Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

PUSHER | Junior Designer | London | Onsite, full-time Hello there! Do you want to design something that makes developers’ lives better? Pusher is all about helping developers. Our website, dashboard, docs and other projects are key to our success. It needs to be thoughtfully designed, simple and fast.

At Pusher, designers implement what they design, which means writing code. ️ We’re looking for a designer-developer who believes that design can make a meaningful difference and cares about how it is implemented. You will make sure that Pusher looks awesome, and has equally awesome code. Why Pusher? There are more than 20 million developers in the world with millions of “soon to be developers” currently in colleges, universities, coding bootcamps or teaching themselves how to code via online courses or tutorials. These are your customers. We believe that in the next ten years, every company will become a software company and developers will need great tools to be productive and do their jobs.

Check the job out here: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/597251

Opportunity@Work | Senior Software Developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE

We are looking for an experienced full-time developer who will work with our small in-house product and engineering team to help us realize our vision of a multi-sided labor marketplace designed to enable skills-based, inclusive hiring that reaches millions of Americans. You will:

  - Collaborate with technical and nontechnical teammates across Opportunity@Work, providing technical feedback and mentorship around best practices
  - Inform technical trade-offs and possible product paths for development strategy
  - Mentor and guide junior members of the development team
  - Develop technical solutions according to specification
  - Inform technical trade-offs and possible product paths for development strategy
  - Help define interfaces with the diverse array of relevant tools and players (e.g., job boards used by job seekers, applicant tracking systems used by employers)

You are passionate about using technology in service of the most pressing and complex social challenges. You are experienced in working in agile product development teams. You have experience with and a track record of demonstrating excellence across the following skills and technologies:

  - Front-end web development (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap)
  - Back-end data architecture (API design)
  - Object-oriented programming and at least one modern web framework (we use Rails)
  - Managing the software development lifecycle within a team; agile development
  - Making smart tradeoffs of efficiency/speed/reliability/maintainability
  - Following software development best practices (automated testing, code comments, etc)
  - Collaborating with nontechnical partners to effectively communicate technical outcomes
  - Taking a user-driven approach, finding effective solutions for users of diverse socioeconomic and educational backgrounds

You should also have:

  - Passion for our mission: You care deeply about workforce, social justice and inclusive training/hiring related issues.
  - Clear communication: You have good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into simple and engaging terms with your audience in mind.
  - People-centered approach: You enjoy engaging with people and have a talent for building and managing strong relationships that achieve outcomes. You are comfortable working in teams and can build rapport with people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives and use a human centered design approach to your work.

To apply, visit https://opportunityatwork.org/join-our-team#techhire

AppNexus | Software Developer Real-Time Programmable Platform | Montreal ONSITE

AppNexus is an internet technology company that powers the real-time sale and purchase of digital advertising. Our team builds and maintains domain specific languages that our clients use to specify bidding algorithms that are executed on our real-time platform.

The ideal candidate is a C or C++ developer (who also would like to work with Lisp), who has strong computer science fundamentals and experience in building high performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems, and applications. We're also looking for knowledge of compiler and interpreter development as well as experience with low-level systems engineering and optimization techniques. More details at https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/careers/open-roles?cjobi...

We are hiring candidates with many years of experience as well as motivated recent graduates. If you would love to work on any of those problems, you can apply on the job description page (mention HN). You can also write to jlasalleratelle at our domain and we can discuss.

Compass | Many Engineering, Product & Marketing Roles | New York City | Full-time, Onsite

Compass is rethinking how real estate should be done in 21st century, and doing it by bringing the best real estate agents, marketers, product managers, engineers and designers together. We are 5 years old, $180M revenue in 2016, in 10 cities, 1,800 agents, most top in their field. An average agent increases their business by 30% the year after they join us.

We are building a world-class product & engineering organization at Compass, with a number of great roles - current R&D team is about 100 and growing rapidly. Real estate has some truly interesting engineering challenges - please reach out!

Engineering https://goo.gl/xyoMTk Product & Design https://goo.gl/dLBy7n Marketing - https://goo.gl/K8ZS2i

ExecOnline|Data Warehouse Engineer| New York, NY |

In less than five years, ExecOnline has become the leading online provider of leadership development to senior leaders, growing rapidly by 70% each year.

We are looking for an individual to lead efforts to create and maintain our system architecture to support our data warehousing and reporting efforts. This is a hands-on position that will work directly with our software development and business teams to bring ExecOnline’s data capabilities to the next level.

Check out the job here: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/execonline/jobs/data-wa...