Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

Vurb - San Francisco, CA

We just won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC - http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/05/vurb/

Tired of opening browser windows and tabs and jumping between sites? Vurb is working on reinventing how we do things, by creating an intelligent layer over the Internet that helps you get things done in one place.

We're evolving search, browsing, and sharing, by connecting the services we use in a contextual way. We do this through data technologies (search, machine learning, big data, etc.) and original thinking around UI/UX.

We're funded by Max Levchin, Drew Houston (Dropbox), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), CrunchFund, and many others. If you're looking to join a small team that solves complex problems and is making something people will use daily, then check us out.

Full-time opportunities in San Francisco (3+ yrs experience, must be available to interview on-site)

* Product Management / Growth - experience managing and growing a consumer product

* Search / Data Science - search + classification + ranking, machine learning, recommendations, NLP, data crawling/processing. Search experience strongly desired.

* Product Design - visual design, interaction design, and experience design

http://vurb.com | jobs@vurb.com | angel.co/vurb

New York Full time Local (Remote considered but not preferred) Trusted Insight Disrupt institutional Finance. YC partners, Founder Fund, and Data Collective are investors amongst others.

Trusted Insight isan Angellist for people that manage $1 Billon dollars or more. We have over 100,000 members and counting.

We are looking for full stack or back-end developers with Python/ Django Experience with jQuery (preferred) UI / UX design skills (preferred) Strong experience with SQL databases

Please email me at Alex or info (at) thetrustedinsigh(dot)com with: - GitHub profile or equivalent. Please point out some code, project or open source contributions you are particularly proud of! - Resume A link to your LinkedIn is fine - What interests you with Trusted Insight

Seattle, New York City. (Remote potentially okay, but we also offer relo. Visa transfers okay.)

FiftyThree - http://www.fiftythree.com/

Backend web engineers, devops engineers - http://www.fiftythree.com/jobs

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FiftyThree makes tools for mobile creation.

Our first product was Paper for iPad, an app to let you capture your freeform ideas. It won both an Apple Design Award and App of the Year (2012).

Our second product was Pencil, an active stylus that works especially well with Paper. It too has received critical acclaim (e.g. "the best iPad stylus yet" —The Verge).

We're hard at work on our third major product, a sharing and collaboration service to bring your ideas together. And we'd love your help in shipping it.

We're looking for experienced back-end web engineers, both on the purely programming side and on the operations side. Our jobs page has all the details, but the highlights are:

- We run our app on Node.js (w/ CoffeeScript) deployed to Heroku.

- We run our non-app infrastructure (e.g. our Neo4j database) on AWS, e.g. EC2 and Route 53.

- We automate with Ansible and bash (moving over to Node.js).

Experience with most/all of these isn't expected, but at this stage, we are looking for existing experience somewhere. Show us what you've built.

It's not every day you find a startup that's building both software and hardware, that's making multiple things people love, that's making significant revenue from day one even as a consumer company, and that strongly values a maker culture at the same time.

If this sounds interesting to you, please do reach out. http://www.fiftythree.com/jobs ==> jobs@fiftythree.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Redwood City. Full-time. LaunchHub Job title: Data Infrastructure Engineer

We’re looking for a Data Infrastructure Engineer to join as our first engineering hire.

You’ll design, implement and debug our backend, which processes data coming from mobile applications through a forecasting engine, which will then send the forecasted data to the front end. You’ll also develop back end systems for user-focused features stemming from data gathered from a variety of data sources.

Our product is driven by data, and we measure every part of the product and user experience through analytics and user surveys to deliver the best experience possible. Our current stack is Java and Scala on the backend, front end in Angular.js and we’re hosted on AWS.

Here are some specific things you'll own: • You’ll design, implement and debug scalable Big Data backend systems that provide analytics on the front end. • You’ll design and develop analytics systems within a service oriented architecture, and systems for big data processing. • You’ll use storage and interchange technologies like MySQL, Hadoop, HBase and Presto within a heterogeneous Big Data ecosystem.

Our Ideal Candidate: Our ideal candidate has created data analytics systems for sales forecasting or demand forecasting using frameworks and technologies like Presto, Spark, Hive, and Hadoop from scratch.

Here are a few other things we’d be thrilled to see in a strong candidate: • You have 5+ years of experience developing high traffic web applications in Java, and can demonstrate knowledge of functional programming languages like Scala or Golang • You have a BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience and can share open source contributions • You have experience developing and scaling a data analytics infrastructure, ETL, or data warehousing for a software company • You’re an early adopter of new technologies. You were exploring Hadoop and Hive in 2008, Spark in 2011, and Presto in 2013.

What's in it for you? We thought you might ask... here's some of what we offer: • Competitive salary • Meaningful, first engineering hire Equity • Full benefits (medical, dental, vision)

APPLY HERE: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/705

Redwood City. Full-time. Course Hero. Product Manager.

We’re looking for a Product Manager who will help define and build the product roadmap and define the customer experience as we move to internationalize our core study guides, flashcards and tutoring platform.

You’ll own this product and work closely with a dedicated engineering and design team, you’ll collaborate with our other Product team members, and you’ll share product roadmap, expectation and results with our Executive team and board.

Here are some of the projects you’ll own: • You’ll understand Course Hero’s strategic and competitive position and deliver products that are recognized as best in the industry • You’ll own the product roadmap for one of Course Hero’s core growth initiatives. • You’ll conduct market research, perform competitive analyses, and identify current trends in the e-commerce and education technology space. • You’ll use data-driven approaches to help guide your decisions and continuously improve your product. • You’ll work closely with engineering teams and user interface designers to deliver product experiences that delight our customers. • You’ll define and regularly monitor KPIs, success metrics and other analytics to determine product health. • You’ll support our customer facing and marketing teams to ensure product features are well communicated and promoted to our customers.

Here are a few things we’d love to see in a strong candidate: * 3+ years of professional experience in a Product Manager role in a consumer facing software company, with extra bonus points for educational technology or e-commerce experience. * A BA or BS degree, or relevant skills and equivalent work experience. MBA a plus! * You can demonstrate success in delivering products and services in a high growth environment, and you have a track record of successful international product expansion in both strategy and execution. * You can demonstrate effective, clear communication to lead a team and drive product as a major influencer across the company.

Nice-To-Have's Include: * Some experience with Asana or other project management software. * You’re driven by data to make decisions, and you’re familiar with scripting in SQL and generating reports with Tableau or similar tools.

What we can offer you: * Industry competitive salary and stock options. * Full medical coverage (medical, dental, vision). * 401(k) program to help you save for the future * Regularly planned team events and outings. * Free Friday lunches and an endless snack and drink supply * On-site amenities including a day spa, full-service cafeteria, 3 miles of nature walks along the Bay and free membership to a 7500 sq. ft. fitness center.

APPLY HERE: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/743