Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Localytics is hiring:

  - Senior Backend Engineer (Scala, AWS)
  - Infrastructure Automation/DevOps Engineer
  - Site Reliability Engineer
  - Big Data Architect
  - Senior Android Engineer
  - Front End Engineers
  - Mobile Test Engineer
  - Engineering Manager

About Localytics:

* We provide app analytics and app marketing services for thousands of apps on over a billion devices.

* We have hard problems to solve in big data, scaling, distributed systems, data visualization and mobile.

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Boston and were named one of the top places to work by The Boston Globe.

* We are passionate about and have deep expertise in the technologies we work with including: Scala, iOS, Android, MapReduce, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Memcache, Redis, Column Store Databases, Rails, AngularJS, D3.js, AWS: DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EMR, ElasticCache and EC2.

* We are located in downtown Boston with easy access to all subway lines.

We love candidates who:

* Prefer startup environments.

* Are passionate about technology.

* Enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies.

Successful candidates may help us with:

* Back end development - wrangling big data using Scala, AWS and several storage technologies.

* Front end development - We have ambitious data visualization projects on our roadmap.

* Mobile development on Android, iOS, HTML5 and Windows Phone

Candidates of all experience levels encouraged to apply: jobs@localytics.com

---- About Adaptavist ----

Adaptavist - In operation since 2005 as a lifestyle business, but re-imagined in 2011 as a super charged Atlassian consultancy with real pedigree, has gone on from strength to strength. We are the biggest dedicated Atlassian consultancy in the world today!

We deliver consultancy around strategy, architecture, and execution of all aspects of Application Lifecycle Management. We work with clients to develop a vision, to plan and then execute on a client’s behalf. We then go on to manage and operate services on for them over the longer term. All this wrapped with our library of plugins, thought leadership and other IP in this space.

With it’s global headquarters in the technology hub of London, England, but with a truly global delivery footprint, Adaptavist is recruiting to build out it’s physical presence in the UK as well as both Germany and the USA in support of it’s rapid commercial growth.

Adaptavist’s approach to hiring in these new territories is to seek out talent, and craft a role around that talent supported by training as required in pursuit of the simple goal of excellence. Each country operates as part of the whole, with local team members, being part of a larger global team.

Far from being just another Atlassian partner, we consider ourselves to be a boutique consultancy helping organisations improve or re-engineer all aspects of their software delivery supported by the Atlassian tools.

---- Developer Leamington Spa ----

Requirement: We have need for a Developer (Java based) to join a new team being established in Leamington Spa. We are looking for someone with commercial experience developing across a range of languages and technologies with our primary focus being:

  * Java
  * Javascript
  * SQL
  * HTML/CSS
  * Ruby

* Passion for technology and experience that they can talk about at length including a history of object oriented programming (preferably in Java) and an appreciation of client side applications (web technologies should be familiar)

* They should also have a habit of learning new technologies and investigating ideas new and old and be able to express opinions on these areas including areas of interest yet to be investigated.

* The ability to take part in a technology debate, contributing opinions and being able to back them up when challenged with a competing view is valuable.

We typically find that the sort of person we are looking for has hobby projects (in a range of completion states) and participates in the open source community through things like: * Google Code * GitHub * Bitbucket

Ancillary knowledge is important - the areas matter less than the breadth and depth - Examples of such areas may be experience with: * Logic programming * Functional programming * Linux * Puppet * Networking * Switches * Protocols * Hardware hacking

We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate their ability to learn quickly and deeply with a solution in mind.

You will be as comfortable working in teams as independently and will have opportunities to work with customers as part of a consultancy-led delivery team. Customer facing experience is a bonus. Over time we expect candidates to grow into being able to lead themselves and others, working within our continually improving current good practices, implementing solutions for leading global organisations. Future career growth might be into areas of consultancy, software architecture or management. Let us know what you'd like to do.

So far, our successful hires in this area have found Adaptavist’s challenges & clients, as well as our fun & flexibility to be key attracting factors. The variation between small tactical and larger strategic projects is a bonus, as we don’t find our employees bored or feeling like they aren’t challenged on a weekly, or even daily, basis. There’s an opportunity for the right person to join a like-minded team as part of a cutting edge company making a real difference to organisations of all shapes and sizes.

If you think that you have the above criteria and feel you would fit into our Adaptavist family - please get in touch recruitment@adaptavist.com

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We are a rapidly expanding mobile-focused B2B media startup. We have a staff of writers and editors who cover breaking news, curate interesting content and write original analysis for executives in industries like Education, Marketing, Energy, and Retail. See http://www.retaildive.com for an example and http://www.industrydive.com/ for more about us.

We use a variety of mostly open-source technology to create our products, but the core infrastructure is written in Django. You will be responsible for working with other developers to add features and fix bugs on our websites, especially adding features to the CMS that writers & editors rely on. Prior experience with Django/Python is desirable but not required.

The ideal candidate:

    + Has 1-2 years of relevant experience *OR* otherwise 
      demonstrates an aptitude for software development.

    + Thrives in a fast-paced environment. Is good at multitasking. 
      Has great communication skills.

    + Is self-motivated and entrepreneurial.

Why working at Industry Dive is great:

    + Short development cycle - When we have a good idea, we like to 
      move quickly and then iterate once it's live.

    + Not the same thing every day - We're still a small company and
      you'll have the opportunity to work on many projects outside
      your core job description.

    + Great team - Work with a diverse team of people who are very
      good at what they do.

    + We work hard, but we also have a lot of fun. And we definitely
      believe in healthy work/life balance. If you're looking for
      lots of crazy all-nighters, this is the wrong place.

    + It's a very exciting time for the company. At 2.5 years old,
      we're exceeding all our targets and reinvesting everything back
      into the company.

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OTHER OPENINGS: We are seeking a Data Mining Intern as well as full-time and freelance writers and reporters. See http://www.industrydive.com/jobs/

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You may recognize us from the Web Framework Benchmarks that have been discussed on HN periodically: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Work Hard, Have Fun, Be Nice

Let's be honest: you became a developer because you like to build things. Interesting things, useful things, cool things. It's like building with Legos, only you get paid, and there are always plenty of the right color pieces.

At TechEmpower, we build things. Interesting things. Cool things, mostly in webapp form. We build them as individuals, because we're creative people. We build them as teams, because we like to help each other grow, and because we know that collaboration improves even the best code.

Having the best people doesn't hurt, either. We've got most of them already, and we're looking to find the rest. You can build things with us. What's the catch? We're pretty darn selective.

To work as an individual, you have to be motivated and creative and thoughtful and serious. To work on a team, you have to be respectful and energetic and open and absolutely not a jerk. We need developers who can work on every part of an application, from the data store to the page–sometimes known as full stack developers. And to be a full stack developer, you have to know technology and want to learn more technology, because those acronyms just keep coming.

Our clients expect us to work with them, not for them. We help them define their problems, and we provide solutions, on time and on target. We're service-oriented, and you should be too.

Still reading? Please apply! And check out our Web Framework Benchmarks while you're at it. We pretty much wrote the book on that one.

Just so you know:

   Teams range between 2-6 people
   Developers are exposed to 3-4 projects per year
   All development is done on high-performance workstations with 4K displays. A lot of code fits in 3840x2160 pixels!
   We maintain an informal, comfortable environment, just like the old college computer science lab, but with grown-up hours
   Everybody's nice

   Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, Ruby, PHP
   Tools: Git, Jenkins (Continuous Integration), Sonar (static code analysis), Eclipse, IntelliJ, Ant, Maven
   Web: Dropwizard, .NET MVC 5, Play, Django, Rails, Mustache, Handlebars, Backbone, Angular, Knockout, JSP, Servlets, jQuery, etc.
   Mobile: iOS, Android, PhoneGap
   Hosting: AWS (EC2, RDS, etc.), Rackspace Cloud, Linux deployments
   Data Persistence: ORM (Hibernate, etc.), MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB)

If this sounds like the kind of place you'd like to work, please apply here: http://jobs.techempower.com/hn2

Founders - Copenhagen, Denmark - http://founders.as/joinus/cto/

BE PART OF BUILDING A NEW COMPANY

Founders is a startup studio focused on building healthy technology companies. We believe a lot of the risk of starting a new business can be mitigated by running new ideas and companies repeatable process.

Our goal is to co-found 3-4 companies per year and to promote the growth of our existing companies by pooling and sharing strategic resources.

As one of our CTOs you will work together with another co-founder and the Founders team to launch a company from scratch.

DOES THIS SOUND EXCITING?

  * Guide a company from an initial MVP to a full-blown product
  * That means being responsible for maintaining a good balance between scalability, stability and speed of delivery
  * Make sure the feature is pipeline is based on real operational and customer feedback. With the rest of the co-founders you will be responsible for setting the goals of the company
  * You will build and lead your own team and ensure a strong and health development culture (both formally and informally)

  * Hands-on experience with technology leadership in an entrepreneurial company or startup
  * Experience building large web applications from scratch
  * You like to plan and deliver measurable improvements to the product every week
  * Language agnostic - we believe in using the best tools for the job
  * Not scared to get your hands dirty with HTML and CSS - you enjoy working on both the backend and front-end of a project

  * Strong analytics and data analysis experience
  * Devops experience
  * Experience developing mobile applications
  * Open Source contributor

  * You will get to work with a team of creative and driven people who are passionate about and skilled in testing ideas and building businesses
  * Opportunity for equity
  * Relaxed office on Indiakaj, Copenhagen
  * Competitive pay + gear