Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

Palo Alto, CA. Palantir is looking for Server Side Quality Engineers. For insight into their day to day tasks, check out the Palantir (Linux) Server Challenge: http://serverdebug.palantir.com/

BabyList (http://babyli.st) helps parents-to-be figure out what they need for their baby. The baby industry is massive and ripe for disruption. We’re already making significant money, our users absolutely love us, and we’re just getting started.

We were in the most recent 500 Startups batch, have a great set of advisors and investors, and were voted one of the top 5 companies by Gigaom, Forbes, and others.

We recently raised seed funding, and are now looking to bring on our first key hires. We’re a team of four (two are remote).

We use Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, and soon iOS. We think that great developers can come from a variety of backgrounds. The main thing is that you’re smart and get stuff done.

Email me at natalie@babyli.st. Let me know what you’re looking for in your next job.

San Francisco, CA. Relocation Assistance Provided (within US).

Looking for a Data Scientist/Backend Python Engineer to analyze security data and develop new machine learning models and support the Tornado/Redis/MongoDB/MySQL stack. Will work with data created using http://www.mykonossoftware.com/about-us.php

  - Above all: interest in statistics, coding and security
  - Strong Python coding skills, understanding of Java and C.
  - Understanding of and experience using common data structures i.e. trees (heaps, binary trees, tries, etc), Bloom filters, arrays, linked lists.
  - Understanding of and experience using common statistical techniques: generalized linear models, PCA, and basic statistics (Fisher's exact test, Binomial test, t-tests etc)
  - Experience with implementing algorithms from academic papers
  - Experience with at least one machine learning package e.g. Mahout, Scikit-learn

You get:

  - Very competitive compensation.
  - SoMA (close to downtown) location.
  - Work with a great small team with smart people who look forward to coming to work every day.
  - Excellent benefits package.
  - Free Macbook Pro and any work-related software.
  - Flexible working hours.

Please send email to roman dot sinayev @at GmAil com and please include code sample/github acct and a resume.

We're hiring in the North of the Netherlands to conquer the world of event ticket sales!

Paylogic offers a state of the art online and mobile ticketing application from our offices in Amsterdam, Groningen, Berlin and Antwerp. Over 2000 event organisers around the world use it to sell their tickets because of its performance, ease of use, and large set of features.

Paylogic customers include ID&T, Andre Rieu, RAI, and KNSB.

The Paylogic system meets the highest standards regarding scalability, availability and security. To achieve this Paylogic relies on its top notch sales, product and development teams, and the latest internet technologies. Due to its growth Paylogic is constantly on the lookout for skilled and passionate people. Paylogic is a young organisation in an exciting industry. We reach impressive results due to our high standards, professionalism and hunger for quality. We strive to be the best and have fun while doing so.

Some of the key features of the job

- Work on a highly scalable, high traffic online ticketing application written in Python;

- Work with state of the art Python libraries and frameworks (django, sqlalchemy, flask, etc);

- Be part of a excellent, international team of Python experts (>20);

- Apply the latest advances in internet technologies (redis, zeromq, nosql, flask, backbone.js, celery);

- Use modern software engineering methodologies (agile, scrum, xp, pair programming, peer reviewing, etc);

- Friendly, knowledgeable and passionate coworkers;

- Open source oriented environment;

- Cool, fast-paced and high-tech atmosphere;

- Both a commercially and technically ambitious environment;

- Environment where the craft of software engineering is held in high esteem;

- Freedom and responsibilities above control and micro management.

About you

- Software engineering is your passion and you appreciate the hacker mind-set;

- You have proven to be a good software engineer;

- You have experience, or at least interest, in Python;

- You are well versed in standard internet technologies (javascript, html, css, json, caching);

- You know your database techniques;

- You are well versed in multiple programming languages, tools and conventions.

- Linux is no stranger to you.

- You are fun to hang out with;

- You love working in teams;

- You love to work in a dynamic environment;

- You are ambitious;

- Extra points for experience with: High availability systems, cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), payment industry, ticketing systems, monitoring large server clusters, distributed version control workflows.

Salary: In line with experience;

FTE: Full time employment (40h);

Location: Center of Groningen (The Netherlands), a cozy student-town with an abundance of world-class science and culture.

If you want to apply for the job, please send your resume and a cover letter to jobs [at] paylogic [dot] com

We will contact you as soon as possible.

10gen(MongoDB) - New York City, San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto) Full time - Developers,Solution Architects, consulting Engineer,Technical Account Managers, Technical Service Engineers,etc...

We're developing and supporting the open source and document style database: MongoDB. To date, we've raised over $80M, including strategic investment from Red Hat and Intel. Last year we doubled in size while revenue grew 4x. We're solving huge data problems for companies like Disney, eBay, Craigslist, foursquare, and over 500 others…recently closing out additional very BIG name companies. - ...with that said... Feel free to reach out to me if there is any interest working here. ...still reading?... We are looking for all types of positions & backgrounds My e-mail is - jason.chen@10gen.com . Drop me a note so we can setup an informal chat.