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I know it's only been 17 days since the last one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215633) but the company I work for is awesome and has an opening, and it seemed pointless to post it to a dead discussion.

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This kind of thread is exactly why I work at http://linkup.com/ - which is a job search engine that works by only including jobs found on company websites. Let me give a quick example of what that means:

Twitter has 34 job openings (http://twitter.com/positions.html). They, being Twitter, don't have a hard time finding people so their jobs aren't on CareerBuilder/Monster (http://jobsearch.monster.com/Search.aspx?brd=1&cn=Twitte...). The other job aggregators, like Indeed or SimplyHired, only have the jobs that have been copied onto other sites (http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=Twitter - note the links don't actually go to the company website). We (LinkUp) have all their jobs - http://www.linkup.com/results.php#c=Twitter. Another HN-worthy list is http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups, but you'll have to guess what the link is...

The technology behind LinkUp takes a lot more work than your standard scrape because many companies make it difficult to get to a reusable link to an individual job, and there's no unified format to tell title from description from location. And right now we only have a hair over 20,000 companies, so I don't tell anyone that we're the only site a jobseeker should use - just the first;-)

That's a great idea. Here's a suggestion for an extra feature: let me group search results by company. Then I can quickly get an idea for who's hiring without paging though hundreds of results.

That idea is actually implemented - unfortunately you need to login to see it. Once you login (which supports OAuth & OpenID), under settings you can turn on the "Group By Company" feature.

Yes, it isn't intuitive. We're overhauling the search results and in the next release, slated for mid-June, these kinds of things won't be so buried.

Just a suggestion, but IMO making the user confirm navigation when leaving a page is very annoying.

It is possible for Indeed and SimplyHired to have job listings that link directly to the company's website, the company just has to provide the feeds that those two aggregators then index. (Us, for example: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?as_cmp=ReminderMedia) Your solution puts the trouble of formatting the data on your shoulders while they're offloading it to the companies themselves. I dig it.

The New York Times

Location: New York, NY

My company is looking for a ton of developers (at least 9) in various levels of experience and departments:

* Senior Software Engineer x2

* Software Engineer x3 (1 in Mobile Applications)

* Creative Technologist

* Web Developer, Senior Web Developer, Web Designer/Developer

Full list with links to detail descriptions: http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/index.html

I'm sure here will be some fun comments about print media dying and the pay-wall etc. but this is platform and web focused. We build a lot of cool fun stuff from our own API's, standalone web apps, social platforms, open source apps, standards, and a lot more mobile stuff on the way too. I've been there many years (web developer) and its a great place to work with many smart people…

Some URLs of note (the fun stuff IMHO):

Open Blog: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/

NYT APIs: http://developer.nytimes.com/

Times Wire: http://www.nytimes.com/timeswire/index.html (completely developer driven)

Times Skimmer: http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ (completely developer driven)

Times People: http://timespeople.nytimes.com/view/user/37963625/activities...

Here is a horribly titled NY Mag article on some of the developers in the Newsroom: http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53344/

Happy to answer questions and update this as I check back but otherwise follow that first link up top.

Working for such a well known brand would be fun, but The New York Times is deeply in debt (one billion dollars), subscription rates are falling, and there's no new money generating business in sight that will be able to help it out with its financial costs. I just don't think five or ten years from now the New York Times will be what it is now, and I'd want their options like I want a hole in my pocket.

http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/arthur-sulzberger-explains-1-b...

The links on http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/index.html don't seem to be working for me.

Could you describe what a creative technologist is? And do you consider candidates who don't have degrees (yet)?

That nymag article title made me cringe. I clicked it not thinking it would be that visceral of an experience. :)

Would you be willing to hire students part-time this summer? I'd like to work in web development since that is where most of my experience is.

BioWare, Austin, TX. We make video games you might have played (Mass Effect? Dragon Age?) and the Austin office is working on the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The web team has 2-3 contractor openings for web developers (senior PHP [Drupal] and just HTML/CSS/JS) and graphic designers to help us build out all the game-web integration.

Edit: the job listings aren't live yet, so you can email me at vito underscore biowarejobs at perilith dot com if you're interested. (I'm the interaction designer for the new features.)

Local only or remote?

Local to Austin only. They're contract positions, so no relocation is provided. Sorry.

Semi-related, but KOTOR and KOTOR II are my favorite games on Xbox (and probably of all time). Great job on the games. BioWare consistently releases excellent games.

I've strongly considered dropping an application at Bioware for a while now (been doing the business world development for a while, looking to move to games). Any idea on server side developer positions or "I have development experience but not game development experience" client positions (C, C++, .NET, Java aren't an issue)?

On another note, how are they on the game release crunch? Normal 1-2 month crunch if behind schedule and normal otherwise, or is it a constant state of emergency that ramps up to a worse emergency?

I think there's at least one server-side (senior Java) position open on the systems integration side: https://jobs.ea.com/jobs/jobposting.aspx?refresh=1&posti... (warning, will try to resize your browser window).

I think knowing your stuff is more important than how you know it, but game servers are essentially soft real-time, maintaining thousands of connections and arbitrating 3D movement and actions and physics with predictions to compensate for network lag for all of them, and if all you know is stateless HTTP, that's not going to cut it. Video games have been dealing with the C10k problem for a lot longer than web developers.

In addition, if you're only slightly better than someone who plays games or has game industry experience, I think they'll get the job over you, no question. I'm not much of a gamer, and there just isn't anything else some people here talk about, so I miss out on a lot of water cooler talk.

I don't know how the other offices do it, but the Austin office does SCRUM, and there's always some team that's crunching during any given milestone (this time it's us). Since we're making an MMO, our release date doesn't mean we stop working or making content, but the office is mostly cleared out by 7pm or so, most nights.

Los Angeles (Hollywood) - CA Well-funded stealth startup building software for the music biz. Networked OSX app with web backend (Rails + MongoDB, plus NodeJS / Redis / etc). Eventual growth to other platforms (PC/iPhone/iPad). Tiny team of 3 very kick-ass developers (our last startup got acquired for 20+mm, before that all of us were leads in the video game space), working with extremely well-connected founder in the music industry.

We're looking for a fourth to focus on tons of backend stuff. We just started about 8 weeks ago and plan to launch the beta in another 10-12 weeks - so there's a lot to do and a lot of opportunities. We're well-funded, so we can afford someone world-class. Shoot me an email at my HN username @ gmail.com

Downvoter(s): Please help me improve the quality of this post. What other information would you like to see?

ppl around here don't like well funded start ups :)

I don't have personal experience of it, but I believe BitTorrent is hiring.

ADDED IN EDIT:

OK, in response to getting downmodded I went to find where I saw it, and here's the reference:

http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs

So what's with the down-mods? Do you hate BitTorrent? Do you want me to do your work for you? I gave information that was asked for, and stated my lack of connection with the company, what more do you want?

I don't think you were down-modded because of hating BitTorrent, just your original comment could've used more... attention. Links & facts are great - vague statements aren't all that interested on HN and tend to be deloved.

But you're right that they're hiring - they've got 8 job openings and anyone interested can follow a RSS feed of their openings at http://bit.ly/torrentjobs

Interesting the different characteristics in different communities. I've just spent three weeks with people who love solving puzzles, working out stuff, and don't like to be given answers. I guess that attitude has stuck, and I'd forgotten that here on HN people like comments to have all the information.

Which community would that be, if you don't mind divulging? ...umm, ignoring the irony of me asking you for more information...

Magic, Puzzles and Recreational Math. Specifically, the Gathering 4 Gardner.

Location: Memphis, TN

At American Roamer we're looking to find software developers that can take on big scalability infrastructure problems, do big data analysis with solr/lucene and hadoop, and javascript/front end developers.

We collect and sell information on the wireless industry. Among other things in this position you'd be building/supporting a "google maps clone" for displaying coverage data.

Small company, great team.

Send resumes and questions to jims at americanroamer dot com.

This is my first sighting of another Memphian here on HN! Thanks for sharing the lead, I'll pass it on to my dev friends.

Twilio (cloud telephony, San Francisco - SOMA) is hiring a couple engineers, a head of biz dev, an evangelist (that's what I just started doing a week ago) and a product manager: http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs

This is an insanely cool company to work for. Check out their hackathons on the weekends if you're just curious.

Note I work here too :)

Yes, if you wanted to, you could stop by your offices today or tomorrow and meet the team or just hack on Twilio and Boxee http://twilio-boxee-hackathon.eventbrite.com/

Make sure to put your City and State in your job post - to make this thread more searchable.

http://www.airbnb.com/jobs (We have 9 job openings. Front-end/Back-end devs in particular!)

yeah airbnb!

Are you hiring only local people or are you accepting remote applicants as well?

The engineering positions are definitely in house at Airbnb HQ in San Francisco. However, we accept (and encourage) applicants who are willing to relocate to SF.

Wow, I love the benefit and perks!

I am totally in love with airbnb and emailed about the community support position. Willing to shout my love from the rooftops (also, to relocate to SF). If there's anything I can do for a friendly nod in my direction, name your price.

A number of companies will be interviewing in New York City on 4/27 at Hirelite: Speed Dating for the Hiring Process.

Here's the current list of companies:

- ACL Systems - Software Developer

- IndustryNext - Software Engineer & ActionScript Developer

- Fantasy Interactive Inc - Senior Java Software Engineer-NYC

- LearnBat.com - Seeking talented developers on iPad, Flash, and LAMP

- Yodle - Software Engineer

- knowmore - R&D Hacker

- National Event Company - Senior Ruby Programmer

- TradeCard - Java Developer

- Arc90 - Web Application Developers, Designers, Engineers, and Sysadmins

See http://hirelite.com/companies for complete job descriptions.

Edit: formatting

We are an amazing startup located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We're looking for great engineers!

-- Some of our Key Benefits --

  - Full Health coverage (and vision and dental)
  - Stock Options (if you ask any of us, milo options are as good as gold)
  - Lunch (and if you stay late, dinner) is provided 
  - Stocked fridge and snack cupboard 
  - In Palo Alto, an bike friendly city with a Mediterranean like climate 
  - Right next to the CalTrain stop
  - Hard work and accomplishments are noticed, recognized and rewarded

http://milo.com

http://milo.com/about-us

http://nyti.ms/073VfE9

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/milo

http://tcrn.ch/bJvOdU

We would especially like to talk with Pythonistas of all stripes, experienced web engineers and designers, and engineers with experience in machine learning and search. We also currently have an Ops position we are trying to fill.

You can submit inquiries and solutions to our engineering challenge to jobs@milo.com, or if you would like you can contact me directly at justin@milo.com.

http://milo.com/jobs

Location: State College, PA, USA

Videon Central is looking to hire a software engineer:

http://www.videon-central.com/careers/openings/98

Primarily C/C++ on bleeding-edge silicon, fantastic people and work environment, and great management.

Joel Test score: 12/12

State College is located right in the middle of Pennsylvania and is the home of Penn State University. It's not bad for a college town, has great MTB trails everywhere and is not far from Philly or NYC.

The copy for this position on the careers page incorrectly refers to C/C++ as C/C. Interesting though.

Thanks, I'll try to get that fixed on Monday.

Yahoo! Search is hiring frontend engineers: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/05/work-with-yui-3-on-th...

Mozilla is hiring for all sorts of different positions. Our headquarters is in Mountain View, CA, but we have people all over the world: http://www.mozilla.com/careers

Direct link to job listings for Mozilla: http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

Hiring C++, JS, Python, PHP, Marketing, Stats, Finance, QA, IT, Product Management and more.

Come help make the Internet a better place!

Dropcam, http://www.dropcam.com/ in San Francisco.

You can just email me directly - greg@dropcam.com. We code for the cameras and the server-side, mostly Python/C -- and there are many terabytes of data to work with. We also have an iPhone app and will possibly support more mobile platforms in the future.

We're looking for generalist engineers who know C like the back of their hand but prefer to code in a higher level language like Python 90% of the time. You should also have experience with IP/networking or a voracious enough learning appetite to get it fast: we work with protocols a lot, and not just HTTP. Linux knowledge will come in handy too ... understanding file systems, system calls, toolchains, etc a plus.

We've been too busy to write up a fancy jobs page, but there are ample sodas, salary, and equity :)

What sort of positions are you looking to hire for, with what skill sets?

Updated with more detail! Thanks for asking :)

Christ, what a brilliant startup idea. I think this is the sort of thing people are looking for in terms of home surveillance -- simplicity, cost, access. Neat!

Thanks! You definitely nailed it ... I think we spend 80% of our eng. time on those three things.

Panjiva (http://www.panjiva.com), a Boston/NYC startup is hiring summer interns and full-time hackers. They use Ruby on Rails and have a global supply chain service. Looking for web app and information retrieval engineers.

Wufoo is hiring someone for customer support. We're in Tampa, FL but we are accepting remote applicants.

More info here: http://wufoo.com/2010/04/07/wufoo-is-hiring-a-customer-suppo...

Company: CBS Interactive

Location: San Francisco (SoMa)

Properties: Gamespot, Gamefaqs, Metacritic

Position: Operations Engineer

Experience: Unix, Scripting, Apache + mod_rewrite, Memcached, MySQL, Redis, Sphinx, Solr, CDNs, Monitoring, RPM, JIRA

Responsibilities: Own it all, keep it running, make it run better, work with developers on a daily basis.

Contact: gml-ops@cnet.com

Quora is hiring programmers and designers. Located in Palo Alto. http://www.quora.com/jobs

We're building a really high quality question and answer site designed to be continually improving.

The team is 4 people right now but are growing to 7 by the end of April. We recently raised a Series A from Benchmark.

One of the interesting things we've built is a system for automatically keeping webpages up to date (views are always in sync with the model) without writing any special application code to do that.

You can try out our beta by signing up at http://www.quora.com/hackernews

Fluther is now hiring a software engineer and an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/

We'll give a free iPad to anyone who refers someone to us that we hire.

AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com), a mobile app search and discovery site, are hiring a developer in Seattle, WA.

We're seed funded ($150K from Founder's Co-op) and approaching cash-flow breakeven.

Happy to discuss further with anyone interested, or read more here: http://blog.appstorehq.com/post/482789903/appstorehq-is-look...

Skritter is hiring paid summer programmers. We create a web-based tool to help students of Chinese and Japanese better learn and remember their characters. We're based near Cleveland Ohio and we're hunting for motivated, smart applicants, preferably with experience with python, actionscript, or django. I'm the CEO of the company and you can get in touch with me either via the site (skritter.com/contact) or my HN profile contact info.

Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com) is a YC & angel funded web analytics startup based in Mountain View, CA.

We build analytics for startups, and we're looking for employee number 1. If you're a great engineer and you want to work with tech like python, git, memcached, nginx, thrift, erlang, nosql, etc - please get in touch.

jobs@mixpanel.com http://mixpanel.com/jobs

http://www.shutterstock.com/jobs.mhtml We heart Perl developers.

We here at [Startup Digest] just launched a job posting board specifically for startups. Check it out here http://thestartupdigest.com/2010/04/07/work-with-startups/ each post goes out to our 30,000+ founders around the world.

We just recently launched it so would love feedback on it!

TripAdvisor (http://www.tripadvisor.com) is currently looking for smart folks who like working on social and mobile apps that leverage terabytes of data with billions of social data points. I'm really enjoying it so far, hit me up if you have any questions: lbutterman@tripadvisor.com

FreshBooks in Toronto is looking for front-end developers, application developers, and Open Web developers to help us build out our API and continue to lead The Small Business Web (http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com); and we are looking for a developer community leader (that last job isn't posted, but it's true). http://careers.freshbooks.com

And by "FreshBooks," I literally mean me, as I am the head of integrations and it's my team to build out if you want to ask me questions.

Sunir, Chief Handshaker, FreshBooks (sunir splat freshbooks.com)

P.S. Note that I did not mention specific languages or stacks. You should understand why that doesn't matter so much when we're looking for good developers.

Hey Sunir, What about remote Vancouverites?

At this time, we ask all our coworkers to be located in our lovely offices so we can drink beer with them and challenge them to foosball. (And also everyone here does customer support, which is only possible on premise.)

But, I ask you, have you ever wanted to move to Toronto? The hockey is worse, but the basketball is still happening, and our soccer team is good.

Freshbooks is hiring too, we have a pile of positions open for everything from developers to support people. So if you are in Toronto, ontario and need work check it out. http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/

Librato is looking for a lead designer to own UI/UX on http://silverline.librato.com

Brick/Mortar office is in Santa Clara, CA, but we offer part-time telecommuting e.g. I work from home in San Francisco 3 days a week.

Anyone hiring in Europe or remote?

TomTom is hiring in Amsterdam.

Contact info? I've been working in embedded mapping software for years, and Amsterdam sounds like fun.

About 1/2 of Mozilla's staff works remote or from an office outside the US.

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

Dealer.com is hiring. It's a great place to work for a developer, although there's openings in many positions. On-site gym and organic cafe

Check us out: http://www.dealer.com/careers

Burlington is an awesome city too :) I did once try and contact you guys about an internship position but never got even the time of day back :(

We're always looking for awesome developers at myYearbook.com.

Here's a job posting: http://www.ventureloop.com/firstround/jobdetail.php?jobid=33...

Turbulenz is hiring - http://www.turbulenz.com/. They're based in Guildford in the UK and looking for a range of engineers to work on their browser based game engine.

Rackspace is hiring distributed systems devs in Austin: https://rackspace.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?req...

Gemvara is hiring (Lexington, MA)- http://www.gemvara.com/Careers/pages/v/about/careers/

- CAD Modeler

- Front-End Developer

- Senior Java Developer

- Procurement Manager - Colored Stones

- Web 2.0 E-Commerce Developer

- Personal Shopper

DigitalAdvisor (Cambridge, MA) is looking to hire an awesome Rails developer: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eng/1681173589.html

Nasuni is hiring (Natick, MA): http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/ - Sales, Community Manager, Web marketing manager.

We are always looking for US-based Django and Javascript developers at http://hiidef.com - which is a web services incubator.

Hii Def owns and operates http://flavors.me - http://goodsie.com and http://superkix.com

Please send resume and code samples to: jonathan@hiidef.com

Anyone hiring in DC or Maryland?

People asked this same thing for other cities and didn't get downvoted. What gives?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/web/1639734503.html

Position: Senior Web Developer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

We have several positions available at Remember The Milk (we're based in Sydney, Australia, but you can work from anywhere):

  - Software Engineer (Server-side)
  - Software Engineer (Scala)
  - Software Engineer (Windows)
  - UI/Interaction Designer

For full details see: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/about/jobs.rtm

We're hiring web developers at Context Optional, in San Francisco. We make web applications on social platforms. We use Rails, but we're open to a range of backgrounds and experience - we've even got a summer internship position open! http://www.contextoptional.com/

Write me for more information: rleeATcontextoptional.com

TripIt is hiring. Located in the Mission in San Francisco.

http://tripit.jobscore.com/list

Art.sy is looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer in NYC: http://bit.ly/bHo0rW

TripAdvisor is looking for awesome people in the Boston area for both full-time and internships.

My team is PHP, the rest of the company is Java. Standard valley-style perks (free lunch 3 days a week, snacks/drinks, shiny hardware, etc) and a challenging work environment full of smart people.

Feel free to email bkrausz AT tripadvisor for more info or with a resume.

Brian forgot to mention that we're crazy-ass profitable.

Find the filings for proof.

Amazon's AWS team is hiring for development positions in Seattle, Japan, and Northern Virginia. See http://aws.amazon.com/jobs and http://d2wtekeazriu0r.cloudfront.net/index.html for more info.

Academia.edu is hiring Rails engineers http://academia.edu/jobs

Somerville Massachusetts

My company, BetterLesson has two open positions.

- http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sof/1679680393.html - http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eng/1679671213.html

Younoodle is hiring: http://younoodle.com/static/jobs . The company and people are awesome, we're doing some cool stuff (we're like an iceberg - our front page is only 10% of what we do) and the perks are awesome.

SimpleGeo is looking for a Designer and an Application Engineer: http://blog.simplegeo.com/post/506890585/hiring-a-designer-a... (I don't work for them)

Emakina in Brussels, Belgium is also having various jobopenings: http://emakina.com/company/career.cfm

They include flash, php, designers, PM's, ... You can mention them k ausloos send you.

Is anyone hiring in Dallas, TX?

DreamIt startup MindSnacks is hiring iPhone developers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253481

Think, in Palo Alto

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html

JavaScript and iPhone experts especially!

Anyone hiring in UK?

Turbulenz - http://www.turbulenz.com/ - based in Guildford. Looking for engineers in the UK and throughout Europe.

MX Telecom are looking for devs in London. Mobile messaging and applications for folk like 118118/KGB_ BBC and Twitter

http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/careers/roles/softdev

Yelp is hiring, http://yelp.com/jobs/

we're looking for hackers that like to move fast: http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineer...

Anyone hiring in Denver? Or willing to hire a remote hacker?

Any non-technical positions?

business development/seo/product etc.

Where exactly? Looking for a bright business person in Dublin, Ireland.

I'm in the US now, going to Canada in a month, but likely to come back to US.

Utah. Property Solutions: http://propertysolutions.com

Anyone looking in the Milwaukee area?

Anyone hiring in Canada ?

Any remote jobs for an immigrant from the collapsed and decaying empire of evil? =) (a wandering around person - today I'm in Kathmandu, Nepal)

Are you saying you're from the US?

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