Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by calbear81 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

Sunnyvale, CA - Software Engineers

Room 77 is building the world's first hotel room search engine. We launched in February 2011 and won "Best Overall" startup at the LAUNCH conference and the Audience Choice award at Web 2.0 Expo so we've got a lot of great momentum.

We’re looking for superstar engineers to join our team in Sunnyvale, California — the heart of Silicon Valley. We're well funded and have a roster of superstar investors and angels.

Who you are:

Superstar coder, self-motivated, focused, and interested in making a big impact as an early employee of a fast-paced startup

BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field

Passionate about travel

What you’ll do:

Build upon Room 77’s first public product with powerful new features

Design algorithms to enable the world's fastest and most feature-rich travel search engine (primarily with C++, Javascript, PHP and Python)

Revolutionize the way people travel

Send us your resume at jobs+engw[at]room77.com or find out more (including our puzzles) at http://www.room77.com/jobs.html

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by kaib » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

seddona wrote: post #139

kaib wrote: post #56

Helsinki, Finland - engineering, computational geometry and distributed systems Tinkercad is a funded startup making a solid modeling web application for artists and makers. The product is currently in closed beta. We work daily with hard problems combining cutting edge research in volumetric models and soft real time distributed systems. Our software stack is written in JavaScript, Go and a bit of C++. Job perks inc…

Would love to see a blog post about the tech behind this.

I'm planning to do a few now that we start to emerge. Sign up for the mailing list or follow me on twitter, I'll announce the blog posts there.

Basically we have a client side rendering engine combined with a cluster based solid modeling kernel. To get everything interactive we have pretty strict deadlines both for the server processing and for transferring the data to the client. I used to work at Google as systems programmer and even compared to that infrastructure this is pretty interesting and hard stuff.

Edit: I'm @KaiBackman on twitter.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by Jakob » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:02 PM UTC

Munich, Germany - Game Developer

Pokermania connects social gaming with world-known artists. We are partly community partly online gaming and have small offices in Cologne and Munich. Cologne travels through the world and returns with the best artists and brands. The other half is the engineering department and sits in Munich. We are technically-driven and develop a social poker platform.

The mixture between entertainment industry and software development is fast-paced. But our small team entertains many users simultaneously. The work changes frequently. We love to be responsible for the complete system and scale it to the next level. We are 12/12 on the Joel Test [0] :)

As a game developer you will work with us and

* expand a system which is easy and scales * have very good knowledge of either Python, PHP or JavaScript * can work in a unix environment

Plusses are

* MySQL/XtraDB scaling experience * Interest in Poker * Active OpenSource contributor

[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by vivekjishtu » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

niyazpk wrote: post #74

Bangalore, India (Sorry, no remote). We are looking for JavaScript/UI Developers. We are a well funded ecommerce Startup. We already have a good team working on the technology side. Please get in touch and I will convince you to join us :) (Freshers and interns are welcome too).

I think you forgot to post a url.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by tungwaiyip » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

Kontagent (San Francisco, CA)

We are looking for sales and engineers! http://jobvite.com/m?3rJ72fw3

Kontagent measures people, not pages, and is a leading analytics platform for social application developers. The platform has been built to provide deep social behavior analysis and visualization that provides actionable insights via a hosted, on-demand service. It works with many of the world’s largest developers and brands, tracking thousands of social applications and games with over 100 million monthly active users and over 15 billion messages per month.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/facebook-analytics-platform...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/28/kontagent-launches-real-ti...

Email me waiyip.tung at kontagent.com if you need more information.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by comatose_kid » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

Mountain View, CA (INTERN and FULLTIME)

Bump Technologies (YC S09) is changing the way people connect and share using their mobile devices. There are huge opportunities ahead, and we are looking for talented hackers.

We are currently hiring for both FT and INTERN positions:

• mobile developers (iOS, Android, Blackberry, HTML5)

• server (beckend engineer, server ops)

• designers (visual, interaction)

Our team includes some of the smartest and most talented developers and designers in Silicon Valley, and we all share a common goal: to build something people want and have fun doing it.

We offer a workplace that will both challenge and fulfill you, by giving you the freedom and flexibility to develop your own solutions in a creative team environment where your contributions will be immediately felt and recognized.

Bump was born as a simple iPhone app for swapping contact information, but as our user base grew, so did our vision.

We now have more than 30 million downloads (7th most downloaded free iOS app ever), and a vision of changing the way people use their mobile devices.

We are backed by major investors including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Interested? We'd love to talk to you.

Apply here:

http://bump.theresumator.com/apply?source=HN0401

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by jjm » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

JunkDNA wrote: post #128

penningtonj wrote: post #117

Philadelphia, PA The Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia Research Institute needs a Quality Engineer/Programmer to establish quality assurance as a core competency of our rapidly growing, entrepreneurial R&D software group. We’re looking for a unique individual who is interested in moving beyond typical QA roles and responsibilities, someone who is driven to create new methods…

Just to add to this: Our group has a lot of elements that resemble a startup. So for those of you who might be "lurkers" who are a bit afraid of a startup, our group can provide you with some of the benefits you might be craving: small team, interesting projects, wide technical leeway (we like the right tool for the job), and a fun work environment. Some of the things we've been using lately: - Python/Django - JavaSc…

I'm a little confused... You describe a small team, interesting projects, wide technical leeway but the specific job your advertising here is one in QA... that person won't actually be able to exercise 'from scratch' development other than a test bed for QA...?

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by slloyd_sb » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:12 PM UTC

San Francisco, CA

Songbird is hiring full time developers for Android, desktop (C++), web services, and build/release. We're also looking for a good technical product manager.

Open positions are at http://getsongbird.com/jobs/, and feel free to contact me directly via the email in my profile with any questions.

We're currently shipping media players on Windows, Mac, and Android, and we're looking for people who want to help build out a seamless media experience across platforms and devices.

The positions are in SF, but we'll definitely figure out how to help get you here if you're looking to relocate.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by jjm » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

garysieling wrote: post #3

Philadelphia, PA (Blue Bell) - Software engineers- Java/C#. We're a small company, and write software for pharmaceuticals & energy companies. http://www.wingspan.com/about/careers/

Looks like a lot of Java. Java for .Net, Java Web Client dev, Java DB connectors.

Re: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

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Post by essrand » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 5:14 PM UTC

I am a data mining engineer at polyvore and we are looking for frontend/backend/generalist/data mining engineers.

Below is our official pitch :), I am regular lurker here at HN, you can email me at bhaskar@polyvore.com if you want to know more, or just apply to the jobs link below.

Cheers!

Polyvore is looking for stellar software engineers to join our team. If you're at all interested, I'd love to grab coffee or have you stop by our office to meet the team.

A little background on the company -- Polyvore is a social shopping platform. Our user community curates and merchandises products from all over the web in the form of digital collages that we call "sets". We have about 6.5M unique visitors per month, which makes us one of the largest fashion sites on the web. Our eventual goal is to expand to other product categories.

We're a team of 18 people, including a lot of folks from Google and Yahoo. Our founders are all engineers or have computer science backgrounds, so we're very technical and eng/product-driven. You can see the profiles of our team members here. It's also a really fun working environment. Our Happy Hours activities range from board games to taco trucks to book club (with beer and other equally attractive drinks!).

Polyvore has a lot of interesting product challenges and neat technology under the hood. For example:

The Editor -- Our virtual styling tool features pretty nifty JavaScript.

Style Analytics -- Our users interact with tons of products on a daily basis (50K clips/day, 35K sets/day), which makes for really interesting data mining opportunities.

Monetization -- Think of Polyvore sets as user-generated ads. There are lots of resonant monetization opportunities.

We've also been getting great buzz lately:

Polyvore Goes Sky High with Times Square Billboard (about our billboard in Times Square, which we got for free)

Fast Company - An Army of Anna Wintours (about our recent partnerships from Fashion Week)

TheNextWeb - The Rise of Polyvore: Trendsetting Goes Social (testimonials from our advertisers)

The New Yorker - Fashion Democracy (an older article that focuses on our awesome user community)