Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)

Hi, I’m MindTribe’s director of Software Engineering. I’m looking for people who enjoy learning and making. We’re a small company, and I’m looking for people with whom I would personally like to work and who want to work with me.

Here are the tools I use regularly: The C programming language (specifically ISO/IEC 9899:1990); Eclipse, Make, Subversion, Git, Python; Linux, Embedded Linux, Android, iOS; ARM processors (TI OMAP, TI Stellaris, NXP LPC); Atmel AVR/AVR32, Microchip PIC, TI MSP430, Cypress PSoC

Here is what I enjoy doing at work: Writing embedded software that runs on cool hardware; Figuring out how to apply agile techniques such as test-riven development to embedded product development; Reducing regressions and supporting customer development with agile techniques; Developing embedded libraries for things like USB, TCP/IP, graphics displays, sprites, fonts, encryption, etc.; Having long, dorky conversations with coworkers about programming languages, physics, estimating Facebook’s relative revenue distribution between advertising and games, etc.

Here is what I enjoy doing outside of work: Hiking, walking around San Francisco; Pseudonymous humor blogging; Cooking and baking; Photography; Reading. Recently: “Test Driven Development for Embedded C”, “The Clean Coder”, “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”, “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, and “Norwegian Wood”

You can see examples of how I’ve applied my tools and passion here: http://mindtribe.com/portfolio/

You don’t have to use the same tools and you don’t have to enjoy the same things. But if you’re excited about similar stuff, drop me a line at hn@mindtribe.com to let me know.

--Jerry

Where: San Francisco, CA and Ann Arbor, MI

Remote / Telecommuters also considered.

StyleOwner is looking for highly skilled, top 1% developers (frontend and backend positions available). Salary: highly competitive. www.styleowner.com. A lot of people think we’re going to be the next big thing.

Accel Partners has funded us and Bob Pittman (the founder of MTV Networks) recently became an investor. Social media is huge, and the best marketer is a recommendation from a friend or family. So why not combine the two? StyleOwner is empowering the Facebook generation to become entrepreneurs and start their own online store. We’ve partnered with amazing brands to create “the itunes of fashions” and allow our StylEpreneurs to curate their own store, share it with their sphere of influence, and earn 10% commission on everything they sell. We’re reinventing retail — true social selling for the first time.

We’ll show you our concept deck and give you a demo of our site and business plan. You show us your Github profile.

Our technology stack is primarily ruby on the backend and html/css/js on the frontend. We use backbone.js, sinatra, datamapper, jquery, etc. Experience with git or a willingness to learn is a must.

We’re looking for someone who we can pay a top salary plus very nice perks, equity, etc. We want you to join our awesome team and make bring this disruptive form of online shopping to reality. As an added bonus, Sunday is funday at StyleOwner. StyleOwner will pay for your fun on Sundays. Do whatever you love to do: fancy meal, rock climbing, baseball game, day trip etc (as long as it’s legal of course) submit receipts and we will pay up to $250 per Sunday.

Our development team is in San Francisco and our main headquarters is in NYC.

Please send us a link to your github profile, resume, and some references. We’d love to meet with you, buy you a coffee or a beer, and show you some of our code and figure out if it’s a good fit.

We’ll start out with a chat over the phone so that you can ask any questions you may have after reading this posting.

The Company: Tapad - smart advertising across multiple devices. We're developing very interesting new strategies and tactics for effective advertising in the ever-changing and ever-growing world of consumer devices.

The Engineering: The platform is written in Scala, handling tens of thousands of requests per second with 99th percentile response rates under 10ms. Well-informed bidding decisions are made for each one of those requests. We analyze enormous amounts of data to make the system work as efficiently as possible.

The People: We're looking for intelligent, creative, energetic people. Experience with any of the following is good: Scala, the JVM, JavaScript, machine learning, statistics, realtime bidding systems.

More information: http://www.tapad.com/careers

Get in touch: toby at tapad dot com. Put the MD5 hash of the word "Tapad" in the subject :)