Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

HaystaqDNA: Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer

New York, NY or Washington, DC

HaystaqDNA is a predictive analytics startup that teams with businesses and advocacy groups and brings data savvy to their customer and supporter acquisition efforts. Our commercial clients include international auto manufacturers, major television networks, and national retailers.

We’re building a platform that will transform businesses’ customer relationship management (CRM) and their approaches to marketing. Business CRM platforms focus on the past purchase behavior of existing customers -- these generate stale insights and say little about where to hunt for growth. Our platform will incorporate outside data sources as well as live research in order to generate up-to-date and actionable leads.

We’re looking for top-notch Backend and Frontend Engineers to join our team in New York or Washington, DC. We’re a small company (and growing!) so engineers must be ready to contribute to the technical vision of our organization and take ownership of real projects, from design to development to deployment.

Backend engineers should be strong Python web application developers. We use Django for larger, client-facing projects and Flask for smaller, internal-facing APIs. Frontend engineers should have strong familiarity with client-side development in JavaScript, familiarity with HTML and CSS, and a good sense of design. Familiarity with database design and administration (we use MySQL) as well as version control (we use Git) are also important.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits. We value diversity and encourage engineers from all backgrounds to apply.

Interested? Send an email to engineering@haystaqdna.com.

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Rackspace - Operations Engineer - Austin, TX

Want to work with me building new products and services on OpenStack?

Overview & Responsibilities

Behind the scenes of every Fanatical customer experience is YOU, the Rackspace Operations Engineer. You embed with product teams, influence product direction, architect, build, and deploy Openstack products. Keeping these products seamless through expertise in configuration management and continuous deployments which results in providing Fanatical service for our customers.

You: * Linux Wizardry * Believe servers are cattle not pets * Have experience building and operating complex systems at scale * You live to automate all the things with Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt * Measure and monitor everything * Excited by containers, especially Docker * Grok APIs * OpenStack all the way * Open-Source is the way * Github, of course * Uptime rules!

In this roll you will: * Work at a scale beyond your imagination. And love it. * Build agile systems on our public cloud infrastructure. * Make architectural design decisions and solve technical problems. * Collaborate in a cross-function team with developers, QA and product management (no silos allowed). * Perform periodic on-call duties as part of a global team to provide Fanatical support to our customers.

Qualifications

Must Have's: * Fundamental knowledge of servers/computers hardware and software * Excellent problem solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility * Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate technical issues to nontechnical and technical * audiences * 3-5 years of relevant work experience, including with Linux systems requiring the use of languages like Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Shell or PHP

Nice to Have's: * Technical certifications (i.e., Red Hat, UCP, CompTIA, MySQL) * Virtualization and strong networking knowledge * Experience working in the cloud computing industry * Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience

[Apply](https://social.icims.com/job/Linux-System-Engineer-Job-US-TX...)

Or email me directly if you have questions:

This looks like an awesome project. Will be watching your launch with interest.

We’re a YC company building financial services tools. We're already cash-flow positive, and laptops, and office snacks, and etc. and so forth. and general good things. Here's what's awesome: we have non-technical customers paying us for an online tool. Everyday, our clients call and email to say that we're making them happy. And that feels great.

But there's one problem: parts of our product are a little bit ugly and a little bit confusing. We're rapidly adding new features, and we're quickly outpacing our design capabilities. In short, it’s time to hire a UX/UI designer.

Our clients use our product for hours at a time. This is their tool for getting their jobs done. It is their workflow. We want it to beautiful and intuitive. It should be easy for a new client to learn, while at the same time, it should make power users feel like they’re flying through their day.

You must have experience with The Struggle of Application Design. And frankly, you should enjoy this struggle, because it’s hard to get things right, but really rewarding when you do.

What would your first day on the job be like? Well, we’ve got a product live right now that processes several hundred orders per day. You now own the design and you will be responsible for improving it. Changes could be simple, like, ‘make this button blue’ or it could be more elaborate like, ‘add tooltips and a new customer tutorial,’ or maybe you might want to redesign aspects of the site from scratch. Ideally, within a couple weeks, clients should be telling us that they’ve noticed small, nice design improvements.

List of Responsibilities: - Design - Usability and Utility are more important (at the moment) than purely visual appeal. As a team, we frequently meet with our clients to learn how they’re using the product. A good candidate for this role will be able to speak to users and feel out their feelings.

List of Skills: - UI/UX design experience - Responsive design experience (a lot of our clients access our site on their phones) - HTML/CSS is great. At the moment, we’re using a lot of Bootstrap. Pixel perfect designs are not (yet) crucial; usability is paramount.

We’re in San Francisco on a trolley-filled street in Union Square. We’re small (3 in-office employees) and we’re still building a culture. If you have ideas for how to build a blissed-out company, we’re all ears. Thinking of moving to San Francisco, but not yet ready to commit? Talk to us. Send an email to fintechw14@gmail.com telling us about yourself. Include a resume and a portfolio if possible.