Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)

Workpop | Santa Monica, CA | Software Engineer, Front End Engineer, Data Scientist | Full-time, onsite, (Relocation bonus, Visa Transfer, TN) | www.workpop.com | 5+ openings

Workpop is a well capitalized startup based in Santa Monica backed by amazing investors like Dan Scholnick, Joe Lonsdale, Aaron Levie, Dave Morin, David Tisch, Evan Williams and Biz Stone just to name a few. We are streamlining hiring and HR for SMB's and their employees. We are looking for mission driven, talented and passionate software engineers (bonus points for strong front end skills) to join our growing team. Help us build a clean, modern HR platform focused on connecting small and medium business owners with their employees.

You can apply here https://www.workpop.com/jobs/64oY9i6iFYPmDGSDg and mention hackernews, or reach out to me at 'rami' at 'workpop.com'

UC Berkeley | Programmer | Berkeley, CA | FULLTIME, ONSITE, http://r-nimble.org

The NIMBLE software development team at UC Berkeley is looking for a programmer to help develop the core features of the NIMBLE platform (r-nimble.org). NIMBLE is a framework built in R for writing general statistical models and algorithms. NIMBLE includes a domain-specific language embedded in R for programming statistical algorithms. The language is compiled by automatically generating and compiling C++ code and interfacing C++ objects to R. This position includes work to harness parallel processing and automatic differentiation, to generate interfaces with other languages such as Python, to improve NIMBLE's scope and efficiency for large statistical models, and to build other new features into NIMBLE.

Please see https://r-nimble.org/nimble-is-hiring-a-programmer for details and the link to the application.

Reaktor | New York City | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer| https://www.reaktor.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

Reaktor is a strategy, design, and engineering company based in NYC, Helsinki, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Our New York office is growing fast and we’re always on the look-out for the most talented software engineers to make sure our teams are filled with best in class individuals. We might all have climbed far up the career ladder in our past lives, but here we leave our titles at the door and work together to get shit done with clients like HBO, Michael Kors, Nasdaq, Samsung, Supercell, and Finnair.

Here’s what we can offer you:

- Teams that are totally autonomous and cross-functional.

- A community of amazing people who will both teach you and learn from you.

- Experimentation and continuous improvement of our skills and ways of working.

- A commitment to constant evolution (and the occasional revolution).

- A world without hierarchy—big ideas can come from anyone and anywhere.

- A ton of fun!

What We’ll Expect From You:

- A ton of skills and wisdom in working with tech that you consider useful. In no particular order, here are some things many of us like: functional programming, Node.js, Clojure, React, Swift, SQL, NoSQL, general bleeding edge stuff.

- Passion for:

  - Agile and lean principles that actually work – not rituals for rituals’ sake.

  - Solving really hard problems (and doing it with clean code).

  - Learning, growing, and embiggening your mind!

- Willingness to be responsible for your work, development and career path. Don’t worry: we’ll have your back in whatever you want to achieve, but it’s up to you to have the end goal in mind.

- Authorization to work in the United States.

Spoiler Alert | Boston, MA | Full-time | Frontend, Full Stack, Backend engineers | https://www.spoileralert.com/careers

Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based technology company that helps organizations manage unsold food inventory. The startup - born out of MIT in June 2015 - offers a collaborative, online platform and value-added services that enable food businesses, farms, and non-profits to create or recover value from surplus food and organic waste. Its technology platform facilitates food donations, discounted sales and organics brokering, and offers the relevant accounting and reporting systems to capture tax benefits and document important financial, environmental, and social metrics.

Spoiler Alert powers hundreds of food businesses, farms, and nonprofits food recovery efforts through our platform, including one of the largest wholesale food distributors in the country. Our platform has been used to help our customers repurpose hundreds of thousands of pounds of food that otherwise would have been wasted. And this is just the beginning.

We are looking for Frontend, Full Stack, and Backend engineers to join as foundation members of our team. You will have a meaningful impact, working directly with our Chief Technology Officer and joining an early-stage startup led by a hard-working, dedicated, and passionate team. We don’t expect you to already be fluent in our current tech stack; technology choices change with time, circumstance, and business need. We do expect you to learn and grow with us as those choices change.

Please check out our career page to learn more! We're looking forward to meeting you.