Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

United States Digital Service | Senior Software Engineers, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, Senior Designers, and more! | Washington, DC | ONSITE https://www.usds.gov/ The best of technology. The best of government. And we want you. We're looking for the most tenacious designers, software engineers, product managers, and more, who are committed to untangling, rewiring and redesigning critical government services. You'll join a team of the most talented technologists from across the private sector and government. No government resume required! We work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people there are, immigration, veterans service, students, health care, and more. We're especially looking for talented senior engineers to join us to help shift move government tech in the right direction. See our most recent Report to Congress for examples of what you could be working on:

https://www.usds.gov/report-to-congress/2017/07/

Apply here:

https://www.usds.gov/join

jMyles · 8 years ago

Can you provide some assurance re: how far removed this is from killing / caging humans? I know that it's impossible in our society to be completely removed, but can you at least ensure that this job doesn't involve building tooling that directly empowers those activities?

(I'm not looking for work, but I surmise you'll have more success in this forum if you're clear about that.)

jbrambleDC · 8 years ago

I can provide 100% assurance of that. We choose projects based on "Doing the most good, for the most people, in the most need". It could be easily argued that the vast majority of our work, focuses on helping vulnerable populations. I've been here 10 Months and never had a single ethical concern. Furthermore, I firmly believe this is the kind of organization that would be fully supportive of anyone vocalizing any ethical concerns they personally had, in fact this would be encouraged.

pryelluw · 8 years ago

What's the interview process like?

jbrambleDC · 8 years ago

There are probably many on HN who can answer this better than me, and it of course depends on what role you are interviewing for . But IIRC, for Engineers the process involves a technical phone screen, followed by a second technical interview plus a behavioral/EQ interview. After that, your application goes before a hiring committee.

iandanforth · 8 years ago

Please excuse the aside but of all the posts here that I wish were marked REMOTE this one tops the bill. We (Americans) need this org to succeed, but DC is simply not an option for many people.

tsanzer · 8 years ago

You could look into Ad Hoc. They are a remote firm that builds government solutions. Worked on many popular apps.

vorpalhex · 8 years ago

I worked in DC while living in the suburbs of Maryland. The DC metro is far from perfect, but it's really not a terrible option. The bus system is also decent.

Obviously a strong remote program is even better, but very unlikely for government work.

MotivIndex | http://www.motivindex.com | Intermediate Software Developer | $70-80K CAD | REMOTE (Toronto preferred)

MotivIndex is a research and technology company specializing in digital ethnography. Our tools enable researchers and marketers to identify why consumers behave as they do in order to inform strategic decisions. We are looking for a well-rounded developer to join our team and take ownership of various components. We're a 10-person virtual company with most of us living in the Greater Toronto Area. We often meet up in the city for jam sessions and team building. Come be number 11!

Tech Stack: Angular, C#, Python, SQL Server, Azure Data Lake

We expect the candidate to be strong in at least one of the following areas. Where strength is lacking, there is an ability to learn quickly by doing:

- Front-End Development: inherent an existing application and own its future. (Angular, ES6, SPAs, Highcharts, Portals)

- API Development: implement new features, instrument, and automate quality control. (C#, secure Web tech)

- Natural Language Processing: work with an expert in the field and implement his recommendations. (Python, Spacy, theory)

- Big Data Processing: transform data on a schedule and process streams of user generated content. (Azure Data Lake Analytics, Powershell, USQL)

- Cloud and Dev Ops: provision infrastructure, deploy and monitor systems, improve development process. (VSTS, Azure, Git)

If you're interested, email your resume/linkedin to: devjobs@motivindex.com.

viniciustavares · 8 years ago

Hi MotivIndex staff,

I belieave I am a great fit for your position. This is my Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viniciustavares93/

My resume: https://onedrive.live.com/edit.aspx?cid=930e14c1cba22d2b&pag...

Regards, Vinicius Tavares

pm90 · 8 years ago

Do you get applications from HN with that offered salary range? I've heard COL of Toronto is similar to SF; if so, this would be very low wages

gravyboat · 8 years ago

I've been seeing a lot of this lately with many companies near the great lakes, just awful salaries that even with a lower cost of living would be a net loss, it's a real bummer.

gabbo · 8 years ago

The Canadian tech industry doesn't give you the same opportunity and quality of life as the American tech industry can, unfortunately. COL in Toronto is high, pay is middling, transit is limited, and the jobs are comparatively anemic. It's no wonder so many engineers leave. Canada has a lot of other things going for it, though.

kevindqc · 8 years ago

I don't think they are that similar: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

motivindex · 8 years ago

Yes, we get a very manageable amount of applicants.

And we get that 70-80K doesn't get you Rosedale, but if you live in the Hammer it goes a lot further eh?

cottsak · 8 years ago

When I read "REMOTE (Toronto preferred)", I think to myself: "If I get this gig, I'm going to be the remote guy.. the unpreferred remote guy".

Just sayin.

motivindex · 8 years ago

Point taken, and is what I wanted to avoid. If it puts people in a bad mood before they hit line 2 then shame on me. Thanks for the feedback.

cirwin · 8 years ago

• Product: The fastest email experience in the world. Beautiful, powerful, and programmable.

• Why: 900M people spend 3hrs+ per day on email. Augment their productivity with brilliance and superpowers.

• Traction: Most wanted product on Product Hunt. 85k+ on our waitlist. Beloved by users (https://twitter.com/SuperhumanCo/timelines/91127886321634099...)

• $10M+ Funding: First Round Capital, Sam Altman, Gary Vaynerchuk, founders of Gmail/Stripe/Intercom/Parse/Angellist/AOL

• Stack: Swift, Realm, SQLite, Reactive Swift, Javascript, React.js, Go

• Values: Create Delight + Be Brilliant + Be Swift

==Team==

Founders of Rapportive (YC'10, acq by LinkedIn) and LiveRamp (acq for $310M), and ex-employees of Google, Apple, Facebook, Zynga, Flipboard, BitTorrent, Meraki

==Interview==

Phone call / coffee [1 hr] >> In-person [3 hrs] >> Onsite w/team [half-to-full day]

==Contact==

conrad@superhuman.com | More info: https://superhuman.com/jobs

– Conrad Irwin, Co-Founder & CTO

salimmadjd · 8 years ago

This is very cool that you guys communicate the interview process. Super awesome!

viveksodera · 8 years ago

We're big on transparency!

-Vivek (@ Superhuman)

tgdn · 8 years ago

A lot of companies do, otherwise have a look on Glassdoor

defjosiah · 8 years ago

It looks so cool! Just a bummer for potential users, I've been on the waiting list to try it since Nov '16.

Josiah – feel free to email me at vivek [at] superhuman [dot] com

sidcool · 8 years ago

Are the email clients only for Apple ecosystem?

We're building on web for the desktop platforms, so it works across all systems already!

iOS will be out before Android, but we will support both

technicalotter · 8 years ago

How big is the iOS team?

Three at the moment...

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adam-p · 8 years ago

We develop and operate Psiphon, an Internet censorship circumvention network that helps millions of people in freedom-restricted countries access uncensored Internet every day.

Psiphon Inc. is looking for an experienced iOS and Android mobile app software developer to join our Toronto team. This role will be focused on developing new and innovative apps that use the Psiphon Network to deliver exciting and engaging content to our millions of users around the world.

# Qualifications and Skills

* Successfully shipped apps on both iOS and Android platforms.

* Cross-platform mobile app development, including: React Native, Cordova, Phonegap, Xamarin, Ionic, Java/Kotlin, Swift/Objective-C. (Or whatever has worked for you in the past.)

* Experience with all phases of mobile app lifecycle: design, development, debugging, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

* Familiarity with monetization strategies and integrating and configuring popular advertising and analytics SDKs.

* Self-organizing; strong communication skills.

jamesmp98 · 8 years ago

Ah, used yall's product in high school some years ago ;)

julius_set · 8 years ago

Salary is too low for an iOS AND Android engineer.

redmaple · 8 years ago

also its CAD not USD

snowmaker · 8 years ago

Lots of YC companies | Software engineers of all kinds | Everywhere, though mostly in the US | Mostly on-site, but some remote too | Full-time and intern

A few months ago, a team of us at Y Combinator started working on a "common app", so that people could apply to all Y Combinator companies at the same time. It seemed silly to us that even though so many companies are struggling to hire people, it still requires O(n) effort to apply to n companies.

So, we built workatastartup.com. It's a simple way to apply to all YC companies at the same time. It's only for software engineers & data scientists for now (we hope to open it more broadly later). If a company is interested, you'll get an email from them.

It seems to be working pretty well - many of the people who posted a profile have gotten more than a dozen company founders reaching out to them, and some people have gotten jobs through it already. We'd love if you filled out a profile and let us know what you think (workatastartup@ycombinator.com) : https://www.workatastartup.com

nojvek · 8 years ago

Applied. Got zero responses though. Would be nice to show on the website, how many potential companies out there it’s going to reach.

When did you apply? We have a couple of hundred companies using it now.

jimbob21 · 8 years ago

How is it different than angellist

mattlong · 8 years ago

AngelList definitely has a great recruiting platform! One of the main differences right now is that Work at a Startup is a great way to get exposure to startups working on a vast array of problems in different industries. Right now we're working on making it more of a two-way marketplace where job-seekers will be able to browse all the YC companies that are currently hiring to find the ones who's goal/product really resonates with them.

Stepping back a bit, hiring is the most ubiquitous problem our portfolio companies report to us in the years after going through YC. Given that, building a hiring platform for our companies that YC doesn't need to directly monetize can add a lot of value and accelerate their progress post-batch.

rk06 · 8 years ago

currently, it looks more like Hired than angellist. as in you don't contact companies, they contact you,

When are you adding designers?

Soon! Thank you for the request.

usdsgov · 8 years ago

mboes · 8 years ago

Tweag.io | Paris, France | REMOTE + ONSITE | Software Engineer | Formal methods, PL design

http://tweag.io

We are a research and development laboratory at the heart of Europe, applying functional programming techniques to tame the complexity of distributed systems and scale predictably. Most of our existing folks have a PL research and/or formal methods background and enjoy demonstrating the correctness of their solutions with gusto: randomized test case generation, model checking in SPIN/Promela or interactive theorem proving using Coq. We're very active in the Haskell community - contributing new language extenions (linear types, static pointers) to GHC, publishing and maintaining HaskellR, inline-java, sparkle, rules_haskell and many others. We hit the HN front page just yesterday with our Haskell support in Bazel.

Tweag.io are organized as a distributed team of experts around three main areas of focus: distributed systems engineering, functional programming based devops (Nix, Haskell etc) and mathematical modelling / machine learning. We are looking for formal engineers and PL designers to join our distributed systems team, to help us apply interactive theorem proving techniques to industrial scale projects and work on tools to make this cost effective for the masses.

If you'd love the opportunity and the space to solve the hard problems of science's large dataset infrastructure, by systematically decomposing them into simple, orthogonal solutions that compose and commute like in algebra, shoot us an email at jobs@tweag.io.

muinc · 8 years ago

We are a small independent startup (fully funded by our MVP's proceeds) focused on managing, enriching and presenting large and complex energy data.

Our technical capabilities translate DIRECTLY into commercial success, we are thus obsessed with coupling Engineering Excellence with Pragmatism. We strive to continuously "co-optimize" architecture and technical decisions with the company's long term business strategy.

Our MVP has been extremely successful. We are now looking for someone to develop and take our Computing Platform to the next level.

At the intersection of Numerical Analysis and Systems Programming (C/C++ experience), you love analyzing and developing blazingly fast implementations of models and algorithms... whether on CPU, distributed, GPU... and maybe on some FPGAs.

We've fallen in love with the singular capabilities of Rust (namely Safe High Performance with great Developer Experience). We envision it becoming a significant part of our stack.

You will report directly to the CEO and become a pillar of the company. Our success and your success will be extremely aligned as you will be making substantial contributions to our business (compute is critical for us).

We have a nice office in Downtown Austin, with a gym, treats and all... but that's probably not the reason why you would love it :p At any rate, let's talk! Email us at hello@m-u-inc.com

aprilzero · 8 years ago

Gyroscope | Software Engineer | Remote Team | Full Time | $100–140k + equity

We're a small team building the operating system for the human body (see https://gyrosco.pe/). Quarter million users on the app now, and we're profitable with our Pro subscription program. This year we're building more integrations to give people more insights about themselves, launching our new places tracking feature, and adding new ways to get meaningful health improvements (weight loss, increased productivity, continuous monitoring of biometrics, etc.)

We're hiring for a couple engineering roles:

• iOS Engineer —— working with Swift, Objective C but also some JavaScript & React Native. We have a React Native app but there are many fully-native components, like our location tracking system, the HealthKit syncing logic, and many new features we want to add this year, like an Apple Watch app and tracking for time spent on the phone.

• Backend Engineer —— experienced with Go, Python, Postgres, AWS, and working with huge amounts of data. Build new integrations, manage our infrastructure, and use machine learning to help all our users become more healthy. We've got over 50 servers processing millions of new data points every hour, which have the potential for significant health impact if analyzed correctly.

We are a distributed team with team members in San Francisco, New York, Canada, and even Poland. We raised a seed round last year from top investors like True Ventures and Matrix Partners, and will be growing rapidly this year so now is the perfect time to join. More Info: https://gyrosco.pe/about/

Contact anand@gyrosco.pe