Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

SAN FRANCISCO – Senior iOS Developer for Founding Team

Snowledge (http://snowledgeapp.com/)

We are looking for a Senior iOS Developer with the technical vision to build an app for the first true navigation and performance tracking platform for skiing and snowboarding.

About the Company

Snowledge is a mobile and web-based navigation and performance tracking community for the mountains. It equips skiers and snowboarders with valuable inside knowledge to navigate and explore their mountains, GPS technology to capture geotagged stats, photos, & videos, and a community to engage with each other and members of the ski and snowboard industry.

We are a seed stage startup with years of involvement in the skiing & snowboarding industry, including former Junior Olympic ski racing and current competitive big mountain skiing experience. We’ve raised a seed round of investment and partnered with 13 mountain resorts, in addition to a popular weather and snow forecasting site, to help develop and test our beta.

Desired Skills & Experience

As a Senior iOS Developer, you will work directly with the founder to go from mockups to working prototypes for a private beta group. You should be comfortable working at all levels of the stack, obsessed with measuring everything, detail oriented, and above all, hungry to succeed.

  ● B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science
  ● 4+ years of professional engineering experience
  ● Expert knowledge of the Objective-C language
  ● Proven track record of developing quality apps currently available in the app store
  ● A mellow personality (but an insane work ethic)

Contact eric@snowledgeapp.com. Please include your resume, examples of apps and sites you’ve worked on, and your Github profile.

Delhi (Other areas negotiable), India

Systems Developer, CycleTel

Are you passionate about using technology to create social impact? Do you operate well in start-up environments, building new ideas and strategies from scratch? Do you want to be part of a social enterprise that is positioned to change lives in India? This is your chance to join and shape a fast growing, mobile health (mHealth) service at a critical inflection point.

CycleTel is an mHealth innovation, developed and tested in India, that is positioned to be the first ever family planning method offered via SMS. No doctors, no visits to the health clinic—CycleTel puts family planning knowledge and use in the hands of couples, on their mobile devices. Based on the Standard Days Method (SDM) of family planning, the service has the potential to aid millions of women in India who have access to a mobile phone.

CycleTel seeks a passionate and skilled developer to lead development and administration of our SMS-based solution in India. The candidate will have an exceptional track record in software, preferably with experience in building and maintaining mobile systems services in India.

CycleTel is an initiative developed and incubated by Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) in Washington, DC. IRH works to reduce unmet need for family planning by increasing fertility awareness and expanding access to family planning methods.

As a Systems Developer, you will help us improve, deploy and maintain our SMS-based solution. You will help us expand our reach within India and globally by adding multi-language support to our existing English/ Hinglish-based code. You will also help us expand by leading the development and integration of our application with technical partners. The System Developer will be part of the CycleTel team in India, and work in a focused team, reporting to our India CycleTel Manager, based in Delhi.

Please send cover letter and CV to the CycleTel team at charu.chadha.irh@gmail.com,

Back-end web developer - New York City - PersonalGenomes.org 501(c)(3) / Open Humans (http://openhumans.org)

As the Senior Software Engineer at PersonalGenomes.org you will work on the Open Humans Network, a project that aims to help people aggregate and share their health and trait data to advance scientific, educational and humanitarian causes. Our model for this initiative is the work we’ve done on the Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP), which has over 3,000 volunteers publicly sharing extensive biological and trait data, including hundreds of whole genomes, exomes, and genotyping data sets, over 1,000 health records, microbiome datasets from various bodily habitats, device data, brain imaging, etc. This combination of a highly informed and engaged community of volunteers and their contributions of extremely rich biological and health data, along with a network of collaboration-minded researchers, is an incredibly powerful scientific and educational resource that is unrivaled elsewhere. We will build on this momentum with this exciting new initiative that will transform participatory research and advance human health. Our current hiring position is focusing on someone with back-end web development skills, as we have plans to work with a design firm for initial front-end work. Because we plan to develop open source software used by researchers, we believe Python (which many scientists use) is generally preferred.

We're looking for someone who...

-- Is interested in building and managing a full-stack website. As the Senior Software Engineer, your expertise will be an important factor in decisions about what kind of technology is used and how it’s deployed.

-- Has used multiple programming languages to build production systems (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Ruby).

-- Is experienced with back-end web development (e.g. Django or Rails).

-- Is comfortable managing Unix servers, cloud-based services and has opinions about how to store and disseminate large datasets (currently around 50TB total, although we would start with managing -- Works well in a small team of developers and scientists.

-- Loves science, participatory research, and free/open source ideals.

-- Believes in our mission!

About us: PersonalGenomes.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to generate, aggregate and interpret human biological and trait data on an unprecedented scale. PersonalGenome.org's mission is to make a wide spectrum of data about humans accessible to increase biological literacy and improve human health. Its efforts are informed by values encouraging greater transparency and collaboration between researchers and participants. The organization supports the Personal Genome Project (PGP) global network. The first PGP research study was founded at Harvard Medical School in 2005, and PGP sites now exist at leading institutions in four countries. We also produce the annual Genomes, Environments and Traits (GET) Conference. More information is available at http://www.personalgenomes.org

About Open Humans: We have years of practical experience, thousands of participants, and diverse data sets accrued. What we need now is an experienced developer to help us build a site for participants and researchers to manage and publicly share this data. Think of this as a nonprofit startup project!

Read more about Open Humans at http://openhumans.org and apply for the position by contacting us: Jason Bobe (jason@personalgenomes.org) and Madeleine Ball (madeleine@personalgenomes.org)

Cargo shrink is a 25B/year problem in the US -- way bigger globally (logistics by itself is a 4T industry) -- however, we're more about fixing disruptable supply chains (which is way harder to measure, but also way larger). Cargo shrink can be theft, spoilage, misplacement, or a bunch of other similar reasons. Our hardware helps us track that kind of stuff and our predictive analytics helps us figure out the ramifications of what happens down the line!

Medallia, Palo Alto, Intern and Visa. A lot of jobs available given incredibly rapid growth across engineering and business. See full list:

http://www.medallia.com/careers/