Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Month after month, the same companies list the same opening here (with probably 30% shift.) I would love to know if the companies that relist aren't getting applicants, aren't getting the right applicants, have a high turnover or are (hopefully) just continuing to grow.
Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads? Success stories are the most needed ingredient to remind everyone that hiring is happening.
That's the case for Factual. We have perma-openings for software engineers and are always trying to find additional great people to work with.
I've been posting to HN monthly for about a year. I get responses from 2-10 HNers each month and several have been hired at Factual. About 20% of our technical hires in 2011 were people who came from HN.
I wondered about whether a similar post each month would be useful. I've been surprised in two ways: 1) The number of applicants has generally gone up each month, not down and 2) almost every month, one or two of the people responding say something like "I've seen your post several times now and have been meaning to reply. Today, I finally decided to do it."
I guess what I'm saying is that my experience with posting jobs to HN has been great, and posting (almost) the same content each month seems effective.
That location has a lot of upsides for us: most of the employees live within 3-4 miles of there, rent is affordable, and our building is next door to a large mall with lots of lunch options. For those who live further away, commutes are made easier by letting people set their working hours and work from home as necessary.
Public transit in LA is poor, so can't disagree with you there.
We post on most of these threads and our batting average for hiring from them is MLB respectable. We have below-average turnover; we're just growing. Every single thread we've posted on has introduced us to candidates we were thrilled to talk to.
HN is our single best hiring vector, both in quantity and quality.
I think you can safely assume that people are getting hired from these threads.
(I think posting the job thread on weekends is counterproductive and don't post in those months).
Khan Academy posts here every month because we're growing. I was hired after responding to a post on HN, and since then we've hired roughly 1 full time developer or designer per month. See this months post for more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413910
I landed an interview with a company from one of these threads for an internship they were not advertising. It was a good experience, but in the end I was told that they did not have anything for me. It would have been my first development job and I suspect that they were too early stage to take on someone that was completely entry level like me. And it appears that they're still looking.
Actually, I did get hired thanks to the Nov 2011 HN thread - one post in particular caught my eye and while I initially just asked for more details, I ended up starting my new position there in December.
Obligatory segue: incidentally, OkCupid Labs (San Francisco, CA) is still growing and looking to hire in a few areas, including design (visual, UX, and/or UI welcome), front-end dev, and senior software engineering. I don't know much about the last one, but for more info on the first two, you can ping me via chang at okcupidlabs. Or the jobs page works too: http://jobs.okcupidlabs.com/.
I got an offer (well, sort of a [paid] trial period type offer, but I believe it was a good fit for both parties) from a company that posted here a few months ago. I ended up declining it and taking a safer option. Kind of regret not taking that offer, actually.
Also, are any HNers getting hired from these threads?
I've been posting to some of these threads occasionally, nothing ever happend. While I guess some of us are getting gigs out of it, I believe the majority probably don't. On the other hand, my skillset (doing PHP apps, but not a web designer) is not in demand to be fair.
I can only speak for the company I work for, but we are growing so fast that the company has doubled in size in the last year or so.
We've got real revenues and growth in traffic to our main site and our partner sites. Also, we now power Yahoo! Autos, which will give us another big boost in traffic and revenue.
Success story: I met someone recently who found her new job at OKCupid Labs from last last month's HN Who's Hiring thread. (She'd also met her husband on OKCupid, so that helped.)
As a comparison, between Dribbble's (a design-specific community) job board and HN, all of the best designer candidates so far have come from HN.
Sadly, I've only had one response from posting here (for Phunware, Inc.). Initially, my desire was that we hire solely from HN, but the reality hasn't lined up with that ideal.
AcademicWorks has hired two people from posting on HN. We consistently find our best candidates from these threads. I have a memo to post at the first of every month, because we are always looking for talented engineers.
My employer (LucidMedia Networks) still is growing so I keep posting. Simple as that.
I'm not sure how many applicants apply to the companies listed, but I think our application quantity might be lower than average. Could be location (not SF, NYC, Boston), tech stack, low profile . . . not sure. There isn't feedback on the posts. Oddly, we also sometimes get posts from HNers outside the US, but we never advertise for them.
We've hired a full-time dev (myself) and an intern who just started recently from the pool of HNers. These things do work (and I state this in the post monthly).
I was hired from a post on here in October 2010 for a company in Atlanta. I'm still there, and I've posted a few "we're hiring" posts since then (no hires yet).
I'm a long time reader but don't post much. I was hired in NYC through a post on the Oct 2011 thread. Obviously I'd rate myself as amazing. The job isn't bad either hehe.
Ilastik (http://ilastik.org) is a collaborative open-source project with the aim of providing a scalable image analysis platform for the neurosciences and beyond. Current ilastik development seeks to bring the power of interactive machine learning to very large data sets.
Janelia Farm (http://www.janelia.org), one of the premier centers for biomedical research worldwide, is funding a Scientific Software Developer (Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA with visits to Heidelberg University, Germany) to reach that goal quickly. Tasks include the refinement of the architecture, the integration with existing tools and the design of a graphical user interface for handling of very large microscopic data sets using image analysis and machine learning algorithms. The software developer will also support proof-of-principle studies on pioneering applications from the neurosciences, and liaise between experts at Janelia Farm and ilastik core developers at the University of Heidelberg.
The position requires a strong background in C++, experience in software engineering applied to large projects, and the skills to integrate existing algorithms and functionality into a unifying biomedical processing framework. Experience with python, Qt, numpy, scipy and scientific parallel programming is a plus. Good communication skills are essential to make for good cooperation both with local experts and with other programmers working remotely. Salary is commensurate with prior experience and will be highly competitive for extremely well-matched candidates.
The principal work place is on the beautiful campus of Janelia Farm, with regular visits to Heidelberg. The successful candidate will be in a position to help shape a project that is becoming an enabling technology in one of the most interesting fields conceivable: the deciphering of the inner workings of the brain.
I'm unaffiliated with Janelia, but I did interview for grad school there a few years ago.
Janelia is basically heaven for neuroscience research. I know a lot of people who would give their left leg to work at Janelia as a scientist. There is some seriously cool research going on there. Janelia is also very interdisciplinary, from what I saw on my visit. Lots of CS people working with physicists working with neuroscientists.
We are a very small team with a lot of interesting and creative challenges ahead of us! Pinterest already does billions of pageviews, has terabytes of interesting data to analyze, and is growing at 50% each month.
There are fascinating problems ahead of us, including search and recommendation algorithms, a developer api, internationalization, and a monetization platform will make using Pinterest better, not worse.
We care about creating a great place for people to do their very best work. We look for folks who are creative, humble, talented, and hard-working.
At Mixlr, [http://mixlr.com], we’re currently looking to meet developers.
Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including some of the world’s top DJs and radio stations.
We also have an interesting and scaleable backend architecture which involves not only Ruby but lashings of Java, C and C++, with heavy usage of Redis and MongoDB.
We practice test-driven development, use Puppet to automate our server configuration and live by the mantra of rapid deployment: join us, and you can expect to see your code being put through its paces by thousands of users - within hours (or quite possibly, minutes).
We would love to meet developers with:
- deep web development knowledge - most likely involving Ruby on Rails.
- a strongly test-driven approach to coding.
- a love for learning new skills and technologies, and the enthusiasm to break out of Ruby and try their hand at unfamiliar languages and frameworks.
- a driving passion not just for coding, but for audio, music and startups as well.
For the right person(s), we are able to offer:
- A competitive, full-time salary - negotiable dependant on experience.
- Meaningful stock options.
- Offices a stone’s throw from Old Street tube.
- The opportunity to take a leading, hands-on role in building an exciting and ambitious music company.
If the above interests you, then we’d love to talk. Contact me: rob <somehow> mixlr.com.
Sorry, but we're not hiring remotely at this time.
MyEnergy - Boston, MA - FULL TIME: VP Eng, Data & Rails Engineers
We're building the consumer side of the universal energy internet, and we're looking for talented engineers to bring it to life. Working atop datasets never before accessed and assembled in the same place, you'll build experiences and interactions that make a difference here at home and the world over.
MyEnergy, formerly Earth Aid, was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're venture-backed, with strong strategic partners and investors committed to our vision of building the people's energy internet. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
We've just opened up our new HQ in a sunny two story loft by Faneuil Hall in Boston, and we offer very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, a fun company culture, and a small arsenal of office helicopter drones. If you might like to join us, send us an email to introduce yourself to jobs at myenergy dot com
NowSpots is a venture-backed startup (we've raised an ample seed round) that's taking the pain out of customer acquisition by making it easy for small brands to create really awesome ad campaigns that do more than just look pretty. We're looking for clever devs who understand that the hardest part of building a business is defeating apathy, getting noticed, and connecting with people looking for your product or service. If you have any sort of subversive, counter-establishmentarian impulses, we'd like to talk to you. :)
Ping me at brad@nowspots.com if you want to chat. We're a small team of just a few folks but count several fortune 500 companies as customers. Come hack with us.
Brad is one of my favorite people. I have more than once (briefly!) found myself wishing I hadn't started my current (successful) company so I could go work with him. The guy is "hustle" personified.
Circle (http://circleci.com - full-service, hosted, continuous integration): Designers and Engineers
We're hiring our first employee(s)! You should love making code better, and optimizing developers' workflow: our mission is to make millions of developers lives better.
Circle does hosted, full-service, continuous integration. Users give us their code and we do as much magic as possible to make their code better: less buggy, faster, less risky.
Engineers: there's a broad range of really exciting work to be done for great engineers: static analysis, file systems, databases, and working with a broad range of languages, platforms and environments. You must be smart and get shit done!
Designers: If you love UX, data visualization, streamlined workflows, this is the job for you. We have tons of data available, and need to present it such that developers can get out of the app and back to their jobs sooner. We're hugely developer focused, so to ability implement your vision is essential, at least on the front-end.
We're a young and exciting company. We have real customers, we're growing fast, and our users are really passionate about the product. We pay well, have great perks, and are based in SFs coolest office building (http://ongig.com/blog/career-development/the-best-san-franci...). A big plus if you love table tennis.
Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides (YC S11)
We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marketplace for everyone who's ever needed to get somewhere.
We've all been employees at early-stage, venture-backed startups. We know what it's like, so we're generous with the benefits and your equity. (Plus full salaries, of course.) We're well-funded by top-tier investors, and we do things like all-you-can-eat free food, and free tickets and transportation to Burning Man.
We have a tight-knit team and we're looking for people who we can develop a deep mutual trust with. This is not code for "the same as us"; we want to build a team that's more diverse than your typical startup. We understand that a great company and a great culture depends on far more than technical aptitude.
Details: Located in SF. We will happily pay for and help with relocation for the right candidate.
For designers: As the lead designer, you'll be working closely with two engineers who care deeply about the user experience of our product, and want to let you focus on what you do best.
The product is very early, so you'd be shaping it from the ground floor; we want someone to help us build a design culture from the very beginning. Like everyone else we work with, we want you to teach, and to be teachable.
For engineers: Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Coffeescript, Sass, and jQuery, and we're looking to expand into iOS and Android. It's not mandatory to know these coming in; passionate generalists who can learn quickly work too.
PSA: Refer someone we hire, and get a thousand bucks of collaborative consumption credit! You can pick from among Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Grubwithus, Getaround, RelayRides, Tutorspree, Skillshare, and Vayable.
Link: http://www.ridejoy.com/jobs/
For what it's worth (and as far as I'm aware), H1B visas are now capped (i.e. full) until October 1st, 2012 - applications are accepted from April 1st - so there may not be much sense in companies including the keyword "H1B" as requested, unless they're looking to fill a roll later in the year..
Except H1B is used as a generic term to indicate willingness to sponsor visa applications, including types other than H1B visas (such a TN1 for Mexican and Canadians), so please, keep including it.
Sorry, not trying to be snarky but as someone working on a visa myself, if you need a visa and you work in tech then it pays to spend the ~$200 or so initial consultation fee to speak to an immigration lawyer who can brief you on your options.
Even if your future-employer will handle the immigration work (eg on an H1b), it still pays to retain your own immigration council because their lawyer is only to going to look out for their interests.
According to many people I work with, Twitter is the best place they've ever worked. The perks are great, the challenges exceptional, and the culture inspiring.
We're a 100-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development.
We use Java, Scala, and some Groovy; we always write tests first and pair on most coding tasks. Developers have Linux workstations with at least two monitors. We have weekly lightning talks that cover finance and technical topics.
Austin, TX - BarZ Adventures.
Software developer, Rails or iPhone. Android experience also welcome.
We're a small but profitable business that licenses software for making tour guides and visitor directories. The company was founded on sales of a specialized hardware device - still in use in many places, such as the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. - but the company has now moved to producing white-label mobile apps for iOS and Android.
I'm currently running both the iPhone project and the Rails back-end myself, but it's too much to juggle with the growing business. Looking for someone to help out on either project, so I can focus on the other.
TRUECar.com - TrueCar shows consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their area, then guides them to dealers we've certified. When someone buys from a dealer we've sent them to, we get paid. We already have solid revenues, are well funded and and are growing rapidly. We need lots of technical talent to help us grow.
* JAVA - We are looking for several talented Java developers and architects to design and build the technology used to power our production websites, APIs, widgets, and internal tools. This is a chance for you to join a growing company and build something that's going to scale to support millions of users/visitors and provide them with all kinds of data.
* Front End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Help build out our main site and our partner sites.
* Senior .NET Developer - You should have extensive experience building .Net applications using C#. Our user interfaces are web-based, so ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, and CSS are important. We use SQL Server heavily, so you should read, write and debug enterprise-grade SQL. Strength in developing applications using ASP.NET MVC and modern JavaScript frameworks.
* Python/Django - Our main site is in Django, which means we need serious talent to help it scale and expand as we continue to grow. Plus, you'll get to work with me.
* Front End - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. Help build out our main site and our partner sites.
* QA engineers - More software, more bugs. Help us find them.
* We also have some non-technical openings for senior positions in marketing, customer retention, HR, finance and accounting. Email me for details.
My story - moved from Atlanta all the way out to Santa Monica after stopping by the TrueCar booth at PyCon 2011. I started here three month ago and love it. I'm working with a great team that knows how to develop software and for management who seems to "get it" with regards to software developers.
The Python team in an open workspace that has a view of the ocean (http://picplz.com/user/dabent/pic/tpc4v/), and all the Santa Monica offices are blocks from the beach. They have great benefits, including company equity, 100% paid family medical, dental, vision, and a healthy 401k. They also offer gym membership reimbursement ($50 a month), 12 holidays, career training, 3 weeks PTO and have a kitchen stocked with fruit, snacks and such. I've honestly never had a job this good.
If you're interested, send me your resume. My email is in my profile.
We have an office in Paoli, PA though remote is OK depending on the relationship. We have people now across the world. We also welcome Philly-area interns. H1B is also OK.
I suppose friction is part of the point with inbound hiring, but it is rather frustrating trying to find an email; should I use the DDG "Ask a question" form, the open@duckduckgo.com email, or are you guys just not interested in people you haven't already worked with?
Canvas (USV Funded) is looking for engineers #3 and #4 to join a small close team building the rich-media community platform of the future.
The job title says "Software Engineer" but really we're looking for "Software Entrepreneur" or a "Startup Engineer". Yes, your day job will be writing code. But that's the only similarity to a big company software job.
You'll be challenged to take big ideas and turn them into concrete testable hypotheses. Shipping a great feature is important, but positively changing user behavior is the ultimate success criteria. Built-to-spec takes a backseat to moves-the-metrics.
Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there and relocated over there about a year ago and have been very happy with it. We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation / visa issues.
It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.
We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it.
We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers. Everything we do is aimed at solving problems for our customers, if it doesn't help our customers we're not interested in doing it.
You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before.
I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.
Menlo Park, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) (INTERN, REMOTE, H1B)
Everyme (YC S11) is hiring its first web engineer. Remote is OK for the right candidate, or if you're nearby commuting a couple times a week is fine. Our world-class team of five is reinventing the address book. You will be absolutely critical to the mission that we are on as we build APIs for our mobile clients alongside our fully JS website and mobile website. We're ventured funded and launching soon. Competitive salary, equity, benefits, sick desk/laptop/monitor setup etc. Summer internship candidates can also apply, folks interested in mobile (iOS/Android/other) or web are fine for internships. Some keywords for Cmd F-ers: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, MongoB, Redis, Node.js, Javascript, jQuery, Backbone.js, HTML, CSS, Coffeescript, Mobile.
Email me at vibhu <at> everyme <dot> com and let me know you came from HN!
Mountain View - Khan Academy (full-timers and interns welcome year-round)
Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly.
Plus, it's one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine.
We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.
Are you guys doing anything with remote positions. I love what you guys are doing and would love to be a part of it, but I am bound to Florida. It's a long story but the tl;dr is my wife and I are my grandparents caretakers, so picking up roots is not possible.
Rob, I am in the Orlando area, if you guys would consider a semi remote position I would be interested, I could be onsite for a week a month or so. My contact info is in my profile. I have property in the keys and plan to relocate there at some point (after we build) which will be closer.
Wow this sounds amazing, I use Khan Academy on a daily basis. I'm actually writing my own education framework in Django that uses some of your APIs and videos. Are you guys looking for summer interns? I'm currently a college student studying Software Engineering in California. Keep up the great work : )
FULLTIME or INTERN in PALO ALTO, CA
We're an edtech startup funded by some of the biggest names in the valley, and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time.
If you're a strong JavaScript hacker who wants to use node.js to change the world, apply here:
Hiring C++, algorithms, and systems junkies. We've hacked the kernel, JavaScript, and everything in between. We love computer science and systems hacking. We dislike fads and one trick pony programmers who've only learned one trick.
The software, hardware, and use cases have changed. Databases did not (and those that did are doing a bad job). Let's do a phenomenal job together!
At Qubit - http://www.qubitproducts.com/ - we're helping some of the biggest companies in UK understand their data and providing them with actionable intelligence. Founded by 4 ex-Googlers 2 years ago, we're looking for top Front-end/Back-end/Test/Infrastructure/AI/Statistical engineers to help build our core infrastructure to find deeper insights into our huge data sets faster.
We mainly use Java, to develop our Hadoop pipeline on AWS, and JavaScript, both in browser and on our nodejs/redis servers, with a bit of R, Python and what not in the mix.
2012 is going (to continue) to be an exciting time for our company and we'd love to have a bunch more people help us grow!
Have a chat with me at will+yc@qubitdigital.com an let me know what you are looking for to get the ball rolling.
- Front-end web developer
- Machine learning / NLP engineer
We are using data to assess the health of private companies. We're National Science Foundation backed and have very large companies paying us real money today for our data, i.e., we have a real business / business model.
If you're humble, happy and hungry, please reach out to me directly at asanwal@cbinsights.com or career@cbinsights.com.
* TapCanvas, a venture-funded startup, is seeking a Founding Engineer in Silicon Valley or San Francisco *
In 2012, TapCanvas will bring mobile apps to everyone. We're creating a brand new market for mobile apps, and we have a chance to write the rules in this space.
TapCanvas has some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, including K9 Ventures and 500 Startups. So far, the "team" consists of one serial entrepreneur, Joshua Merrill (learn more about Josh at http://josh.io). This is a unique, full-time opportunity for a Founding Engineer who wants a fast-track into the world of startups.
Responsibilities:
- Work side-by-side with TapCanvas founder—a designer—to implement new features
- Solve technical challenges that would baffle lesser programmers
- Create and improve processes for developing and shipping code
- Help to recruit and train an awe-inspiring technical team
Requirements:
- Expert in Rails 3.1 and Backbone.js
- Familiar with jQuery Mobile framework
- An insatiable love of all things mobile
Desired:
- Experience building consumer and/or small business-facing web apps
- Willingness to wear many hats, and generally perform acts of superhuman strength—this is a startup, after all
Why you'll love this gig:
- Take pride in building a product that will touch millions of users
- Work with smart, capable people who get things done
- Competitive salary, and generous stock options
If you're ready to have an absolute blast while making your mark on the world, let's talk.
SeatMe is hiring! We're a cozy 13 person startup in downtown San Francisco. We're revolutionizing the restaurant industry and we need your help! We're in search of:
* Web developers (we're a Django/jQuery/Backbone shop)
How often do you get a chance to work at a tech startup where eating out can be written off as a tax-refundable business expense? Well not here, because our CEO would go to jail (and he's never going back to the big house), but we do work in an awesome intersection of technology and fine dining.
We offer a very competitive salary, benefits, moving costs and equity options for all full-time employees.
I manage one of our tools engineering teams focused on making it easy for employees to quickly find the right information and keeping it up to date. But there are a number of different tools engineering teams focused on things from tools engineers use daily to how we can better support users.
The Amazon Web Services team is hiring for over 370 full-time on-site positions at 15 world-wide locations. We need developers, solution architects, network engineers, support engineers, account managers, data center technicians, development managers, and more.
I'm currently interviewing at Amazon for a different department. Do you know if I can "make a switch" mid-interview, or do I need to start interviewing all over again?
I'm currently interviewing at Amazon, and I have no clue what department I'm interviewing for. I've heard hiring decisions are made strictly by the team that you'd be joining, so is this something I should know before going in for an on-site?
RentMineOnline (San Francisco, based in the Presidio).
We're looking for our 3rd full-time rails developer. We're changing the way that large apartment communities find and retain residents.
Why you should consider us:
- define and take ownership over your projects
- work at all levels of the tech stack
- exposure to a profitable company with a small team
- work with smart people (Duke and Stanford grads)
Our current stack is {git, slicehost, nginx, passenger, ree, rails 3, delayed_job, MySQL}.
We also use some amazon services {s3, rds, sdb} and have a fairly deep integration with facebook platform and linkedin.
We're in the process of moving from prototype to jquery, and will be doing the move to ruby 1.9 sometime in the coming year.
contact me - kevin@rentmineonline.com, and include #job somewhere in the subject.
Wave Accounting is an online accounting application for small business. We save business owners countless hours by automating a lot of their accounting needs. We're also doing payroll (which is my area).
* Front end developer - Our meaning in life is to present a beautiful, easy to use interface, this person will be working on both the accounting and payroll applications to do the necessary front end improvements.
* Python/Django developer - This is for the accounting application. Working on a larger team, you'll be implementing new features and integrations.
* Ruby/Rails developer - This is for the payroll application. Working on a smaller team, we're turning payroll into something that small businesses don't hate.
Bay Area or Los Angeles or Shanghai preferred, but remote work is possible for exceptional candidates (must live in the U.S.). Full-time only. H1B is okay. We also have several summer internship opportunities.
Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider, so that developers, startups, and big companies can focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We believe in openness and transparency rather than proprietariness and obfuscation.
We have a terrific team that is still fairly small, and an incredible CEO (he was the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which was sold to Google and became AdSense). In late 2010, we raised a Series A from Andreessen-Horowitz, and our customers and partners include Facebook, Newsweek, Loopt, and Blekko. We have lots of challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be.
We currently have about half a dozen job openings, from data engineering to software engineering to system administration. For the software engineering position, you would ideally know Java, Clojure, and/or Ruby, and you'll get bonus points for experience with machine learning, NoSQL, algorithms, infrastructure, and/or Hadoop.
If you're interested in the Bay Area office, it just opened last month, so you'd have a significant influence on the culture there.
You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:
Inkling is a publishing startup. We are a new medium, the future of books and publishing (currently with a focus in textbooks on iPad); our platform is so good that completely leaves ebooks in dust, and even most major publishing houses are invested in us.
We are pretty much hiring in ANY POSITION - from the JavaScript/Python/Scala/iOS to UI/UX design to marketing to product management to interns. We are Sequoia-backed and just recently secured another round of $17 million funding.
The team is lean and flat. Located in the downtown SF, TV-celebrity chef in house, best gym in town, plus generous salary and options.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.
It's widely held that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to change that. We believe that faster sharing of research will lead to an acceleration in research innovation: faster innovation in medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and other fields. Faster sharing in biology and medicine, for example, could lead to cancer being solved 12 months before it otherwise would have been, which would lead to millions of lives being saved.
Academia.edu has over 850,000 registered users, and over 3 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 2,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.
We need talented engineers to come and help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that there is a chance to make a big impact.
We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).
We have a strong engineering culture. We're a 6 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.
Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.
The kinds of things you would be working on include:
★ building new features (a conference feature, a discussion feature for papers)
★ enhancing existing features (News Feed, Profile page, paper upload tools)
★ building back-end infrastructure to scale the site
What we're looking for are:
☀ 2+ years of web development experience
☀ Experience with the full engineering stack
☀ Passion for engineering
All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture. There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring.
H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.
If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu
Coursekit is looking for more engineers to help bring the best possible online experience to education. If you've ever been forced to use a crappy piece of software because your teacher (or worse, your school) demanded it, you know the pain we're trying to solve. We launched our product for university courses recently, and the reaction has been awesome. (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665657/coursekit-aims-to-overha...)
We are a small and young team, but we are well-funded and growing. We work mostly in/with Coffeescript, Python, node.js, Redis, and MySQL. We don't care whether you have tons of experience with these technologies, but if you're smart and learn fast, we'd love to talk.
We're also looking for a Front-end Engineer, who would be able to help set a standard for our HTML/CSS and help us build awesome experiences for students and teachers.
Twilio is hiring. Want to call/text message your users, or build a product around phones? Instead of writing horrible interface code to text message or call users, people use Twilio's REST API to take care of the messages and get back to doing what they do best - building great web apps.
We are growing like crazy and hiring for lots of positions - see a full list here http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs. Two good ways to get your resume to the top of the pile: build a Twilio app, and mention this HN post in your cover letter.
GoInstant is a venture-backed startup building a unique co-browsing tool that allows two or more people to surf the web at the same time. It requires no downloads, plugins or installs. People connect in 3 seconds or less and share a web experience in real-time.
We’ve raised $1.7M from top tier investors in Silicon Valley, including Freestyle Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, Steve Anderson, Reid Hoffman, Yuri Milner and Ed Sim. They are the people who have helped build Facebook, Twitter, Playdom, Heroku, Linkedin, GotoMeeting and more.
We’re currently in private beta with some of the world’s largest B2B SaaS vendors and e-commerce sites, and expanding quickly.
GoInstant is a small, tight knit team building a technically complex and sophisticated system.
