Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

RJMetrics - Philadelphia, PA http://rjmetrics.com/jobs

We're hiring for software engineers, devops, analysts, designers, business development, sales, and account management.

Some more about us:

At RJMetrics, we inspire and empower data-driven people with powerful hosted software. Hundreds of high-growth e-commerce and software as a service businesses use our analytics platform to collaborate and make smarter decisions using data.

RJMetrics is backed by some of the most successful technology investors in New York and Silicon Valley, but we are Philly born and raised. We are located in the heart of Center City Philadelphia in convenient proximity to all major rail lines.

We are a growing team tackling big problems: - We want to transform large datasets more efficiently - We want to push the envelope of possibility for in-browser data visualizations - We want to make complex data questions easy for anyone to understand - While we currently work with tools like PHP, Clojure, AngularJS, MySQL and Hadoop, we are looking for candidates who can identify the best tools for a given job and quickly adapt. Prior experience with these technologies is not a requirement.

The life and responsibilities of an RJMetrics developer include: - Source control using git - Continuous integration and deployment via our one-click build-and-deploy system - Milestone and issue tracking with github and Trello - A commitment to preventing tech debt and tackling the root causes of issues - Comfortable working conditions and access to the best tools money can buy

Web Developer [Full Time, Bloomington, IN or REMOTE]

We’re looking for talented and passionate developers to help improve and expand our web-based application, FormAssembly.com.

The ideal candidate can craft code that is robust and easy to maintain, switch between back-end and front-end development, and keep usability and user experience in mind at all times.

You’ll work on our LAMP stack, and occasionally on new projects with a clean slate, for which you’ll help pick the best technologies, architecture, and tools.

You’ll work autonomously or with the team depending on the project, and will get many opportunities to share, teach, and learn from your coworkers.

Your work will get in front of tens of thousands of users and help make data collection easier for a lot of people, from schools enrolling students to large corporations improving their business processes.

Position is full-time, in Bloomington, Indiana or remote. Email jobs@veerwest.com to apply or visit http://www.veerwest.com/jobs

Grand Rapids, MI - Hiring Experienced .Net Web Developers. Experience in MVC, Angular JS, Knockout a huge plus. Rates are extremely competitive and the cost of living is low in Grand Rapids. Also if you love Craft Beer GR is the place to be! If you are interested in chatting about opportunities shoot me an e-mail (in profile).

Academia.edu (Downtown San Francisco)

Full Time Openings:

* Full Stack Engineers

* Sr. Front End Developer

* Data Scientist

Company:

* Our mission is to build a new system for scientists to share their results and broadcast their work

* We have over 11 million users and they are extremely important to us!

* Our investors include Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures

Team:

* We move quickly, everyone is in charge of their own projects but also very collaborative

* We get catered lunches from zerocater and lunch usually ends with a round of foosball

* We're a diverse group with backgrounds in philosophy, biology, music and art

Technical:

* Peer Review: We are revisiting peer review with a novel product built from the ground up that will allow layers of discussion on top of a single document and we are building this using Rails and Backbone.js

* Recommendation Engine: Lots of machine learning to parse science papers and figure out what people want to read. Pretty cool stuff

* Servers, Speed, Security and Storage (Postgres / Dynamo / Elasticsearch / Redis): Speed and stability are really important to us because areas in the world with slower internet connections tend to be where researchers can benefit the most from open access to research

About you:

- You want to have a huge impact on a product that is making a positive impact on the world

- You have a curious mind and enjoy tackling hard technical problems

- You work best when given a lot of autonomy

- You enjoy board games, foosball, rock climbing, sailing, roundtable discussions and/or free lunches

Please contact ashley@academia.edu if you would like to apply or if you have any questions.