Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)

One Block Off the Grid makes the complicated business of going solar as a homeowner easy, by doing remote system design and comparison shopping between financing providers. Think Expedia but with an expert guide (our solar advisors) to show you the different offerings between competitors.

We're 4 years old, VC backed and making money. With over 230,000 members interested in green home improvements and thousands of systems installed, we need developers with great brains and a passion for positive impact.

Types of things you might work on:

* Building and improving on remote design tools using satellite imagery.

* Building new business units that help our members save even more money on electricity by reducing consumption (think lighting, energy retrofits, energy management systems).

* Integrating with the top installers' sales platforms in an industry where APIs don't exist.

* Building awesome analytics dashboards from scratch.

About the team

We're a small team but we're growing fast. We're hoping to add 4 developers in the next month and grow quickly over the next year and a half. Because we're small, you'll be expected to be able to take a project and own it. We deploy frequently so your code will be in the wild within the first couple days after you join us.

Our culture is fun and lighthearted, but we love getting shit done. We're right on South Park, right in the heart of SOMA. It's Twitter's first office, Instagram's first office and of course our office, so there's lots of good startup magic here.

We're offering good salaries, full benefits and equity. Also the chance to work at a company that's building awesome technological solutions that will positively benefit the planet.

If you're interested, email Jennifer Hemmings, our awesome HR manager: hr@1bog.org

Centzy is a price-based local search engine. We are a small team of five, tackling interesting problems in search, data, and commerce. We are looking for another smart and driven engineer to join us. We are well funded but early stage enough that we can offer significant product and equity ownership.

We're looking for someone who has done this before - built products from scratch and scaled them. You've probably worked at a startup if not started one. You're passionate about creating great products and tackling big data and technology challenges. We currently use a lot of Ruby and Coffeescript but we're experimenting with Scala.

We have a fun office in sunny WeWork Labs (West Soho). We offer strong equity and salary, cover 100% of your health benefits, and provide lunches and dinners while you're working. Plus, you can choose your own equipment.

We're funded by some great investors: ffVC, Lightbank, Cowboy Ventures, Founder Collective and angels from companies like Facebook and Cloudera.

Email me at hn [at] centzy

Umbel is an energetic high tech SaaS start-up based in Austin, Texas. We have developed a technology for analyzing digital audiences that is setting the new standard for how media companies measure and value their audiences. We are looking for dedicated, innovative minds to help us revolutionize how online media is sold and bought!

FRONT-END WEB DEV

We are seeking a Front End Developer that can implement the front end of our product experience as well as conceptualize new features for our clients. This position will work closely with all members of the product, UI/UX and Dev teams in a collaborative environment, which is diverse and open-minded. A successful candidate will demonstrate best practice front end development while maintaining security, cross-platform/browser compliance, accessibility, scalability and performance standards.

https://www.umbel.com/about/jobs/ui-developer/

Also have other positions available: https://www.umbel.com/about/jobs/

Have you ever called customer service for a company and got transferred from this person to that person because they couldn’t figure out what your problem was? This happens for those companies because they don’t have advanced technology to predict how best to solve the customers’ problems. Our team is responsible for building software to enable Amazon to intelligently predict the customers’ pain points to optimally route the customer to the right solution, whether it be a customer service agent or self-help features. You would design and develop software to build and interface with machine learning models from data you gather, and to interface with Amazon’s numerous backend systems to solve the customers problem right the first time.

As a member of our team, you will design, build and deliver technology that directly impacts millions of Amazon customers. You will have the opportunity to provide direction to our businesses and guide the design of our systems based on realistic time lines and resource constraints. Amazon.com has been ranked #1 in customer service experience, and it will be a challenge to continuously improve customer service technologies, and we need many smart people like you to join us in meeting these challenges.

Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent program with formal training in computer science basics such as data structures, sorting/searching algorithms, order analysis. - 3+ years of experience in C++ and/or Java

Preferred Qualifications: - Communication skills for both a technical and business audience - Willingness to deeply understand the goals and challenges of customer service operations - Analytical abilities, proven design skills and a track record of delivery - Strong background in computer science basics (data structures, sorting and searching algorithms, order analysis) - Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems - Fluency in Java - Experience with CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Perl a plus - Experience with data analysis and data mining in large scale database environments a plus

Please contact me for more info: sidjoshi (at) amazon (dot) com

Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded company with a small, agile development team. We've handled over £250 million of bets since launching in 2010.

Our office near Old Street in London is shared with other exciting startups and has a pool table, foosball table, and fully stocked fridge.

We're heavily driven by user-focused design and a focus on technology and engineering as a first class discipline. We write our software in Python and Erlang, and rely heavily on asynchronous programming techniques and REST. We build on a modern, open-source software stack which includes Linux, Vagrant, Flask, Eventlet, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Graphite, Chef, and Git.

For more info: https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/