http://datawheel.us/jobs/

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

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Post by balanon » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

Protean - Ann Arbor/Detroit, Michigan - http://getprotean.com/jobs - Fulltime. Intern. No H1-B.

Protean is a VC-backed hardware startup developing the Echo Card, a merchant-friendly form of payment that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to connect with your associated mobile app account. The Echo Card is the last card you will ever need and the first product to offer a secure connection to your mobile wallet.

-Open positions-

* UI/UX Designer - Create visual designs and product experiences. * Backend Application Developer - Architect and implement the APIs behind our platform. * Embedded Systems Firmware Engineer - Create the software that runs our hardware. * Information Security Engineer - Fight bad guys by creating systems to keep our user's data safe. * iOS Developer - We're looking for a well-rounded iOS expert.

-Perks-

Unlimited vacation policy. Flexible hours, dress code, work-from-home policy. Never bring food: Lunches catered. Fully-stocked food/drink/redbull area. Doing meaningful work as part of a talented team creating a nationally visible consumer product.

The full list of job listings where you can apply: http://getprotean.com/jobs

Or email me: henry@getprotean.com