Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

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Aclima is an early-stage company based in San Francisco that designs and deploys distributed, large-scale sensor networks to empower people with actionable environmental quality data. Our end-to-end solutions collect, process and analyze real-time streaming data from thousands of sensors, enabling a level of environmental awareness that has never been possible before. We believe our technologies can redefine the way we imagine and manage our buildings, communities, and cities, helping us improve our collective well-being. We are looking for passionate engineers to help build, scale, and improve our platform. We have no required list of skills or years of experience. Instead, we’re looking for engineers who are smart and get things done. Our engineering culture values rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and as much automation as is sensible. We work in a relaxed, purpose-driven atmosphere with flexible hours and competitive perks.

Positions open:

* Full-time Backend Engineer Our stack includes: Python, Git, MariaDB, Cassandra, Nginx, NSQ, Redis, Ansible - solid understanding of functional programming languages, distributed systems

* Full-time Frontend Developer - solid understanding of core JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 - experience building well-structured web applications - a passion for user-driven interaction design and delightful user experiences - excitement about data visualization, mobile design, and responsive design

* Full-time UI/UX Designer - At least 2-3 years of experience who has heavy UX chops and expertise in CSS-based design, peppered with JavaScript-based interaction design/development. - Someone who is excited and passionate about data visualization, mobile design, and responsive design and has strong opinions about all three.

* Full-time DevOps Engineer - some experience writing shell and Python scripts - Debian/Ubuntu, Jenkins, Locust, JMeter, Google Cloud/AWS, Ansible experience a plus

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If you’re up for the challenge, contact us: jobs@aclima.io

Apply directly: http://boards.greenhouse.io/aclima

The Right Fit: We don't care so much about your specific technology background. We're much more interested to know that you learn quickly, are disciplined in your work, and have already demonstrated interest and aptitude by having become proficient in a variety of languages and tools. We look for people who are passionate about development, who program in their free time, who are continually uncovering new things, and who enjoy sharing them.

A Variety of Technologies: At Atomic, it's not uncommon for someone to move from developing a new web site in Ruby to creating an internal application in .NET to building a mobile application in Objective-C or Java. We're passionate about quality and owning our clients' mission, so we select the best tools for the job.

A Broader Mindset: Atomic is a consultancy. As such, you'll be empowered and expected to interact directly with clients every day. You'll need to become comfortable and effective at understanding and discussing business goals, budgets, and timelines with clients. Additionally, you'll help market our services in a variety of ways including presenting at conferences, contributing to our shared company blog, networking within our client's organizations and among your peers, and expending your creative energies in ways we will not attempt to predict.

Interested in working for us? Send us an email to get the conversation started. We'd love to talk with you. jobs@atomicobject.com

We’re building the online source for authentic music merchandise from your favorite artists: Nas, Lana del Rey, The Rolling Stones and more. We help people find and purchase the best authentic gear for their favorite artists, and it’s important to us that our customers not only find the best gear, but that they thoroughly enjoy shopping with us.

To get an idea of what we're building, check out our iPhone app: http://mrchbr.co/1CGdVxC and our website: http://www.merchbar.com

What are we looking for? Interested and motivated engineers and designers of all skill levels; people who enjoy teamwork, discussions, and getting things done. If you’re interested in working with us-- get in touch! Email me at pete@merchbar.com, and tell me about yourself in a sentence or two, show me what you got (github, dribble, or a link to your latest project or side project), or just say, “Hi!”

Pete

http://thenounproject.com/jobs/

jobs@thenounproject.com

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Django / Python Developer

The Job: The Noun Project isn't just a library of icons: it's an active venue for ideas, where users share and create our visual language. We need a full-time Python developer to make this space available, functional and evolving. The right candidate is a life learner with a proven background in modern MVC frameworks (Django and the like), fluency in Javascript (jQuery and CoffeeScript) and an understanding of APIs. They should be both disciplined and imaginative in their work, a great communicator and a clean coder. Those with a working knowledge of front-end development and an interest in web standards will be at an advantage.

The Traits: You're a developer with several projects under your belt. You understand how to validate user input and optimize queries to make fewer database calls. You’re also familiar with making requests to REST APIs.

The Responsibilities: Developing user facing features with Django Working directly with designers and front-end developers

The Perks: Market salary, Generous benefits, Valuable equity, Creative work environment, Ability to really affect a product We're small. We all share our ideas. We all collaborate.

When you apply for this position, make sure to send your resume and a link to your personal site or portfolio. Developers without a website or web portfolio need not apply.

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Our Mission:

Enable the world to move value like information moves today.

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About Ripple Labs:

Ripple Labs is a 60+ person seed-stage startup backed by prominent investors such as Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. We developed Ripple (www.github.com/ripple/ripped), an open-source, distributed payments protocol that enables the exchange of value in any currency, instantly and for free. Ripple Labs focuses on improving the core protocol and building tools for developers and enterprise financial services firms to use Ripple as settlement infrastructure for real-time payments. Ripple’s distributed ledger can accommodate any store of value, including dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins, and even loyalty points, making it the world’s first distributed currency exchange.

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The Senior Software Engineer will design and build server-side applications that will allow our current and future partners to integrate with the Ripple Protocol. Ripple Labs is a pioneer in using object-oriented Javascript to build scaling applications for utilizing cryptocurrency protocols, and we’re looking for someone who can bring out the best in our developers to continue this thought leadership.

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You will:

Design and build Node.js applications for partners and our open-source community

Use tools like redis, nginx, postgres, resque, websockets, zeromq, couchdb, aws and others to build enterprise-grade open-source financial software.

Work closely with our Integration team on partner requirements and compatibility

Build RESTful APIs (github.com/ripple/ripple-rest) for submitting payments and monitoring accounts on the Ripple network

Contribute crypto-currency and financial system plugins to gatewayd (github.com/ripple/gatewayd)

Contribute to ripple-lib (github.com/ripple/ripple-lib), our JS library for connecting to the rippled server locally and remotely

Hone your test-driven development skills as part of a classy and focused engineering team

Share our approach and principles with developer communities both in San Francisco and worldwide

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Your background:

Experience building scalable server applications

We don’t discriminate by language but you could have built large-scale server applications in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python (Django), Java (Spring and Strut)

More broadly we seek professional engineering experience in a diverse set of languages and understanding of engineering concepts:

Object-oriented and classical inheritance paradigms

Unix process and concurrency models

Server application deployment and infrastructure automation

Messaging and Job Queuing with Redis, Resque, Zeromq, RabbitMQ, and others

Relational databases, non-relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, CouchDB, DynamoDB)

Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) a plus

Ability to communicate effectively and a scientific mindset - empirically test your hypotheses.

We believe in not standing in the way of creativity, be deserving of the freedom we'll give you. You direct your own work and are pro-active in asking for input.

Startup experience or past work with cryptocurrencies are an added bonus

Interests: open-source, entrepreneurship, economics and financial markets, equal access for all people globally, strong work ethic, creative thinking, systems thinking, cryptography, creative logic, fast-paced environment

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What we offer:

Competitive salary and compelling seed stage equity

Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents

Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy

Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies

Open source projects 100% of the time

A learning environment where you can dive into the latest technologies and engineering principles as well as mentor our upcoming engineers

Work with some of the best - early Bitcoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators

State-of-the-art penthouse facility in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District and flexibility to work remotely

The opportunity to change the way we transact

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To apply, email careers@ripple.com