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jamesbirchler

76 karma · joined March 29, 2010

Now: - Advisor and Coach to early stage product development teams - Senior Manager, Amazon

Past: - VP Engineering, Caffeine - VP Engineering, SmugMug / Flickr - VP Engineering, iCracked - VP Engineering, IMVU - Software engineer, various

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jamesbirchler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
iCracked | Senior Engineers, Lead Engineers, & Architects | Onsite, Redwood City, CA | https://www.icracked.com/careers

About the Job

Help design and build awesome experiences for our customers and partners using and supporting iCracked services. We're growing quickly, and there is lots to do! You will contribute to the technical systems that power our network and systems, and be part of one or more of our product development teams. You’ll work closely with Product Managers and Technical Leads to ensure our products and features fulfill real customer use cases and have a meaningful impact on our business. You’ll get to demonstrate your expertise and skills while you both teach and learn from other engineers as we build amazing technology together.

About You

You’re an experienced engineer who designs and builds fast, reliable code that others, now and in the future, will find easy to comprehend and modify. You will be successful here if you:

  * Are humble and collaborative, and enjoy mentoring and learning from others around you
  * Enjoy autonomy, and taking responsibility for helping achieve shared goals
  * Have a background in CS fundamentals, and enjoy making things
  * Are a strong communicator, and enjoy helping ensure that the right things happen
Interviews start with a phone call with me, then a technical phone interview, and finally an onsite interview with our team.

https://www.icracked.com/careers

jamesbirchler··on Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and how to develop them?
Being senior means taking responsibility for ensuring the right things happen. If you can teach others to do the same, you may also be a project team leader, and/or have the sensibility to be a people manager.
jamesbirchler··on Mike Ey, Microsoft HoloLens designer, killed in hit and run
I also worked with Mike at IMVU. Mike was a wonderful person all around, and a great technologist to boot. I'm proud to have worked with him.