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Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

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

#161
Chicago, IL

Braintree ( http://www.braintreepayments.com/braintree-careers )

challenging problems: a payment gateway is mission critical

web scale: we're growing quickly and working on scaling

amazing team: I'm working with 7 of the 10 best devs I've worked with in my career

top compensation: the best devs should have the best compensation

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

#162
A Small Orange, a shared, reseller, VPS, and dedicated web hosting company, is hiring remote Linux system administrators, as well as live chat and billing support folks to help us support our growing customer base.

In addition to all of the touchy feely things like a chance to work with great people, help our customers, and a chance to be part of a growing and successful company. You also get:

- Competitive pay - Flexible scheduling, including up to 21 days of paid time off and 4 days of paid time for community service - An extremely comprehensive benefits package that includes fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and 50% paid health, vision, and dental insurance for dependents and family members - Company paid long term disability and life insurance - A 401k and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) - Ability to work remotely / from the comfort of your home office. - A variety of other perks and benefits, ranging from free web hosting, company parties and events, reimbursement for co-working for those who want to get out of house to work, and more.

You can see more details and apply here: http://jobs.asmallorange.com

We also have an office in the Raleigh-Durham area (NC) that local (or traveling) candidates are welcome to work from.

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

#163
Mountain View, CA - Software Engineers, UI/UX Front End

Room 77 - http://www.room77.com - is building the world's best hotel search experience and the first hotel room database and recommendation engine. We're about 20 strong and moving into new space in downtown Mountain View (off Castro St.) in July.

Software Engineers (H1B welcome)

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

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

* Passionate about travel

* Work with rockstar engineering team with background from Google, Facebook, MIT and Stanford

* We've got some puzzles here: http://www.room77.com/jobs.html

UI/UX Front End

* Strong sense of design with a focus on usability

* Front-end coding skills (Javascript, HTML, jQuery) with strong focus on optimizing for speed

* Work closely with both product and engineering team to balance tradeoffs in features and UI needs

* Wide latitude to help design different ways to shop and discover hotel information in ways that haven't been done before

The details:

* Competitive salary

* Stock options

* 3 weeks of annual vacation

* 401K matching

* Healthcare stipend

* Meal allowance

* Casual but professional working environment with seasoned leaders on both the engineering and business teams

E-mail your CV/Resume to jobs+engw@room77.com

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

#164
Palo Alto, CA (very close to Caltrain)

MindTribe is hiring Electrical, Mechanical, and Software engineers. We're an engineering consultancy in downtown Palo Alto (considering an office in SF very soon though, so if that interests you, let us know). Notable projects include the Aliph Jawbone headset, the Pure Digital Flip (before it was acquired by Cisco). We're looking for thought leaders who will help us bring agile development to physical products in support of our clients' customer development efforts.

http://mindtribe.com/jobs/

I'm our Director of Software Engineering and, despite the requirements listed on our website, I'm specifically looking for enthusiastic embedded developers with strong C skills, test-driven development discipline, and agile planning experience--regardless of degree or pedigree. And the agile experience/mindset is more important than intimate knowledge of C. If this excites you, contact me at hn@mindtribe.com.

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

#166
Ruby on Rails/MySQL Developer

Wowzers is an online core curriculum. Students create an avatar and are engaged in data-driven learning explorations. The cinematic experience, filled with characters and challenges, forces students to use critical and creative thinking skills to master specific content aligned to state and Common Core Standards.

Wowzers is data-driven, and provides analytics for instructors and administrators to view progress toward goal in each standard, by student and group, and allows instructors to view and adjust the adaptive learning plan created for each child using real-time data.

Wowzers is an exciting young company located in River North in downtown Chicago. Wowzers provides an informal and challenging work environment. We are seeking to change the way students learn, and encourage our team members to be creative challenge existing paradigms.

Wowzers provides competitive salary based on merit, and offers full benefits, including insurance and retirement.

For the Ruby on Rails/MxSQL Developer position we are looking for a team leader build out our existing infrastructure and create new functionalities related to student data. Work will include synthesizing student performance and developing more advanced algorithms to individualize instruction for students based on their ability level. Additional work will tackle the challenge of scaling a massive data project with hundreds of thousands of users (growing to millions in the coming months. Read more about the requirements below

Responsibilities: * Optimizing, maintaining, and developing new features for an existing Ruby on Rails website * Developing e-commerce system for handling user subscriptions and in-game transactions * Implementing community monitoring features that report usage statistics * Improving scalability of back-end architecture to accommodate millions of users * Devising strategies to optimize network performance in scenarios where a large number of users all share a single internet connection * Creating web-based tools to enter/manage data * Integrating with other, PHP-based web apps * Helping with quality assurance and game testing

Requirements: * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Web Programming * Must be proficient in HTML, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP * 1-3 years experience in professional web development * Must work in-house and be comfortable working in close collaboration with others

Additional Skills: * Strong design sensibilities a plus

Compensation: $60-75K depending on experience and skill.

To apply, go to http://wowzers.com/about/careers-application

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

#167
Bellevue, WA and Tempe, AZ. Datasphere is hiring lots of product people, as well as marketing/sales/etc: http://www.datasphere.com/careers

Positions HN people might like:

- Web User Experience Developer

- Principal Software Design Engineer

- Senior Program Manager

- Software Design Engineer

- Software Development in Test (SDET)

About DataSphere:

DataSphere Technologies, Inc. (www.DataSphere.com) is a web technology and hyperlocal ad sales company focused on generating online profits for media companies. Our products and solutions are creating tremendous value and game changing economics for our customers. We are headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and led by a team of Internet veterans with backgrounds from Amazon.com, IMDb, Microsoft, RealNetworks, AltaVista, Trendwest and other leading companies.

This is your chance to be a part of an awesome team of people and contribute to an environment focused on continuous innovation, employee ownership and work life balance. If you love a challenge, want to create huge impact, share our 'work hard/play hard' culture, thrive on change, and continuously strive for excellence, apply for a position with us today!

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

#168
San Francisco, CA - Blurb Blurb lets people tell their stories - currently through print-on-demand books, but increasingly through other venues.

We are both established and growing like mad (we were #47 on last year's Inc 500). We have a great group of people and a lot of fun challenges in the year ahead. We just launched a bevy of new products (our iPhone app is getting great reviews).

We have great benefits, a great work/life balance, and we're in a great location close to the BART, CalTrain, and lots of food options.

We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, Rails, iPhone, and more. http://www.blurb.com/join_us

(Tell them Ben S sent you)

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

#170
RockMelt is hiring a variety of positions[1] in Mountain View, CA, but we could really use a sysadmin who'd prefer to spend most of her day automating her job. Devops, SRE, tools builder, whatever you want to call it, someone who uses code to make operations easier, faster, better.

jay@rockmelt.com

[1] http://www.rockmelt.com/jobs.html

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