Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

BetterCompany - San Francisco, CA

BetterCompany is an early-stage startup (less than 10 employees), based in SF's financial district. The company is well-funded by some of the best enterprise angels and VCs in the business.

We're building a mobile- and web-based app for anonymous feedback and communication within companies. Getting feedback in the workplace is hard. Suggestion boxes suck, 360 reviews suck, questionaires from HR suck. We can do better.

We're looking for solid developers to work on all aspects of the app. Experience with node.js, Python, Objective-C, Java, client-side Javascript, Postgres and Linux would be directly relevant, bonus points for hackers with experience with "mind-expanding" technologies, like Lisp, Smalltalk, Erlang, Haskell etc.

We're also looking for a security engineer—someone who can audit the codebase, find and fix vulnerabilities and evaluate proposed features for their security impact. We're taking anonymity seriously.

Finally, we're looking for a technical marketer. This job is a combination of user reasearch and growth hacking. The ideal candidate is technical enough to dig into data but who is creative enough to test ad copy, write content, and comfortable talking on the phone with users to tease out insights.

If you're interested, please contact me - colin@bettercompany.co

CareerVillage.org | Boston, MA (Remote is ok for some roles)

CareerVillage.org is a nonprofit that crowdsources college and career advice for high school students. We're kind of like StackOverflow, but for high school students trying to navigate the education system on their way to a career. We focus on students in low-and-mid-income communities who face great difficulty getting access to working professionals. We're serving 25,000 high school students this year and are looking for mission-focused people to join our team.

Here's a quick intro video from the crowdfunding campaign that launched it all: http://vimeo.com/80765347 and some obligatory namedropping: We have funding from Gates, serve most of the leading schools in America including KIPP and Summit, and a high-caliber set of advisors including folks like Jeff Atwood.

We have openings in (http://j.mp/CareerVillageJobs):

  * INTERN: Community experience  
  * INTERN: Content marketing   
  * INTERN: Video production   
  * INTERN: Graphic design  
  * INTERN: Biz Dev   
  * INTERN: Educator outreach   
  * FULLTIME: Dir. Outreach   
  * FULLTIME: Dir. Ops

If you're interested, please apply at http://j.mp/CareerVillageJobs and be sure to also send us an email at hello@careervillage.org to mention that you found us on HN - I'll bump your application to the top of the stack.

FutureAdvisor - San Francisco, CA

FutureAdvisor is an online investment manager that graduated from YCombinator in 2010. We're backed by Sequoia and Canvas Venture, and we're tackling an important problem: helping people save enough to actually retire. We've grown our revenue by 18x in the last year, and raised our $15.5 million Series B in May.

We have more than 150,000 users depending on us for advice and investment management to preserve and grow their life savings, and we've made a crucial service available to the middle and working class for the first time. FutureAdvisor is at that sweet spot where most of the risk is behind us, and most of the upside is ahead.

We have about 40 employees and we're based in the Financial District. We're looking for an infrastructure engineer (DevOps/PostOps), a senior engineer with lead potential, and an engineering intern. Our Web app is based on a Rails stack, using Coffeescript to transpile to Javascript on the frontend, where we use an EmberJS framework.

https://medium.com/terms-conditions/if-you-think-the-job-hun...

We're also looking for two product managers. We need people with experience launching and improving a web/mobile-based consumer software product. They should be metrics driven and very thoughtful about how features affect users, and how they can be tested.

Finally, we need an interactive designer who can show us their UI/UX work. Someone both practical and empathetic who cares about solving a real, high-stakes problem.

https://medium.com/job-portraits/futureadvisor-is-hiring-a-l...

In our experience, four things make team members want to stay with a company: sane, caring management; a product with a mission; work-life balance; and competitive compensation. We offer all those, and we're a nice place to work. :)

Our job descriptions: https://www.futureadvisor.com/jobs

Any one interested can write me: chris.nicholson@futureadvisor.com

Agent Ace - Santa Monica, CA

Agent Ace is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer/API Architect, a Backend Data Engineer, a Product Manager, and a QA Engineer

Agent Ace (http://www.agentace.com) matches clients with the best real estate agent for the specific home they intend to buy or sell. The science of finding the best agent is complex, but the results are simple, unbiased, and speak for themselves.

Our tight-knit team is looking for engineers who can mesh well with our culture. When we aren’t busy crushing code, we enjoy frequent company happy hours and office parties, a relaxed office environment and a location that's four blocks from the beach. We have catered lunches and a kitchen stocked with mad snacks. Our flexible work hours mean that if you want to work a later shift because you were surfing in the morning, go right ahead. About ⅓ of our team bikes, walks or skates to work - did we mention we’re in Santa Monica and we will relocate you?

We have a dynamic, energetic and focused (but fun) work environment that you will thrive in. We’re growing like wildfire, and our outstanding team enjoys the camaraderie that comes with moving towards the same goal.

For the Senior Software Engineer/API Architect, requirements are: A BS in Computer Science or a related degree 5+ years professional software development experience Professional software development experience with C++ or Java 2+ years LAMP stack experience (PHP)Solid understanding of SQL, SQL optimization techniques Experience architecting and developing REST APIs Understanding of REST-based API Authentication & Session handling best practices Strong conceptual understanding of OO concepts and design patterns Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visa candidates at this time.

Ideally, you also have: An MS degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering Experience with Agile development, Code Reviews, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration Experience with NoSQL databases Experience with real-time analytics infrastructures (log streaming/BI) Experience with GIS or Real Estate data Experience with SugarCRM or SalesForce CRM integration

For our Data Engineer, requirements are: A BS in Computer Science or a related degree, 4+ years professional software development experience, Professional software development experience with C++ or Java, 2+ years CLI Scripting on Linux (PHP, Python, Perl + shell), Comfortable with regex-based tools (awk, sed, grep, etc.), Solid SQL, SQL optimization skills, Experience working with/managing large data sets, data processing pipelines, Understanding of OO concepts and design patterns

Ideally, you also have An MS degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, Experience with Agile development, Code Reviews, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration, Experience with NoSQL databases, Hadoop, MapReduce, Experience with real-time analytics infrastructures (log streaming/BI), Experience with GIS or Real Estate data, Experience with SugarCRM or SalesForce CRM customization

To find out more check out http://agentace.com/about/careers/

StudyCloud - Chicago, IL

StudyCloud is an online learning management system for University courses currently serving several thousand users across 6 major institutions in the US. We are trying to build the most seamless and elegant course management system that students and teachers will love to use.

As CTO and lead developer, I am currently looking to hire another full-time software developer to work alongside me. Our current tech stack includes Python/Tornado on the backend and Angular.js on the frontend.

Please reach out to me at andrew@mystudycloud.com if you are interested in this job. We currently work out of the 1871 co-working space in Merchandise Mart. Remote work may be possible depending on your qualifications.

andrew@mystudycloud.com

https://www.mystudycloud.com