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Welcome.tech | Sr Rails/Full Stack Engineer | Principal Rails/Full Stack Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE (all TZs) -or- Santa Monica, California

We are https://welcome.tech, a group of Gen -/+1 immigrants creating a suite of products to help the newly immigrated backbone of America succeed. Our bread and butter is our POPDERcard banking Fintech Product (occasionally, we have hit the top 15 rankings in the iOS App Store under Finance), enabling the unempowered masses to access banking. But we have way more products we have been working on that create exciting network effects. We have a small, intimate, and highly accomplished four-person engineering team. We are looking to scale this team with other skilled, humble, and quirky engineers.

==Our Tech Stack==

-AWS

-Ruby on Rails

-React.js

-iOS/Android (Swift/Kotlin) apps using simple native wrappers

-Lots of Fintech integrations. Right now, we are building a bank from scratch.

==Please apply here==

Senior Role: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/b8e39212-8686-42a5-a2ea-bfa8...

Principal Eng: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/654789ee-bb7b-4ea1-b0a6-63f8...

==Additional Info== We are a B-corp that serves the community. Something that you won't find anywhere else. We also pay well.

(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/welcome-tech-recogn...)

(https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/21/softbank-bets-big-on-a-dig...

Location: FULLY REMOTE - OR Santa Monica

Position: Senior Backend Rails or Full Stack

To summarize, what https://welcome.tech does would be impossible without a TLDR; which is what this is. We are a group of Gen -/+1 immigrants creating a suite of products to help the newly immigrated backbone of America succeed. Our bread and butter is our POPDERcard banking Fintech Product (currently top 15 in the ios App Store under Finance), enabling the unempowered masses to access banking. But we have way more products we have been working on that create exciting network effects. Right now, we have a small intimate, and highly accomplished 5 person engineering team. We are looking to scale this team with other skilled, humble, and quirky engineers.

Our Tech Stack: -AWS -Ruby on Rails -Vue.js (All of us came from React and we might switch back) -ios/android apps using simple wrappers -Lots of Fintech integrations. Right now, we are building a bank from scratch.

Please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/b8e39212-8686-42a5-a2ea-bfa8...

We are a no-bs B-corp that serves the community. Something that you won't find anywhere else. We also pay well. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/welcome-tech-recogn...)

I work on the West Side of Los Angeles. People honk at me when I cross the streets and they are in a hurry.

In Beverly Hills rich man-children with sports cars speed around with bumper stickers showing they donate to the Beverly Hill PD.

Just citing some high-level observations that show some issues.

Interesting to discover the author is a classmate of Zuckerbro and claims to have invented Facebook. Which seems to have led to a career of writing articles like these.

No, but my grandfather owned a successful restaurant. Invested all the profits into real estate. Built an empire of 5mil+ as a Mexican immigrant. Towards the end, he had everything pretty automated by people he hired. Property managers for the rentals and a mix of family and a good restaurant manager for the restaurant. He would just come in on Sundays to count the money/accounting.

Side note. Our entire family has been destroyed by fighting over money. Money isn't everything. :)

My first software job out of college was working for a healthcare company. I worked in the Drug Comparison team (which consisted of 3 people) finding people ways to save on prescriptions by beating the system using software! Yay, helping the world and stuff.

Actually, we ended up selling out and building systems that benefited healthcare provider's formulary plans. For example, not recommending generics, which was most of what we got paid 500k+ per contract to do.

We did do some amazing work on Medicare Part D stuff, tho. We saved some elderly people tons of money by algorithmically reccomending them the right drugs at cheaper cost.