Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by johnhess » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

KnowledgeHound - http://knowledgehound.com - Chicago, IL

Full stack (mostly Python/Django) developer to lead a team and architecture. Also searching for dedicated frontend/backend.

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   ====== What we do =========
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We build a search and visualization tool used by Fortune 500 companies to harness their small data -- the tens of thousands of (very expensive) survey's they're consumer insights team's have commissioned.

Why we exist: Most surveys and research go straight to someone's laptop hard drive, back of their mind, a neglected share drive, etc. Those surveys can cost 6 or 7 figures. Within the same company at the same time or the same department over time, this knowledge gets lost.

What we do for clients:

   - full-text document search
   - search within survey data files
   - visualizing data from survey files in browser
   - bring B2C quality and usability to an industry accustomed to being a backwater of enterprise software

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   ====== The team ===========
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We have a collaborative, whip-smart team of engineers and business folks.

Our leadership and client team are the real deal, and joining our team is a great opportunity for a great engineer to develop their "other half" and learn the ropes of growing a successful business. I have personally learned more than I can recount.

We're a diverse team:

    - founders, contractors, employees
    - backgrounds in gaming, healthcare, education, aerospace, design, linguistics, market intelligence (our sector), lots more
    - men, women, single, married, parents, etc.

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   ====== Who we want ========
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Soft Skills:

    - Mentoring and growing development teams
    - Articulating informed opinions on architecture, engineering quality, user experience, and development practices
    - Taking an honest-to-goodness interest in their teammates as human beings (you'll be in good company)
    - Working directly with clients, not just at a terminal
    - Excellent communication skills

Hard Skills:

    - Required: 
         - Python, Django (expert)
         - JavaScript (expert)
         - AngularJS or other JS frameworks (expert)
         - Git or another VCS (proficient)
         - Automated Testing (proficient)
         - Linux (proficient)
         - AWS or Heroku based deployment (proficient)
    - Preferred Experience:
         - ElasticSearch or Lucene
         - System Administration
         - Setting up/maintaining continuous integration system

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Interested? Have a question? Contact me directly at john@knowledgehound.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by unclesaamm » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

Giant Oak, Arlington, VA (DC area)

Work on small interdisciplinary teams to solve problems in crime and fraud detection. Some of the problems we are tackling right now include rhino horn poaching, human trafficking, and the illicit drug trade online. We use social science and domain expertise to inform machine learning, and vice versa. We're consolidating our offerings into a few core products, so we're in a period of high growth.

You would be our fourth engineer, first full-time front-end developer, or fourth social scientist.

We're looking for:

* Machine learning engineers, with experience translating models into scalable products.

* Front-end developers with an eye for design.

* Data/social scientists who thrive in coming up with clever solutions in environments with spotty data.

Email me at sam.zhang@giantoak.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by icco » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

kayue wrote: post #45

HYPEBEAST.com - Hong Kong (HK) - VISA Hiring full stack web / mobile developer

Is there a link to a job posting or a good contact email? Your "Contact Us" page doesn't really talk about gigs.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by xenadu02 » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:32 PM UTC

San Francisco - PlanGrid (YC12). Near 16th Street Mission BART. VISA, INTERN, FULL-TIME.

We sell an actual useful product for money (think version control for blueprints but our ambitions are much larger). We intend to own the construction software business, which is vastly under-served. The market is huge; construction is a multi-trillion dollar industry globally that still operates like they did in 1950. Our customers are so happy that up until the past three months we've had no marketing or sales whatsoever - we were profitable in year one just from word of mouth.

Our primary hiring philosophy is as follows: Wicked smart, NO DICKS.

We are looking for engineering and non-engineering positions. You can see the jobs and/or apply here: http://grnh.se/r1nhcp

* Senior iOS. We are shipping Swift code this month (see my Swift blog at http://russbishop.net ).

* Android. Small but growing team.

* Backend/API. Python and mongo, but we're investigating alternatives (Postgres? FoundationDB?) because we are steam-rolling to the trillion-with-a-capital-T mark on records.

* Windows. We are just starting this team so you have complete freedom. Will probably be C# with a shared library supporting a Desktop app and RT app.

* Data Science. You would think blueprints were created by professionals with standards. You'd be wrong. Put your machine learning skills to work on real world problems where a 1% improvement saves man-years of effort.

* Web. We do some real magic on the web; check out our blueprint annotating. This team is about to do some major re-factoring/re-writing with a focus on speed and maintainability.

Also hiring an IT Manager, Customer Support Heros, Marketing specialists, a Marketing Director, Field Sales, Biz Ops, and more.

Feel free to get in touch via my blog. I'm happy to answer any questions about what it's like to work at PlanGrid.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by mkeeter » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:37 PM UTC

Formlabs wrote: post #65

Formlabs (www.formlabs.com) - Boston (Cambridge), MA Join Formlabs as a Software Engineer and come make the best desktop 3D printing software on the market. We’re looking for talented generalists who are passionate about backend functionality and software architecture. -- Move quickly between C, C++, Python, QT, OpenGL, PhP, Django, Git, and more -- Work seamlessly in diverse environments (Windows, OSX, Linux) -- Rap…

We're also hiring for electrical and embedded engineering positions: Design and build boards from the ground up, hack on firmware (from bare metal to embedded Linux), and solve tricky problems for real world products.

I've been there for over a year doing both software and EE; feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by dorsma » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

Burlingame | Boulder | Brazil | REMOTE

Software Engineer - Web: Full Stack

Startgrid is an innovation challenges platform for entrepreneurial communities to work together to solve the world's problems.

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who can demonstrate expert level development skills across a range of technologies including Python, SQL, JavaScript, AngularJS, Bootstrap, git. Experience with golang (or a strong desire to learn) would be excellent.

We have a small but talented team with a great working dynamic. If you’re passionate about startups, entrepreneurship, and building really cool technology, we’d love to hear from you!

This position is open to both US and non-US residents. Flexible schedule around 9a-5p California working hours

Shoot us an email at jobs@startgrid.com and let us know a bit about you & projects you've worked on

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by knes » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

London, UK - Pusher - Full time - Can sponsor VISA - No Remote

The current Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.

Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who will thrive in a challenging environment, working on interesting problems. Our team is small but growing, and we value people who can contribute not only individually, but in the context of the team. Our engineering team is also heavily involved in operations, so you need to know how to deploy, monitor and maintain a large production system.

We are currently looking for:

* A VP of Engineering to help grow and manage our engineering team. More info in this job ad http://pusher.com/jobs/vp_of_engineering * Platform engineers that can build and improve our core platform. More info on http://pusher.com/jobs/platform_engineer

We have a tier visa license and can sponsor work VISA for non EU workers.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by jhdavids8 » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:47 PM UTC

Pathgather - NYC - Senior/Lead Frontend Engineer (pathgather.com)

We’re a Techstars NYC 2014 startup looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer, a Javascript expert that can come in and own one of the most engaging interfaces in the enterprise market today.

Our product is an enterprise learning platform that - unlike traditional systems - is one employees actually want to use. We’re solving a big problem felt by almost all large companies: how to continuously train and educate your workforce with modern/relevant content. More than 75% of all companies use a Learning Management System (LMS) for this, but their > 60% dissatisfaction rate shows these systems simply don’t work. We’re changing that.

What we're looking for:

* Javascript/Coffeescript expertise

* Strong experience with AngularJS

* UX focus

* Design skills a huge bonus

* Ruby/Rails knowledge another bonus, but certainly supplemental

What we can offer:

* A (more than) competitive salary & equity

* Opportunities to contribute to the open source community. Every Friday, you have the opportunity to work on anything open source: you can contribute to existing projects, work on your own, or open source a part of our codebase.

* An awesome team to work with, in an awesome location (Union Square in NYC)

* A chance to have a truly influential role at a fast-growing, ambitious startup!

If any of this sounds interesting or if you have some questions, please reach out to me at jamie@pathgather.com. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by sam » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:47 PM UTC

New York, NY - Octopart (YC W07)- http://octopart.com/jobs

* Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, Python, Solr/Lucene, Puppet/Ansible, MySQL/PostgreSQL)

* Full time Frontend Engineer (React/Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)

At Octopart, we're opening up access to electronic component part data through our search engine, http://octopart.com and our API, http://octopart.com/api .

We're connecting hardware hackers to the information they need to design the next generation of hardware devices. We're building the most intuitive, fast and beautiful interface for searching for electronic parts.

We're compiling the most extensive database on electronic components by combining data from tons of different sources.

We're behind the Common Parts Library, http://octopart.com/common-parts-library speeding component selection for connected devices.

We're all in NYC (no remote), we're a team of 13, our backgrounds are in Physics, CS, EE. We've been profitable since 2010.

We're from the YC W07 batch. We write a lot of Python and JavaScript.

If you're a software hacker who wants to build amazing tools for hardware hackers, tell us about yourself and include your resume in an email to jobs@octopart.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)

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Post by vtuulos » Thu, Jan 01, 2015, 5:49 PM UTC

AdRoll - San Francisco

If you like Python (or C or D or Erlang) and petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team.

Analytics is so critical to us that a large part of the stack, including our high-performance, in-memory data backend, is developed in-house in Python (Numba), Erlang, and C. Read more here

http://tuulos.github.io/pydata-2014/

http://tuulos.github.io/sf-python-meetup-sep-2013/

I'm happy to tell you more by email (ville@adroll.com) or over coffee in SF.

PS. We are also hiring Javascript engineers! Btw, we write our own convex optimizers, if machine learning is close to your heart - ping me for more info.