Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

Clojure/Clojurescript/Ethereum developer, based in Chicago, for a large firm in the financial field.

Involves building complex mobile & browser UIs in Om Next and using the ethereum blockchain system as the backend.

Remote JavaScript Engineer at Help Scout

Apply at https://help-scout.workable.com/jobs/204256

More about our culture at http://helpscout.com/careers

The 19-person engineering team at Help Scout is full of people dedicated to a wonderful experience for our 5,000+ customers in more than 60 countries. We’re excited to add the third full-time JavaScript engineer to the team, who will work on our Docs product.

We work remotely and autonomously for the most part, which is why this position requires senior-level skill and experience. We're looking for folks who write tests and are rather stubborn about quality front to back.

We Use - Backbone.js, Marionette, jQuery - PHP / Java (for backend & APIs) - Node.js

You'll be part of a 3-person team that owns our Docs knowledge base product. The other two engineers work on the Java API and you’ll be responsible for the single-page app that makes up the admin interface. On a given day you’d be adding new features, writing tests and improving performance.

You’ll also work with two other full-time JavaScript engineers on the team to maintain and improve the standards and best practices we want to use across all Help Scout products. Our design team owns most of the html/css work and will help you make sure everything ends up being pixel perfect.

You may also end up doing some work on the Docs front-end that’s customer-facing (like docs.helpscout.net), which is just lightweight Scala templates and jQuery.

Aside from a weekly check in and bi-weekly planning meeting, you'll be able to work interruption-free. 90% of our communication happens in Slack. You can work anywhere in the world as long as you have 4+ hours of overlap time with your teammates.

Everything is secondary to the customer experience. We expect you to have a keen sense of how your code will impact the experience in terms of performance, security and usability.

You'll be working with product people that challenge you to get better every day. The founders are technical and committed to creating a magical experience for customers. You'll deploy work that moves the needle for businesses around the world.

Apply at https://help-scout.workable.com/jobs/204256

Thinkful, an awesome online coding bootcamp, is seeking a Student Support Manager to further our mission of giving each and every Thinkful student a world-class educational experience. As part of our education team, you will work closely with our Mentor Manager and our international team of mentors to understand what success looks like at Thinkful and deliver a great student experience.

You’ll become an expert with our product and the technical education market more broadly. As the main point of contact for Thinkful students, you will have the power to drive positive interactions every day, and the ideal candidate will relish the opportunity to make students’ lives better. You’ll utilize the solutions currently in place, and identify areas for improvement. You will even enroll in a Thinkful class, both to learn new development skills and gain a greater appreciation of modern educational paradigms.

You can see the full posting at http://start.thinkful.com/careers, and apply by sending a resume and short cover letter to student_support@thinkful.com

Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA)

If you're looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you through it.

The Compose family has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, collaborate with spirited peers, and to unleash your creative personality.

Some great things about Compose:

* Work from anywhere! (As long as you're legally able to work in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom).

* Many neat conundrums to solve.

* Self-managing, distributed decision making. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.

* Ruby/Go.

* Fantastic salary and benefits - MacBook Pro.

* Join a thriving, respectful and family-like international team.

* Fizz: https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us...

* Fair and objective 'blind-hiring'.

Our hiring process is nifty. We request a work-sample upfront that closely resembles the work you'd be doing within your role. Once you submit, your answers are anonymized then graded by 3 different people following pre-defined criteria.

We want to know, objectively, who is going to both enjoy and crush the work. We have several positions open for candidates:

* Platform Engineer

* Support Engineer

* Technical Content Creator ('Developer Advocacy' type of role)

* More!

For the full postings checkout https://compose.io/jobs or email jobs+hn@compose.io if you'd like to have a chat with us to see what we're all about.

Psiphon | https://psiphon.ca | Toronto, Canada - ONSITE

= What we do =

We develop and operate Psiphon, an Internet censorship circumvention network that helps millions of people in freedom-restricted countries access uncensored Internet every day.

We work at the leading edge of circumvention technology, where the latest network protocol and endpoint obfuscation research is rapidly deployed into production around the world. Our tasks include censorship technology research, server and client software development, and operation of a dynamic, global network of thousands of proxy servers.

We’re a small team (7 developers) looking for skilled and enthusiastic people to join us.

= Tech stack =

Our entire system is open source, check it out at https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system and https://github.com/Psiphon-Labs/psiphon-tunnel-core.

We use Java (Android app), Obj-C (iOS app), C++ (Windows app), Go (cross-platform core library), Python/JavaScript/C/shell script (server-side stack), ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana (stats), and more.

= Contact =

info+hn@psiphon.ca