Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

We provide a real prepaid debit card for young people, aged 8 - 18, so they can make independent decisions with money: online, in shops, at cash machines, and abroad. Thousands of kids have already signed up to our service.

But we not only help young people buy Legos and save for bicycles - we are building an awesome technology team that eliminates legacy code, keeps the bug rate tiny, and stays small and joyful. We are doing this by adopting techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, continuous deployment, and microservices. Read more about our plan to be awesome on our blog http://tech.osper.io.

We want to meet and work with geeks of all varieties - from sysadmins to server-side devs, testers to mobile coders, data crunchers to security analysts.

We are willing to arrange relocation to London for the right candidate. Sorry, we're not ready to take on remote team members yet.

http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/

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We are a small team passionate about making people's lives better through software. We're hiring for full time positions as software developers and software designers at our office in Grand Rapids.

A little bit about us:

  - We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US.

  - We aren't limited to any really specific set of technologies, which is a great
    opportunity to learn. In the past year, I've worked with Objective-C (and Swift),
    Backbone.js (inside PhoneGap), Angular.js, QT Node.js, and of course Ruby.

  - We practice a sustainable pace. We recognize that we each have lives,
    activities, and families outside of work. Late nights and > 40 hour weeks are
    rare by design.

  - We're agile, but not dogmatic about it. Our process evolves to suit our needs.

  - We offer competitive salaries, health/vision/dental insurance, quarterly profit
    sharing, retirement + match, weekly catered lunches, and a top-floor office
    with snacks, guitars, and your choice of standing or sitting desks.

  - We run a makerspace in our building (http://grmakers.com), which gives us
    access to lots of cool stuff like a laser cutter and 3D printers.

  - 2.5 hours from Chicago and Detroit, less than an hour to the beach.

  - Lots of great beer. Founders Brewery (a mile from our office) has 3 beers in
    the Beer Advocate top 15. HopCat is a “World Class” bar on BA.
    Just look here: http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/city/43

  - Low cost of living. I bought a nice house with a mortgage payment
    30% lower than the rent of my 1 bedroom apartment in Mountain View.

  - A growing technology and startup community.

  - You love making software, and you have a couple of years of experience doing it.

  - You learn new stuff quickly. You’ve used a lot of technologies, but you’re not
    afraid to use more. You have some experience with web or mobile technologies.

  - You believe software is written for humans, not computers.

  - You want to come into work every day and enjoy the people you work with.

ej@mutuallyhuman.com

We’re an NYC based company building an online community for the video game industry, and are hiring a rails/full stack developer on contract to build v1 of the application. You’ll be working off of front end product designs, but will have technical flexibility to build out the back end. This will start out as a contract job, but has the potential for more if its the right fit. Pay will be based on experience.

This will be an exciting and new approach for the video game industry, and we’re looking for someone who shares in our passion for the space.

Who we’re looking for: - You’re comfortable working with a very small team, and with building a web application from scratch - Have a passion for video games - You are an expert in Ruby and Rails - Have a very solid understanding of databases - Experienced in deploying to a test environment - Expert in HTML, CSS and JS (and relevant frameworks) - Ideally are local to New York City, but not a must

If you’re interested and a serious candidate, please include a sentence about grabbing coffee or getting on Skype in your reply. please contact me by email, ron@cartrdge.com

London, England.

https://www.thread.com/jobs

We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.

You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.

One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.

We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.

Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/

Thanks!

Fanout makes it easy to build realtime applications and APIs. We operate a distributed cloud service for delivering data in realtime via a variety of transport mechanisms: REST, HTTP streaming, WebSockets, Webhooks, XMPP. Useful for creating applications like chat, sports updates, stock tickers, games, and collaborative applications.

You're a backend engineer who is passionate about realtime technologies, network protocols, and open standards. You hate silos and walled gardens. You have opinions about when to use event-driven vs threaded programming patterns. You lie awake at night thinking about how to optimize out network round trips. You might even know assembly language, or did in a past life.

Also, our code is almost entirely open source! You should think that's pretty incredible. http://fanout.io/open/

Important pieces of our stack: C++ & Python/Django, ZeroMQ, Mongrel2, Redis.

Your job:

- Help us build out and scale our distributed cloud service.

- Squeeze the most value out of our servers.

- Make the service bulletproof.

- Gloat about how you get paid to code publicly on GitHub.

Email: info@fanout.io