Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Data will be the great enabler of new technologies, new products, and new businesses of our generation. Descartes Labs is building a data-refinery on a cloud-based supercomputer for the application of machine intelligence to massive satellite imagery data sets.

Requirements: Geospatial experience Large Data Platform development Security

Tech: Python Kubernetes Docker Google Cloud Platform (or AWS)

Apply directly at: https://jobs.lever.co/descarteslabs.com

The Center for Social Media Responsibility’s (CSMR) mission is to ensure that the social media platforms that impact our public discourse (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) are designed and operated with the responsibility that befits their scale and power.

A core CSMR focus area is the creation of "Platform Health Grades"—a set of metrics that capture the positive and negative impacts of platforms on discourse—on challenges like misinformation, harassment, polarization, etc. Platforms and teams are rewarded for shipping products and moving metrics; so we are focused on creating useful metrics that inform the product creation, evolution, and measurement processes, leading to both internal and external accountability.

As the Senior Research Engineer, you will be the lead engineer for Platform Health Grades and other key projects. This involves designing, developing, and owning the core data infrastructure, as well as executing and owning the data collection and analysis components. You will be ingesting data from sources including platform firehoses, scraped websites, and a variety of partners; and classifying and aggregating that data, working with UMSI researchers and other partners. The ideal candidate would be excited to have a formative impact in a fast-paced organization focused on ensuring that technology serves humanity.

CSMR is part of the University of Michigan School of Information, and this position could be based in Ann Arbor, San Francisco, or remote. The ideal candidate would be a full-time employee, but part-time, contract, or a fixed term fellowship is also possible.

Contact csmr-info@umich.edu if you’re interested in learning more.

http://www.askottentertainment.com - creates award winning products for the entertainment and regulated gaming space.

One of our products is ESP, the largest esports fantasy site and an all-in-one portal for esports betting, fantasy leagues and casino-style games.

--- Why you should join us ---

Enjoy your work, enjoy your life:

We offer all our employees competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, regular remote working, a generous flexible vacation policy and a comprehensive benefits plan.

Building the future:

The esports space is growing exponentially, and it's exciting to be building products as new territory emerges.

The Role Implement new features and enhance the user experience using our React (ES6+), Angular (TypeScript), and LESS CSS dev stack Ensure code quality through unit testing, proper tooling, and peer code review Push code and see it go live the same week.

- You love to ship things You have a passion for technology and the desire to champion ideas and share your knowledge - You take pride in your work and have an appreciation for the user experience - You are receptive to feedback and are excited to learn and share with your colleagues - You have the ability to learn new technologies quickly - You are comfortable working independently in a small team - Skills and qualifications Ideally 2+ years of industry experience - Experience with React (ES6+), Angular (TypeScript), CSS preprocessors - Experience with git or similar VCS Experience using secure, RESTful web APIs Experience using Node.js and NPM - Experience with Grunt, Webpack, and front-end build tooling in general

You can email your resume, link to your GitHub, and any other relevant information to gimmeajob@askottentertainment.com.

We are looking for an experienced full-time developer who will work with our small in-house product and engineering team to help us realize our vision of a multi-sided labor marketplace designed to enable skills-based, inclusive hiring that reaches millions of Americans.

You will:

  - Collaborate with technical and nontechnical teammates across Opportunity@Work, providing technical feedback and mentorship around best practices
  - Inform technical trade-offs and possible product paths for development strategy
  - Mentor and guide junior members of the development team
  - Develop technical solutions according to specification
  - Inform technical trade-offs and possible product paths for development strategy
  - Help define interfaces with the diverse array of relevant tools and players (e.g., job boards used by job seekers, applicant tracking systems used by employers)

  - Front-end web development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap)
  - Back-end data architecture (API design)
  - Object-oriented programming and at least one modern web framework (we use Rails)
  - Managing the software development lifecycle within a team; agile development
  - Making smart tradeoffs of efficiency/speed/reliability/maintainability
  - Following software development best practices (automated testing, code comments, etc)
  - Collaborating with nontechnical partners to effectively communicate technical outcomes
  - Taking a user-driven approach, finding effective solutions for users of diverse socioeconomic and educational backgrounds

  - Passion for our mission: You care deeply about workforce, social justice and inclusive training/hiring related issues.
  - Clear communication: You have good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into simple and engaging terms with your audience in mind.
  - People-centered approach: You enjoy engaging with people and have a talent for building and managing strong relationships that achieve outcomes. You are comfortable working in teams and can build rapport with people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives and use a human centered design approach to your work.

  Ekotrope | Boston, MA | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://ekotrope.com
  
  == About Ekotrope ===============================================================
  Ekotrope is a small, but growing and profitable, startup in the home construction
  industry.  We work with builders, architects, and energy consultants, helping 
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  has been used to perform energy ratings on more than 65,000 new homes since 2016.
  
  == Our Team =====================================================================
  We are a three person dev team plus CEO. We focus on short development cycles,
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  == Who We're Looking For ========================================================
  
  = Software Engineer =
  Someone to round-out our team and compliment our skill-sets, adding experience
  where we lack it and learning from ours where we have strength. We expect that
  such a person would have at least three years professional development experience.
  Must have strong technical and interpersonal communication skills. The position 
  is full stack including dev ops. We use Java, Hibernate, and MySQL. With GWT for
  the HTML/CSS/JS frontend.
  
  = Support Engineer / Developer =
  Someone to focus on handling incoming client requests, answer questions, fix bugs, 
  implement smaller features. Should be competent in Java and general web 
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  == Interested? ==================================================================
  Send an email to careers@ekotrope.com, please include "HN" in the subject