Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)

Staples SparX | San Mateo, CA or REMOTE | Full Time

Looking for:

   * Software Engineers
   * Dev Ops
   * Data Scientists

SparX is a small engineering team focused on applying online machine learning and predictive modeling to eCommerce (impacting a 24 billion dollar business). Our stack is 100% Clojure, service oriented, targeting 50 million users with 1ms SLAs. We apply engineering and data science to tough problems such as dynamic pricing, shipping estimations, personalized emails, and multi-variate testing. We are always looking for talent in data science, engineering and devops. Bonus points if you can bridge 2 of these together. We love people with strong fundamentals who can dive deep.

We're a small team, so you will have an opportunity for a high-impact role, targeting over 50 million users. But our best perk is our colleagues: a diverse and extremely talented team of seasoned engineers and data scientists. We are located in San Mateo, walking distance from the Cal-Train station. Come visit or apply online at http://staples-sparx.com.

Yup | iOS, Android, Full-Stack Web Engineers | SF | ONSITE, VISA | https://www.yup.com

Private on-demand tutoring for high school kids. You help us build the infrastructure, our tutors teach the kids, the kids get better grades[1], relieve anxiety, and become better humans.

Here's how it works:

Imagine you're a high school kid and you can't do your homework. Take out your phone, snap a pic of the problem, and within 20 seconds a tutor will help you out via chat. You talk to the tutor for however long it takes[2], and by the end of the session you've learned how to solve those kinds of problems. Your life is now better.

Here's where you come in:

We need engineers to help us build the product. It's been just four of us so far and we need help. I've personally built large swathes of the infrastructure, primarily the tutor side, and I need your help. On the immediate, you can help me move the rest of our codebase from Backbone to React. We're halfway there :)

Another imminent project is rebuilding the messaging infrastructure, making student/tutor matching smarter, moving the backend to a microservice model. All the things you'd expect to do in a startup moving from small to bigger.

Why Yup:

We're not just a Silicon Valley startup trying to get big fast and loose. Our goal is to build a product that helps people, has sound unit economics, and generates real revenue, not just users. Our BD branch is finding ways to bring Yup to underprivileged youths whose families couldn't afford it on their own by selling it to schools.

I've worked with many startups before and, honestly, this is the only one that's made me feel really good about what I'm building every day.

If you have questions, I'm on twitter and here as Swizec. If you wanna join us, email the CEO -> nag@yup.com

[1] we've had parents send us really nice emails saying their kid went from a D to a B+.

[2] some of our longest sessions so far have been north of 2 hours.

CoInvestor | London / Canterbury, UK | Onsite/Remote | Full-time | Lead PHP Developer | £55k-£70k

CoInvestor is an investment platform providing access to growth capital, tax efficient equity and income opportunities. We allow private investors to mix and match between investing in funds or building their own portfolios of direct investments by co-investing alongside these same funds.

We are looking for a lead php developer, ideally you would have a PHP background, failing that any object orientated language would do. We are looking for someone who can get hands on with a little DevOps where necessary.

Responsibilities:

* Deliver excellent production quality code and promote the use of test-driven development where applicable.

* Promote code reusability where appropriate with a view to reducing the development costs by applying principles of agile delivery.

* Work as an effective member of a scrum team, understand and contribute to the agile delivery process, taking ownership for the team's development quality from concept to production.

* Maintain, improve and hand over support documentation to the Operations team as part of production implementation.

* Ensure risks and issues are identified in a timely manner and effectively communicated with proposed resolution and mitigation strategies to the management team

A knowledge of AngularJs (1/2), REST API's & Laravel is desirable. Having experience with financial markets would be a bonus.

We have offices in Canterbury and London, and you would be expected to work at both locations from time to time as required. Potential for partially remote working depending on performance.

Please send your resume and cover letter to oliver(aaattt)coinvestor(dot co dot uk), and read more at http://www.coinvestor.co.uk

TerrAvion | San Leandro, CA | Engineering, Marketing, Technicians, Sales, HR | Full-Time, Part-Time

TerrAvion is the largest volume provider of aerial imagery to farms in the US. Each week or month, we map more than 100 times as much area as the whole electric drone industry combined. We are able to do this because we have the best model, the best technology, and the best team for delivering imagery to growers. Our company is highly interdisciplinary, fast-paced, and focused on solving real problems for farmers.

Our work is changing the world for the better, especially for the people who grow our food and wine. We are not a puerile drone start-up, we have a culture of responsibility, accountability, and excellence. We take these values seriously with respect to one another, our customers, and partners. We strive to be a place where team members can perform their best. If you share our values and believe in what TerrAvion is doing, we would love to have you join our team. We offer a continuously improving basket of benefits to employees appropriate for a start-up including: competitive cash compensation, equity in TerrAvion, an open office, a fridge full of snacks and drinks, work from home, and discounts on flight training. We are located in San Leandro, California, three blocks from the BART station. Positions:

--HR Specialist / HR Analyst

--Marketing Manager

--Full Stack Engineer

--CV Infrastructure Engineer

--Computer Vision Engineer

--Hardware Technician

--Regional Sales Vice President

--National Sales Director

Tech Stack: Node, Python, React, AWS, PostgreSQL

http://www.terravion.com/careers

Contact hr@terravion.com to apply.

Binti | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer | Full-time, onsite, will transfer H-1B | $100K – $140K, 0.25% – 1.0%

Binti makes software for foster care and adoption agency staff to improve their daily workflow so they can make better-informed decisions and spend more of their time actually helping people. Our mission is to find a safe, loving, and stable family for every child.

Binti's software is used by private adoption agencies in 30 states. We're in the midst of expanding into serving government foster care agencies and are close to reaching two-thirds of the foster care families in the state of California.

We have sustainable revenue, fanatical customers, and ample seed funding from top investors like First Round, Kapor, and Lowercase. We work together in SF and are growing rapidly.

Binti's main SaaS web product is a conventional monolithic Rails/Postgres app that delivers value in heaps and heaps, and remains super fun to hack on. We're building the monolith up higher and higher, and looking forward to soon chipping off a service or two (perhaps in Elixir?). Some of the areas in which we are especially seeking to round out our engineering team include web accessibility, front-end development, operations/"devops", UX, and security. We do not expect you to have all these skills, but are listing them here to give you a sense of our most pressing needs. We're using Kubernetes/Google Cloud.

https://binti.com/binti-careers/software-engineer/