Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)

I'm looking for two system engineers to help me build a new operations group within Amazon. Key skills: large scale technical operations, automation, Java stack tuning, and communication. If you like the idea of making a good service even better, in a role where your contributions will make a significant difference, this job may be for you.

If you're interested, fill out the application and email me at bdurrell@amazon.com.

We’re looking for super smart engineers to join the JustPark team and help us take our product to the next level. Current open roles include:

- Back End developer

- Full Stack developer

- Senior Full Stack developer

- Junior Android developer

- Data Scientist

The stack

Frontend: Gulp, Sass, Browserify, Babel, React

Backend: PHP, Python, MySQL, MongoDB

About us

Parking is a broken industry. It drains our fuel tanks, our wallets, our time and our sanity. It's been clogging up our towns for too long. At JustPark, we've officially had enough, and life's too short not to fix things. We connect the dots to ensure that those who need parking find the people who have it going spare. Our business is unlocking potential: we help homeowners, churches, schools, hotels, pubs and commercial car parks to boost their income by filling their empty spaces, making the most of the assets they have. JustPark is one of London's most exciting and fast-growing startups - with a record-breaking £3.7m equity crowdfunding round under its belt, on top of investment from BMW and Index Ventures. In 2015 alone, JustPark were featured in WIRED’s top 10 hottest startups, crowned winners of Richard Branson's 'Pitch to Rich', and nominated for the Growing Business Awards UK Employer of the Year.

Interview process

We usually review and reply to applications within 48h (either way) if it looks like a good fit we'll arrange a short phone call with someone from the team you'll be joining. Next is a technical task which you can complete in your own time and shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. After that will be onsite interviews with your team members and manager, we usually try and schedule this so you can join us for lunch as well. If all has gone well we'll make you an offer - we made an offer on the spot (which was accepted) for our last hire - obviously you're free to make the decision in your own time too.

Benefits

- A salary that is actually competitive.

- Generous stock options to match.

- Unlimited holiday.

- Free daily gourmet lunches, prepared by our lovely in-house chef.

- MacBook Pro.

- Table tennis and Friday beers on tap.

- Free parking at any JustPark space.

Learn more about the roles and apply: https://justpark.workable.com/ or email jobs@justpark.com

BetterHelp is an online counseling platform, we make people's lives better by helping them get 24/7 convenient access to a licensed counselor.

Our main selling points for the HN crowd:

-Engineers operate autonomously, acting as their own project managers and taking complete ownership of their projects, from getting it specced to building, testing, releasing and monitoring after launch. There is no waterfall because there aren't really handoffs.

-We are extremely data driven, every feature or change is a test, we let the data from tests decide.

-We try to do everything as an MVP: since we need data for our decisions we prefer to spend as little time as possible building anything. I know first hand how demoralizing it can be to spend months working on a doomed or pointless project, most of our projects are under 2 weeks, many under one week.

https://betterhelp.workable.com

General Assembly transforms thinkers into creators through education and opportunities in technology, business, and design. We offer classes, workshops, long-form courses, and events in worldwide markets including New York where we are headquartered, Atlanta, Austin, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Melbourne, and Washington DC. We also partner with Fortune 500 companies to spur innovation through increased digital fluency and more effective approaches to collaboration. We have small, cross-functional product teams that are developing innovative new solutions to online education, and currently we have various open positions across the engineering organization that we are looking to fill. If you want to be part of a diverse team, working on challenging tasks, and want to help the world expand their knowledge to better themselves and their careers via education, drop us a line. If you're in New York City, let's grab a drink or a coffee and chat!

High level stack overview: - Ruby, Rails, React. Python for data eng.

Interview process: - Introductory call, Code challenge, Pairing Session, Group Interview.

Looking for: - Data Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/generalassembly/jobs/50830)

See our full list of open positions at https://boards.greenhouse.io/generalassembly.

Amazon development Centre (Scotland) is looking for experienced software developers with strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Our development centre in Edinburgh is responsible for devising and growing innovations for Amazon around the world. Small teams of developers, designers and leaders run major parts of Amazon’s business, technology and operations. From interactive UI design to large-scale distributed systems and machine learning, we do whatever it takes to deliver great products and experiences for our customers.

Our work is characterised by high scale, complexity and the need for invention. We offer great opportunities to work on big data, machine learning and high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

We use a wide variety of languages including Java, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript; Open Source technologies including Linux, Ruby on Rails, and AngularJS; and we build on top of Amazon’s world-leading AWS platform.

For more information take a look at our microsite - http://www.amazondc.com

Feel free to get in touch with me – contact details in my profile - if you are interested in having an informal chat about roles here. (Please note, I only recruit for the Edinburgh Dev Centre, so cannot help you with other roles/locations)