Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

NoRedInk | San Francisco, CA or REMOTE for Senior, Pacific Time (PST) to Central European Time (CET)

We’re an ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become strong writers! Our team may be small, but NoRedInk is used by 1 in 3 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 1 billion questions on our platform.

We’re a group of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other. We discuss past mistakes openly so we can adapt our processes to the challenges that come with progress. Puns flow freely across our San Francisco office as well as on Slack, and we have remote engineers spanning six different time zones.

Our engineering team [1] prides itself on code quality and innovation. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our new front-end code, and have been migrating legacy React code to Elm as well. We started with Ruby on Rails on our backend, and have lately been working to introduce Elixir to our stack. You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog! [2]

In addition to spending work hours open-sourcing useful libraries we develop [3], we also invest financially in open source. We hired the creator of Elm, Evan Czaplicki, to develop Elm full time. [4] Evan discusses his plans for the language with the team every week, periodically pairs with other engineers on Elm, and cracks up members of the sales team with his lunchtime jokes.

We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure and automate all of our deployments using OpsWorks and Chef. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. Our process for new features begins with our product team and in-house visual designer, continues with a GitHub pull request from a feature branch into master, and ends with our in-house QA specialist trying to break it before it reaches production.

We’re hiring both Senior Engineers who have been around the block many times, as well as Junior Engineers who are just getting started. We’re looking for Junior Engineers who are eager to learn, who thrive on great mentorship, and who want to work on a mission that makes a difference. We’re looking for Senior Engineers who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness, over convincing the group they’re right.

You can learn more about what it’s like working here through Hardy’s on-boarding blog post: http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...

You can learn more about our interview process through Dui’s hiring blog post: http://tech.noredink.com/post/145260396603/our-engineering-h...

If you’re interested, please apply through our jobs page! https://www.noredink.com/jobs

[1] https://www.noredink.com/about/team

[2] http://tech.noredink.com/

[3] https://github.com/NoRedInk/

[4] http://tech.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan

Thistle - Berkeley CA ONSITE - https://angel.co/thistle-1/jobs/97516-software-engineer

Thistle delivers delicious, organic and healthy meals as a subscription - "put your diet on autopilot".

Looking for python engineers (senior and junior) that are passionate about healthy food. Work includes:

- Building our consumer website, with a focus helping customers understand all the nutrition and health benefits in their meals.

- Ops infrastructure for designing, preparing and delivering 1000s of meals in a day.

- Testing new user acquisition and engagement strategies

Stack is Python/Django, but if you're a fast learner we will be just as interested in what you like to eat for lunch.

Interview: quick phone screen, then visit HQ to try the food and discuss our codebase.

Outward Inc (outwardinc.com) | Infrastructure Developer | ON-SITE | Experienced-based startup level salary + equity | Downtown San Jose, California

= Summary =

We're looking for someone who can develop software, distributed systems, networks, and deployment pipelines. Someone who is experienced with "DevOps", "SysOps", "SRE", and "CI" and is an excellent troubleshooter. Our team, the Infrastructure Team, manages the health of our various distributed systems, including a render farm and internal web services. Outward is about to scale rapidly, so now is the time to jump on board.

= Requirements =

Tools you should be familiar with: Chef, Vagrant, Virtualbox, Docker, Sensu, Logstash, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis. Programming languages we use: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Rust, C#, Bash, Batch. Our team is using Git. Some teams use Mercurial here. We use Ubuntu and Windows together, and often. Knowing both is a plus, but learning on the job is okay for one or the other (not both). 5+ years experience expected. Ideally includes a CS degree. Your passion, diligence and ability is most integral to earning this position.

= Apply =

Please send me an email with your resume (zpallin@outwardinc.com).

Pluto AI | Palo Alto, California | Full Stack Developer | ONSITE

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a full stack developer with at least 3 years of experience to join our team. This is an opportunity to spearhead the development of our water analytics platform and pioneer the overall architecture.

WHAT IS PLUTO?

We are enabling our customers to analyze and understand the real time data coming from connected devices like sensors and smart meters. Our analytics engine digs deep in to the data to uncover actionable insights. The platform provides real time alerting and a command center view of consumption trends, leakage, overallocation, conditional monitoring, and many more things. The platform has to process high volumes of real time data coming from our customers.

WHY US?

Our goal is to develop a Deep Learning platform to prevent the wastage of water, our planet's most essential natural resource. We are looking for somebody who knows how to get things done. If we end up liking each other, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

A couple of things to note about this role: - Experience with a backend framework like Django - Experience with a frontend framework like AngularJS - Our stack is built using a combination of Python and Javascript, so familiarity with these languages is necessary - Working knowledge of databases (Postgres, MongoDB, Influx)

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

- We like solving hard problems. You will be working on cutting edge data science problems. - Since you will be one of the first few people in the company, you will have a tremendous impact on our strategy and culture. - You’ll have the opportunity to drive the architecture and design of our platform. Since this work is largely self-driven, you’ll have the opportunity to get really hands-on.

If you think you are up to it, feel free to ping us at founders@plutoai.com.