Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

>>whoish+(OP)
Curalate (NYC, SEATTLE OR PHILLY!) Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/curalate#.VZQmUxPBzGf

Curalate is the world’s leading marketing and analytics suite for the visual web. We help brands tell their story through imagery in order to drive consumer engagement, build brand awareness, and form stronger, more meaningful relationships with consumers. Our team consists of startup veterans, social media savants, pixel pushers, and big-data bosses. Oh, and we’re building a platform that’s already in use by hundreds of the world’s leading brands.

We're not language zealots; we believe in using the right tool for the job, and are comfortable with a polyglot codebase.

Full Stack Engineers - Languages: Scala, Javascript

  -  Infrastructure: AWS, Asgard

  -  Databases: Cassandra, MySQL (RDS), DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, CloudSearch

  -  Frameworks: Finagle, Storm, Scalatra, Lift

  -  Front End/Mobile: AngularJS, Bootstrap, Backbone, Ionic

DevOps - Build and Deployment: Jenkins, Chef, Packer, Asgard

  -  Frameworks/Infrastructure: AWS, Finagle, Storm, Scalatra, Lift, Kafka, ZooKeeper

  -  Datastores: Cassandra, MySQL (RDS), DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, CloudSearch

  -  Front End/Mobile: AngularJS, Bootstrap, Backbone, Ionic

  -  Languages: Scala, Javascript

Front End (Solutions) Engineer - As a Front End (solutions) engineer, you’ll play dual roles of web developer and technical project manager. As a web developer, you’ll write tight HTML, CSS, and Javascript to seamlessly integrate and customize Curalate’s products. Your work will be highly-visible -- over five million customers will see it every day -- so the margin for error is small. Because Curalate’s DNA is that of a software company, you can expect best-of-class tooling and processes (think code reviews, linting, etc.) to support every integration you work on.

Product Manager - - Work with founders to document the long-term vision into a coherent roadmap.

  -  Translate long-term vision into actionable short-term and medium-term roadmaps.

  -  Write goldilocks specs -- enough to get the feature built, no more.

  -  Work with design and engineering teams to research feature feasibility and cost review specs (functional specs, wireframes, and visual designs)

  -  keep products on track by rapidly removing roadblocks identity, gather, and analyze success metrics

Product Design - - Create interaction models, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize the user experience

  -  Manage multiple projects, working closely between product and engineering

  -  Iterate on your ideas quickly and effectively

  -  Obsess over details and consistency, but see the bigger picture

  -  Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive team

  -  Own and maintain our product style guide

>>Curala+go
Hey!

I've read really great things about Curalate's culture, and rumor has it your engineering team is really strong. I'm a full stack developer with 8 years of experience, but have never worked with Scala. That said, I know I could pick it up very quickly. Is that an issue?

>>breaki+eO1
That's awesome to hear that you've read/heard about our culture and dev team--we are really proud of both, so I'm glad that they are getting the props they deserve. As far as Scala goes, no, you do not need to know Scala from the get-go. Many of our engineers have learned it at Curalate, but having several years of experience in at least one object-oriented language is crucial. Let me know if you need anything else!

>>Curala+mS1
Thanks for your reply! I work for a big data company right now, but I'm not familiar with the computer vision piece, which I know is a big part of what Curalate is working on (however, I find it fascinating!). Are all of your engineers experts in computer vision?

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