Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)

McKinsey Digital Labs is looking for INTERNS for summer 2014. These are paid positions in our New York office.

About the Firm:

McKinsey & Company is one of the world’s premiere management consulting firms with some 8,500 consultants across 89 locations in 50 countries. The Firm provides a full spectrum of consulting services primarily to large corporations but also to governments, international institutions, and non-profit organizations. These organizations include 100 of the top 150 global companies, touching every major industry.

About MDL:

McKinsey Digital Labs (MDL) brings technological expertise to our clients as one of McKinsey's new delivery models. We do this through our various service lines, which include: -Advising and coaching on agile and digital transformations -Building custom full-stack applications and software packages -Rapidly prototyping iPad and web apps -Creating and implementing big data solutions

Despite being part of a large, multinational organization, MDL works more like a small startup, employing small, flexible teams. We use agile methodologies to iterate quickly towards the solutions we need. We combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

Our office culture is casual, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing.

We are looking for interns in three roles:

Designer- These candidates have experience in visual design and, ideally, photoshop or illustrator. Designers create the look and feel of applications, from high-level wireframe concepts to high-fidelity designs. They translate client business requirements, user needs, and technical capabilities into designs that are visually exciting, easy to use, and emotionally engaging. Much of our work makes heavy use of data visualization.

Developer- These candidates have a background in computer science. Our developers fall roughly into three categories: - Front-end/UI devs (HTML, CSS, JS, Angular.js, D3, etc.) - Server-side devs (Clojure, Node.js, .NET, Java, Ruby, etc.) - Data engineers (Hadoop, SQL, etc.) We use a broad range of technologies to meet unique client needs, and so being able to learn quickly and adapt is a must. We value the new techniques and technologies shared from experimentation and self-learning. Experience with pair programming, agile, and test-driven development is a plus.

Product Owner- POs generally come from a business or computer science background. POs lead our teams using agile methodologies and serve as the point person for the client. They set the expectations for the client and the priorities for the team to ensure alignment between the business and IT stakeholders. Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria.

If interested please respond to matt_casey at mckinsey.com

Don't apply formally, but just send your personal information straight to my personal gmail? I'd figure security focused folks would rather see a more formal corporate email address.

Buffer (http://bufferapp.com)

Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start!

February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 person team spread across 12 cities and 5 continents. 130,000 of our users are actively using the product each month. We generated $333,000 in February, and we have $520,000 in the bank. The average salary at the company is $98,000 and our total funding to date is $450,000 which we raised in December 2011, for which we gave up 14% of the company. I'm sharing all of this because one of the highest values we have at Buffer is to be fully transparent, and I'd love for you to be part of the incredible journey we've embarked upon.

At 16% month over month revenue growth on average in the last 6 months, we're seeing increasing demand to build out the product further and help our fast-growing customer base with all their social media problems. To achieve this, we'd love your help with some interesting engineering challenges.

Do any of these areas stand out for you? I'd really love to hear from you:

    - Reliability Hacker (we're sending 400,000 posts to social networks every day,
      our architecture is still not ideal)
    - Happiness (Support) Hacker (we have a crazy obsession for customer happiness
      and want to build our own tools to go beyond what's normal)
    - Android Lead (our Android app has half a million downloads but currently no
      full-time developer!)
    - iOS Hacker (our favorite people who use Buffer are all crying out for an
      iPad app)
    - Growth Hacker (our landing page conversion is at 7%, we'd love your help
      improving it and many other metrics)
    - Frontend Hacker (last month 130,000 people used Buffer, we'd love to improve
      our dashboard interface and extensions for them)

Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS).

    - We're completely open about salary and equity, in fact here is a spreadsheet
      of all individual salaries: https://docs.google.com/a/bufferapp.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgrWVeoG5divdE81a2wzcHYxV1pacWE1UjM3V0w0MUE&usp=drive_web#gid=1.
      It's most likely you'd fall into a range of $85,000-$120,000 and 0.1%-1%.
    - We're a fully distributed remote team, and we come together 3 times a year for
      super fun retreats. The last one was in Thailand in December, our next is
      Cape Town in April!
    - We have a big focus on culture, that's the main thing we think about when someone
      joins the team. Here is our slide deck of values: http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-03 

I'll read through emails with our CTO Sunil, I hope yours might be part of that. Send him a quick note at thenexthacker@bufferapp.com. If you'd like you can check out more details about all the areas we need help with at http://jobs.bufferapp.com

I'm excited about the chance to work with you. If you have any questions about our culture, product or journey so far, add a reply to this - I'll be checking throughout the day to get back to you :-)

- Joel (Founder/CEO)

Quanttus is a MIT spinout startup that is looking to revolutionize how we monitor our personal health. We recently announced $19M in Series A funding. We are building out our development team and what we're doing gives you a chance to have a huge impact on people's health. Some info on our jobs and our team culture --> http://www.peoplethatmake.com/quanttus

Feel free to reach out to me - Emily@quanttus.com for more info! We're located in Kendall Square at the CIC in Cambridge, MA

Fog Creek Software (http://www.fogcreek.com/Careers.html)

New York, NY / REMOTE

Fog Creek Software is a small, entrepreneurial software company in New York City founded in 2000. Our key products are Trello, FogBugz, Kiln and Copilot; all four have been very successful. We bootstrapped ourselves without outside investment and have been profitable from the beginning.

-- Trello Front End Developer On the Trello team, we pride ourselves on building a fast, responsive app using modern frameworks and technologies. We’re looking for a talented front end developer to help us push the limits of what a web app can do. The perfect person for this position will be an experienced developer who takes design and user experience as seriously as we do.

-- Software Developer (Dev Tools) As a programmer at Fog Creek Software, you will help design, develop, and implement the code for our award winning products.

We are looking for a developer to join our Dev Tools team, and we're happy to consider remote applicants. So, if you're happily settled in Crested Butte, CO, but ready to turn out a steady stream of customer facing improvements to our Dev Tools products, you may be the perfect addition to the team.