Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Academia.edu | https://www.academia.edu/hiring

Full Time Engineers | Downtown San Francisco (near the Montgomery BART Station)

We have a very agile group of 12 engineers at Academia.edu in Downtown SF. I joined them because I really respect the problems that they are working on. Are you aware of how inefficient, inaccurate, slow and costly, scientific publishing is? In fact, the vast majority of peer-reviewed scientific research that gets published is actually not reproducible. Imagine a world where scientists can share their research more quickly, obtain greater peer-review coverage, and innovate faster. I joined because I wanted to contribute to building this disruptive Open Science platform.

Below you can find some more info about the company and the general mission of Open Science below if you're interested in the subject.

The tech stack here consists of Rails, Coffeescript, Backbone, PostgreSQL, hosted on AWS. I'd like to tell you more about our team so ping me at ashley@academia.edu so we can set up a quick call.

Ashley J.

More about the company:

According to EdTech Magazine we are tech underdogs who are “key disruptors among open-access publishers.”

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2014/06/open-ac...

And we are viewed by Wired as “a key player in the movement toward open access scientific publishing.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/incentivizing-peer-review-the-l...

We have 15MM users who support our mission and we are growing 10% per month. We are financially backed with $17MM by top VCs including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures and Spark Capital.

Synergyse // Software Engineer // Toronto, Canada // Local or Remote // Fulltime // http://synergyse.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/software-engine...

Synergyse creates highly interactive and measurable cloud training, adoption and productivity tools. We started by teaching everyone how to use Google Apps proficiently and it worked really well. We are working on hard problems in big data, HTML5, media delivery and real time technology. Our backend technology and web runs on the Google App Engine. Our frontend uses the Chrome Extension, jQuery, Google Closure. We use some of the latest technologies across the board!

Synergyse is based in Toronto and we managed to be profitable within a couple of months of starting it. Our clients tend to be in the enterprise and education world, but our technology is consumer facing and fun. It’s the best of both worlds. We are seeking a highly talented Software Engineer who's able to take on and deliver important parts of the software to users.

Why you should join us

• Ability to define product and engineering as one of our first hires

• Work with a highly motivated and talented founding team Be a part of a business that has a good business model, good revenue stream, and makes flagship technology

• Flexible and casual work environment with opportunity to work remotely

• Competitive compensation ($100k-$200k), equity (0.5%-1.5%) and full benefits

What we’re looking for

• Software Engineer with a full-stack experience

• Experience with cloud technologies (GAE, AWS, or Azure)

• Experience with Javascript (experience with Chrome Extensions is a plus)

• Ability to solve difficult technical problems

• Ability to lead and run projects

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or 4+ years of professional engineering experience

Synergyse is on a mission to help organizations improve productivity through the cloud, our interactive training system for Google Apps is deployed in over 2000 schools and businesses around the world, supporting over 2 million end-users. Join our team of ex-Google engineers and learn what it takes to run a B2B business focused on the enterprise and education markets.

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/61050/software-engine...

Where: Toronto, Canada, no remote workers. We all sit on the trading floor.

You must be eligible to work in Canada.

Who: K2 and Associates. We're one of Canada's more successful hedge funds over the past 13 years.

----------------------------- What you'll do -----------------------------

We are building out our algorithmic trading infrastructure and you have a chance to get in at the ground floor. Come help us turn our technology team from an integral part of how we do business into a profit center with its own PnL.

We've got the first iteration working and its making money. You're going to make it more efficient.

----------------------------- Who you are -----------------------------

You are a developer who can take an academic paper and turn it into a working prototype because what you are designing won't have been done before.

If you draw a triangle and place computer science, statistics and finance at each of the corners, you're area of expertise is right in the middle. If you don't know finance, don't worry, we'll teach it to you.

You value correctness above all else because when you send 100,000 orders a day if you get 1% of them wrong, bad things will happen...

You are comfortable with F# or C++.

If you love a challenge please reach out to me at cholliday@k2.ca or my email in my profile.

----------------------------- What's in it for you... -----------------------------

- a hedge fund is just like a startup except that everyone gets a market salary and bonuses. If' you've always wanted to join a startup but you're too good/in demand to take a pay cut then let's chat.

- work with a very talented and small team

- get paid to learn algorithmic trading

- be able to invest in our fund

- onsite chef for lunches

- choose your own hours

- you'll learn more in a year than most people learn in 10.

ECMC Innovation Lab / collegeabacus.org - Washington, D.C.

Looking for full stack devs, preferably with rails or angular experience.

The ECMC innovation lab was created to originate new products generally relating to ECMC's core business of servicing student loans and also to support the collegeabacus.org app.

The office just opened and I just joined as the lead (and currently only) dev here. As we transition to a brand new dev team we'll be doing a bunch of work in support of the collegeabacus.org app, basically building the entire dev ops stack, as well as other feature building. (We are building a big admin tool in angular.)

As an innovation office we will also be developing various alpha products and refining the current UX for ECMC's users.

The work should offer a nice combination of challenges- some greenfield projects, (hopefully in node.js, or whatever we decide is most suitable) and some fun stuff to do in terms of startup dev (scaling) but none of the problems (user aquisition, runway).

We're looking for web dev generalists who have experience with more backend and dev ops type skills or angular and CSS type skills. Smart people without relevant experience will also be considered. No visas, unfortunately.

We run a small lean dev team (not > than 7 anytime soon) that will employ modern, sane dev practices: continuous integration, BDD, pairing. Diversity of background and experience is encouraged- I myself am a non-CS programmer. Work week will be a consistent 40 hours.

Drop me a message to my profile email if interested!

Human Condition Safety (NYC, no remote)

Human Condition Safety (HCS) seeks a developer to work on using embedded systems and data analysis to radically improve industrial safety. We’re bringing data driven decision making and analytics to an industry that’s been around about as long as human civilization.

Given the breadth of the system, "Full Stack" is probably an understatement so we’re calling it a Full Stack+ until we come up with something better. Our system involves wearable devices, field deployed base stations and radios, cloud servers, standard browser front ends. It could possibly end up with Unity native frontends, feedback through the wearables, more sensors for inanimate objects, radio analysis, etc. We will be looking into bringing in additional data from existing APIs around the web as well as some more interesting places, i.e. let’s make a crane talk to our servers.

You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of databases, embedded systems, web, native, and embedded user-interfaces, and more. Clearly one developer is not going to know every language and technology we end up using from day one. This means that there will be a lot of learning on the job and plenty of room for influencing architecture and technology choices.

About the Environment

We have one developer (the guy writing this) and one hardware engineer (the CEO) at the moment so you will be joining a very early team. Our customers are companies and there are a bunch of wonderful folks working on the business side getting us very impressive partners and interesting sites to beta test and develop the product with. We will be handling very high volumes of data very early on and so the quality threshold of certain parts will be higher than that of most early stage systems. Even though are moving fast we will also be building our processes and culture and we’re looking for someone who is excited to help us do that.

Responsibilities

Building and expanding our distributed service-oriented/API-driven architecture Coding the wearable tech and base stations Scaling our data collection capabilities Helping build and expand our analytics and event engine Many, many other things Technical Skills/Minimum Requirements The ideal candidate must meet the following minimum requirements:

You are fluent in Python, Ruby, or another scripting language. Ideally you are a polyglot. We will be making web interfaces so of course JS/HTML/CSS skills are required. You know or are not afraid to get to know C/other low level languages. You have used relational databases, and at least have looked into some non-relational database. Column oriented database experience a plus! You have used MVC frameworks before (Django/Rails/Laravel/etc), and have used at least one Javascript framework. You enjoy writing clean readable code and don't mind getting rid of old code when it's the right thing to do. You haven't used some_random_technology? Great! We'll likely be using a lot of that. This means you don't mind reading docs and source code and learning quickly. Version control is a must. We use Git.

Important Non-tech Factors

You live in NYC or would if the job is interesting enough. An experimental mindset and a curiosity for all tech interesting. Good communications skills and personal accountability are a must. When things go wrong, tell people and fix them. As the team expands we will do some light code-review to mitigate the bus-factor. Experience working in a startup is a plus. Technical Nice-to-Haves (not required in any sense but might come in handy/be interesting)

Working with/messing around with Unity or other gaming/3D engines. Prior experience with Arduino/other hardware prototyping. Experience with hardware/EE. Familiarity with Machine Learning.

Don't hit all the bullet points? Apply anyways, it would be totally unreasonable to expect someone to have all of the above, we're really more concerned about finding smart devs who think this sounds like a really interesting project. Please include any portfolio site/github/etc. and send info to brian@humanconditionglobal.com