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Rabbet (YC S17) | Sr. Software Engineer (Elixir/React) | REMOTE (TX, NC, CO) | Full time

Rabbet is hiring Sr. Software Engineers to help us streamline construction finances. We offer cloud-based software for commercial lenders and real estate developers to centralize construction finances, automate administrative tasks, and reduce the time spent managing draws.

Backend is in Elixir (Phoenix/Absinthe/postgres), frontend is React (mostly JS with more new stuff in TS). The company is ~20 people with 6 of us on the engineering team. Looking to add another 3-4 engineers over the next ~6 months.

We are fully remote, though we do require candidates to be in TX, NC, or CO (exceptions possible if you have several years of professional Elixir experience). We don't currently offer sponsorship.

If you're interested, you can read more or apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rabbet/581ed4d8-d683-428c-88c5-1131... You can also email me (Andrew, co-founder/VP of Engineering) directly at andrew@rabbet.com.

Rabbet (YC S17) | Sr. Software Engineer (Elixir/React) | REMOTE (TX, NC, CO) | Full time

Rabbet is hiring Sr. Software Engineers to help us streamline construction finances. We offer cloud-based software for commercial lenders and real estate developers to centralize construction finances, automate administrative tasks, and reduce the time spent managing draws.

Backend is in Elixir (Phoenix/Absinthe/postgres), frontend is React (mostly JS with more new stuff in TS). The company is ~20 people with 4 of us on the engineering team. Looking to add another 3-4 engineers over the next ~6 months.

We are fully remote, though we do require candidates to be in TX, NC, or CO (exceptions possible if you have several years of professional Elixir experience). We don't currently offer sponsorship.

If you're interested, you can read more or apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rabbet/581ed4d8-d683-428c-88c5-1131.... You can also email me (Andrew, co-founder/VP of Engineering) directly at andrew@rabbet.com.

Trellis | Remote (US or Canada) | Full-time | https://trellisconnect.com/

Trellis provides elegant, modern software and API's that make it safer and easier for anyone to share private insurance information and for developers to replace complex and effortful user journeys with personalized, delightful experiences. We’re a Series A company backed by top VC's led by General Catalyst and QED Investors.

Modern tech stack: Node, TypeScript, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Serverless Cloud Functions. We use full-stack JavaScript: React on the front end and Node / TypeScript on the backend. We value automated tests and have an expansive suite of thousands of automated tests on our codebase. We have full CI/CD and ship safely 5-10x per day with canary rollouts.

Openings:

Staff Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4364855004 Senior Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4162641004 Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4004381004

Apply directly on Greenhouse or send inquiries directly to hiring@trellisconnect.com.

Trellis | Remote (US-based) | Senior+ Software Engineers (backend focus), Senior Product Manager

Trellis is a venture-backed, high-growth, tech-enabled insurtech company bringing modern insurance experiences to top brands like Truebill (Rocket Mortgage), Albert, Chime, and MoneyLion. We're looking for some excellent engineers and product managers to join the team to help modernize insurance!

Tech stack: Node, TypeScript, Firestore, GCP

Apply at the links below or by sending me an email (andrew@trellisconnect.com):

* Senior software engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4162641004

* Staff software engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4364855004

* Product manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/trellis/jobs/4560223004

A 2011 Versa is younger than the iPhone which launched in 2007.

Rabbet (YC S17) | Austin, TX | ONSITE, Full-time | QA Lead, QA Automation Engineer, Senior Software Engineer | https://rabbet.com

Rabbet uses machine learning to classify and parse documents and to structure information for faster preparation and review of construction loan documentation. We help real estate lenders and developers reduce administrative burden and make better decisions for their large construction loan portfolios.

We’re currently 20-ish employees, growing to 25-30 in 2019. The company is backed by a leading FinTech VC, a large strategic investor, and YC. You’ll be joining a company that values being purposeful, efficient, authentic, transparent, curious, and agile.

Here’s a list of some of the tech we work with: Elixir, Python, React, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, circleci, sklearn, TestCafe

If that sounds interesting to you, please apply at:

QA Lead: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom/vi...

QA Automation Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom/vi...

or view all of our other open positions: https://rabbet.com/career/

Contract Simply (YC S17) | Austin, TX | ONSITE, Full-time | Software Engineer, All Levels, Sr Product Manager, Sr Product Designer, QA Automation | https://contractsimply.com

Contract Simply uses machine learning to classify and parse documents and to structure information for faster preparation and review of construction loan documentation. We help real estate lenders and developers reduce administrative burden and make better decisions for their large construction loan portfolios.

We’re currently 15-ish employees, growing to 25-30 in 2019. The company is backed by a leading FinTech VC, a large strategic investor, and YC. You’ll be joining a company that values being purposeful, efficient, authentic, transparent, curious, and agile.

Here’s a list of some of the tech we work with: Elixir, Python, React, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, circleci, sklearn

If that sounds interesting to you, see our full list of open positions and apply: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom. You can also reach out to me directly -- andrew@contractsimply.com -- with "HN Jobs" in the subject.

Contract Simply (S17) | Junior and Senior Full-stack Software Engineers | Austin, TX | ONSITE | https://contractsimply.com

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) is looking for full-stack engineers in Austin (junior and senior).

ABOUT US

Contract Simply is building the first A.I., machine learning platform for the $900B US construction lending market. We help banks manage their large and complex construction loan portfolio using intelligent automation and integrated payments. Unlike a typical loan, a construction loan isn’t a single payment. Instead, it’s broken up into monthly payments called draws. That monthly draw process is complicated, with many stakeholders and hundreds or thousands of documents. Currently, all of this is managed with excel spreadsheets, PDFs, emails, and paper checks.

Our software helps lenders, developers, and other stakeholders produce and process this documentation automatically, leading to fewer errors, faster payments, and more profitable loans.

We’re currently small (10 employees), YC-backed, and are already working with several of the largest lenders in the industry. You’d be working directly with the founders in a company that values being purposeful, efficient, authentic, transparent, curious, and agile.

STACK

Experience in one/all of the following is appreciated, but we believe tool-specific knowledge is considerably less important than the fundamentals:

Elixir, Phoenix, GraphQL, React, Apollo, Python, sklearn, Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

GET IN TOUCH

Junior Devs (1-3 years of experience): https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom/vi...

Senior Devs (4+ years of experience): https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom/vi...

Other positions: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/contractsimplycom

You generally don't get investment money day 1. If you are able to pull that, it's because you've had success being a founder before (or have rich friends/family). But as a first-time founder? I think you'd be wasting your time without having something real to show. Generally, that's an MVP with some degree of traction.

To get to that point, you have to do a lot of the things bigger companies have to do. Those things just tend to be less complex and you have fewer people to do them. Accounting, sales, engineering, marketing, etc., etc. all exist, to some degree, in a two-person company. At first, you learn to do them yourself. You'll probably suck at them. It's okay. They all have some degree of a feedback loop. If you're open, you'll figure it out. Eventually, with success, you'll hire other people to do them.

From there, you can get access to a great network by doing an incubator as someone else mentioned, or by just getting out there and talking to users (do this day 1). But you're worried about years 2-4 when you haven't even started year 1 yet.

If you want to discuss in more detail, I'm a founder with a product in banking that's been moderately successful. Email's in my profile. Feel free to reach out.

Contract Simply (YC S17) | Austin, TX | Product Manager | Full-Time | Onsite

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) is looking for a Senior Product Manager in Austin or is willing to relocate.

ABOUT US

Contract Simply is building the first A.I., machine learning platform for the $900B US construction lending market. We help banks manage their large and complex construction loan portfolio using intelligent automation and integrated payments. Unlike a typical loan, a construction loan isn’t a single payment. Instead, it’s broken up into monthly payments called draws. That monthly draw process is complicated, with many stakeholders and hundreds or thousands of documents. Currently, all of this is managed with excel spreadsheets, PDFs, emails, and paper checks.

Our software helps lenders, developers, and other stakeholders produce and process this documentation automatically, leading to fewer errors, faster payments, and more profitable loans.

We’re currently small (10 employees), YC-backed, and are already working with several of the largest lenders in the industry. You’d be working directly with the founders in a company that values being purposeful, efficient, authentic, transparent, curious, and agile.

ABOUT YOU / THE ROLE

We’re looking for a product manager who is happy to take ownership of the product lifecycle and who is not afraid to get their hands dirty. Your key responsibilities will be to set the medium-term vision and strategy of the product and communicate that strategy to all of the relevant participants and stakeholders.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, plus equity. Our culture is open, transparent, and fun. We work hard, but also take time for our families, friends, and hobbies.

If you're interested, please contact me at andrew@contractsimply.com. You can also read more about the job and requirements at https://angel.co/contract-simply/jobs/322111-sr-product-mana...

Contract Simply (YC S17) | Sr. Full-Stack Developer | Austin, TX | Onsite | Full-time

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) helps banks expedite their construction loan payments. Unlike a typical loan which is one check one time, a construction loan has several monthly disbursements over the course of the project. This process is currently managed with excel, PDFs, and emails. We have a web-based platform that makes this process much easier, faster, and less error-prone. It’s more exciting than it sounds, I promise.

We value mastery, transparency, and, most of all, getting things done.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, plus equity. Despite being a startup, we do value work/life balance. We’re still small (4 full-time developers, 6 full-time employees total), so there’s a lot of opportunity to set the tone and direction of the company. We’re also YC-backed (S17).

TECH WE USE

Elixir, Python, React/Redux, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, circleci

REQUIREMENTS

* 4+ years experience in full-stack web development

* experience with Elixir and/or React — we don’t mind teaching you one of the two

* solid understanding of git

* experience with Postgres (or another RDBMS)

* can build quickly without creating a horrible mess

NICE TO HAVE

* experience with both Elixir and React

* experience with GraphQL APIs

* experience with machine learning

* experience with Kubernetes

GET IN TOUCH

Email me at andrew@contractsimply.com.

Contract Simply (S17) | Sr. Full-Stack Developer | Austin, TX | Onsite | Full-time

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) help banks expedite their construction loan payments. Unlike a typical loan which is one check one time, a construction loan has several monthly disbursements over the course of the project. This process is currently managed with excel, PDFs, and emails. We have a web-based platform that makes this process much easier, faster, and less error-prone. It’s more exciting than it sounds, I promise.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, plus equity. We’re small (2 full-time developers, 5 full-time employees total), so there’s a lot of opportunity to set the tone and direction of the company. We’re also YC-backed (S17).

OUR STACK

Rails API, React/Redux frontend, AWS, Chef/Opsworks, Postgres, Resque, Redis, circleci, rspec

REQUIREMENTS

* 4+ years experience in full-stack web development

* experience with Rails and/or React — we don’t mind teaching you one of the two

* experience working with RESTful services

* experience with Postgres (or another RDBMS)

* can build quickly without creating a horrible mess

NICE TO HAVE

* experience with both Rails and React

* API design experience

* experience with chef and/or opsworks

GET IN TOUCH

Email me (Hi, I’m Andrew, CTO/cofounder) at andrew@contractsimply.com.

Contract Simply (YC S17) | Sr. Full-Stack Developer | Austin, TX | ONSITE Full-time

We're looking for a senior full-stack developer based in Austin (or willing to relocate). We're a small team (currently 4 full-time, 1 part-time) who just went through the most recent batch in YC. You’d have a chance to work closely with the founders, have lots of opportunity for growth, and have an immediate and large impact in our company’s trajectory. We offer competitive pay and benefits, in addition to equity.

Contract Simply (https://contractsimply.com) helps banks manage their construction loan payments. Construction loans have a complicated payments process where payments are broken up into monthly disbursements called “draws”. This process is currently managed with excel, pdfs, and emails. We’ve built a system that makes this whole process simpler, faster, and less prone to errors.

We value transparency, mastery, and, above all, getting things done.

Our stack is currently a Rails backend and React frontend, hosted on AWS and managed via Opsworks. Bonus points if you have experience with one or all of those, but it’s not a hard requirement.

Email me at andrew@contractsimply.com if you're interested in learning more.

The non-disparagement clause may have been bilateral. The consideration, in that case, is "we won't talk negatively about you if you don't talk negatively about us."

Here's an example of a former reddit employee disparaging the company and the CEO stepping in and giving his side: https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...

What makes you think YC takes fewer risks today than they did before? Going through the list of companies on yclist.com for the most recent batch, there seem like quite a few companies I'd consider risky, even compared to a nascent airbnb, dropbox, stripe, or twitch.

At the risk of getting too far off topic, that isn't the comment that got jrcii banned; this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197

As for several repeat violations mentioned in the thread, you can find several other comments in jrcii's history that have been marked as [flagged][dead].

Different strokes, I imagine. My fiancee is a graphic artist who had a wacom tablet and a cinema display as her setup for a long time, but she got the 27" Cintiq a few months ago and LOVES it. I had similar skepticism that it'd really be that big of a step up, especially given what she was spending on it, but she says it's noticeable improvement on her productivity.

Because it was for a position where I felt it was more justified (cofounder), as compared to a run of the mill developer or team lead position, which is what I've been in the past and where I've refused to sign them.

I also live in Texas and recently signed a non-compete after talking to my attorney.

The general gist is that, yes, they are enforceable. The legislature keeps pushing for them, and the courts have, at various times, pushed back against them. There are limitations on them, but you'd have to talk to an attorney to figure out what they are -- I don't remember exactly what my attorney said. I do know that my attorney said my fairly typical non-compete probably would hold up in court.

While I signed this one, I've just flat out refused to sign them in the past. People seem to have the idea that the employment agreement is set in stone. For some companies it might be, but I've had some success pushing back against clauses I didn't like.

I can't speak for the Canadian side, but I grew up in El Paso. El Paso is right on the Mexican border with another large Mexican city on the other side, Juarez, and a fair amount of travel in both directions. On the US side, everything is done in dollars. On the Mexican side, pesos or dollars both generally work. I can't answer how Mexicans get ahold of dollars -- it's just never been a problem I've had to solve. I would suspect it's similar to when I've gotten local currency outside the US. There are currency exchange places, though I've only seen them in airports, your CC does the conversion automatically, an ATM does, or you go to a bank.

There are blue enclaves in Texas and Arizona. All of the major metros in Texas are, at their most conservative, still pretty moderate. Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso were all won by Obama in the last election, with El Paso and Austin being won by pretty considerable margins (>60% of the vote). In AZ, Tucson and Flagstaff are both pretty liberal. No idea about NC, but judging by the last election, there are at least a few counties that voted for Obama.

Now, granted, outside of the major metro areas, things get more conservative, but if you're comparing it to CA, I'm guessing you haven't spent much time in the central valley.

Your first outing with climbing is like someone going out BASE jumping having never used a parachute before, accompanied by people who had also never done anything remotely akin to skydiving, who also didn't have the foresight to even do some research on how to rig or even put on the parachutes. Yes, that's dangerous.

Climbing has some inherent danger, obviously, but with a bit of knowledge and staying within some reasonable safety limits, the likelihood of dying is nowhere near BASE. I think part of that is that, at least amongst the climbing community, the celebrities aren't wholly people pushing the limits with danger. Sure, we have Alex Honnold, but we also have Tommy Caldwell, Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, Alex Puccio, and so on, climbers who are pushing the limit in difficulty but not really danger. Perhaps that's because "difficulty" and "danger" are not inexorably linked with climbing. You can have a close-bolted route in good rock with modern bolts that's not particularly dangerous that's still really, really hard. La Dura Dura is the hardest sport climb in the world. I probably wouldn't kill myself on it, even if it's way above my pay grade (assuming I could even reach the first bolt). I don't know that you can do the same with BASE.

japan destroyed us car manufacturing.

Hardly. Toyota and Honda both make cars in the US, which seems counter to saying they've destroyed it.

Even just looking at the American manufacturers, America still does alright. For instance, in a list of the top 10 best-selling vehicles in the world in 2015 [1], yes, a Japanese car came in first, but a German car came in second and US took up the third and fourth spots.

Rands covers this pretty well in "The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster" [1], I think. Specifically, the difference between a "vent" and a "rant": "The Vent that wants no help is a Rant. The Ranter somehow believes that the endless restatement of their opinion is the solution. Perhaps they have no clue what a solution might be or how to find it or perhaps they’ve been stewing on the topic so long, they’ve lost all sight of logic."

[1] http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-th...

At least for large country like US. It's comparable to cost of having professional, efficient and treason-resistant army, counted per one officer/soldier. But you need much more police officers than soldiers.

You could certainly argue that there ought to be more policy officers than soldiers, but the military is currently quite a bit larger. The projected number of active duty military members is 1,301,300, with an additional 811,000 in the reserves [1]. The sources for the number of policy officers were around 800,000-900,00. Wikipedia has it pegged at 809,308 for 2008 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

All of what nedwin said jives with my experience (I lived in SF from June 2011 to June 2012), but to expand, here's why I left.

It's a pain to find a place to live. Places will have one open house. You'll show up with 20 other people, checkbook in hand, and be expected to make a decision right then and there. It might be something you only go through once, but if you need to move for whatever reason, it's a hassle.

It can be a monoculture. It was neat at first, but there are cities that offer plenty of opportunity in tech without completely dominating the city.

The nightlife is kind of lame. I live in Austin now, and when I want to go out, I feel like I have a lot more options, especially if I want to do more than one thing that night.

There's a ton of neat stuff in the area – it's truly one of the most naturally beautiful areas I've ever been–, but it takes a car to get there and owning a car is a hassle.

I didn't find most people who lived there particular friendly. I also found it difficult to make close friends, maybe because of the transient nature of SF. I'm hesitant to draw a real generalization from this, though. I may have just had a string of bad luck, but that was my experience.

The weather sucks. A lot of people like it, and it was certainly a nice respite from the 100F+ weather I left when I moved, but it sucked after a while.

There really isn't ONE thing that makes SF a terrible city. It's a lot of little things that add up. Maybe those little things won't matter to you or will be overcome by the positives in SF. For some people that's certainly true, but for me, I couldn't wait to get out. I left as soon as my first lease was up.

It's definitely a thing. SF has a pretty substantial homeless population and apparently very few options for them to defecate that isn't the sidewalk. You can spend all day walking around playing human or dog. Walking by one of the BART stops on a warm day, you're hit with a pretty strong smell of urine.

Also foot pegs integrated into the frame may look good but in a low slide crash could prove catastrophic.

They also appear to have a taper to them, leading to a somewhat thin edge. My dad still has the scar from when he put a footpeg into his foot on a motorcycle when he was younger. That was from a fixed but fairly blunt footpeg. No idea the kind of damage this thing would do.

My first job as a developer was writing COBOL (in 2007), and I only did it for a few months, so grain of salt here. I'm fairly certain PIC A(100) should be PIC X(100). A is "alphabetic." X is "alphanumeric" but supports ASCII characters that aren't a-z or 0-9.

That said, COBOL is weakly typed, so you can probably store non-alphabetic characters in a variable typed as alphabetic (at least without the compiler correcting you), but it might fail if you try to do certain operations on them.

The Subaru one stays on until you come to a complete stop. Even then, it's still "on" in a way, since it'll hold the brakes, but you have to flick up on the cruise control switch to get the car to start moving again. It'll also notify you if the car in front has started moving again and you haven't done anything (with or without ACC on). It's on my girlfriend's car, so I don't use it every day, but it has been nice the times I've driven it in traffic.