April 2019 Jobs

Boston | Mightier | Software Engineer | Full-Time | ONSITE

Can video games teach children how to harness their emotions?

The team at Mightier is doing just that. Mightier is a biofeedback mobile game platform that teaches kids to identify and control their emotions through play. Kids wear a heart rate band while playing a library of games and must regulate their heart rate to win. The games empower kids to practice self-calming skills that transfer to real-life situations.

We're looking for a (mid-level - senior) software engineer to join our lean, fast-paced web engineering team as we face a period of rapid growth. We're built with Python/Django, Docker, AWS.

+ More about Mightier: https://mightier.com

+ Join our team: https://mightier.com/careers/

Elements Interactive | Senior Python/Django Developer | Almere, The Netherlands | Full-time, ONSITE, VISA sponsorship, Relocation assistance

Elements Interactive is a digital agency founded in 1996, building web and mobile applications for a diverse range of well known clients with HQ in NL. Our team has over 60 professionals from around the world, who all share a passion for tech, innovation and learning from each other. We care a lot about growing our skills, delivering quality work and having fun along the way!

Check our current tech stack here https://stackshare.io/elements-interactive#technology

PERKS

* conferences/events/courses budget to stay on top of your skills

* flexible working hours (+occasional WFH)

* regular fun events with the team

* travel costs compensated (if daily commute to office >10km)

* decent pension plan

* free lunch, snacks, unlimited freshly ground coffee every day

See more info & our projects here https://www.elements.nl

APPLY HERE https://elementsinteractive.workable.com/j/4DCF348701?viewed...

Marlo | Backend Developer | Part-Time | ONSITE / REMOTE | Boston, MA

At Marlo, we are building software tools to bring meetings into the 21st century. From our Net Meeting Score algorithm to diagnose unproductive meetings to NLP models giving custom recommendations for meeting facilitators, we are shipping exciting new features to our customers every week. We are looking for a part-time backend developer to join us in our quest to make meetings the best they've ever been.

What You'll Do

-Work directly with the CTO on building new features for our many microservices

-Develop new endpoints and backend functionality for our web applications

-Build for reliability and uptime as we quickly scale our product to thousands of users

-Have the opportunity to work on infrastructure, DevOps, and/or data pipelining if interested

About You

-You love learning. You enjoy experimenting with new technology, including areas with which you might not have experience with yet.

-You have experience in Python web development. Our entire stack is Python-based (Django and Flask) and we want to make sure you can hit the ground running.

-You feel comfortable working as a part-time contributor and can be successful with significant autonomy.

-You want to rid the world of meetings that suck.

Why Marlo?

As Marlo originated out of the MS/MBA program at Harvard, the team has a solid technical base on top of significant business talent. We will always be an innovation-focused organization and will continue to build the best software tools to quantify and improve the meeting space. If you're interested in joining a fast-growing startup that will change the way people view meetings, Marlo is the place for you!

Finimize | Full-Stack Engineer, Back-end Engineer, Mobile Engineer | London, UK | Full-time | Early-stage (pre-Series A) | ONSITE

We're building a platform to equip our users with the tools and information they need to be financially savvy.

We have a global community of 300,000 people, which we built up in 2 years without any marketing spend. We've been featured by Apple as one of their favourite apps as well as Forbes, Wired, Monocle. We also recently finished in the top 3 for Product Hunt’s fintech apps of 2018.

As well as being backed by top VCs, our CEO was previously featured in Forbes 30 under 30 following a successful exit of a business at the age of 26.

We’re looking for smart Engineers with a keen eye for product. Join a strong team and help us grow our app to become the platform anyone checks before make a financial decision.

Tech stack: React/React Native, Relay, GraphQL, Django/Python, Kubernetes, SQL (100% match not necessary)

Apply here https://www.finimize.com/jobs/ or get in touch directly: matt@finimize.com

- Matt Dalton, VP Engineering

Octopus Energy | Software Engineer | Soho, London, UK | ONSITE, FULL TIME

We are a tech-focused energy supplier for the UK market looking for diligent software engineers to join us.

Our multi-discipline engineering team builds and maintains a platform that processes over £500m annually for over 500k customers. We’re rapidly growing with a view to expanding internationally.

Server-side, we mainly use Python. Our websites and internal services use Django and the Django-REST-framework - we also use Pandas, Numpy, Airflow and Jupyter for analysis and forecasting, plus Celery for background tasks.

We use AWS heavily, employing most of the "Hashistack" (eg Packer, Consul, Terraform) as part of a continuous deployment pipeline.

This is a rare opportunity to use technology to help fight climate change through helping the UK to use green technology and renewable energy sources.

Further details on the role and how to apply here: https://octopus.energy/careers/back-end-developer/

Underdog.io | New York | Onsite | https://underdog.io

Underdog.io, a talent marketplace, is hiring a backend engineer in New York. This role will have ownership over backend and DevOps on our Python (Flask) and JavaScript-based stack. Underdog.io is a small, revenue-funded company where everyone’s contribution and decision-making is directly impactful. Ideal candidates have the skills and initiative to think deeply about everything from code quality to internal processes to the broader market in which we operate. Specifically, we’re looking for someone with:

- Server-side development experience in Flask or a similar framework (Django, Express, etc.).

- Client-side development experience, preferably using a JS library like React or AngularJS.

- A deep understanding of HTTP and RESTful API design.

- Familiarity with SQL databases (we use PostgreSQL) and general data modeling practices.

- Experience managing AWS environments and working with DevOps tools (Jenkins, Docker, etc.).

- A desire to contribute to open-source projects.

Email chris+hn@underdog.io if you’re interested in learning more. No agencies, recent grads, or visa candidates, please.

IMSTRONG | Bangalore, India | Full time | www.imstrong.co

ImStrong is making people around the world reimagine the way to stay fit. We're reinventing how anyone can exercise at home by delivering a live video-streaming fitness experience. ImStrong makes it easy and convenient for busy people and homemakers to access awesome trainer-led fitness classes from the comfort of their home at their chosen time.

We are looking to agument our team with couple of backend engineers. Our backend stack is built with Node.js and leverages various AWS service (EC2, RDS (MySQL), SES etc)

Polyglot programming experince with other backend technologies such as Phoenix(Elixir), RoR/Django, Golang is an added advantage.

Exposure to Event driven, Message passing, Communicating sequential processes, multi-threaded programming environments is a plus.

If interested, send your github profile to selvan@imstrong.co

Kogan.com | Full Stack Developers, Front End Engineers, Back End Engineers | Full Time | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE | https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/

Kogan.com is a pioneer of Australia's online retail industry and Australia’s largest pureplay online retailer. Our software engineering team have end-to-end responsibility from idea to launch for all kogan.com built apps - including Kogan.com and dicksmith.com.au as well as purchasing optimisation and other internal applications. We see our high volume, large scale apps as an exciting opportunity for innovation and revolution - both in technology and business. We welcome new technologies, ideas and ways of working.

To give you an idea on our stack we use Python and Django on the backend; React on the frontend and tools/technologies such as: Elasticsearch, AWS, Trello, Docker, Postgres, Redis and eClaire (our open-source Trello card printer for our physical wall https://github.com/kogan/eClaire). We run an Agile practice - adhering to our processes and refining them through retros.

Check out what some of our engineers have written: https://devblog.kogan.com/

Our careers page has a pretty good rundown on our team and hiring process: https://careers.kogan.com/software-devs-engineering/ Our in person interview is generally focused on debugging a python script or javascript on a laptop, with full access to google/docs/tools you prefer. We want you to succeed. We're interested in how you get there.

If you've got any specific questions about our team or process I'll be happy to answer below.

We're looking for juniors, seniors, and everything in between. If you’d like to apply, send an email to dev.jobs@kogan.com with the subject line beginning with "HN: " and some content about who you are.

Jellyfish | Generalist Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-Time | ONSITE

Jellyfish is creating a platform that will change the way organizations measure their software development efforts and improve strategic decision-making.

As a member of the engineering team at Jellyfish, you'll be working closely with other team members and our customers as we expand and refine what our platform can do, while helping to shape way we work together as our team grows. You might be integrating new data sources, building new ways of visualizing our data, or working with customers to make sure they're getting the most of our platform.

We're a small team today, growing into a larger team over the coming months and years. There's a lot of work to do, and we'd love your help.

About you:

- You have experience building and supporting production software systems

- You are great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing

- You love learning new things and teaching others what you know

- You are a strong programmer with some set of programming tools, even if they're not the ones we are using

- You have strong communication skills, and enjoy teamwork

Bonus points if:

- You bring strong skills with our technology stack (Python 3 / Django / Postgres, hosted on AWS)

- You have worked in a small startup before, and loved it

- You bring experience and opinions about the different ways engineering teams can work and the tools they use

We believe that it takes a diverse team to build the best company we can. Jellyfish welcomes people from all backgrounds and especially encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in the software industry.

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/jellyfish

Predata | Software Engineers | NYC | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | https://predata.com/

Predata is building machine learning models to link online behavior to geopolitical and economic trends. Fortune 500 companies and governments use Predata to anticipate events and make better decisions.

We come from the worlds of technology, political science, and finance, and share a commitment to building the future of predictive analytics. Our challenge is to transform abstract data into insight and narrative, while attempting to understand and measure the human elements that drive our data. We're passionate about simplicity, discovery, clarity, and performance in the face of large data volumes.

We are hiring for multiple engineering roles, including front-end, back-end, infrastructure, and machine learning. If you are always looking for things to improve and unafraid to get started quickly, you'll be at home on our team. There will be many opportunities to contribute meaningfully to our product and process as we continue to grow.

Front-End: Mithril.js, React, D3, ES6, Sass, Webpack

Back-End: Python, Django, numpy/scipy/pandas/scikit-learn, Celery, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS

We're pragmatic about using the right tool for the task at hand.

You can find our jobs showcase and more information at https://www.themuse.com/profiles/predata

Questions? Email jobs@predata.com

SchooLinks | Austin | Full-time | Onsite or Remote | schoolinks.com

Quickly growing ed tech SaaS company that is changing the way students plan out their futures. We build student-friendly college and career readiness tools. Think college search, course planning, career videos, etc. We've got 25 + different modules.

We're hiring for an experienced full stack engineer and looking for someone with: - Django Experience - React Experience - Strong interest in the education space-- basically someone who is passionate about the product and would want to shape the long term direction of what we're building.

Raised seed funding and healthy revenue coming in, Pre-series A, so lots of growth potential for this hire.

Job post: https://angel.co/schoolinks/jobs/514197-full-stack-developer...

I'll be managing the hiring for this role. Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions: mike[at]schoolinks.com

Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE or ONSITE in Raleigh, NC | Full-time | https://activatedinsights.com/

We are solving interesting and critical challenges facing the senior care industry in the United States.

We are passionate about using technology to improve senior care while also creating a great place to work ourselves. We are the only company with a network of partners that span all of aging and are poised to benefit greatly as the Baby Boomer generation ages.

You would be joining a remote team of 15 total in the company and be the third engineer. Our engineering culture values respect, collaboration, open source, continuous integration, daily deployments, testing, and constant learning and improvement. Some additional skills we are looking for include experience with data science / machine learning, site reliability engineering, and systems architecture experience.

Some of the technologies we embrace are Python 3, Django, PostgreSQL, React, GraphQL, Docker, and Kubernetes.

If this opportunity excites you please reach out at jkung at activatedinsights dot com

Ambassador | Detroit, MI; Denver, CO; Chicago, IL | Back-End Engineers | Full-time

Ambassador is changing word-of-mouth on the web. We focus on the rapid production, testing, and deployment of beautiful code and design. We keep our team's job as creative and simple as possible. No outdated management models, we get real work done and solve large problems. Success is measured through the enjoyment of our customers.

Ambassador is looking for talented Back-End Engineers who are interested in solving complex problems and shipping beautiful products as part of an ambitious, world-class engineering team. Ambassador engineers demand quality and efficiency, and love taking on responsibility with the freedom to make a large impact. As an Ambassador engineer, you will EXECUTE WITH URGENCY by shipping code within your first week and immediately begin contributing meaningful value to the team. In a company where we THINK LONG TERM, Back-End Engineers will receive mentorship from day one and will eventually be shaped into a mentor for future employees.

Desired Skills & Expertise • Familiarity with several programming languages, frameworks, and architectures with significant experience in at least one. We mostly work in Python, Django Rest Framework, Falcon, Node, Redis, Postgres, Kafka, and NoSQL. Languages can be learned so we care much more about your general engineering skill and growth mindset than knowledge of a particular language or framework. • Solid understanding of interacting with remote data, third-party libraries, and APIs. We integrate with social APIs, eCommerce platforms, and other third-party services. • Experience creating and deploying applications from the ground up. • Self-starting and understands the big picture. • Always looking to improve practices and processes. • Attention to detail, good judgement, excellent communication, and a great attitude.

Locations: Detroit, Denver, and Chicago

Apply here: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/233673/backend-software-engin...

Kettlebell Kitchen | https://www.kettlebellkitchen.com | New York, NY | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE | Full-time

We are looking for quick learners who enjoy working with modern software development tools in the food and manufacturing space.

Knowledge of specific frameworks or libraries is less important than a broad knowledge of software development practices and an ability to learn.

At Kettlebell Kitchen, we're building technology to empower and drive our food manufacturing business. We believe in tried and true business models, like buying raw materials and selling a value-added product. Explosive growth is nice, but not at any cost.

There are a ton of areas, including much of the ordering platform, that need re-thinking.

Must haves:

1. Significant experience developing web applications and web sites.

2. Very good grasp of Python 3.5+ or TypeScript. Both are a plus.

3. Some knowledge of the other language listed above.

4. Willingness to work with both ecosystems.

5. Relational database experience, ideally PostgreSQL and MySQL.

6. Knowledge of automated testing - including how much and when to use it.

7. Clear, concise coding skills. Your code is more often described as "clean and elegant" than "clever."

Nice to haves:

1. Understanding of formal methods

2. Bash and vi fu.

3. Mypy and static typing experience in Python.

4. React experience.

5. Django experience.

6. LoopBack experience.

7. Angular experience.

8. Static typing experience in other languages: Java, C++

9. API design

10. Rust experience

11. A love of healthy food or fitness. Or both.

Shibboleths: https://gist.github.com/silviogutierrez/4ddf150fc4abdb1e9753...

Interested? Email jobs AT kettlebellkitchen.com. Please put [Hacker News] in the subject line, with the brackets. Maybe take a look at the shibboleths in the link above and try answering a few.

Narmi (Techstars NYC '17)| Senior Full Stack Engineer | New York, NY (NYC) | ONSITE | https://www.narmi.com

Narmi is helping reinvent banking in the United States. We create a more accessible and useful financial ecosystem by powering the online banking, mobile banking, and open banking APIs for the 10,000 credit unions and community banks in the United States. You'll be working on production software that has a real impact on the average American's life everyday. Our software helps them save money on their bills, understand their financial story, protect their families and move money.

Narmi was founded by two Georgetown University alums who previously worked as CEO and CTO of an $18 million credit union and also at some of the largest banks in the world.

Even if you don't think you are an exact fit for one of our current openings, we'd still love to talk. We are always looking for well-rounded engineers to join our team in NYC. Having expertise in python (django and django-rest-framework), vue.js, react native, ansbile, terraform, visual design/UI/UX, and/or security are all pluses!

Senior Full Stack Engineer: https://angel.co/narmi/jobs/180510-senior-full-stack-enginee

The interview process entails an intro call to get to know each other, a remote pair coding session, and finally an in-person half-day.

Some keywords: * Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior Full-stack Engineer, Senior Full Stack Developer, Senior Full-stack Developer * Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Front-end Engineer, Senior Front End Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Product Engineer * Banking, finance, online banking, mobile banking, open banking APIs, * New York City, New York, NY, NYC, Manhattan

You can learn more on our website and apply via email: jobs @ our domain. Make sure to mention you found us on Hacker News. You can also apply via AngelList[1] Also please feel free to reach out directly to me chris @ our domain.

[1] https://angel.co/narmi/jobs

Thinknum | Full Time | Onsite | Visa Sponsorship | New York

Thinknum is one of the fastest growing web data software startups in the world. Thinknum creates datasets from a broad array of public online sources, capturing ephemeral information on the products, operating markets and labor markets of 400,000+ global companies across sectors, and provides rich toolsets for extracting intelligence. We just closed a $11.6M round.

Open roles:

* Front-end Software Engineer - JavaScript SPAs (React, Angular, etc.)

* Back-end Engineer - (Python, Django, AWS)

* Web Crawling Engineer - (Python, Django, DOM)

* VP of Marketing

* Marketing Specialist

* VP of Sales

* SDR

* Research Data Analyst

* Investing Reporter

If you’re interested, please apply here: https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/Thinknum/ or send your application to careers@thinknum.com

Learn more: https://www.thinknum.com

Confident Cannabis (YC15) | All levels of Engineers / Data persons! | Palo Alto / SF | Onsite, Full-Time | https://www.confidentcannabis.com

We’re a Series A funded YC backed company shaping the cannabis industry to be efficient, honest, and reliable by creating the software infrastructure necessary to both test and trade within it.

We're looking for experienced, excited (and exciting!) engineers, data scientists, and data engineers at all levels (yes all levels of whatever they mean!) to help us build an amazing team while creating awesome software for an immensely underserved market on the cusp of explosion!

We write Typescript / React frontends, Python / Django backends, with a slew of AWS, Terraform, node, lambdas, and anything else we can find that allows us to build quickly and safely.

Email me for anything: jared+hn@confidentcannabis.com

Yorokobi, Inc. | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Part-time

At Yorokobi we are trying to create the best Backup-as-a-Service platform for web apps with a special focus on security and simplicity.

We are looking for experienced full-stack developers to help create the new frontend/dashboard (React.js/Redux/Jest) and the agents for each platform (Express.js, Node.js / Django, Flask / PHP, Laravel, Symfony).

https://www.yorokobi.com

Interested? Write me @ martin@yorokobi.com

Twistle | Seattle, WA | Full-time Onsite

Twistle, Inc is a Seattle healthcare technology startup, founded with the goal of improving the health of our population. We are building an intelligent, focused platform that facilitates automated communication between healthcare organizations and their consumers. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team. Our platform is (and always will be) evolving, thus experience with a specific technology is not explicitly required.

Our product is in market, and we have paying customers using our product to improve patient outcomes.

All of our engineering team members are "full-stack". This means that we touch everything from scaling our backend in the cloud, to building UIs for mobile devices (and everything in between). Healthcare technology experience is not required. The ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a team is required. We all share responsibility for putting the best product possible in the hands of our customers.

Our engineering team strongly believes in individual autonomy and responsibility, and less in number of hours or lines of code. We work smarter first, then harder because we love what we're doing.

Stack: JS/HTML, Objective-C/Swift, Kotlin, Python/Django, MySQL, Chef/Docker/AWS

Please send a resume to jobs@twistle.com to connect with us.

Compass | Founder Role | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time | https://www.letscompass.com

We are building a real-time price comparison search engine to take on Google Shopping. We are a team of two developers with experience successfully building scalable e-commerce companies. We are looking for another Software Engineer (or tech savvy marketing expert) to join us.

This role will be equity only, we are looking for someone to be on the founding team.

Tech Stack: Python, Django, Postgresql, React, AWS service

Sound interesting? Email me at casey@letscompass.com

Truework | Full Stack Engineers, Frontend Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

Truework is reshaping the way personal information is exchanged online by giving back the control to consumers. We are currently handling thousands of deep identity verification per month and are growing fast. These transactions are enabling billions of dollars in loan to be accepted as well as make sure that background check are successful.

As one of the engineer at Truework you'll be working on systems that allow critical information to be exchanged between parties. You'll make sure that only authorized entities can access private information and enable consumers to truly own their data and control the flow of information.

If you're interested or want to know more, please email careers@truework.com

Technologies used:

- Django - React (Typescript) - Celery - AWS Lambda - And more :-)

Cooklist | Backend Django / Data Engineer | Dallas, TX / Remote

Cooklist allows you to order groceries by choosing recipes you want to cook and shows you recipes you can cook with the groceries you buy.

Think Expedia for aggregating all the grocery retailers into one interface and Mint.com for importing all your retail purchase data into a digital pantry.

We just finished the TechStars Retail Program and announced a partnership with Target. We're a small team of experienced startup founders and engineers and are looking for a backend engineer and data engineer to join our team.

Cooklist can connect directly to 77 grocery chains like Walmart, Safeway, Kroger etc. and automatically download every purchase a user makes in store and online. It uses NLP to match each product purchased to recipe ingredients. Over 1,000,000 products are matched to 1,000,000 recipes.

Gecko Robotics (YC W16) | Fullstack Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Analyst | Pittsburgh, PA | Onsite | Full-time | https://www.geckorobotics.com/

At Gecko Robotics, we do predictive maintenance inspections on tanks, boilers, and other industrial infrastructure with wall-climbing robots. Every year, over $100 billion is spent on industrial maintenance. Gecko has developed wall-climbing robots that increase inspection coverage and dramatically reduce plant downtime, resulting in millions saved. Our Toka series of robots is the first to climb and inspect boiler walls using ultrasound transducers and an array of sensors and cameras. We raised a $7M Series A round this fall led by investors like the Founders Fund, Justin Kan, and Mark Cuban and are looking to rapidly grow our engineering team.

We’re currently hiring software engineers for our data processing and visualization platform. At the end of the day, software and data is Gecko’s true product. Our engineers are building an industry-leading platform that gives our customers a comprehensive and interactive view of their industrial assets over time, as well as a suite of software tools for advanced robot control systems.

We’re looking for people with experience in any of the following areas:

* React.js / Web development and design (UI/UX)

* Python (Django) / backend development & 3D visualization and mapping libraries (Three.js, D3, etc.)

* Data processing for batch and stream workloads (e.g., Apache Beam)

* Signal processing for ultrasound and other sensing technologies

Tech Stack: Python (Bokeh, Django, Flask, Pandas), JavaScript, React, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Postgres, BigQuery

Apply for openings at https://www.geckorobotics.com/company/careers