Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Here's a testimonial we received last week:

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Thank you Khan Academy for igniting the passion to learn everything which I usually neglected and missed during my academic carrier. Though myself should be blamed for that, the conventional classroom teaching and limited access of study material is also important factors. Now while teaching my students I am equally enjoying the materials. I sincerely hope Khan Academy should reach to every single child in the world. Thank you again for the magnificent en-devour.

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Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who are thankful for our free, high-quality educational content. Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.

A few things we're currently working on building right now:

– The next version of our personalized learning dashboard [1] to make the UI more consistent across subjects and to help people learn better

– Improved knowledge models so we can better know what you know and don't know [2]

– Infrastructure improvements to make the site more reliable and faster for our millions of visitors every month [3]

– Better tools for our content creators to allow them to make thousands of engaging, interactive exercise problems without knowing how to code [4]

– A major revision to our iOS app to let students practice skills on the go (or in a classroom with iPads!)

You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.

We're especially looking for new product designers (of all types) but we also have many engineering positions open as well as some positions for a teacher and contract question writers.

Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to reply here if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/58354379257/intr...

[2]: http://mattfaus.com/2014/05/improving-khan-academys-student-...

[3]: http://www.alangpierce.com/blog/2014/07/07/bigbingo-khan-aca...

[4]: https://github.com/Khan/perseus

Whisper is an anonymous social network that is revolutionizing the way millions are interacting and expressing themselves online. At Whisper, we believe you can only truly be yourself when no one else is watching, so we've built a cloaking device for your thoughts. Untraceable, invisible, no restrictions: The first fully free and open forum where you can speak your mind without fear. Finally. There are no limits to Whisper's potential -- and yours.

Positions:

  * Backend Engineer

  * DevOps Engineer

  * Android Developer

  * Mobile UX/UI Designer

  * Web Developer

  * iOS Developer

  * Competitive salary and equity packages

  * Relocation support

  * Open vacation policy. We don’t count days
  
  * Health and dental benefits

  * Free meals and snacks aplenty

  * Work on a product that receives more traffic in a day than most major US websites do in a year

  * Beachfront office in Venice, CA that is a hop, skip, and jump away from Abbot Kinney, Santa Monica, and the other cool LA landmarks
  

Web Platform/Infrastructure Engineer: Full-Time

We are looking for experienced platform/infrastructure engineers to join our Web Operations (DevOps) team. My team is tasked with automating ourselves out of a job using Chef, Docker, OpenStack and pretty much any other open source technology we can get our hands on. Our team is small, fast moving, and most importantly our clients are developers. Bloomberg has over 3,000 technologists, working on software and hardware, across all businesses in the information technology industry.

Responsibilities:

  * Automate operation, installation and monitoring of web 
    infrastructure components in our open source software stack;

  * Provide application developer support, documentation and training materials;

  * Troubleshoot and debug production web infrastructure;

  * Train application developers on web infrastructure and best practices;

  * Open Source contribution experience is a plus;

  * 2+ years of DevOps experience or System Administration (be conversant
    in Unix networking and C system calls);

  * Experience with configuration management such as Chef, Puppet or Anisble;

  * Experience with a UNIX shell scripting language such as Bash, Ruby,
    Perl and Python;

  * Experience with cloud computing platforms such as OpenStack, AWS and
    VMware ESX;

  * Solid understanding of continuous integration, deployment and operations concepts

https://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/jobs/job41822.html

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What we're doing:

- Kitchensurfing is an online marketplace where users can find outstanding local chefs to cook for them, at home. Our core mission is twofold: to provide a platform for chefs to grow their independent businesses, while making it possible for people to connect over great food.

- Line chefs at the nicest restaurants in the world make at most $12-15/hour, yet the food they make is sold to diners at a hefty markup. We're trying to bridge the gap.

- People are conditioned to expect great food in restaurants — and rarely elsewhere. We want to change the way people eat, while preserving the efficiency and hospitality of a great restaurant experience.

- Most internet service companies attempt to decrease human interaction through software efficiency. We’re building a company that does the opposite. We think there's something magical about having a chef in your kitchen while you relax and enjoy the company of your guests.

How we're doing it:

- We’re committed to code quality and productivity. With those values in mind, we pair program, test drive and practice continuous integration in a Rails environment. We don't work 'startup hours', just normal ones.

- We're a small team (currently 6 engineers). We rotate often between pairs and across projects.

- We deploy code whenever we finish a feature. As an example, last week we deployed to production 35 times.

- We have a collaborative culture where engineers work directly with product managers and designers to find the best solution to user problems.

- We work out of a townhouse in Gowanus right now, but are moving to Soho very soon.

Who we're looking for:

- You're interested in working with Rails and pair programming the majority of the time. You want to write tests for any feature you implement.

- You're more interested in building a great product and shipping features than you are in figuring out the cleverest solution to a problem.

- You want to enjoy coming to work each day.

My name is Dan, I'm an engineer here at Kitchensurfing. If you're interested in learning more, please get in touch: dan AT kitchensurfing DOT com

=========================================================================================================== Our Mission

SkilledUp Academy is changing the way that people learn skills online. Over 44% of college graduates work in jobs that don't require a college degree, but employers still can't find quality talent. We introduce the human element into real-world, skills-based online education. Students complete rigorous curriculums created by our partner companies that focus on teaching the skills that employers need. Our industry-based mentors ensure that students receive the support that they need to learn.

Our Story

We were born out of two acquired startups and still retain the culture and practices of a lean / agile startup, but have all the resources and benefits of a public company (our parent company, Apollo Education Group, made over 3.5 billion in revenue last year). We’re a young company looking for people looking to help shape our culture.

Our Team

We’re a diverse team made of: - A Bonnaroo Guitarist - The world’s preeminent scholar on Toilet Based Social Networks - A philosopher king with a sweet spot for ice cream

Our engineers write pristine, well-tested code. We pride ourselves in developer happiness. SkilledUp uses a pull request based workflow, continuous integration. We think Ruby on Rails, Trello, Github, and Heroku are the best tools. We have continuous investment days, where we only focus on learning new skills.

If you are interested in learning more and want to talk to an engineer, send an email to jon@skilledup.com