Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Main Street Hub // Austin, TX // email: brandon.beck@mainstreethub.com

We are looking for a few awesome software engineers to join our small but growing R&D team in downtown Austin. Within engineering we are a passionate group of people who are extremely interested in building the software that helps our customers around the country thrive in their local communities. We’re a really small team (currently 6 people) so you’ll have plenty of say around how we develop software going forward.

We are currently in the process of modernizing our software platform to be more modular and truly data driven. Our goal is to use data to make sure that we provide the right content to the right consumer at the right time. We’re building our internal API using REST based services implemented in Java, and while our front end is currently implemented in PHP, that may likely change in the future.

Some of the technologies that we’re using: Dropwizard, Swagger, Flyway, CodeIgniter, Phake, Guzzle.

All new engineers get company provided downtown parking, flexible work hours, 100% of their health insurance premiums paid for by the company, the ability to build their own work computer, and access to our kitchen with plenty of drinks and snacks.

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About Us:

Founded in 2010, Main Street Hub is the CRM for Local. We offer an integrated social, web, and email marketing solution designed to help merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging the Main Street Hub’s merchant network.

Main Street Hub was recently named #73 on the Inc. 500 list (http://www.inc.com/profile/main-street-hub) of America’s fastest growing companies and the 2nd fastest growing company in Austin.

Please see our website (http://www.mainstreethub.com) for more information.

99Gamers.com (Mountain View, CA) – https://www.99gamers.com

Open positions: Lead Developer, iOS Engineer, Full Stack PHP Developer - Full-time

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Based in Mountain View, 99Gamers is changing the way we trade video games. To take 99Gamers to the next level we are looking for a developers who want to join our team.

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About 99Gamers

99Gamers is a trusted community marketplace for gamers to buy and sell video games. With more than 96,000 members, $920,000 worth of games sold and 40,000 games available to buy, 99Gamers is the easiest way for gamers to get the most value out of their video games.

99Gamers has been invited to take part in the upcoming 500 Startups Batch 11.

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Join a small, quickly growing startup working to push the marketplace space forward. You’ll help us get there. We’re looking for engineers/hackers who can learn/grow with the company on the go. Being apart of a small team, you will have ownership and responsibility for product development.

You should place a very high personal value on culture. We’re looking for a mellow coder with an insane work ethic. At 99Gamers, you’ll make a huge impact. You’ll be responsible for creating tools that will help shape our growing community.

We’re looking for people who love the internet & gaming as much as we do.

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We're also looking for a product designer and community manager. See more about the positions here: http://goo.gl/qC13Y0

If interested, send a resume along with a brief note about why you think you’d be a good fit at 99Gamers to brandon@99gamers.com. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Airphrame - UAV Technology // San Francisco, CA // email:jobs@airphrame.com

Full Time: - Full Stack Web Developer - Front End Web Developer - Back End Web Developer - Mechatronics Engineer - Computer Vision Engineer

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Company: Airphrame, a well funded venture-backed startup based in San Francisco, is building the technology to control fleets of autonomous devices in a scalable and centralized manner. That's right, tens of thousands of robots under our control... do I have your attention?

Our product focus is the development of a UAV-based “on-demand imaging platform,” primarily for data collection, to assist civil engineers, land surveyors, environmental engineers, and other professionals. Our technology has already demonstrated a tenfold cost reduction compared to traditional survey operations. Our goal is to use that advantage to open up a new realm of data acquisition strategies.

Airphrame has been developing drone technology since 2012. We were the first to demonstrate Internet-only based control and the first to utilize fleets commercially (completely without pilots). We've done more with less and plan to keep it that way. We prefer to work with small teams of talented people rather than large teams of “pretty good” engineers. We're a tight knit group, with immense respect for each other's complementary skill sets. We thrive on pushing the boundaries and our company mascot is a bourbon Manhattan.

We’re looking for self-directed, versatile individuals who work well in teams. You should be able to say you are the absolute best at what you do.

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Full Stack: - Scala and/or Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS - Scalable API design and implementation - Relational and NoSQL databases - Knowledge of modern frontend frameworks - Linux system administration - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4+ years industry experience, coding entire life - Passion for robotics, maps, and startup experience are all big plusses EXAMPLE TASK FOCUS Create a web interface for an analyst to label objects shown in images that are a part of a large geospatial dataset.

Mechatronics: - Knowledge of sensor selection, design, and usage (e.g. sensor fusion) - Familiar with system integration, microprocessor, signal processing and various communication peripherals (e.g. SPI, I2C, UART) - Hands-on prototyping and hardware debugging, including fine-pitch soldering and rework, use of oscilloscopes and logic analyzers - Robust knowledge in embedded software developement (C, C++) - Bonus: Experience integrating sensors directly with autopilots EXAMPLE TASK FOCUS Source and integrate a small parachute deployment based on sensor feedback through the Pixhawk flight controller.

http://www.airphrame.com/careers/

ANSWERS.COM - Email: amanda.blume@answers.com Front-End Developer - Javascript, HTML, and CSS

Proven skills building high-performance, large-scale, distributed server applications - you have a portfolio of web apps you’ve played a key role in shipping Expert knowledge of Javascript, HTML, and CSS Experience with modern frameworks like Backbone or Angular Experience with a Javascript unit-testing frameworks, such as Jasmine, Qunit, and Browserstack. Familiarity with a server-side language such as PHP or Java Experience working with REST APIs A passion for automation, including writing unit and integration tests A desire to move fast, ship things, make our customers happy, and get things done A history of open source contributions and/or personal projects you’ve shipped B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or related experience

About our team You'll be part of a team focused environment, working with many other talented and driven developers Everyone’s voice is heard and you’ll feel the satisfaction of delivering enterprise level software to a global user base We are a development family and work together to solve engaging real world problems Career development is a point of focus – take advantage of the ability to learn new technologies and grow your skill set within individualized career paths

More reasons to join Answers: (Varies by region) Company provided equipment, such as up-to-date laptops and cell phones Liberal paid time off, and/or the ability to earn more based on performance Private office space, garage parking, and other office-related benefits Commuter benefits: transportation by train, subway, bus or ferry 100% company principle paid health insurance -- Free options! Company paid group dental and vision insurance Company paid life and disability insurance Liberal employee performance bonuses Paid time off (PTO) policy - 15 days to start Flex Hours (Varies by dept) 10 holidays company paid 401k savings plan

ScraperWiki.com is always looking for talented, generalist engineers - people who can advance our products and build things for our customers.

Location: Liverpool/Northwest UK

We're currently building https://pdftables.com which converts tables of data locked up in PDFs into formats more useful for the general public. What sounds like a boring problem actually requires quite a sophisticated approach - PDF's usually don't have much in the way of useful structural information in them.

As an engineer at ScraperWiki I can honestly say this is the most fun place I have worked. My office offers an environment of self-determination, a chance to explore all areas of the stack from product development to technical development, operations, security, product design and user experience.

We have a generous holiday package and a guy in the office called Dragon. He has a giant fluffy red beard and long hair and is generally an awesome guy.

What more could one ask?

We build things in Python, Go and Node, using Github, EC2 and salt - to name a few things. Of you, we don't ask anything specific, but hopefully you can demonstrate to us some decent experience in building interesting things. We would expect someone who at least had a year or two's experience with Python or experience equivalent to that.

You can contact me personally or our CEO. Bonus points if you can crack the puzzle:

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