Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by kgray » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

iOffice - Houston, TX (Remote OK)

We are a successful company with over a thousand large customers. We are looking for passionate developers to add to our small team. Our application covers many different areas from iPhone & Android mobile apps to, visual floor plan management, and map/GIS integration.

Our stack consists of

HTML/JS/CSS

Java/Hibernate backend

Actionscript & Adobe AIR

PhoneGap

Sencha Touch

Even if you don’t have experience with any of these technologies, if you want to work on some exciting projects drop me a line. Our new projects planned for 2013 include: indoor Wi-Fi triangulation, people sensors, WebSockets for real time notifications and application updates, 3D model rendering and of course more mobile apps! We are looking for creative programmers and are open to remote development (in the US).

Send me your resume and a portfolio (if you have one) kgray@iofficecorp.com

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by robertreillo » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

King.com is looking for people with several different skill sets, e.g. data scientists, game developers, java backend developers, in Barcelona, London, Stockholm, Malmö (Sweden) and Bucharest:

http://about.king.com/jobs/open-positions

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by astarwithin » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

INFOCHIMPS

FULL-TIME, AUSTIN, TX (remote is a possibility for the right candidate)

DATA ENGINEER and OPERATIONS ENGINEER (Data Architect/ DevOps are also apt descriptions here)

Infochimps is a world-class big data shop, with a unique approach and philosophy that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. We’re the authors of Ironfan, the premiere way to manage clusters in the cloud (http://github.com/infochimps-labs/ironfan). Our data pipeline uses technologies such as HBase, Elastic Search, Flume, Pig, and Hadoop. We’ve also developed tools of our own to make the ingestion pipeline run more smoothly, like a Ruby-based interface to Hadoop and a bulk loader for Elastic Search, that you can check out at http://github.com/infochimps-labs.

You can read more about our culture and openings here: http://www.infochimps.com/careers

email us: careers AT infochimps DOT com

:)

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by colinschlueter » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

Berlin, Germany - http://www.sofatutor.com/

We're currently looking to grow our technical team and are searching for skilled Ruby on Rails developers and a great product manager. Additionally we're hiring for several positions in our marketing and editorial teams, following our recently announced VC round.

sofatutor.com is an educational video platform and one of the largest education startups in Germany. We're a small technical team building a fast-growing online platform to help students study for school and university, using Ruby, Rails, Amazon Web Services and a bunch of related tools and services. So far, the team is mostly German, but we're working in English for most stuff anyway and would love to get more people from abroad to join us here in Berlin. (We'll help with the German bureaucracy, residency status etc.)

Full job descriptions (in German and English) at http://www.sofatutor.com/jobs, but feel free to contact me (CTO & Managing director) directly if you're interested, know someone who might be or simply have any questions (colin@sofatutor.com).

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by spencerb » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Appboy in New York appboy.com/jobs

Appboy is a marketing, analytics and customer relationship management platform for mobile app developers and marketers. Through data, insights, and diagnostic information powered by Appboy’s SDK and served through a web dashboard, Appboy provides platform users with enhanced messaging channels to interact and manage relationships with customers.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by jasonkneen » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 3:55 PM UTC

Windsor, UK, Ruby Engineer, Full-time

We’re looking for 2-3 expert Ruby engineers to help us build a series of major enhancements to our dating platform and infrastructure over the next 12 months. You’ll have worked on high availability transactional systems, helping to analyse, design and implement improvements to ensure they can scale effectively, and understand the challenges in building a large, complex web application.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement application and infrastructure components. - Analyse and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of system. - Work with developers to create new features and functionality. - Advise best practices from large-scale application experience.

Requirements and skills:

- Proven experience of building high availability, large-scale web apps and infrastructure. - Understanding and implementation of distributed message-based systems. - Expert knowledge developing and debugging in Ruby - Solid competency with SQL (MySQL) and data caching strategies (memcached)

Desired:

- Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc or equivalent) - Expertise in C, Perl, and an interest in functional programming. - Practical experience with non-relational data stores. - Good standing in the open source community.

And also:

- A passion and flair for all things web tech. - Excellent communication and documentation skills. - Accountability, responsibility and flexibility.

http://globalpersonals.theresumator.com/apply/3BSEPp/Ruby-En...

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by jmtuley » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

Quick Left

FULLTIME in Boulder, CO

So, you're probably awesome and want to work with awesome people -- shoot your resume to careers@quickleft.com and let's chat!

Quick Left is hiring Developer Apprentices, Web Developers, Senior Web Developers and Web Designers -- see www.quickleft.com/careers for details. We also offer relocation assistance (but cannot currently hire for remote work).

Quick Left is a small (~20) web development shop in downtown Boulder, Colorado. We primarily build custom Rails apps and single-page JavaScript apps (against API backends). We frequently use (and commit to!) libraries like Underscore.js, Backbone.js, and Require.js. We also have a small-but-slowly-growing iOS component to our work.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by Frencil » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

SparkFun Electronics (Boulder, CO)

Looking for a full time web application developer. Debian/Nginx/PHP/MySQL stack with a dash of MongoDB. Heavily open source environment (SparkFun is a leading in Open Source Hardware) and our dev shop is just as committed.

Free beer on tap, dogs allowed at work, excellent employee discount and free or heavily discounted access to tools, resources, and learning about electronics and physical computing. Using spare cycles for tinkering is encouraged.

Full job posting with application instructions:

https://www.sparkfun.com/jobs/30

Note: forking a Git repository is part of the application process.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

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Post by jasonkneen » Mon, Oct 01, 2012, 4:01 PM UTC

Windsor, UK, Ruby on Rails Developer, Full-time

We’re looking for Ruby on Rails developers to join our team of 30+ developers, engineers and designers at Global Personals. We’re focused on creating the very best online dating platform in the industry. We’re highly profitable, growing quickly and want to recruit the best people to work with our experienced team and be a part of our future.

We’re based in the centre of Windsor, west of London. We’re easily commutable from London (West from Paddington or South-West direct from Waterloo), Reading, Staines or Slough.

You’ll work in a relaxed, social office, alongside 95+ other Global Personals people – not just developers!

We’re working on several exciting new Rails projects and want to encourage you to bring your ideas to the team. We use Scrum, Kanban and are always aiming to improve skills together. The development team often go to industry events and regularly attend and have spoken at LRUG (London Ruby User Group) meetings.

You’ll need the following skills/attributes:

- Ruby on Rails (solid, commercial experience) - MySQL (or equivalent RDBMS) - Knowledge of Javascript using jQuery or Prototype. - Ability to write clean, semantic, well-formed HTML and CSS. - Proficiency with Linux/Unix server commands. - Team lead experience, strong communicator, cheerful team-worker and best practice stickler.

The following are nice-to-haves:

- TDD and BDD - Agile work environment experience - Links to open source projects or blogs you’ve written on. - Previous dating or social networking projects. - Attribute-based searching with Sphinx. - ColdFusion, Perl.

http://globalpersonals.theresumator.com/apply/IxAP7y/Ruby-On...