Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)

We're looking for backend developers. Right now we're focused on ruby and python, but looking to get into other languages (see this speakerdeck[0] for all the technologies we work with, given by one of our devops guys).

Currently we have 4.8 million users -- about 50% more than we had last year at this time. We send over a billion push messages a year... lots of cool things going on here, in other words!

If you like sports, this place is great. Not a big deal if you don't, though.

Lots of perks:

* foosball (we have a league and it's serious)

* ping pong

* PS4 (FIFA and NBA2K are popular)

* Wii (Mario Kart Double Dash is the go-to game)

* various computer games (CS:GO, TF2)

* outdoor deck with bbq

* free snacks

* free drinks

* espresso/coffee machine

* top-of-the-line macbook pro with cinema display

Any other questions? Contact me (below) or reply to this and I'll try to fill you in on more details.

Interested? Email me (mark.campbell@thescore.com), tweet me [1]@Nitrodist, or connect with me on [2]LinkedIn!

[0] [https://speakerdeck.com/lreeves/scaling-applications-at-thes...]

[1] https://twitter.com/Nitrodist/

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-campbell/33/856/818

You've probably heard of SpaceX -- we build and fly rockets! Check out http://youtu.be/DjpUf__4vPA and http://youtu.be/9ZDkItO-0a4.

What you might not know is that we need software engineers. Some of the positions we are looking to fill currently are:

Lead front-end software engineer - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3895

Software engineer for Borg, our flight data logging and analysis system - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3366

Simulations software engineer, writing the software used to fool the flight software into thinking it's in space - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3858

Gumroad enables all types of creators (musicians, designers, writers, video game developers, comedians, filmmakers, and more) earn a living by selling their work directly to their audience.

See a demo: https://gumroad.com/demo

The company is 2 years old. We're a tiny team of 10 folks focused on making a great product over anything else — we've raised $8M and don't have to think about raising money for a while (besides the money that we raise daily from our customers!).

You can see more definitive roles here, but in general we are looking for smart, hard-working, creative people: https://gumroad.com/jobs

You can apply through there or email me directly with links to a couple of things you've built — sahil@gumroad.com

Hi! :) I'm Federico Feroldi, co-founder of Measurence. Our mission is to bring the power of lean analytics practices and tools to the brick & mortar retailers (think about MixPanel and Optimizely for the real world).

We're very early stage, but with a working product, enough seed funding, some excited customers and a few very important prospects.

This is not our first startup. As founders together have almost 30 years of combined tech and business experience with a few startups and exits already under our belt.

Your responsibility will be to build the front end app of our analytics platform using Rails and AngularJS. The backend system (data ingestion and analysis) is built on Scala, so there's a chance for you to learn it if you want :)

This is a fully remote position. You'll be able to work from (almost) anywhere you want and organize you working hours as long as you deliver stuff and bring the product closer to the vision that we’re going to shape together.

You'll not be told what to do. We'll, instead discuss together what needs to happen then you'll decide what and how to do to make it happen. You'll need to be comfortable with the uncertainty that characterizes the early stage of a startup.

We value honesty, transparency and direct communication.

If you're interested to discuss more, tell me your story and show me what you built at fferoldi - at - measurence.com

To learn more about the founding team: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feroldi https://github.com/cloudify https://www.linkedin.com/in/elionarciso

The Climate Corporation's mission is to help all the world's people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change. We use a combination of weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, and weather simulation to provide real-time pricing and purchasing of customizable weather insurance to farmers in the United States.

Climate's technical staff numbers around 80, and we're hiring full-time employees and interns across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of decision support tools for growers. Work is split across groups focusing on web applications for farmers and agents, risk and insurance policy management, internal platform and data services, and scientific modeling and research, with roles for:

1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications (Rails, Python, Javascript, and iOS) used by farmers to manage weather risk.

2. Quantitative researchers in statistics/ML, stochastic optimization, remote sensing, atmospheric physics, and agronomics. Our goal is to forecast statistical distributions of crop yield for any piece of arable land, synthesizing satellite images, digital elevation models, weather data, agricultural statistics, and geological surveys into multiscale models that underly our data services.

3. Experienced technical team leads, operations engineers, product managers, and designers to pull all this together into a compelling product.

The scale and interdiscplinary nature of the work drive a lot of cross-collaboration within the company, supported by a pressing need to build durable solutions to some very important problems.

Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=o7B8Wfww&s=hackernews

I write Clojure for a small scientific software engineering team building Climate's agricultural yield models. If you're interested or have any questions, send me an email at bmookerji@climate.com with [feb2014-hn] in the subject heading.