Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

ChatID (New York, NY) http://chatid.com

ChatID is a quickly growing platform for brands and consumers to directly communicate via chat across any website and on any device. Our chat product is live for select brands on Walmart.com, Sears.com and Newegg.com

Our current openings:

* Frontend Engineer - we're building real-time communication interfaces for mobile and desktop web using Backbone.js, XMPP, and BOSH

* Client Services Engineer - work with frontend and client services to help technically support new and existing clients

* Data Engineer - help us build a data pipeline and analytics service to give our clients insights into chat and consumer behavior on retailers. (this one isn't listed yet but if you're familiar w/ Python and skilled in SQL, and NoSQL, please reach out to us)

* You can find full job descriptions for these openings at https://chatid.gethired.com/ as well as other non-technical openings we have

About the company:

- We're 16 people mostly based in NYC, but also SF and Austin

- NYC office is in Flatiron between Union Square and Madison Square

- Newegg.com recently awarded us a 2014 Eggie award for "Best Marketing Platform"

- We like contributing to open source https://github.com/chatid

Technologies we use:

- Lua and Prosody [https://prosody.im/] an open source XMPP server started by two of our cofounders, one of which is a member of the XMPP council

- CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Require.js, Angular.js, D3, SASS/LESS

- Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, RabbitMQ

- Chef for infrastructure automation, but we're working on switching over to using Ansible and Docker

Sound interesting? Send us an email at careers@chatid.com and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions: jeremiah@chatid.com

Soostone NYC - New York, NY - REMOTE or ON SITE

http://www.soostone.com

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Soostone is a specialized software technology and consulting company centered around predictive analytics in the enterprise space. We work with a prominent group of clients that are leaders in retail, hospitality and travel industries. We combine our cloud-based, SaaS technology platforms with an investigative approach to deploy predictive analytics into real-life optimization scenarios and produce unique results for our clients. Along the way, we tackle numerous interesting challenges including high volume APIs, high volume data processing, distributed computation systems, streaming data aggregation, real-time decision making, machine learning, data visualization, domain-specific languages, library design and highly dynamic (single-page) rich web applications. We also care deeply about contributing back to the OSS community and make an effort to release internal projects whenever appropriate.

You will find brief descriptions for our open positions below; please reach out to us at jobs@soostone.com if interested and would like to find out more.

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Experienced Application and UX Designer

We are looking for significant previous experience and a passion for crafting polished, highly dynamic web applications with an excellent sense of design and usability. Should have operational capabilities in graphics design, Photoshop/Illustrator/GIMP and similar software and strong proficiency in HTML and CSS. A formal background in design is considered a big plus.

Data Scientist

We are looking for a solid background in math, statistics, or numbers-heavy engineering with significant experience working with real world data to produce insightful analyses, sometimes employing machine learning and statistical algorithms.

Functional Programmer

Most of our software stack is written in Haskell, so experience with strongly typed functional programming languages is required. The ability to deliver operational code is essential. Ideal applicants would have a formal education in FP, type systems, etc and demonstrated open source contributions.

ITU is looking for rails developers of all skill levels to join our engineering team to help build educational software that doesn't suck.

International Technological University (itu.edu) Location: San Jose / Remote

We're a fast growing internal software division at a non-profit university specializing in masters and doctorate degrees. ITU has tasked us with building an enterprise grade educational system that meets it's needs helps ITU scale as it operates and opens new campuses internationally.

While ITU is a largely academic environment, we have a fairly progressive work environment. Most engineers set their own hours, we focus on an agile/SCRUM-like iterative workflow, and we're firm believers in TDD and code review.

We also feel strongly that our most valuable asset is our people, and we invest in them. ITU employees get free access to masters and doctorate level courses and we have a dedicated training budge with additional time for personal enrichment (pet projects, read up on some new tech, etc).

If you're interested in working with us, know that you do not need to be a rockstar, but you do need to be able and willing to communicate, learn, and collaborate.

Contact: Damien Wilson

EDIT:

Some points I forgot to mention:

  * We're predominantly a rails/node shop, but we're happy to hire good people with relevant experience in different tech stacks
  * We are happy to hire remotely, but not for junior positions. We find that more junior software engineers need a bit of training before they're self sufficient enough to be productive.

TellApart - Burlingame, CA. New York City (Full-Time, Intern, Visa): Software Engineering

TellApart helps many of the world’s most successful retailers unlock the power of their customer data by applying the latest advances in cloud computing, predictive analytics, and machine learning. Our Customer Data Platform collects and analyzes massive amounts of data to power an integrated suite of marketing solutions that delivers personalized shopping experiences for 100s of millions of consumers in real time.

About Us:

- Profitable (http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/12/ad-tech-startup-tellapart-h...)

- Featured as one of Wealthfront’s Career Launching Companies for the 2nd year in a row (https://blog.wealthfront.com/107-career-launching-tech-compa...)

- Backed by Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures

- Small, but growing team

Tech Stack:

- Apache Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Parquet, Cascading, MySQL, Voldemort, Memcached, Zookeeper

- AWS, Aurora, Mesos

- d3.js, Ember.js

Problems we solve:

- Scale our existing data pipeline to handle 10x the data to match our current growth trajectory. (We are currently one of AWS’ biggest customers and only have a 50 person engineering team)!

- Research, design, and launch dual-homed, distributed storage systems that allow single digit millisecond access times to satisfy the stringent 40ms request time real-time bidding constraints.

- Migrate our legacy identity system used for audience targeting and real time bidding, to a new identity system built with concepts taken from the Lambda architecture

- Make performance optimizations to our real time bidding service to bring 99.9th percentile latency to within 30ms

We're currently hiring for all engineering positions. Apply via our careers page (http://www.tellapart.com/careers/)

Snowball is looking for full-stack engineers - Location: San Francisco

Snowball aggregates messages from all of your favorite messaging apps -- SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Twitter, Telegram etc. We give you a single, lightning-fast way to access your conversations.

It's a simple idea with big implications: we're pushing the boundaries of the Android platform to make the OS social.

We're building a cross network social graph. What we're not building: yet another app.

Why work with us?

1 - We're doing truly ambitious things with the Android platform -- making humans a primitive on the device. The problems are hard and interesting. After all, who wants to work on yet another photo sharing app?

2 - You're working with founders who have already built and sold a company to Google. If you want to be a founder someday we'll teach you everything we know; in fact, 50% of the engineers from our last company are now founders.

3 - You get real equity and a real salary. We want everyone to succeed in the case of an exit and we don't want anyone to starve while we get there.

4 - Everyone at the company is technical and actively writes code. Except the dog. And we're trying to teach her :)

Email me: helloanish [at] squanda [dot] com