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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:02PM (#38101261)
MixRank (YC S11) | Software Engineers | 100% REMOTE (Global) | Full-Time

MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Security.

Team is 41 full-time, full-remote from 20+ countries. We're growing, profitable, employee-owned, no dependence on outside funding. Applicants from all geographies and backgrounds are welcome.

We are looking for passionate individuals for whom programming is not just a job but it’s something they love to do. We're obsessed with computers, programming, big data, databases, compilers, hardware, math, data science, and the internet. Does this sound like you? Please apply to join our team.

Our code base is very friendly to new contributors. You'll have a fully-functional development environment within hours (fully automated) and be pushing commits on your first day. Deployments to production happen multiple times per day and finish in less than 2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript/TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git.

We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate two datacenters with high performance servers we've built that are capable of dealing with the volumes of data we process. We've implemented our own distributed file system. We do full-scale web crawls. We download and perform static analysis on the entire universe of Android APKs and iOS IPAs that are published. Unlike a typical startup where you'll spend half of your time in meetings, and the other half fixing bugs from Jira tickets— at MixRank you'll get to challenge yourself with difficult technical problems that will help you to grow as an individual.

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Junior Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time

We're looking for remote junior engineers that have 0-3 years of professional experience in software, and 5+ years of curiosity exploring computers, programming, and technical hobby projects. This is an open-ended entry role with mentorship and diverse opportunities to work on all areas of our product: databases, distributed systems, infrastructure and tooling, data analysis, machine learning, frontend/backend web development, APIs, data mining, data modeling, and more. To stand out, please highlight what makes you unique: passion for computing, curiosity and side projects, work ethic, niche research, etc.

Ideally you've already graduated, but if you still have one or more years left of school, please feel free to apply anyway, and if you're the right fit for the team we'll figure out a way to accommodate your schedule.

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Software Engineer - Remote (Global), Full-Time

We're hiring generalist software engineers to work on web applications, data mining, machine learning/data science, data transformation/ETL, data modeling, database scaling, infrastructure, devops, and more. We'll cater the role to whatever subset of these areas match your interests.

Beneficial experience includes PostgreSQL, Python, Rust, Linux, TypeScript, Nix, frontend/backend web development, and data mining.

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I'm Scott, Founder/CEO/CTO. Please apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mixrank/jobs

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by haris_zia on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:38PM (#38101831)
Hey Scott, I have applied recently but I think my application might have been skipped or overlooked, Can you please take a look at my portfolio and let me know if I am a good fit. https://www.mohammadhariszia.live
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:17PM (#38124032)
Hi Mohammed! Thabks for applying, we'll be sure to follow up.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by haris_zia on Saturday November 04, 2023 @02:44AM (#38138726)
Thank you so much!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by zkldi on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:21PM (#38102582)
Weird. I've seen this exact job posted by this exact company every single month for the past year.

I even applied at one point and heard nothing back. Looks like nobody else has ever heard anything back either.

Bizarre.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by hardfriendship on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:22PM (#38104514)
They do it to pretend that they are growing as a company. I think we should call out bad jobs, maybe through a Twitter account or something that can hold companies accountable.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:14PM (#38124012)
We are a growing company. We've grown headcount about 50% year over year the last several years.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by pc2slow4webpack on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:26PM (#38105553)
Yep, that Junior role had about 700 applicants last I checked on LinkedIn. No way theres nobody qualified in that pool.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:13PM (#38124003)
You're right, there's many qualified applicants in that pool! These aren't singular positions, but evergreen positions we're consistently hiring for every month.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by Lukeisun on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:28PM (#38105582)
I was thinking about applying but after some research it seemed a bit shady. Former cofounder stole 3.6 billion in BTC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30261118
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:12PM (#38123989)
I assure you that he has had nothing to do with the company in a long time, since before any of those newsworthy events took place. I'm the only person at the company that's ever spoken with him, and if you got to know me you'd understand that I'm at 0 risk of being involved in anything shady like that. I don't blame you for bringing it up, that news is still so shocking to me that I can't believe it's real.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:58PM (#38123889)
Thank you for applying. I've asked someone to double check into your application.

We started receiving 20x more applicants than usual about this time last year when other tech companies were increasingly doing hiring freezes and layoffs. We're hiring consistently every month (including 5 new hires in the last month), especially from applicants from hacker news. Unfortunately we're not able to hire all the talented people that reach out. We have budget to grow faster, but internally, we have to be careful to not hire too quickly so that it's not chaotic for new people on the team with too little support from long-standing team members. We're trying our best to manage the higher volume of applicants, but clearly we let you down on communication so please accept my apology.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by Raga_Muffin on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:17PM (#38104429)
Hey Scott, Even I applied last month ,but did not receive any reply
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:18PM (#38124041)
Thank you for applying, we'll be sure to follow up.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by Raga_Muffin on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:59PM (#38169639)
Hi Scott, Please find my email id:[email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by runald on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:50PM (#38108791)
Same experience as others, I see this job post every time, I applied at least two times with zero response.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by smilliken on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:15PM (#38124018)
Apologies, I've asked someone to check into your application.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by gwulfwud on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:50PM (#38131405)
Hey Scott, I also applied a month ago, just wanted to follow up on that. Thanks
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) by aviseth on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:07PM (#38267049)
Hi Scott! I think I applied a couple of months ago but haven't received a response yet. Can you look into it?