Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

Minerva Analytics | Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE | https://www.cogolabs.com/portfolio/minerva-analytics

Minerva Analytics is seeking a Software Engineer to join its team, a recent venture to emerge from the Cogo Labs proven incubation model. Your raw energy and hunger to hone your engineering chops building consumer web applications will become the foundation of your success here. You'll be immersed in full-stack development on performant, feature-rich web and native applications backed by data-driven analytics and design teams. You aren't just another cog in the wheel here: your work will actively determine the success of our products.

The successful candidate will… * Be comfortable working with Python and JavaScript. * Have a basic understanding of SQL and web security best practices. * Think about performance, maintainability, and testing throughout an application's design and implementation phases. * Be comfortable learning how to work with a front-end framework such as React, Angular, Ember, etc. * Thrive in a fast paced, data-driven environment.

Typical interview process: Phone screen (30 mins) => Technical test (~2 hours on your own time) => Onsite interviews (1-3 hours) => Reference check => Offer :)

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cogolabs/jobs/4017886002#.WsJIa...

Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.

It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.

We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Yuri Niyazov at yuri [at] academia.edu

Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com

Pex is a audio-visual search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale, which was captured in a recent post published by the Google Cloud team (it's not very technical) https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/

We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Java), machine learning and signal processing engineers. We offer 30 days of paid vacation, fully covered health benefits (gold/platinum plan), commuter benefits, cover costs of visiting conferences, and more.

Our interview process is pretty straight forward:

1) phone interview - ~30 minutes

2) coding assignment - ~1 hour [you do it at home, on your own time]

3) on site - ~3 hours [no whiteboard coding, just friendly discussion with some of our engineers and the leadership]

4) offer

If you want to learn more, reach out directly to me at r@pex.com

Envoy | All types of software engineering jobs | San Francisco, CA and distributed | Full-time | https://envoy.com

We're on a mission to create the office of the future and visitor management is just the beginning. We already launched our second product (Deliveries).

We’re building a world where you know instantly when packages are delivered; where your office unlocks securely and automatically when you arrive; where you can book a meeting room simply by walking through the door.

We have almost half of our team working full-time remotely. Continental US time zones are preferred so we can easily collaborate.

Our stack is built on Ruby&Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elixir, JavaScript (Ember, React Native), and a few more things. We’re currently hosted on Heroku with some AWS (mostly Lambda) though we are constantly reevaluating as we scale.

We value being a top-notch organization with a strong engineering-driven culture, and have the same high standards with our code, systems, and people. We value learning and growth (and not being bored) and hire diverse, well-rounded, communicative people we can envision being friends with and trusting.

You can get more info on our jobs page https://envoy.com/jobs/ Or just apply to https://goo.gl/GEy3JE and we’ll make sure to get back to you.

C# Software Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | jobs.picotech.com

Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.

Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:

C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS

Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.

Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.

If this sounds like the environment you would thrive in and are interested to find out more apply now for immediate consideration. Please mention Hacker News in the "where did you hear about us" box!

Check out our latest recruitment video, @tehwalrus features! https://youtu.be/CKJWzBJuZ5E