Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

REMOTE Developers at Twin Technologies - http://twintechs.com

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  ★★★ Help the U.S. government save trees and tax dollars!

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  ★ About the project:
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We are seeking a few good men and women to help build a “best of breed” enterprise form processing platform. Our client is a top government organization that has continuously been at the forefront of the E-government initiatives. Your work will be visible and touched by customers throughout the federal government every day. We’re looking for someone who can take ownership of automating resolution of common server problems as well as improve the stability and performance of the application.

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  ★ About us:
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Twin Technologies is an elite technology consultancy that delivers business optimization, e-Commerce, and custom engineering solutions that place a premium on customer experience and technical excellence. We hire the world’s best designers, developers, and project managers to solve big problems for our clients, helping them grow and innovate through business transformation.

Our culture is very open, with a focus on craftsmanship, trust, innovation, and integrity. Our virtual environment allows us to hire the best people, but requires transparency and a drive for performance among a distributed team while also promoting work/life balance.

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  + Work remotely as a member of a highly-effective Agile team.
  + Influence technical decisions in upcoming projects.
  + Develop automated solutions to intelligently maintain server health.

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  ★ You have:
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  + Strong coding skills and a computer science background.
  + Experience using Java and/or other JVM languages.
  + Excellent communication skills and good habits about carefully documenting your work.
  + A keen eye for spotting inefficiencies and a desire to eradicate them with process and code.
  + A sense of pride and craftsmanship in the work you deliver.
  + Bonus: experience with advanced server automation scripting.

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  ★ Tech we use and teach:
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  + Java, Jersey, JPA, Dropwizard, JBoss.
  + Adobe LiveCycle.
  + Jenkins, Maven.
  + MSSQL.
  + Server automation tools & languages that you recommend.

This is one of many roles we are currently hiring for at Twin Technologies. You can always find more here: http://twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/

Send your resume to andy.tiffany@twintechs.com to apply for this one.

Experienced Python / Django Developer

GoBox - Copenhagen, Denmark - FULLTIME (https://gobox.dk)

Join an ambitious and professional team in building GoBox to become a successful european player.

GoBox is an on-demand storage company (dropbox for your physical stuff). GoBox sets out to disrupt the traditional growing self-storage business by being obsessed with convenience, customer satisfaction and a fair price. We want to make it easy to get more space. We have customers, venture funding and is now gathering the team needed to build a scalable product and then grow across Europe

DOES THIS SOUND EXCITING?

Joining the GoBox development team, means being an integral part of continuously perfecting the following main focus areas.

Sales / Conversion

  * Ensure we have a well performing and measurable on boarding process.
  * Build a structure for easily creating / managing / measuring campaigns

Customer experience

  * Craft a simple and engaging user experience on both mobile and desktop.
  * Ensure smooth and fault free overview and management of boxes and deliveries.

Operations

  * Enable efficient handling of couriers and deliveries.
  * Keep our storage facility well managed from a technical point of view. We insist on keeping our perfect track record of handling customer boxes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  * Plan and execute development activities
  * Define and shape features based on operational and customer feedback
  * Plan and deliver measurable improvements to the product every week
  * Be responsible for maintaining a good balance between scalability and speed of delivery

YOUR ARTILLERY

  * Strong experience building web applications
  * You know how to plan and scope a feature
  * Strong Python experience as GoBox is built in Django. 
  * Not scared to spend time in HTML / CSS - you enjoy working on both the backend and frontend of a project
  * Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team

BONUS POINTS

  * Analytics experience
  * Open Source contributor
  * Devops experience
  * Experience developing mobile applications

THE ADVENTURE WE OFFER

  * A chance to build something big
  * High level of freedom and responsibility
  * Relaxed office on Indiakaj, Copenhagen Ø
  * Experienced (and very friendly) colleagues
  * Competitive pay + gear
  * The opportunity to earn equity

GoBox is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. GoBox was started at and is funded by Founders A/S.

Interested? Send your CV, Github etc. marked DEVELOPER to jakob@gobox.dk

LIVESTREAM is hiring firmware engineer at their Bushwick Brooklyn, NYC HQ.

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Livestream's mission is to democratize live video broadcasting and provide the tools to bring every event live online.

We are expanding our in-house hardware capabilities and designing new and exciting hardware products! We are looking for a talented and passionate firmware engineer to join our team. You can see some of our products here http://new.livestream.com/broadcast

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Full job description and apply here http://livestream.theresumator.com/apply/jjuwX8/Electronics-...

Skai - Arlington, VA (~ 1 mile from DC!)

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http://www.skaihub.com

careers@skaihub.com

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If you’re interested in event sourcing, graphs, functional programming paradigms,reactive computation, and distributed systems — or if you’re curious how those things come together to form a more powerful model for integrating and transforming data at scale, we’d love to talk to you.

If you’re interested in our work but don’t fit either of the roles below, get in touch anyway!

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Senior Software Engineer

    •Java proficiency

    •3+ years of experience as a software developer

    •Experience managing a team / project

    •Distributed systems experience

DevOps Engineer

    •3+ years of experience in ops/engineering

    •Worked with AWS, Rackspace, or another cloud provider

    •3+ Experience with configuration management and automation (using  Chef, Puppet, etc..)

    •Experience managing a production system

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We want our developers to be happy and productive and we don’t hesitate to buy whatever software or hardware tools are needed to make that happen.

On Friday afternoons, we relax with board games, ping pong, and team lunches.

We offer competitive compensation, including stock options.

Front-end Developer in Rancho Mirage, CA (http://www.e-worksmedia.com)

We are a branding and development firm looking for a temporary to full-time (5 mos; may develop into permanent) front-end developer to assist in web development, applications and plugin projects and to help maintain multiple web properties and assist in ongoing development and maintenance of internally developed CMS and web framework.

Responsibilities:

   • Attend team meetings.
   • Possible attendance in client meeting/presentations.
   • Collaborate with Project Manager/Designer/Lead Developer in development project plans.
   • Collaborate with Lead Developer on development execution.
   • Follow development plans.
   • Assist in developing development plans.
   • Adheres to schedules.
   • Provides timely status/risk reports to Project Manager.

Qualifications:

   • Expertise in modern HTML/CSS/Javascript stack
   • Ability to Create / Understanding of / Ability to Execute modern UX patterns
   • Moderate knowledge in PHP
   • Knowledgeable in Smarty a big plus. If no knowledge in Smarty, PHP expertise required. 
   • Knowledgeable in Doctrine a plus, not required. 
   • Understanding of MVC design pattern
   • Critical thinkers only! Ability to troubleshoot/fix on-the-fly in creative ways.
   • Must have sound understanding of the Web as a platform.
   • Must love to write code. Ideal candidate considers themselves a programmer first-and-foremost.
   • Must root for the NFL Raiders and NBA Lakers.
   • Ability to take a joke.
   • Ability to brainstorm creative pranks.
   • Ability to browse reddit, imgur, and hacker news and still be productive ?_?..

Temporary (5 mos contract) to Permanent Position

Benefits for permanent employees.

   • Medical
   • Dental
   • Life Insurance

About Us:

e-works media, inc. - creative services and beyond... Why we do it? It's in our blood.

Our team at e-works media is composed of highly skilled professionals possessing tremendous passion for the industry we serve. We take much pride in delivering the absolute best work and service possible. We simply couldn't do anything else.

Branding. Creative Services. Web Apps. Website Development...

e-works media, inc. is an award winning Southern California branding company with a proven track record. From identities, printed materials, interactive websites, web-based software applications, content and social media strategies and on in to building mobile and tablet technologies, we have the advertising, marketing and visual design experience and expertise required to deliver effective media solutions. In the past several years we have completed hundreds of successful projects and campaigns for a variety of clients of all sizes. And we are not just consultants. We can execute on just about everything we recommend.

But, no one can do it alone. We combine beaucoup talented artists, strategist, marketers and programmers into a team that will not only conceptualize and develop creative solutions for our clients, but also integrate that solution into new or existing technologies. We develop new strategies, ideas and concepts to build logos, images and branding, marketing messages and campaigns, launch new products, sell products, build web properties - mobile properties – all promoting positive relations between our clients, their customers, vendors, staff and their industry. We have developed our own CMS/framework, project management tools, communication tools and browser plugins to create a well oiled machine that allows for a very efficient workflow and reduces the risk of boredom from execution of tedious tasks.

To Apply: Please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@e-worksmedia.com and reference your availability and other requirements you may have.

We look forward to hearing from you! http://www.e-worksmedia.com