Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - VISA, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired SEVEN full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app, with a tiny mobile team)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations / NLP - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Big Data infrastructure - work with hive, hadoop, impala to crunch tons of data

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jared at scribd.com.

Amazon Web Services, Seattle - Full Time

I am looking for experienced developers for a new team that will be responsible for delivering a number of foundational and customer facing services for the next generation of the core Amazon EC2 infrastructure. If you have experience or interest in building very large scale services and warehouse-scale computing please feel free to apply at one of the job requisitions below. If you want to find out more, feel free to reach out to me at deesingh [AT] amazon dot com.

== Reqs ==

Software Development Manager: http://www.amazon.jobs/job/265339

Software Developerment Engineers: http://www.amazon.jobs/job/265340 and http://www.amazon.jobs/job/266403/

The Control Group, San Diego, CA - Full Time

There are a ton of positions open including: Node/PHP Developer, Devops/Sysadmin, Front End Engineer, Graphic Designer, and other non-technical positions. Here is the link to the job listings: http://www.thecontrolgroup.com/category/job-openings/

Here's what the listing for Node/PHP Developer says:

San Diego application developers! Are you looking for a job where you’ll feel challenged, be appreciated, and given the space you need to do your thing? We’ve cultivated a developer-friendly culture here and we intend to keep it that way. You get autonomy, and the chance to collaborate with other top-tier developers in the industry. Sound good? Keep reading.

Do you view programming as “your craft” and have strong opinions on the subject? Are you prone to raising an eyebrow when people say “Big Data” and enjoy playing with stats? Do you live in the cloud? Do you dream in data structures? Do you want to gain experience scaling a high traffic website to handle millions of requests each day? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, we want to hear from you. To Apply, You Must Have:

    *Experience with node.js
    *Expert-level JavaScript knowledge
    *Solid experience with PHP or Python
    *Solid experience building scalable web applications using open source technology
    *Knowledgeable in HTTP / DNS / INET protocols
    *Strong understanding of web standards-based HTML5 / CSS3 / AJAX coding.
    *Confident in a Linux environment using bash and vi/emacs
    *Use a design pattern when you can and write reusable code
    *Have used MVC (Zend FW / Codeigniter)
    *Use Distributed Version Control
    *Familiar with functional programming languages
   

We Would Be Stoked if You Also Had:

    *Experience with Redis
    *Experience with Nginx
    *Experience with Internet marketing and split testing
    *Knowledge of eCommerce, SEO, and affiliate marketing
    *Experience with Elastic Search, Lucene, Solr, or Hadoop

Freelancers! Please Note: This is a full-time, onsite position. Sorry, you can’t work from home in your PJs.

In exchange for showing up to work and being awesome every day, you’ll get tons of perks like:

    *PTO
    *A generous compensation package plus 401(k) plan after one year
    *All the Red Bull and coffee you can drink (which leads us to our next perk)
    *Health care for when your body rebels against all the Red Bull (including dental)
    *Freshly squeezed veggie juice every day
    *Snacks galore
    *Early bird breakfast on Fridays
    *You have access to Xbox, Call of Duty, Halo, and free throw basketball machines
    *Working in a state-of-the-art office right on the beach, or in the heart of Little Italy
    *(Most importantly) Awesome friends and coworkers

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I work in the Pacific Beach office which is literally right on the beach -- it makes for really awesome lunch times being able to walk the boardwalk and try a bunch of different places. There's even a rack at our entrance to put your surfboard!

You could talk to me if you're interested (justin.mealey@thecontrolgroup.com), or you can apply through our website.

Kindling, New York City, NY - Full Time

At Kindling our mission is to modernize the enterprise experience with software people enjoy using. For us this means a design-oriented and engineering-conscious approach based on clarity, coherence, and simplicity. We build innovation software which empowers members of an organization to contribute to the life and growth of that organization.

There are currently two roles that HN readers might be interested in!

1. Lead Application Developer

This is a pretty broad server-side development role for someone of a senior or lead level. Part of this role is supporting our existing web application and API which is built on the LAMP stack (Zend framework), but we hope the role can also be flexible and future looking: from extending the application (not necessarily with PHP) to building whole new apps against the API.

If you're interested: http://www.kindlingapp.com/jobs/lead-application-developer/

2. Passionate QA Engineer

We need someone who can do more than click around our software and reporting bugs. This is the ideal role for someone who likes to figure out new and exciting ways to break software. You'll get to know the software from top to bottom and be instrumental in designing tests (automated and manual) as new features are developed.

http://www.kindlingapp.com/jobs/passionate-qa-engineer-full-...

Expensify-San Francisco, CA-Fulltime, Programmer Extraordinaire

Hey there! Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Expensify and we do "expense reports that don't suck!" (Google "expensify" to read more.) We're getting crushed under an ever-growing pile of super awesome work, and I need one bright soul to help us dig our way out. I can guarantee you fun, an amazing opportunity to learn, and the siren's call of distant riches. But only if you are all of the following:

- An incredibly hard worker, even when it's not so fun. There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks. After all — we do the sucky work so our customers won't need to. I need you to buck up and grind through server logs, user emails, source code, and bug reports, without complaint or supervision, and come back asking for more.

- A cool person to be with. Not a crazy party animal, just someone we can trust, rely upon, hang out with, bounce ideas off of, and generally interact with in a positive way, both personally and professionally. In fact, this is one of the most stringent requirements we have: would you be fun to hang out with day and night on some remote, exotic beach? This isn't a rhetorical question, either: every year we take the company overseas for a month (on your own dime, sorry) and work incredibly hard while having a ton of fun. We've done Thailand, Mexico, India, Turkey, Croatia and the Philippines. Where do you want to go next?

- Super talented, in a general way. We're going to throw a ton of work at you of every possible sort, and you need that magic skill of being able to figure it out even if you have no idea where to start. On any given day you might bounce between super low-level coding, super high-level technical support, marketing-driven data-mining, updating our user documentation, inventing/designing/building some new feature, etc. This is not a code monkey job — you're going to be a full participant in the process, and you need to bring your own unique blend of skills to the table.

- Specifically talented in a programming way. You can instantly visualize solutions to problems big and small. Your code is always clean, well commented, has good nomenclature and indentation. You can switch on a dime between C++, PHP, Bash, Cron, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Dwoo, SQL — not because you know them all, but because you're the sort of person who can just pick it up and figure it out. If you're this sort of person, you'll know what I mean. If not, then this position isn't for you.

And there are a bunch more, but odds are if you got this far, nothing I can do would stop you from applying. That's a problem because while I know you are awesome, it's actually really hard and time consuming to find you in the midst of the literally hundreds of other applications I get from everyone else. So this is where I'm going to ask my first favor: can you make it really easy and obvious how great you are, so I don't accidentally overlook you?

There are probably many ways to do that. But the easiest way to do that is to check out we.are.expensify.com and send in an application(which you can find at http://we.are.expensify.com/apply). We are excited to hear from you! -----