Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

Despite the negative press recently, Laundry and Dry Cleaning really are problems that would benefit from today's technical prowess. Modernizing laundry has real environmental benefits to water usage, not to mention the convenience factor of a delivery service. As humanity becomes more and more urban and less and less likely to have space for a personal washer and dryer, demand for efficient laundry service is growing.

Rinse needs to tackle interesting technical challenges as well. Of course, the routing problem as popularized by the Traveling Salesman Problem (except with multiple, load-balanced agents) is a challenge, but since we are also taking photos of the clothes we process, there are interesting data mining, machine learning, and image processing applications as well. This is in addition to the joys of rapidly scaling an operational system, while continually optimizing a consumer-facing product.

We're looking for skilled developers of all types to join us. Since we haven't taken any VC yet, this is a chance to earn a significant equity stake (while still earning a competitive salary). We're a Python/Django/Heroku/AWS/PostGIS/Backbone/Sass shop currently, but since we're small, there are opportunities to steer us technically as well.

More information at https://www.rinse.com/careers/ or just contact us at jobs@rinse.com

Untitled Advanced Science Show Lecture Series

We're Atlanta-based and in need of some biology, chemistry, and physics PhDs (or students; perhaps even really good grads).

We want to film 15 minute science lectures that are much more advanced than Cosmos or NOVA, but we need research and writing. Existing formats are drawn out; we can be informationally dense and fast-paced. We'll include a few relevant figures; we'll also add footnotes, equations, and primary literarure citations for those that want to pause and do their own further exploration.

A perfect description of our demographic is HN--educated adults who might not actually be pursuing the field we're covering but have a ton of interest in science. This market also includes advanced college and high school students that likewise share the same level of interest.

The lectures can be broad surveys or deep coverage of a particular area of research or discovery. We're going to fund filming about 3 videos, film them here in Atlanta, and then test the market for fit (ie. "Show HN"). If the market demands a less "smart" or info-dense video, we'll probably abandon the project. Our goal is to fill the perceived lack of advanced material, not clone the existing formats.

bt at brand dot io

I really don't find the long post about job openings all that useful, so I won't bore people with company back story or the marketing spin that makes us/this position unique...

If you know PHP and live in Minnesota, checkout this position at TrackIf. If you have questions about it, reach me at eric@trackif.com. If you're contacting me and are anything other than a candidate, I'm going to ignore you :-)

We use standards-based HTML, JavaScript and CSS to build a cross-browser UI. We use a lot of state of the art technology – HTML5, canvas, RequireJS, Backbone, LESS and node.js. The backend is a mixture of C#, Java, C++ because we believe in using the right tool for the job, and we are regularly evaluating our tools to ensure that. Our development process is agile and we release our web products approximately once a month.

Our offices are a five minute walk from the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe and Heavenly ski resort is a fifteen minute drive from the office. As a developer you’ll also get your own private office and even though we mostly develop on Windows, all our developers have Mac hardware. We prefer to hire generalists who are as curious and excited about technology as we are. All of us enjoy learning new technologies and tools; we have a small team and each developer should be able to work on every aspect of the system.

Please note: this is a full-time, on-site position. We would prefer you to work in our Zephyr Cove office, but we also have offices in White Plains, NY or Nashville, TN that you could work out of. If you're interested, please email matt.motherway -at- informais.com (and put “Hacker News” in the subject). Thanks.

Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Hacker News, we have been struggling to keep up with demand. Having raised a seed round, we are now actively looking for help.

Skillsets we're hiring for:

-full-stack angularjs/ruby

-operation person to lead/manage our on the ground operations

-sales development representative

email us: info@instamotor.com