Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Chicago, IL / Software Engineer, Javascript / Bellycard.com /engineering@bellycard.com

At Belly we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with JavaScript in todays devices. We are looking for more of the worlds most innovative JavaScript engineers.

We are building extremely complicated single page applications which are seen by millions of people each week. We pride ourselves with the patience to build the best solution and not the easiest. Our code is maintainable, expressive and elegant. We often ship several changes to our applications daily and test multiple versions simultaneously.

You likely have a varied and interesting background, but your experiences should include:

- Thorough understanding of JavaScript patterns - Meticulous appreciation for user experience and design - Developing and collaborating on large single page applications - Working with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or Backbone - Working with automated testing frameworks - Passionately developing products that you believe in - Performance tuning and writing memory efficient code - Working with others to deploy your work - Caring deeply about the people who use your applications and using tools or working with others to collect data which describes user activity

Technologies we use include:

- Angular - Backbone - Sass and Haml - Jasmine - CoffeeScript - Node - The best tool for the job

If you are interested check out our tech site (tech.bellycard.com/join/) or email us @ engineering@bellycard.com

Seen.co - New York City Looking for: Full-Stack / Architects / Data Hackers

Come join a growing team tackling a big challenge - summarizing mobile stories by ranking their real-time media and alerting users to what’s noteworthy by building automatic summaries. We're doing it with smart, decent people, and funding from great investors in one of the best cities in the world!

Our team is made up of experts in search, ranking and mobile products. Altogether we are applying 2 patents, 8 papers and 3 Google Research Awards to integrate machine learning with breaking news and social curation.

We're building a core of passionate devs and the next few hires will have an important hand in the direction of the product. The existing team has experience at Yahoo, Endeca and Frog Design and we value folks who are curious, hard working, humble and love a good challenge.

Full list of jobs and descriptions here: https://angel.co/seen/jobs or just email us directly jobs@seen.co

Contentful - https://www.contentful.com - Berlin, Germany (VISA)

We are hiring for several full time positions:

1. Backend JavaScript Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/14124

2. Sales Engineer / Consultant - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/17959

3. Junior software developer (JS or ruby) - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/27139

4. Software Engineer intern - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/27140

5. Technical copywriter - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/27054

6. Sales Manager - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/27142

Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker | Smarterer | Boston, MA | mikepk@smarterer.com | Full Time

Smarterer (a Pluralsight company) - http://smarterer.com/ One of Entrepreneur Magazine's Brilliant 100 - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233888

Make a difference. Change the world. Have fun. Do something important.

Smarterer gives people unprecedented understanding of what they know and what their teams and organizations know.

We are looking for creative web programmers, developers and hackers to join our product team. Ideally you are a versatile technologist who loves to build web products, especially (but not exclusively) if you have Python experience. Our stack is primarily Python, SqlAlchemy, Backbone and CoffeeScript.

Smarterer is doing something unique and important. We're approaching a point where traditional university credentialing isn't enough. Skills are changing too quickly and what makes someone effective in a role or job is evolving. New roles appear daily that no (or few) traditional universities have courses for. People are acquiring more and more skills through non-traditional means. Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to close the "skills gap".

How do you show what you know?

Smarterer has created an innovative, machine learning, crowd-sourced testing system that will disrupt how people think about skills. Don’t let our name fool you, while our system is fun, our unique, patent-pending, technology is also deeply rooted in scientific modern testing theory.

Smarterer is enabling a revolution: in how the enterprise manages their teams and talent, in the changing job marketplace, and in the way people measure their own skills and share that knowledge.

We were recently acquired by Pluralsight (http://pluralsight.com)! http://blog.smarterer.com/pluralsight-acquisition/ Still driving to the same vision but now with a partner that really gets it!

Interested? Contact me at mikepk@smarterer.com

From the "Tales of interest!" files:

A couple years ago, in our old office at the top of the Monadnock building, I'm working on code for a product we're doing while Vitaly is working on a pentest for a big Rails client, and, like, 5 other people in the office are working on 5 other things.

I'm procrastinating while noodling through some stupid Riak thing and so I hear Vitaly say something about how some request he sent to the app produced binary gibberish in the response.

It turns out I'd rather noodle around with Vitaly's app than figure out how to make Riak do whatever basic thing I want it to do, so I walk over and look at the response. Vitaly has already noticed that the "binary gibberish" is actually corrupted in the response headers; the response is corrupt.

We both agree out loud that this is unusual and bad. A couple other team members walk over. In the span of about 4 minutes we figure out that the bug is triggered by inputs that include NUL bytes, and responses appear to be corrupted at the point where the input is, in the headers, echoed in the output. And a few reloads show that what looks like gibberish is actually stale server memory.

This is that nginx bug that came out back when. It's approximately as bad as Heartbleed, except that it only affects nginx (and it has a more complicated trigger condition, albeit one that applies to virtually every web application). And because we were all together in the same room when Vitaly found it, we isolated, analyzed, and weaponized it in minutes, rather than in hours or days.

(Ironically, someone else had noticed the same bug on the same day, and [fair enough!] got the reporting credit.)

Stuff like that happened all the time at Matasano. The in-person requirement is one the company is unlikely to let go of --- not that I have any say in it anymore. ;)