Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

We're looking for engineers to join our service-oriented platform team.

Responsibilities

  - Getting stuck in and learning hard
  - We're predominantly a Python shop but always using the right tool/language for the job
  - Producing reliable and scalable solutions that keep the business running
  - Building things to last and taking the time to do it properly
  - Focusing on quality – from gathering requirements to designing release plans
  - Proactively looking for ways to make all parts of onefinestay better
  - Being part of an autonomous development cycle – from scoping to releasing, and beyond

  - 3+ years of Python programming experience
  - Flexible levels of commercial experience
  - Very strong communication and documentation skills
  - Comfortable with agile (user stories, automated testing, code reviews)

  - Experience with Git, Jenkins, Ubuntu, Django / Flask / other Python frameworks
  - Background in distributed systems using message brokers such as RabbitMQ
  - A passion for building with the new and the shiny (even if it's to find out it's rubbish)
  - A desire to give back to the Open Source community

or drop me a line: fergus.doyle [at] onefinestay.com

--------------------------------- ---- About FoundationDB ------- ---------------------------------

FoundationDB is the company behind the eponymous distributed database. FoundationDB's primary product - its Key-Value Store - is unique in the database market. It is a distributed, high performance, exceptionally fault-tolerant ordered key/value store that supports true, no asterisk, ACID transactions across all data in a cluster. The unique characteristics of the key-value store make it relatively easy to build stateless layers that expose different data models at the top and store all of their state in they key/value store at the bottom, using ACID transactions. The product vision is to make it possible for organizations to store all of their state in FoundationDB, while providing their application developers access to all of the various data models and APIs that they want to use for their applications.

--------------------------------- - Developer - DC or Boston Area - ---------------------------------

FoundationDB is currently seeking exceptional developers to join our growing team. In this position you will help us continue to build the next generation of transactional database technology. You will work with a team of exceptional engineers with backgrounds from top CS programs, research fields, and successful startups. We don’t just write software, we build our own languages, simulations, and state of the art tools to write better software.

Key Responsibilities:

* Working closely with other development team members on core and layer development.

* Thinking about high-level and long-term implications of design decisions

* Taking significant ownership in projects

* Doing a significant amount of actual coding each day

* Contributing to our dynamic entrepreneurial environment Required Skills:

* A good attitude, friendly personality, and strong work ethic

* Strong systems programming experience

* A high level of interest in software engineering and computer science

* Ability to work legally in the US

Beneficial, But Not Required Skills:

* Experience working on large software development projects

* Proficiency in C++

* Experience with distributed systems development

* An interesting portfolio of side projects that show you enjoy solving problems

* Experience interacting with users

* Strong verbal and written communication skills

Apply here for DC area: https://foundationdb.com/jobs/8923-Developer-Tysons-Corner-V...

Apply here for Boston area: https://foundationdb.com/jobs/10443-Developer-Boston-Cambrid...

------------------------------------- Sales Engineer - DC, Boston, Bay Area -------------------------------------

FoundationDB is currently seeking Sales Engineers to join our growing team. In this position you will be the technical representative for FoundationDB's products and services. Your mission will be to work with our Sales team to ensure the successful closure of software and services sales, while laying the foundation for customer success. This role requires deep, hands-on database and/or development experience - you will be much more than a powerpoint jockey. You will be writing “Layers” and contributing them to the FoundationDB community. You will architect and deliver technology solutions for customers, prospects and partners. Experience with the entire customer success lifecycle is crucial – conception, solution architecture, technology evaluation, solution presentation, pilot, production, performance optimization and maintenance & support.

Working knowledge of high-performance cloud architectures and distributed database systems (SQL & NoSQL) as well as hands-on engineering is essential. We're looking for customer-facing, hands-on technologists with a track record of success to join us in locations throughout North America. Sales Engineers are responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process; working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate. Presenting FoundationDB products as well as building strong relationships with key sponsors both during and after the sales cycle.

The Sales Engineer must be able to articulate technology and product positioning to both business and technical users across a wide variety of horizontal solution landscapes and in vertical industries. He or she must be able to rapidly identify all technical issues of assigned accounts to assure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process. Sales Engineers must be able to establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the sales, and then customer success, cycles.

An existing network and/or relationships within the DevOps community in Cloud, SaaS, eCommerce, Media & Entertainment and/or Financial organizations is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

* Partner with the Sales team and Account Executives to achieve defined sales goals.

* Propose technical and business solutions in support of sales activities.

* Present technical and business aspects of proposed solutions to prospective and existing customers.

* Assist with strategy development within the target accounts by building customer relationships.

* Manage target accounts that may span multiple Account Executives.

* Work with Partners to achieve defined sales goals.

* Lead efforts to ensure the delivery of all technical resources into the sales campaigns.

* Assist in the production of RFPs and other proposals to prospective and existing customers.

* Responsible for development and delivery of consistently high-quality product demonstrations focused on advancing the sales cycle and addressing specific customer needs.

* Responsible for the design and delivery of on or off site technical Proof-of-Concepts for prospective customers.

* Responsible for representing the product to customers; and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc. * Work with colleagues across the organization to receive the support needed to accomplish the technical goals.

* Creative solution development and presentation based on customer requirements, challenges and needs.

* Sphere of Influence: Sales team, customers and prospective customers, partners

Technical Skills: Experience with one or more in each of the categories below

Engineering: Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Node,js, C/C++/C#, .NET, SQL, Go, Erlang, Scala

Databases / State Storage Systems: Relational (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (key value, document, graph, columnar), Time Series databases

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Macintosh OS Required Skills:

* 8+ years of related experience in IT.

* 5+ years of specialized experience in software development or software delivery organization.

* Previous experience with architecture, design, build and management of distributed applications, databases

* Previous experience providing database and/or NoSQL solutions

* Previous experience with data infrastructure tools – Integration, ETL, MDM, data quality

* Previous experience with Time Series applications

* Experience with Linux, Windows system configuration or Network configuration (TCP/IP, web servers, firewalls, security).

* Extensive experience in production environments (application servers, web servers, databases), together with experience working with DevOps teams.

* History of success with Enterprise customer sales cycles, prototypes or large-scale development and deployment projects.

* Technical depth to respond to all functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs.

* Proven success conveying customer requirements to Product Management teams.

* Strong verbal and written communication skills, customer interaction, requirements analysis, presentations, training, requirements specifications, system design, and documentation of user guides.

* Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Math, Computer Science, or equivalent background.

* Willingness to travel to customer locations.

Apply here: https://foundationdb.com/jobs/10431-Sales-Engineer?gh_jid=10...

We are a wellness startup in Palo Alto, CA that is focused on improving the health of our customers' employees.

We also care for our employees, sporting benefits such as unlimited vacation, plenty of snacks, catered meals once a week, and generous stock and salary compensation. Work-life balance is important to us, and a strong part of our culture.

We run on Ruby on Rails on the backend and AngularJS & LESS on the frontend. We have an excellent frontend team, with two members being contributors to AngularJS itself and with strong community presence.

We are looking for excellent software engineers or those with the drive & openness to learning to get to that point - we are not afraid to develop talent from within through mentorship.

Feel free to send resumes to wesley@jiff.com or reach out to ask any questions.

## About us

Learning Equality is a recently formed nonprofit that builds and supports open-source (https://github.com/learningequality/) educational software designed to increase learning opportunities for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We do this work because we believe deeply in the transformative power that learning can have on people's lives, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down the barriers that prevent many people from reaching their full potential and living empowered lives.

We started out as a group of students volunteering on the open-source KA Lite project (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline version of Khan Academy, which we first announced publicly in December of 2012. An enthusiastic global response led to a flood of requests for support, features, and partnerships, and we soon realized we needed to establish a solid foundation to support the project and the longer-term vision, so we incorporated as a nonprofit in April of 2013. We have been fortunate enough to raise some funding to support our continued work, and now have 3 full-time employees, as well as a number of contractors and interns, alongside a community of volunteers and open-source contributors. We are leasing space in the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space on the UC San Diego campus, and collaborate closely with researchers and students across the campus.

We're now looking to grow our core team by hiring someone who will help us to drive our mission and projects forward, playing a strong collaborative and leadership role in both the development process and in the organization as a whole. We have a lot we want to accomplish, and want to continue building a positive, dynamic, and diverse team to help ensure our vision flourishes.

## Our plans

KA Lite has now been installed thousands of times in over 120 countries (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/), in contexts as varied as low-income schools in India, orphanages in Cameroon, prisons across the United States, refugee programs in Lebanon, and First Nations community centers in northern Canada. We plan to continue developing KA Lite, adding features and improving the user experience, and supporting deployments around the world.

Next up, we are preparing for the development of a platform, building upon the KA Lite codebase, that will empower users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, in both online and offline environments. This will involve building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.

## About you

* You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values (https://learningequality.org/about/values/).

* You are comfortable in a leadership role, e.g. taking responsibility for a core component of a project, and mentoring students, interns, and contractors.

* You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve user needs.

* You have skills and experience with web development/design, hopefully using some subset of the following stack: Python, Django, HTML5, Javascript, Backbone.js, and CSS/LESS (visual design tools also a plus).

* FLE is still a small startup, and we each wear many hats, and thus experience in any of the following areas would be valued (though in no way required): Education (e.g. teaching), Networking (protocols, APIs, etc), Databases (schemas, efficiency, replication, etc), Hardware sourcing (finding providers, bulk ordering, build-to-order processes), Quality Assurance (automated and/or manual testing).

## About the job

* We're looking to fill a full-time position (possibly starting with a 3-month trial period contract, as negotiated), with a modest salary, 401(k) matching, and health care options. If you feel you might not yet have enough experience for the full-time position, but are excited about what we're doing, contact us anyway, as we have an internship program that could be a way to learn, and get your foot in the door!

* We offer flexible schedules and vacation time. We emphasize a healthy work-life balance, accomplishing as much as we can while also taking care of ourselves and our families, and having fun!

* Your exact title in the organization would be determined in collaboration with you, on the basis of the skills you bring to the table, and the focus of the role you'll be playing on the team. See our team page for some examples of current and past titles (https://learningequality.org/about/team/).

* You'd be working and living in sunny San Diego, at our offices on the lively UCSD campus. We can help out with relocation costs, and in certain cases we may be able to look at options for remote contract work if you're unable to move.

Apply online at https://learningequality.org/about/jobs/, or reach out to us with any questions at jobs@learningequality.org!

Elevator Pitch:

Voxel8 is a startup company that is bringing novel materials to 3D printing. We will embed function into the typical shapes of 3D printing. Our materials, based on research by Harvard SEAS Professor Jennifer Lewis, allow us to print embedded conductors, wires, and batteries into the normal matrix materials of 3D printing. We are looking for both senior and junior software developers to help us with a variety of tasks needed to get our hardware product to market.

We are currently working on a new slicer written in Julia. We use the Marlin firmware running on an Arduino to control our printer. We will need to develop mobile applications to communicate with and control the hardware. We also need to develop new CAD software to allow our users to design objects using our unique materials capabilities. This means we are looking for people interested in:

* 3D printing/3D Scanning

* Computation geometry

* Embedded systems

* Mobile development

* CAD Software (possiby Three.js/WebGL based)

* Closed loop control systems

* Python, Julia, Javascript, C, GL

Bonus points for people interested in software, hardware, and materials science.

If more than one of the above sounds interesting, please reach out to me! My email is jack@voxel8.co