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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by andrewcooke »

zerr wrote: post #22
ejdyksen wrote: post #4

Mutually Human - Grand Rapids, Michigan http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/ --------------------------------------- We are a small team of software craftsmen (10 of us right now) passionate about making people's lives better through software. A little bit about us: - We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US - Though everyone here is fluent in Ruby, we're more concerned with using the rig…

I guess the business of writing custom software doesn't scale, like any other dedicated service/consulting business. What do you think about this?

why is this relevant? [edit: fwiw, the question so obviously has the answer "no" (for hn-related values of "scale") that it doesn't seem to be an honest enquiry at all, but an attempt to make a point (for some hn-related value of "point").]

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by jonahbailey »

zerr wrote: post #22
ejdyksen wrote: post #4

Mutually Human - Grand Rapids, Michigan http://www.mutuallyhuman.com/ --------------------------------------- We are a small team of software craftsmen (10 of us right now) passionate about making people's lives better through software. A little bit about us: - We write custom software of all shapes and sizes for clients all over the US - Though everyone here is fluent in Ruby, we're more concerned with using the rig…

I guess the business of writing custom software doesn't scale, like any other dedicated service/consulting business. What do you think about this?

In a consulting business, the typical way you make money is by selling time. A friend of mine has called this "Slavery to the Tyranny of the Billable Hour". The way to scale is by acquiring more time (aka more employees available to work for more hours) so you can bill more hours. It's ok for some, but diversification is better.

We've discovered that whenever you get a bunch of smart folk together who are passionate about what they do, other avenues open up. In our case, we've start forming teams around different business models and product ideas that attract us. These models and ideas are then selectively sponsored by the consultancy to go forward, develop something and release it to the world. The hope is that these new products and businesses would become a source of income for the whole team. As those products and new businesses scale, the consulting business profits, thus scaling through alternate means.

Full disclosure: I work with EJ at Mutually Human.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by azethoth »

San Francisco, CA - Do (http://do.com/jobs)

Do is on a mission to build the best tools for small teams and businesses across the world.

We're hiring developers and designers at any level for backend + frontend web and mobile (iOS and Android). Tech: Ruby, CoffeeScript, Backbone, PostgreSQL, Redis, iOS, Android.

And we're a Salesforce company. Solid funding, great benefits, competitive comp, and a great team! Ping me at azethoth@do.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

#54

Post by imcqueen »

Synapse Group Inc. We're a part of Time Warner and based in Stamford, CT.

http://www.synapsegroupinc.com

We're looking for a blend of web development and marketing skills to help grow their online marketing operations group. It's a good role for anyone with an interest in maximizing business performance through a scientific “build and measure” approach.

Here are the details from the careers site. Feel free to reach out to me directly if anyone is interested:

-Iain (imcqueen at synapsemail dot com)

--Begin Corporate Description--

As a member of the web production team you will:

- Build (A/B and multivariate) marketing tests using HTML, JavaScript and CSS

- Analyze test results using industry leading tools like Omniture Site Catalyst and SiteSpect

- Distribute performance results to the proper clients and stakeholders

- Mobilize testing wins into scalable solutions that can be leveraged across all areas of business

- Collaborate with the Synapse online marketing team to brainstorm new testing opportunities

- Research and prototype new ideas by building proof-of-concept applications

- Oversee a portfolio of active promotions

Job Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree

- Proficient in front-end technologies including HTML and CSS

- Expert level competency in JavaScript

- Strong verbal and written communication

Things that will make you stand out:

- You've contributed to an open source project

- You have an entrepreneurial spirit – tell us about your side project

- You have mobile development experience (iOS, Android or mobile web)

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by stephendaimler »

NYC / New York City - full time

http://www.priceline.com

Priceline is looking for front-end devs. We're rethinking every aspect of the Priceline web and mobile experience.

I just came from a startup and it's a great fit for me because I get many of the things I like about being in an early-stage startup: ability to experiment, learning by doing, casual/fun/collaborative environment (all executive supported/encouraged). And then there are the added benefits of a successful co: great compensation, plenty of resources, brand that will look good on your resume, and lots of traffic to experiment with!

Please go here to learn more: http://jobvite.com/m?3y2OPfwX

I'm a PM but happy to answer questions or point you to a developer to chat. My email is stephen dot daimler at priceline dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by kanny96 »

Cambridge, MA | Cognii | Full-time, Intern, Remote

Cognii is transforming the education through natural language processing technologies. We are a young ed-tech startup creating a leading edge assessment technology to provide automatic assessment of a student's essay-type answers.

Think of MOOCs and how you can play a critical role in making it more acceptable. You will work with the experienced team (Nuance) towards developing the compelling products and services for our customers. If you feel that automatically extracting the meaning from a few words is boring and want the challenge of extracting the meaning from a paragraph, then Cognii would love to talk to you!

We are looking for the following roles:

1. NLP Research Engineer(s) Background in following areas with a strong commitment to developing practical applications : natural language understanding 
- syntactic and semantic analysis 
- textual entailment and assessment 
- machine learning - large scale data modeling 
- textual data generation and filtering 
- educational technology experience is a plus

2. Server Development Engineer Experience with scalable web app server development and deployment 
- Server design and configuration 
- API design 
- C/C++, Java, ruby, octave 
- Amazon AWS EC2 - MySQL and NoSQL, - Git 
- Capistrano/Chef/Puppet 
- Load balance and monitoring

3. Front End Development Engineer Design and development of front-ends for learning apps on different form factors 
- Javascript, jQuery development 
- HTML5/CSS3 
- iOS, Android development a plus

Please send your CV or queries to jobs@cognii.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by Peroni »

Globaldev - London, UK

Since October of last year our dev team has grown by 20% and we are doing everything in our power to position Globaldev as one of the most desirable companies for developers to work for. You'd be hard pushed to find another environment where you get to work on such a range of challenges. Everything from everyday web development, through to full on engineering on our RabbitMQ based email system that pushes out millions of emails every single day.

We have a development team based right next to Waterloo station in London and our HQ is in Windsor, Berkshire but you don't have to limit yourselves to those offices. We appreciate there are some outstanding developers out there who are only interested in remote work and we are more than happy to consider that option.

You can find a full job spec here: http://globalpersonals.theresumator.com/apply/3BSEPp/Ruby-En...

You can find more info about who we are and what the company does here: http://globalpersonals.co.uk/about-us/

You can also check out our tech blog here: http://globaldev.co.uk/blog/ (our ruby 2.0.0 post was linked in the official 2.0.0 release notes)

We're also on the lookout for a full-time, permanent QA to join our team so if you know anyone, send them my way.

Email me if you'd rather not apply on our site or if you just want to find out more about the role or the company: sbuckley@globaldev.co.uk

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by nsfyn55 »

ClearSwitch - Philadelphia, PA

http://clear-switch.com

We are a newly minted startup in Center City, Philadelphia. Our goal is to help consumers make better decisions about where their energy comes from. We have an excellent, seasoned leadership team and we are hiring developers.

A few details:

- Our code base is tiny. Lots of room to make a big impact

- Our stack is Backbone, Python/Flask, MySQL deployed on Ubuntu(AWS).

- Our need is a few passionate terminal ninjas who want to work in a lean software outfit in the city.

If that sounds like your bag we can offer competitive salary and benefits plus we just moved into a great spot in the heart of Old City.

contact: careers@clear-switch.com

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)

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Post by theflow »

Podio - Copenhagen, Denmark

DevOps Engineer

Passionate about continuous delivery, chaos monkeys and the mean time to graph? Podio is a collaborative work platform that helps you escape email overload and document chaos. We are looking for a passionate DevOps engineer to help us scale, make Podio faster and more resilient and the team happier and more productive.

https://company.podio.com/seniordevopsengineer

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