Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Position Description: https://docsend.com/view/uidh4qs

### The Company

DocNav, based in New York City, is looking for its first engineering hire. DocNav is launching a product that solves a unique problem in the legal technology space, but whose applications range well beyond law firms to include hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate firms, investment banks, and beyond. More broadly, the mission of the company is to bring technology to bear on problems that professionals in finance, investment, and law don’t even know they have.

### The Product

DocNav makes large, complex legal and financial documents interactive and easy to navigate and untangle. The product is simple to use and intuitive, but results in a very powerful user experience with a learning curve that is almost zero. The idea and design are based on my own 15-year career in the private equity and hedge fund business and the product is something I wanted but could not find.

The current product is in private beta and getting a strong response from the hedge fund community. It has so far been described as ‘magic’ and ‘legendary’ by guys who don’t often use the words ‘magic’ and ‘legendary’ for professional services. Applications of the product are far ranging and user segments include hedge funds, private equity funds, asset management firms, investment banks, in-house counsel’s offices, COO’s and CFO’s, and law firms ranging from top 20 “white-shoe” firms to small and medium size offices.

### The Position

This is a chance to build a unique product with far-ranging applications that could develop in numerous different directions. I want to work with someone who is excited to solve nerdy engineering and design problems, and who will proactively suggest solutions or new directions.

You will be on a lean team with lots of interesting things to work on, including developing and refining algorithms to make sense of unstructured documents, refining an elegant user experience, hacking growth to increase the user base, and helping turn a beta product into a truly enterprise-grade, scalable, secure application. Experience with or an interest in natural language processing and machine learning methods is a plus, but the most important thing is an ability to creatively solve technical problems.

No BS environment, let’s create a great product and see where it takes us, there are tons of directions this could go.

### About Me

I’m an electrical engineer by schooling but spent my entire career working for hedge funds and private equity firms doing everything from leverage buyouts and growth investments to trading structured credit bonds. I left the business because I was more interested in bringing technology to bear on all kinds of problems that exist at financial firms. I have built the product myself up to this point, but now I want to build a team and need a talented engineer and a teammate to take the product to the next level and push forward with product development, user growth, and revenue generation in the near term.

### Current Development Stack

- Python / Django - AWS EC2, S3, RDS (Postgres) - HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript (though we will have outside development help on front end design and implementation, I need a real engineer to figure out deeper solutions for architecting and implementing new killer features) - Backbone.js

### Compensation

Competitive compensation package consisting of salary plus equity.

### Contact

Please send resumes to rishi@docnavlab.com, www.docnavapp.com

Senior Software Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/urx/jobs/13706#.VH0YelfF9Ns)

URX is looking for an experienced software engineer to take URX’s architecture to the next level by working on projects that touch all components in URX’s technology stack. We strive to find or create the right tool for the job, so URX believes in fostering a polyglot organization. URX looks for versatile problem solvers with strong CS fundamentals who are excited to learn new languages and frameworks. The ideal candidate will not only build solid systems, but also excel at sharing knowledge with teammates and guiding the architecture of systems developed by the team.

We work with a wide variety of languages (Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, Go and C) and infrastructures (AWS, Elastic Search/Lucene, HDFS/HBase, Spark, CephFS and Mesos), so if you love working with a full stack, we’d love to hear from you.

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Data Quality and Collection Assistant

The Data Quality and Collection Assistant role is an ideal opportunity for an entry level candidate who is interested in learning more about how data collection, quality assurance, and analysis can support and drive progress and innovation in public education. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain ownership over increasingly complex projects as their expertise is developed.

Requirements: SQL skills, Advanced Excel, Scripting language

For more information and to apply: http://kippcareers.force.com/JobDetail?id=a0Xd0000004u2SpEAI

One of our offices: Shanghai, China

We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure.

We work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like http://devo.ps or http://sweepboard.com).

We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin and are looking at remote hiring in Spain and Seoul.

We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

We are looking for full-time or interns:

- Developers; front-end (HTML5 + Compass + AngularJS), backend (node.js, Python), ops (Python, Go).

- CSS/HTML Designers; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML/CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content strategy, color theory, ...) http://careers.wiredcraft.com/

- Strategist; you can quickly immerse yourself in a new field of knowledge, have a knack for data and are quick at recognizing patterns. You are a jack-of-all-trades that can think a solution and get it shipped, either alone or with a team.

- Marketing; you have what it takes to grow a brand or product online and understand how to leverage online and offline tools to get there.

- Business Development; if you are in Washington DC, Berlin or Paris, understand enough of our space and would like to help us grow our services, shoot us an email.

Drop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to http://wiredcraft.com/careers.html