Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by jumby » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

RDN | www.recoverydatabase.net | jobs@recoverydatabase.net | Remote, USA

Recovery Database Network(RDN)is the leading web application for the repossession industry. We integrate with many of the largest lending institutions and repossession companies in the country to help facilitate their repossession workflow. Our company is profitable, growing and is looking for engineers to help design & develop our next-generation web and mobile applications in a fast paced, agile environment. Our team is small, creative, and highly driven, and we intend to keep it that way.

We are looking for a US-based employee, but otherwise location doesn’t matter – we believe strongly in the value of a virtual team.

RDN is owned by a larger parent company, OPENLANE, an innovator in the online wholesale auto auction space, which is in turn owned by KAR Auction Services (NYSE: KAR) a publicly held auction services company. What this means to you? The support and benefits of a large, established company, with the culture and energy of a start-up.

You need to be able to work in a self-directed, remote environment. You should be able to understand loose guidelines, translate them into code & design with minimal supervision to produce an excellent user experience for our customers. You should be comfortable talking directly to customers and our business partners, because you want to meet and exceed their expectations. We are a small team of hard-working engineers who enjoy the data sets we work with, enjoy challenges and thrive on cool design. You will be designing large elements of a very sophisticated web-application with a large amount of business logic. The ability to quickly come up to speed on repossession related terminology, workflow and concepts is highly desired.

Required Skills:

* Extremely self-directed. No one is looking over your shoulder - but can you handle the freedom?

* Expert level PHP 5.x development experience. OO only (yes, PHP! :-o)

* Expert level MySQL design. You should understand normalization, joins, query optimization, views, stored procedures and triggers and when and how to use them.

* Laravel, symfony, Zend or other MVC framework experience

* HTML/CSS/jQuery front-end design. We like things that look pretty.

* Extreme attention to detail. We hate bugs.

* Web application security

* Honesty and integrity

* Git

* Good communication skills -- Skype is your friend

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by pallinder » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:18 PM UTC

# About us

Universal Avenue enable thousands of people around world to make a living working where and when they want, as Brand Ambassadors. Our Brand Ambassadors create a global infrastructure for growth, giving the world’s top online brands the freedom to grow at any market at any time. Universal Avenue is based out of Stockholm and backed by Moor & Moor, the private investment arm of Kaj Hed, Chairman and main owner of Rovio, creators of Angry Birds.

# About you

- Good english

- 2 years of experience developing Rails applications

- Experience working in a tdd environment

- Experience with scaling Rails applications

- Believe in the sharing economy and find it interesting

# How to apply

send email to david@universalavenue.com with a link to your github profile and some information about yourself.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by mooreds » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:21 PM UTC

doctoboggan wrote: post #231

Harvard University - Cambridge MA / Greater Boston Area This is a somewhat strange job offer, it will not be like most other jobs posted here. I am looking for someone to replace me as a researcher in Jennifer Lewis' 3D printing lab[0] at Harvard. Jennifer is a world leader in 3D printing of novel materials, and her lab has some of the most precise 3D printers in the world. You will be the only software developer in…

Plus one for the cool factor!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by jscalisi » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:22 PM UTC

Palantir Technologies - Palo Alto, CA http://www.palantir.com. We build data fusion platforms for integrating, managing, and securing any kind of data, at massive scale. On top of these platforms, we layer applications for fully interactive, human-driven, machine-assisted analysis.

Build Systems/Internal Tools: The Internal Tools team at Palantir owns continuous integration, artifact & dependency management, build tools, source code management, and much more. We use a combination of open-source software (e.g. Gerrit, Jenkins, Ivy, Gradle), third-party enterprise software (e.g. Atlassian Bamboo and Stash), and in-house magic to develop robust and scalable systems. https://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m8000000...

Questions? Drop me an email at jscalisi@palantir.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by kethinov » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

jjarmoc wrote: post #180

RollAHardSix wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen Matasano on here several times and I have to say, I really wish you'd reconsider your Remote working policy. It seems like such an interesting place to work, but for me personally, moving just isn't an option. Your website lists 'Services' team-members as being required to work on a physical site, what other teams do you have? I am under the impression from your website that Services includes most Consultan…

Sorry. All I can really say is that we have a culture of cooperation and interaction that relies, in part, on physical proximity. It may change in the future, but for now we prefer folks to be in the office where they can interact with others with less friction. We're a lean company, so 'Services' encompasses all positions for which we're hiring.

I know you're just trying to build the best team you can, but in the interest of full disclosure every time I see someone say something like, "in the office where they can interact with others with less friction," all I see is "our team is bad at working remotely."

If you see remote as something that causes friction, I'd recommend looking at teams that swear by it reducing friction (like the friction of noisy offices and unnecessary commutes) and checking out the techniques they use to make it work so well.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by Jobsatgraze » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:27 PM UTC

graze.com | www.graze.com | jobs@graze.com |Richmond, United Kingdom

Apply via our careers site - http://bit.ly/1z9qbnV

Graze has a small but growing technical team of developers, UI designers and systems architects. We work across the business on our website, our logistics and manufacturing systems, data warehousing, mining and visualization tools and our international network. We are scaling up across the team to deliver the next generation graze platform to support our rapid international expansion.

About the role

As PHP developer in our platform development team you will work on our highly integrated software platform architecting services, researching and integrating new technologies and working on our architecture modernisation roadmap.

What you’ll be responsible for

Building and maintaining mission critical back-end applications and services to support a high volume e-commerce website and manufacturing and logistics centres Designing and modernising our core LAMP stack and applications, architecting for scale and maintainability Designing and building services Researching and introducing new technologies Mentoring other developers Live systems support

What we’re looking for in you

An obsessively detail oriented approach and unwavering standards of excellence Experience working in a high-traffic environment on mission critical software An intimate knowledge of the LAMP stack Extensive knowledge of software design patterns and application architecture A broad knowledge of programming languages and database platforms outside of LAMP

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by zacharypinter » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote)

We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike.

Our founders, former founding CEO and CTO of Hulu, Jason Kilar and Richard Tom, have assembled a unique and talented team, with strong experience building and innovating at places like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon. As a team, we are unusually passionate about the intersection of media and technology; we see an opportunity to improve media, particularly next generation video.

We're looking for strong developers who love to code in a variety of languages (Python, Node.js, React, Coffeescript to name a few) tackling every portion of the stack. If this sounds like you, learn more at http://www.vessel.com/careers or email careers@vessel.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by dford87 » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

InfoScount - San Francisco, CA http://infoscout.co/careers

* Who we are

Have you ever wondered who eats Spam? Or how about whether or not those new flavors of Red Bull actually get more people to buy Red Bull versus just giving existing Red Bull drinkers more flavors to choose from? Wish you knew why people pay more for Calvin Klein shirts than Ralph Lauren? And has Best Buy really turned into Amazon's showroom?

You're not alone. Those brands & retailers wonder about those questions and thousands more that InfoScout is uniquely positioned to answer. Thanks to more than 1-million users of our Receipt Hog, Shoparoo, ReceiptBin and Out of Milk apps, InfoScout captures more information about American's shopping patterns across all retailers than any other company. We do this by incentivizing app users to snap pictures of their shopping receipts and answer related surveys to understand the 'why behind the buy'. Our use of computer vision, crowdsourcing & big data analytics allow us to extract insights at a scale and depth never before possible for clients like Procter & Gamble, Anheuser Busch, Walmart & Visa.

* Senior Mobile Backend Engineer

We are looking for a self-starting engineer with a deep desire to learn & previous experience developing web applications ground-up.

The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable across the stack knowing their way around server-side web frameworks, leveraging relational databases to get the job done, tweaking web servers, building cross-device UX & building scalable APIs in Python (or other scripting language). We believe that mobile/web experiences are the future, and we're building a team that has deep engineering chops to take on some of the most ambitious projects.

To help accomplish this goal, you will have the environment to execute on your vision, the tools you need to rapidly iterate through your ideas and a dedicated team to help make you and your work better. In addition to writing quality software, we're looking for individuals who also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company: designing features, making good product decisions, programming at all levels of the stack, and the wearing of many hats.

* Requirements

- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Experience with server-side development, especially Python - Execellent knowledge of javascript, CSS, HTML and full server-side web stack experience. - Intimate understanding of REST and building scalable APIs - Intimate knowledge of relational databases (MYSQL a plus) - Experience with multithreaded programming - Experience developing, releasing, and supporting backend code - Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by kethinov » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:30 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #260

RollAHardSix wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen Matasano on here several times and I have to say, I really wish you'd reconsider your Remote working policy. It seems like such an interesting place to work, but for me personally, moving just isn't an option. Your website lists 'Services' team-members as being required to work on a physical site, what other teams do you have? I am under the impression from your website that Services includes most Consultan…

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 se…

"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."

It wasn't because you were all together in the same room, it's because you were communicating effectively and you're assuming there is no way to replicate that level of effective communication without being in the same room.

With proper tools and training, everything you did in that room could have been done over the internet instead. There are communal whiteboarding apps, collaborative code editing apps, amazingly expressive chat apps like Slack, not to mention good old fashioned audio/video chat tools.

It can be done. It is done frequently, every day. It makes me sad to see so many people on a place like Hackers News, dedicated to building the internet's Next Big Thing repeatedly claim that it's not possible to collaborate as effectively on the internet.

It's truly ironic.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

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Post by brandicmt » Mon, Dec 01, 2014, 6:31 PM UTC

Senior Software Engineers (Front End & Backend) | San Francisco - Soma | brandi@symphonycommerce.com | Symphony Commerce - https://symphonycommerce.com/

Fresh off a Series B funding round our engineering team is growing. Currently our engineering team is 25 people strong and looking to grow a bit more. We are currently looking for Senior Software Engineers for our front end and back end teams. Our senior engineers play a large role in our architecture, leading projects, mentoring other team members and of course shipping product.

Engineering is core to our culture, we are the largest team at Symphony Commerce. Our the team is bright, passionate, and driven. We are entrepreneurial and spend our time dreaming up projects that we could work on, sometimes they become hackathons we do together. We’re a very social bunch - happy hours, bouldering, hikes, even a ski trip from time to time. We embody a strong sense of learning on the team as well. We keep our tech up to date, and have a solid mentorship model, learning a lot from each other!

Our Technical Challenges Include: - Managed e-commerce platform with exceptional APIs - Best shopping experience across web, tablet, and mobile - Commerce logistics, 3PL, and inventory management built from the ground up (watch out Amazon) - Scalability - intelligent cluster management, distributed system architecture, real-time system health monitoring and alerting - ML based engines for product recommendation and pricing and promotion strategies - Analytics framework to support big data analytics and business reports.

Things we love! - End-to-end experience with databases (RDBMS or NoSQL) - Experience with Spring or Hibernate - Linux/Unix and scripting experience - Object-oriented CSS - Scala - Involvement in technology culture: Github, Blog, Hackathons and other open source contributions - Passion for ecommerce

Skills we look for: - Extensive experience any of the following: Javascript, HTML5 and CSS, Backbone, Angular, or similar frameworks - Solid background in object oriented programming (especially Java) - Expertise building large applications - Great communicator and team player - B.S. or M.A. in Computer Science or related discipline

Want to know more contact - Brandi Bergstrom (brandi@symphonycommerce.com)| More openings at: https://jobs.lever.co/symphonycommerce