Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Bloomberg LP, Portfolio Risk Analytics, NYC, VISA

We're the Pricing/Scenario Analysis/Enterprise risk team and we're looking for skilled senior software developers to design and build systems to provide cutting edge risk analytics and portfolio insight to Bloomberg users around the world. The problems we solve are an interesting mix of math/finance/software and system design in a fast paced client facing environment. The group's culture provides the stability of a large successful firm with the entrepreneurial risk taking nature of small agile teams. We're looking for people who can write high quality software to solve complex analytical problems and have an interest in driving the direction of the business and the architecture.

The team's responsibilities include components of the risk engine to generate simulations based on Monte Carlo methods, historical simulations, predictive scenario generation, stressed market Monte Carlo etc. These simulations are used to drive analytics such as Counterparty risk, VaR, greeks, default analytics such as incremental risk charge and specific risk and stress scenario analysis. We also provides efficient pricing for non-linear securities such as derivatives based on stress matrix methodologies and liquidity risk analytics. We expect a programmer to solve large scale distributed computation problems to manage millions of these calculations every day in a service oriented architecture.

The team works extensively with groups all over the firm including trading systems, quantitative teams, pricing and market data teams etc. As such, strong communication skills and the ability to do well in a collaborative environment are very important.

Apply online at http://jobs.bloomberg.com/job/New-York-Senior-Software-Devel...

Kifi (http://www.kifi.com/) - Mountain View, CA (H1B okay, prefer already in the area) - Front-end, mobile, designer, backend, search/information retrieval

—— About us ——

Kifi.com is a recommendations network, designed to help us outsmart information overload together. As Kifi automatically learns your interests and your friends’ interests, it helps you find and discover only the good stuff, from the right people at the right time -- anytime, anywhere. We're well funded and are growing quickly.

We use several fun technologies like Scala, Lucene, Akka, Play Framework, browser extensions, AngularJS, Gulp, etc.

—— Front-end Engineer ——

Build the product, bridging our backend to an excellent user experience. Day to day, you will work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create a modern and easy-to-use product. You’ll strongly influence which technologies we use across our whole stack and how we incorporate them. We use AngularJS, gulp, etc.

• Highly proficient in JavaScript and HTML/CSS

• Well versed in HTTP semantics and web API design principles

• Good knowledge of at least one backend programming language

• Comfortable learning and using new web technologies to build rich applications (think WebSockets, MutationObservers, CSS Transforms, SVG …)

—— Mobile engineer ——

Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. Define and implement APIs (library and network) for mobile apps. Our mobile engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (storage, server, multiple mobile platforms).

• Prior iOS or Android experience

• Passionate about user experience

—— Lead Designer ——

We’re looking for a talented designer to join our founding team. You will be working closely with our founders and our experienced team (previously from Google, Facebook and Linkedin). You will be responsible for all design aspects of our consumer product, UI/UX Design, mobile design, website design, and brand design.

• Passionate about understanding consumers needs and designing accordingly

• Loves designing for a variety of platforms and products (web, mobile, tablets, etc.)

• Know which details matter and when to push back and say “no.”

• Communicate your designs to the team with patience while being open to feedback

—— Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer ——

Kifi is dealing with massive amounts of user events, analytics data, social graphs and web documents. You will be asked to design and build a new breed of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval systems that will be of large scale with tight throughput and latency requirements.

• Proficient in at least one JVM language and can easily pick up Scala

• Passion for elegant and efficient algorithms and data structures

• Experience with implementing high quality ML/IR systems

There's a few more positions listed at https://www.kifi.com/about/join_us. If you're interested, the best contact address is careers@kifi.com. If you have any questions or want to chat more about what we're working on, feel free to drop me a line directly at andrew@kifi.com.

Kaggle, Inc (https://www.kaggle.com/) - San Francisco, CA + various

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Kaggle is best known as the world’s largest community of data scientists. Our community of around 200,000 data scientists compete to solve complex data problems. We’re changing the way the most important data-driven problems are solved. We have branched out beyond our core business of machine learning competitions, to build end-to-end solutions in specific industries.

Our first focus industry is energy, where we are working with Global 10 companies to make better decisions on where and how to drill for oil & gas. Our solutions take detailed geological and engineering data and help predict well performance. These solutions can minimize capital and environmental destruction by helping operators drill fewer uneconomic wells. Kaggle is located in the heart of the SOMA.

For all Kaggle career opportunities, please visit https://www.kaggle.com/careers

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°Data Scientists to Focus on the Energy Industry-> Help us build machine learning powered solutions focused on transforming the energy industry.

°Data Scientist for Competitions Platform -> A crucial part to the company's mission, this data scientist will work with customers from both the commercial and research worlds to prepare Kaggle competitions.

°Software Engineer -> Software Engineer to focus on the software architecture behind Kaggle's work in the energy industry.

°Product Designer/Developer -> Creatively work with the data scientists and developers on the Competitions team as well as supporting the creative needs of the energy solutions business.

°Client Relationship Manager -> A multi-talented Client Relationship Manager with aptitude and interest in supporting the inbound sales pipeline for new projects.

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We are well-funded (Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures and Max Levchin). We’ll help you do your best work with our awesome Kaggle benefits including spiffy new gear, catered lunches, awesome guest speakers, no vacation caps and much much more. Our team includes coffee, beer wine and whisky connoisseurs, pastry chefs, ping pong players, kiteboarders and rollerbladers.

For questions, please contact us at recruiting@kaggle.com or visit our career page at https://www.kaggle.com/careers

Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. We are a profitable startup experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iOS, Android, and Facebook.

Currently, we are looking for:

- software developers to join one of our Unity game teams

- a full stack engineer intern (paid) to help us build and optimize the infrastructure that supports all of our games using technology like Rails, MySQL, AWS and Docker

Full job descriptions are at http://uken.com/#jobs