Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)

Accedo.tv, Stockholm | Hong Kong | Madrid | Santiago

SOFTWARE ENGINEER Job Description

Accedo.tv is looking for experienced web developers who wants to join our team of talended developers to continue to build and deliver rich web apps for the TV.

The interactive TV space is growing rapidly and we are delivering rich media apps on multiple platforms ranging from Smart TVs, gaming consoles and media devices to smart phones and tablets.

At Accedo you will get the opportunity to utilize your skills in rich front-end web development skills to create exciting ways for consumers to access media on their TV sets. The working environment is international and challenging – giving you the possiblity to evolve your skill set while working with new technologies and exciting customers and partners like HBO, Fox, Viaplay, Spotify, Orange and DTAG.

So, if you are experienced in modern web technologies and rich front-ends, love working in an international environment and interact with customers – we would very much like to talk to you more about what we do and how you could help us transform people’s living room experience.

Skills & Requirements: Experienced in modern web development. Experience of web services and application development in smart phone / tablet space. Knowledge in SCRUM and/or other modern development methodologies. Experience from system/solution architect responsibilities from non-trivial projects. Experienced in the TV industry (IPTV, Connected TV) is certainly a plus but not a necessity.

About Accedo.tv

Accedo is the global market leader in TV application solutions. Accedo provides applications, tools and services to media companies, consumer electronics and TV operators globally, to help them deliver the next-generation TV experience. Accedo’s cloud-based platform solutions enable customers to cost-efficiently roll out and manage application offerings and stores for multiple devices and markets.

Accedo is a privately held company founded in 2004 by telecom and media entrepreneurs Michael Lantz and Fredrik Andersson. Accedo is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with branch offices in London, Madrid, Palo Alto, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Sydney.

Contact nik at accedo dot tv, put HN in the subject line.

Square — NYC https://squareup.com/ ---

Square! In October 2012, we acquired the design firm 80/20 and have had New York based colleagues for some time now. Our logical next step was to bootstrap a NYC Engineering presence to tap in the growing community here. We just started building the Engineering team in July.

As a company, we have four main focuses.

Go international. We're adapting what made us successful in the US abroad. This is harder than typical international plays since it requires translating our four major benefits to small merchants: 1. Shipping readers, 2. Card payments (physical world is much more complex than online), 3. Sending money quickly to our merchants, a.k.a. settlement: very localized and next-day is hard on a number of fronts), 4. Assessing risk of merchants as they sign up, aka underwriting: again, very localized most countries do have FICO scores, SSN, D&B numbers and such.

Move up market. One of the biggest success of Square is to have enabled merchants who were "non-consumers" to start accepting credit cards. In classic disruptor fashion, we have essentially alonged the long tail. We haven't been eating someone else's lunch, we've created a whole new category! Now it's time to move up to bigger merchants.

The other side of the counter. With Wallet, Square Market (http://squareup.com/market) and Square Cash (http://squareup.com/cash), we're going on the other side of the counter and interacting directly with consumers. We think that we can provide the best experience for consumer-to-merchant and consumer-to-consumer commerce. We're at the infancy, but extremely well positioned to succeed.

Data as product. We're leveraging our data. We know a lot about our merchants: daily sales, seasonality, growth of their business, correlation with other events (e.g. Mapping Square Payments During the Super Bowl). Lots of innovative products are in the making which will highlight the breadth of what we do.

In NYC, we're starting with a focus on infrastructure, distributed systems, and money moving systems. We're a small team, located in SoHo, and defining the culture of engineering for Square on the East Coast.

If you're interested; I'd love to chat. Shoot me an e-mail with your resume! wkm@squareup.com

Emcien - Atlanta, GA

We are looking for a developer with experience developing interfaces using modern js/coffee frontend frameworks.

Emcien develops interfaces into complex graph analyses, visualized in several applications. These are built on D3, backbone, rails, and MySQL, with a few other technologies where they're necessary. (The core science is performed in a C library built, tested, and interfaced with via Ruby FFI).

The environment is developer-focused, and combines the nicer features of an established company (job security, benefits) with the feel of middle-stage startup (tech-focused atmosphere, developer control over process and direction, and an understanding of technical debt).

http://emcien.com/jobs/frontend-engineer/

It can be hard to tell if a company would be a good fit from a job posting - feel free to make conversational contact first. You can reach me at emueller@emcien.com (I'm an engineering lead). I'm happy to answer your questions about the company and culture.

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DuckDuckGo (Paoli, PA, USA) - LOCAL OR REMOTE.

We would welcome 1-2 additions to our small core search engineering team. This team works across our full architecture (https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/architecture) though does more back-end and data algo than front-end and dev-ops, which are primarily handled elsewhere.

Previous search experience or extensive experience with our particular architecture is not necessary, though this is not a junior level position.

Please note our hiring process is a bit different. If you need to immediate full-time employment this process probably doesn't work for you because we usually contract for a couple months first (paid).

https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring