Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Want to help eradicate Polio? Want to use your expertise to improve healthcare systems in the developing world? Want to mentor, guide and work alongside developers in Africa? Want to put your knowledge and experience to work saving lives?

As a member of our tight-knit team, you will be developing hybrid and web applications for use by health workers in Africa. You will also be working with our in-country teams, guiding and mentoring them when necessary. We expect all team members at eHA to work across our locations of work, so you will regularly travel to our country offices in West Africa to facilitate your relationships and contextualise the work you’ll be doing.

React, Angular, Node, Django, CouchDB, PostgreSQL

https://eHealthAfrica.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=71

Our mission is pretty simple; we believe that everyone deserves sophisticated financial advice. We are focused on taking services typically reserved for the ultra-wealthy, automating them and delivering them directly to the investors at an incredibly low cost. We have clients in all 50 states who trust us with over $4 billion in assets and growing. With our clients' trust, we believe we can and will change this industry.

We are hiring across the board, but are specifically looking for Engineering Managers, Sr. Backend Engineers and Sr. Data Engineers with Java experience.

Feel free to check out the job descriptions and apply here: http://grnh.se/6regmv1 (please mention HN in application).

Azyer Ltd is currently hiring software developers and frontend web developers to join our small but dynamic Cyber Security consultancy. We are offering both contract and full-time work.

We are developing a new type of web application firewall (WAF) that uses machine learning to identify malicious attacks from HTTP channels. Our product is in alpha stage and we are seeking frontend web devs to help us finish the UI. Our current stack is Django with backbonejs and bootstrap.

This is a key opportunity for someone who can work quickly and wants to gain valuable experience in the Cyber Security industry.

For more information and applying, contact: Alex - alexd@azyer.com

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 14 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu