Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

== Position ==

Early Full-stack web engineer to join fast-growing education startup that changes how hundreds of thousands of kids learn math. Email jobs@frontrowed.com

== TL;DR - Reasons to care about working with Front Row ==

- A mission you can be proud of: kids using Front Row improve twice as much at math

- Tremendous impact on a small team

- Flexibility on what you work on, and autonomy over your schedule

- Effective & exciting tools: Clojure, Haskell, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, Ansible

- Be part of a growing success: in just over a year after launch, we are in more than 6% of all US schools

== The Business ==

Millions of teachers around the USA are struggling to help 30+ students in their class learn math because every student is in their own place. In a typical fourth grade classroom, there may be students learning to count, students learning to add, students learning to multiply, and students learning how exponents work - and one teacher somehow needs to address all these needs.

Thousands of teachers use Front Row every day to save hours of time and make sure their students are growing quickly. Front Row active users have been growing 100% a month for the past 8 school months.

== The Role ==

As one of our very first engineers, you will be part of a team of developers who are passionate about their vocation, take pride in their craft and who push each other to grow as professionals. You will strive for pragmatism and 80/20 in your work. You will be using tools that provide you with the most leverage and make you most effective. By working really smart, you will produce more than the average developer ever will, but without the crazy hours.

You will work in an effective team that plans, executes and reflects together. Because we’re a small team, everything you create will go into production and be used by students. You will never do unimportant work: every contribution will make a clear and tangible impact on the company’s trajectory. Your personal success will be directly aligned with that of the company.

Most importantly, your work will have purpose: Front Row is a mission-driven company that takes pride in making a significant impact in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.

== Benefits ==

- Competitive salary

- Generous equity option grants

- Medical, Dental, and Vision

- Food budget

- Work from home up to 1 day a week, extremely flexible work schedule

- Team meal outing every week, and half-day event every month (trip to Sonoma, BBQ, etc)

- Equipment budget

- Flexible, untracked vacation day policy

- Working from Runway - one of the best startup coworking locations right in the heart of San Francisco

Email jobs@frontrowed.com to tell us a bit about yourself if you would like to apply.

PeerStreet, a well-funded startup based in Los Angeles, is seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails developer to help build the future of real estate crowdfunding.

Our tech stack includes: Rails 4.1, Ruby 2.1, Rspec, Heroku, AWS, GitHub and CircleCI

We’re moving fast and breaking things. Join us if you want to make a huge impact on a very visible commercial product and disrupt an entire industry.

We offer a competitive salary & equity, beach views and awesome people to work with.

==== About You ====

* 8+ years of SW dev * 4+ years of RoR dev * Solid on frontend * Love startups * Pride in your code * Insatiable curiosity * Burning desire to use technology to destroy inefficiencies in the financial markets

Questions or apply at careers@peerstreet.com

==== About Us ====

Our peer-to-peer lending platform was built to help qualified individuals get the benefits of real estate loan investments and for borrowers to get better rates on their loans. If you’re familiar with LendingClub or Prosper, we’re doing for real estate what they’ve done for consumer lending (in other words, even bigger). Your bank is doing this with YOUR money today and all you get is roughly ZERO percent interest in your savings account. We’re mad too! We’ve put together a world-class team with experience in all aspects of real estate and technology and we’re ready to make a lasting change to this bloated, complex and inefficient industry.

We're located in Manhattan Beach, CA

Learn more at Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-08/real-estate-crowdfu...

Hi! We're Inbox, and we're looking for help building the next generation email platform. We're building a missing piece of Internet infrastructure and are looking for systems and infrastructure/operations engineers to join us.

Companies are building their core businesses around our API right now, and that means we have to be reliable, up all the time, and fast. We have more data for a single user than in most startups' entire database. That means big technical challenges to solve as we scale out our fledgling distributed backend.

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership.

* Have a experience with automated deployments, debugging running systems, release engineering, and on-call schedules, but are still comfortable writing code.

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team.

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that.

== A bit more about us ==

* We're built on tools like Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. Go and Docker are likely to join this list soon. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/inboxapp

* We're 40% women on our team of 10 (9 engineers), including 1 of 2 cofounders. We want to make that number 50%.

* Our sunny Mission office is more cozy than tidy. Think art studio, not corporate.

* We're more likely to end up at the climbing gym or on a bike ride together than out drinking at the latest startup event.

* We have an open vacation policy and value personal responsibility and ownership.

To apply, email your resumé (+ GitHub/code links if you have) to spang@inboxapp.com. We welcome and encourage applications from women and people of colour.

More info and other open positions: https://www.inboxapp.com/jobs

Parallel Universe is building next generation server-side open source infrastructure software, which lets developers write simple code that is extremely performant and scalable. We believe while hardware architecture changed drastically almost a decade ago, software hasn't caught up. Current software clashes with hardware, and requires more effort to be expended on scaling rather than on business logic. The problem is most severe in server-side software that ingests real-time data, and needs to respond to a very large number of concurrent requests at low latencies. It facilitates software that is harmonious with modern hardware -- with multi-core and multi-cache, with the storage hierarchy and the IO-to-processing ratio -- rather than software that fights the hardware at every turn. The result is applications that require far less hardware, while at the same time provide much greater performance and headroom for growth.

As a developer evangelist, your job would be to help drive adoption of the Parallel Universe stack. The job is a mix of marketing, coding, sales, and geeking out. On the job you will:

* Write demos and benchmarks, and blog about them

* Write introductory blog posts and tutorials

* Speak at (and organize) developer events and hosted tech-talks

* Study the problems facing potential users, and help direct our software to best address those problems

* Provide support and guidance on technical forums and social media

* Provide on-site support and guidance for customers

* Build and cultivate relationships with US companies

Requirements:

* Experience writing software for the JVM, especially in Java (knowing Clojure is a plus)

* Strong familiarity with modern server-side architectures

* Participation in developer communities

* Strong technical writing skills

* Public speaking experience

* Strong social skills and an outgoing personality

* Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area

You will work from home, but travel in the Bay Area (and occasionally in the rest of the US) to visit companies and participate in events. We offer a competitive salary (with benefits) and equity.

To apply, email jobs@paralleluniverse.co

Hashrocket is a software consulting company that builds solutions for web and mobile, specializing in Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android.

We are hiring experienced Ruby on Rails and iOS developers to work on-site in our Chicago or Jacksonville locations. We look for a certain set of qualities in our development staff since we interact directly with non-technical clients and keep a very rapid development pace. We practice pair programming all the time, keep our project teams small (2-6) and focus on constantly delivering value to our clients through daily standups, rapid deployment and an agile mindset. We have a highly collaborative environment with no cubicles and no management hierarchy, which allows us to focus on delivering the best products possible for our clients.

We take care of our own and offer great benefits to all our employees.

* Salary based on experience

* All expenses paid when you speak at an event

* Annual budget for conference attendance

* Company paid family healthcare premiums

* Full 401k matching with no vesting period

* Relocation expenses

* Sustainable pace: 35 hours billable client work and 5 hours of open-source contributions per week

Apply here: http://hashrocket.com/contact-us/jobs/developer/hacker-news