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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#51
Software Engineer - Startup Sequoia Waste Solutions | Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA (telecommute) php objective-c ruby-on-rails sql apex-code

Description

We want to find an emerging technical developer who can contribute to a venture-backed, self-sustaining startup; someone who can sling code with the best of them but wants broader scope and wants to make an impact — a really big impact.

You: ambitious, technical, and adept at managing both the technology and the puzzle pieces behind it. You’ll work with the company leadership on a regular basis, and help refine and expand the company roadmap. Also, be ready to hone your inner air-hockey self.

You’ll play a big part in creating and executing the company’s engineering and product roadmaps as well. Just as important, you’ll help define the engineering culture of the company and help us change the world by making waste more efficient. How often do you get to do that?

Compensation:

We pay competitive salaries, and have bonuses for hitting and beating deadlines. Your compensation will largely be dependent upon experience and skill set. Perhaps most importantly, we offer you the opportunity to gain experience and the chance to substantially change the world by properly merging the waste services industry with cutting-edge technology. Ours is a culture of creating quality products and delivering exceptional service while we disrupt an aging industry model. If you fit that mold, please apply through Careers 2.0, or visit our website and contact us.

Perks:

• Quiet working conditions

• Competitive Benefits

• Suburban Office location (escape city taxes!)

• Weekly company ‘get togethers’ and events

• Everyone has a solid Cherry desk, Aeron Chair, and 2011/2012 iMacs /w maxed specs, etc.

• Full access to a techie’s playground (Our sister company is a full fledged SAS-70 data center for the Pittsburgh/Northeast areas)

Skills & Requirements

Requirements & Qualifications:

A solid engineer with proven experience, preferably in PHP and/or Ruby Some experience with: MySQL, SQL Server, JavaScript, Windows Server Have extensive experience with web services Resourceful, practical and critical thinker. Be thorough, have good attention to detail, and display a high level of accuracy High stress tolerance Good team player and fast learner Self-motivated and organized. Good communication skills, able to bring forward a vision or opinion. A good sense of humor Bonus: Previous involvement (or outright failure!) at a startup We would like you to be enthusiastic about working here. If this were just a job, we would work for the government. We are willing to accept constructive criticism and make changes, we expect you to do the same. We anticipate that you would be eager to fill a critical and respected role in a startup packed with dedicated and driven people. We hire people who finish what they start and who are looking for new challenges. Tell us why you would flourish here.

About Sequoia Waste Solutions

About Sequoia

Sequoia is a Pittsburgh based startup, that is redefining how waste and recycling is handled in the corporate enviornment. Every day, businesses overpay on their waste hauling, due to drastic inefficies in the industry. At Sequoia, we collect, analyze, and present data in a manner that helps us create client-specific plans that reduce trash headed for landfills, and increase recycling. We are closing in on our first year of operation, and are always looking for new and exciting ways to handle and report the awesome data we're collecting. With your help, we'll redesign the waste industry, and reduce the amount of trash heading to landfills. We call it "saving the world, one line of code at a time"!

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#53
Washington, DC: Developer Intern or Jr. Developer (Mobile/Web) at Industry Dive.

Industry Dive provides B2B News and Intelligence for your phone. See www.utilitydive.com or www.educationdive.com to see what I mean (check the sites on your phone to see the mobile version).

I'm looking for smart, self-motivated people interested in helping develop new products, add features to our Django-based CMS, and help us turn our mobile websites into native apps. This is a great opportunity to work for a growing early-stage startup. Python experience a plus, but not a prerequisite. You must be able to work from our office in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC.

Apologies for the brief ad, but I haven't actually posted it anywhere else yet, so HN gets the first crack. Feel free to contact me with any questions or clarifications. eli at industrydive dot com.

edit: I believe we're also still accepting candidates for a marketing internship (focused on audience acquisition) for the Fall semester.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#55
Khan Academy - Mountain View - (full-time and intern, designers and devs)

Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We're scaling quickly.

Our students answer over 2 million math problems per day (over 600M total so far), all generated by our open source exercise generation framework (http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises), and our videos (now from a variety of authors including Sal) have been viewed over 180MM times. We're tracking all that data and using it to customize each student's experience. We could use your help.

Working for Khan Academy is one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine and we've been called by Wired one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157078.

We're hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

http://www.khanacademy.org/careers

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#56
Research Engineer, Crimson Hexagon, Boston, MA.

Do you have excellent programming skills in Java and at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, or R? And an interest/demonstrable knowledge in machine learning, data mining, and statistics?

We are looking for a Junior Research Engineer who will be part of our research team. You will be responsible to research, investigate and test new technologies for big data storage, processing, and analytics. In particular, you will build scalable systems that can efficiently process petabytes of data, build and maintain storage systems that are continuously updated and require holding tens of billions of records each with millions of fields. You will work closely with the research scientists in a challenging and nurturing environment.

Requirements:

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate achievement in some or all of the above, and you will also be heavily evaluated for your attitude, approach and other intangibles. With that, more definitive criteria for the ideal candidate follow:

* Working with large datasets

* Unix command line tools

* MapReduce paradigm, Hadoop and HDFS

* HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB or similar key-value storage systems

* Social media, Web application development

Above all, we are looking for an engineer with a strong passion for working with large social datasets, who is not afraid of getting his/her hands dirty and who never gets tired of trying and learning new technologies. Our research team provides a spirited, supportive and creative environment where we can learn from each other and build the next-generation social media analytics frameworks.

If we have triggered your interest, send us your resume and cover letter telling us why you would like to be part of our team. Be sure to provide concrete examples of your programming skills, such as sample codes that solve your favorite toy problems, demos, web applications you built, public code repositories such as GitHub where you contribute to open source projects. If such examples are not available tell us that, and instead provide short descriptions of previous projects you have been involved in previous jobs or during your education. This is our Van Halen Brown M&M’s test. Please be sure to provide this extra information along with your application.

We look forward to seeing if you have what it takes to achieve something extraordinary with Crimson Hexagon!

For details: http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/junior-research-engineer/

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#57
Ticket Evolution

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey; Postion: Ruby/JavaScript/Erlang Engineers; Email: rsosinski@ticketevolution.com

Ticket Evolution builds software and services that handles the real-time execution, clearing and settlement of event ticket trades. If you ever purchased a ticket to a sports game online or called a broker for seats to a concert, chances are our system was used somewhere in between. We recently closed a Series-A round and launched our newest partner cheaptickets.com.

We use Ruby on Rails, JavaScript with BackBone and Knockout, and PostgreSQL day-to-day. We are also starting to dive into Erlang and Riak and are looking for engineers who are comfortable getting out of their comfort-zone. Besides working on challenging problems, we also sport a 40-hour work week, have a laid-back office, and pay market salary along with equity and health insurance.

If you are intersted in learning more, email me directly at rsosinski@ticketevolution.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#59
Toronto, Ontario

Top Hat Monocle (http://www.tophatmonocle.com) is hiring for a few roles: mobile dev (iOS, Android), sysadmin/infrastructure developer (rabbitmq, selenium, fabric, ec2), general web developer (python, django, javascript, node.js.) We also hire interns so please feel free to apply for that as well (paid of course.)

We're a profitable (and valley VC funded) education startup that helps make class more engaging. We've got some really cool problems to work on and your work would be impacting a huge number of students daily.

Our dev team is in Toronto but we've also got an office in San Francisco so if you're really good we would be open to having someone work from there. If you're not based in Canada or the US but are willing to relocate feel free to contact us, because we do cover relocation expenses and will help you manage the work permit process.

Send your resume/github account to mike at tophatmonocle dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (September 2012)

#60
Palo Alto, CA -- Senior Engineer at Artillery -- Full time, H1Bs welcome

Envision a world where all gaming moves into the browser... One where anybody on earth can access every game, from any device, at any time. We've set out to change the face of gaming by dragging core gaming kicking and screaming into the browser using the latest HTML5 technology. Share this vision? Join us!

Currently we're leveraging open source technologies including Linux, C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Node.js and are keenly aware of all things HTML5, WebGL, and hardware-accelerated graphics. If you have experience in these areas already that's great, but if your expertise lies elsewhere, don’t let that stop you!

Backed by a stellar team of investors, angels and advisors.

More info at http://artillery.com/jobs

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