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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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post #143

Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. REMOTE and H1B welcome. We're making there be more online commerce by making payments (and building an online business generally) way easier. See [1] for an overview of the challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. Apply by following the instructions on our jobs page [3] (please indicate t…

Hi Greg. Can you clarify—“remotely within US timezones” is located in US or working within US hours? Or literally: located within US timezones?

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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PacketZoom

packetzoom.com

Burlingame, CA

(I forgot one role, and couldn't edit so reposting with the additional role)

PacketZoom provides mobile speed as a service to app developers and we want your talents, passion and personality on the team to help build our pre-IPO, SaaS model company. Our headquarters is located in Burlingame, California, a couple of blocks from Caltrain.

We’re a technology company first, solving hard problems that others think are impossible.

We’re looking for INTERNS, as well as FULL TIME people who want to shape the company technology and culture. H1B Transfer ok for the right candidate. TN ok. Roles

- Sales Engineer - looking for someone who has been an app developer and wants to make the transition to the BD side

- Developer Evangelist - know how to code, and get smart developers to try us out

- P/T Office Manager - Help us stay organized as we grow and scale the team

- Business Development / Marketing Specialist - build our customer pipeline and help define our go to market tactics

- Sales Engineer (Intern)- work with app developers to get our SDK integrated

- Business Development (Intern) - Generate leads and close deals with strategically important customers

contact john at packetzoom.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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Iotum Inc., Los Angeles, CA - Full Time and Toronto, ON - Full Time http://iotum.com

We are seeking Junior and Senior Developers for full time employment who are available to commence work within the next month in our Toronto or Los Angeles office. Capability is more important than formal school training; we are willing to expand the skill set of the right candidate.

Our distributed development team is self managed and uses components of agile, scrum, and XP practices to build products in a fast paced, yet casual work environment.

You will be working closely with team leads designing and implementing features for our web and mobile based WebRTC communications suite, focusing on dynamic and responsive interfaces.

Hard Skills:

  - Proficient in at least one scripting language such as Ruby, Python, or Javascript
  - Knowledge and experience with object oriented design (OOP)
  - Knowledge of best practices and principles for web applications
  - Experience with HTML, CSS, jQuery, AngularJS
  - Experience developing in Linux environments
  - Mobile application development (e.g. Android, iPhone, Blackberry) an asset
  - Knowledge of IP networking, and socket level programming an asset
  - WebRTC, SIP, and telephony knowledge an asset
Soft Skills:

  - Must be able to work within a team and independently
  - Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
  - Comfortable with new, difficult, and challenging work
  - Trustworthy
  - Creative
We offer competitive wages and great benefit packages. You must be entitled to work in Canada or the United States. Only candidates that meet the above qualifications will be contacted for interview.

About the Company:

iotum is an international company with roots in VoIP, telecom switch development, and innovative voice and mobile services. Today, we provide several teleconferencing platforms and collaboration services to millions of users worldwide, and we are working on the next generation of virtual services to make it easier to collaborate and converse around the world.

Apply at: jobs@iotum.com, and include 'Hacker News' in the subject.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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post #143

Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. REMOTE and H1B welcome. We're making there be more online commerce by making payments (and building an online business generally) way easier. See [1] for an overview of the challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. Apply by following the instructions on our jobs page [3] (please indicate t…

Hi Greg. Can you clarify—“remotely within US timezones” is located in US or working within US hours? Or literally: located within US timezones?

"Working within US hours" is what matters to us. (Being in US timezones is probably the easiest way to achieve that, but if you want to work US hours within your local timezone we could probably make do.)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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Sift Science - San Francisco, CA. Full-time. Sift Science (http://siftscience.com) uses large-scale machine learning to fight online fraud. It's a problem that cost U.S. merchants > $10B last year, and 70% of it is organized crime. Attacks have rapidly evolved in breadth and depth, but current rule-based systems don't scale. We're looking for engineers of all flavors -- distributed systems, web development, data visualization, and of course, machine learning. We're a tight-knit team that likes board games, yummy food, and solving challenging technical problems. Check out https://siftscience.com/jobs We're also looking for account managers, integration engineers, and sales folks. Ping us at jobs+hn@siftscience.com or feel free to e-mail me directly at evie@siftscience.com :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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Answers.com - Mountain View, CA - Hiring Android Developers

We are looking for Android devs to help work on our native Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.answers.an...)

You:

-Good problem solving skills

-Strong CS fundamentals

-1+ year(s) experience in Java

-Interested in consumer facing apps

-Passionate about Android

-Ideally you have published at least one app to the Play Store

Us:

-Top 10 U.S. site

-Chance to work on an app that is in early growth stage

-Young and fast growing company

Full description can be found here: http://wiki.answers.com/page/careers

Interested? email android { at } answers.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring employees #1 - #4 We are on a mission to build a new type of database for a modern world in which information is constantly moving, and moving fast. PipelineDB runs SQL queries continuously on large volumes of streaming data, giving companies the capability to easily develop scalable, realtime applications and services using only a familiar SQL interface. No application code is required.…

REM0TE from Europe possible?

For our core team we're trying to keep things here in San Francsico but if you want to send your resume and a short bio to jobs@pipelinedb.com we'll get back to you if we open things up to remote work.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

#278
iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA)

Do you think robots are cool? So do we! We blend cutting-edge research and practical engineering to build useful and affordable robots.

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but a robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.

Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:

* Embedded software engineers: We're hiring for "big embedded" (C++, Linux, and big cpus) and "small embedded" (C, bare-metal, small cpus). If you have good OO skills (C++, Java, etc.) but no "embedded" background that's okay too - shoot me an email and we'll chat.

* Software engineers for vision, navigation, and mapping

* Software engineering manager

* Test engineers

* Mechanical engineers

* IT engineers

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com

PS: We have hired people from these "Who is hiring?" posts, thanks to HN for this service/forum!

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

#279

Palo Alto, CA. 1. Growth Hacker/Metrics Seeking a creative, hands-on Growth Hacker with scaling experience in a start-up environment. Aarrr! 2. Senior Rails Engineer You are a performance-oriented senior back-end Rails engineer with experience scaling modern web apps and DBs. AWS/sysadmin experience a big plus. 3. Senior Front-end UX/UI You enjoy building beautiful, fast, lightweight pages and have experience scaling…

There is no link or company info.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

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Springleaf Financial, Chicago -- Full-time, will pay for relocation and/or sponsor visas

Springleaf is a leading provider of consumer credit online and through over 800 stores across the U.S. The Chicago office is focused on all digital initiatives. We're working to redesign the web site from scratch and build a new decision engine using analytical modeling.

We are a small and quickly growing office. Join us and get that startup feel with the backing of a large financial company.

Technology stack: Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, R, PostgreSQL, Redis, Jenkins, Git

- https://www.springleaffinancial.com/

- https://www.springleaffinancial.com/careers/

- https://www.linkedin.com/company/springleaf-financial-servic...

There are currently 244 open jobs nationwide in all fields.

Apply online or contact me directly: ronald.smith@springleaf.com

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