chrisconley

Stripe (EMEA) | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Dublin, London, Berlin, Stockholm, REMOTE | Full-time

Stripe launched its engineering hub in Dublin a few years ago and we now have more than a hundred engineers in Europe. We’re not just headquartered in America, but in Europe too—and this year we'll rapidly scale our engineering footprint in Europe.

We’re hiring in-office and remote employees in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Sweden. (More countries soon! And if you're not in one of those countries, we support relocations.)

Interested in learning more?

- We'd love to hear from you at emea-coffee@stripe.com!

- Explore open roles in the region: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=design%2Cengineering%2Cprod...

To read more about how we’ve been growing Stripe engineering in Europe so far, check out:

- How we started our Dublin eng hub: https://stripe.com/blog/dublin-eng-office

- A Dublin engineer's take on joining Stripe: https://leportella.com/new-eng-stripe/

- Our remote engineering hub one year in: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub-one-year

- Dec 2020 Irish Times article with John Collison: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/1.4438722

Stripe (EMEA) | Backend Engineers, Engineering Managers | Dublin, London, Berlin, Stockholm, REMOTE | Full-time

Stripe launched its engineering hub in Dublin a few years ago and we now have more than a hundred engineers in Europe. We’re not just headquartered in America, but in Europe too—and this year we'll rapidly scale our engineering footprint in Europe.

We’re hiring in-office and remote employees in Ireland, the UK, Germany, and Sweden. (More countries soon! And if you're not in one of those countries, we support relocations.)

Interested in learning more?

- We'd love to hear from you at emea-coffee@stripe.com!

- RSVP for our Feb 18 coffee chat (https://stripe.events/emeacoffeechat) to hear more from Stripe co-founder John Collison and engineers about what we're up to in EMEA this year.

To read more about how we’ve been growing Stripe engineering in Europe so far, check out:

- How we started our Dublin eng hub: https://stripe.com/blog/dublin-eng-office

- A Dublin engineer's take on joining Stripe: https://leportella.com/new-eng-stripe/

- Our remote engineering hub one year in: https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub-one-year

- Dec 2020 Irish Times article with John Collison: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/1.4438722

- Explore open roles in the region: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=design%2Cengineering%2Cprod...

Knuth worked on ensuring that the max number of guesses never went above 5. I believe that it's an algorithm, but I haven't looked into this enough yet.

Another way to optimize is for the avg number of guesses. The algorithm for this approach is to choose your next guess based on the guess that will give you the maximum amount of information gain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)#D...).

I've been studying the game of hangman (somewhat obsessively) for the last 6 or so years. I only recently discovered this Knuth paper via An Optimal Mastermind (4,7) Strategy and More Results in the Expected Case [1].

I think the reason it has captivated me for so long is because of the unexpected insight that choosing a known short-term failure or an increased chance of short-term failure (when optimizing for information gain) will result in quicker paths to your final goal AND decreased amounts of short-term failures.

My repo (currently being reworked) for simulating different strategies in hangman and battleship: https://github.com/chrisconley/hangman

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.1010.pdf

Data Engineers/Data Scientists/Javascript Engineers | Mountain View, San Francisco, and Philadelphia | Full-time | Onsite | RealScout, Inc.

* REALSCOUT *

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, home sellers and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

Our agents closed $1.5 billion in sales using RealScout over the first 8 months of 2016, which is growing rapidly as we expand across the country.

* THE TEAM *

We strive to cultivate thought diversity with candor, empathy and respect. We welcome people of different backgrounds, abilities and perspectives - it’s one of our core values.

We oftentimes pair program, hold hack days every other Friday, and maintain 85% test coverage in order to maximize learning as well as enable us to act quickly on those learnings.

We're open source across the stack - Ruby on Rails, Python (Caffe, TensorFlow, Pandas, Celery, etc), ReactJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and take time to give back to our community.

(For the curious, check out our team page [1] for a fun, short intro to everyone at RealScout.)

* NEXT STEPS *

Feel free to peruse our open roles [2] and submit an application there or reach me directly at chris (at) realscout.com.

Once we hear from you, we'll reach out to schedule an initial 20 minute conversation to answer your questions about RealScout to see if it looks like there's a good fit.

Next, it's your choice whether you'd prefer a 2 hour take-home coding exercise based on our production code or to schedule a 1 hour pairing session with one of our engineers.

Lastly, you'll visit the office to pair program with 2-3 engineers and chat with our VP of Product, CEO, and/or COO.

Our hope is that by the end of the visit, you have a good idea of who you'd be working with, how we work together and what challenges we work on day to day, as well as a full understanding of our product and business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

[1] http://learn.realscout.com/team/

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/realscout

Data Engineers/Data Scientists/Javascript Engineers | Mountain View, San Francisco, and Philadelphia | Full-time | Onsite | RealScout, Inc.

* REALSCOUT *

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, home sellers and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

Our agents closed $1.5 billion in sales using RealScout over the first 8 months of 2016, which is growing rapidly as we expand across the country.

* THE TEAM *

We strive to cultivate thought diversity with candor, empathy and respect. We welcome people of different backgrounds, abilities and perspectives - it’s one of our core values.

We oftentimes pair program, hold hack days every other Friday, and maintain 85% test coverage in order to maximize learning as well as enable us to act quickly on those learnings.

We're open source across the stack - Ruby on Rails, Python (Caffe, TensorFlow, Pandas, Celery, etc), ReactJS, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis and take time to give back to our community.

(For the curious, check out our team page[1] for a fun, short intro to everyone at RealScout.)

* NEXT STEPS *

Feel free to peruse our open roles [2] and submit an application there or reach me directly at chris (at) realscout.com.

Once we hear from you, we'll reach out to schedule an initial 20 minute conversation to answer your questions about RealScout to see if it looks like there's a good fit.

Next, it's your choice whether you'd prefer a 2 hour take-home coding exercise based on our production code or to schedule a 1 hour pairing session with one of our engineers.

Lastly, you'll visit the office to pair program with 2-3 engineers and chat with our VP of Product, CEO, and/or COO. Our hope is that by the end of the visit, you have a good idea of who you'd be working with, how we work together and what challenges we work on day to day, as well as a full understanding of our product and business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

[1] http://learn.realscout.com/team/

[2] https://jobs.lever.co/realscout

This is great - we'll try to get our Tensorflow and Caffe AMI repo updated soon: https://github.com/RealScout/deep-learning-images

RealScout | Ruby/Python Software Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists | Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

RealScout | Ruby/Python Software Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists | Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA | Full-time | Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time - Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 500% in the last six months.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time - Onsite

RealScout helps real estate agents sell more homes. Our aim is to provide better transparency between home sellers and buyers to create a more efficient marketplace.

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 400% since July.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping shape and mold engineering culture and technology [3] in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com!

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] https://github.com/RealScout/redux-infinite-scroll | http://eatcodeplay.com/on-the-road-to-a-better-elasticsearch... | http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit... | http://g.raphaelli.com/2015/11/13/docker-data-container-snap...

Thanks for verifying, it wasn't working for us a couple weeks ago but haven't check since then.

I'll give 3.5 a go in the next couple days and update the guide as necessary. Thanks!

This is great!

If anyone's interested, yesterday we put up a fairly detailed guide to installing TensorFlow on EC2 GPU instances with Python 3.4.

http://eatcodeplay.com/installing-gpu-enabled-tensorflow-wit...

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA and Philadelphia, PA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 85%. The focus seems to be paying off: The number of home purchases powered by RealScout tripled in 2015 and our user base has grown 400% since July.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

Congrats! Lever is a joy and probably my favorite hiring tool I use at RealScout. Can't wait to see what is to come in the next few years.

(HackerRank integration would be awesome!)

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Javascript Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, homes sold through RealScout grew 25% month over month.

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date).

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

RealScout - Rails Engineers/Front-end Engineers/Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We pair program [1], hold hack days every other Friday [2], and have recently improved test coverage from 45% to 80%. The focus seems to be paying off: In the first half of 2015, our agents have closed $1.1 billion in sales and this number is growing quickly.

(Check out our latest hack days project we released last week: an Atmel AVR 8bit microchip emulator [3] built with Rust, React.js, Redux.js and Docker.)

We're on the way to Series B being previously backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date)

If you're interested in helping to shape and mold engineering culture and technology in a small and growing team, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

-Chris

[1] http://eatcodeplay.com/why-we-killed-off-code-reviews/

[2] https://twitter.com/chrisconley/status/618830194971774976

[3] http://realscout.github.io/avr-emulator/

While we're not using Redux in production yet, it's been an amazing library to work with so far.

Cool!

To be fair, we've only implemented 7 opcodes out of ~150 so far. But thanks!

Yep, Starfighter was definitely the inspiration for this.

It was super fun dusting off the cobwebs from my EE degree (over a decade ago for me too) and diving back into Assembly.

RealScout - Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We're taking on the real estate industry with data.

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON

* Classifying images into 1 of 9 rooms using the Caffe deep learning library (currently at 90% accuracy)

* Graph analysis on what percentage of the market our RealScout agents have transacted with

* Predicting time on market and final sale price for homes on the market

* Scaling our direct MLS api integrations from 10 to 100

YOUR PLAYGROUND

* More than 10 million homebuyer events (home views, saves, hides, email opens, etc)

* ~ 1 million active and sold homes directly from the regional MLS apis

* Over 1 million human-annotated photos of homes

A LITTLE ABOUT US

* We're backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date)

* Our agents have closed $962m in sales with RealScout

* We like to have fun [1]

* We pair program, have hack days every other Friday and hold lunch and learns regularly [2]

If you're interested working with large and robust data to help agents change the way they use technology to sell more homes, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

[1] https://www.realscout.com/team

[2] http://eatcodeplay.com/

RealScout - Data Engineers/Data Scientists - Mountain View, CA - Full-time

We're taking on the real estate industry with data.

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON

* Classifying images into 1 of 9 rooms using the Caffe deep learning library (currently at 90% accuracy)

* Graph analysis on what percentage of the market our RealScout agents have transacted with

* Predicting time on market and final sale price for homes on the market

* Scaling our direct MLS api integrations from 10 to 100

YOUR PLAYGROUND

* More than 10 million homebuyer events (home views, saves, hides, email opens, etc)

* ~ 1 million active and sold homes directly from the regional MLS apis

* Over 1 million human-annotated photos of homes

A LITTLE ABOUT US

* We're backed by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Ken DeLeon (2012's #1 Realtor) and several others ($7m to date)

* Our agents have closed $962m in sales with RealScout

* We like to have fun [1]

* We pair program, have hack days every other Friday and hold lunch and learns regularly [2]

If you're interested working with large and robust data to help agents change the way they use technology to sell more homes, feel free to reach me at chris (at) realscout.com.

-Chris

[1] https://www.realscout.com/team

[2] http://eatcodeplay.com/

RealScout - Mountain View, CA - Full-time - Full-stack (Rails) & iOS engineers

Thousands of real estate agents have chosen RealScout to help convert $20 leads into $10,000 commission checks. We amass hundreds of data points on every single property, track buyer preferences and behavior, and expose analytics and insights to agents so they can appear super-human to their clients.

GROWTH

Earlier this year we inked our largest brokerage deal with Sereno Group at 250 seats and we’ll double our addressable market by end of year by moving into SoCal.

FUNDING & TEAM

We're backed by Formation 8/Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), DCM Ventures ($2.5B under management), Ken DeLeon (#1 Realtor in the US 2012) and Matthew Moore (former EVP at Realtor.com).

Along with our recent announcement of $6m in funding, we’ve attracted some amazing people:

* Duke Fan, former VP Product of Mobile at Realtor.com * Pierre Cadzilla, one of the first employees at Trulia * Betty Kayton, former CFO of Dropbox

ENGINEERING @ REALSCOUT

We value continuous improvement and having fun. We have a small team focused on shipping great product and being the #1 engineering team in real estate.

We recently upped our game by spending 3 months at Pivotal Labs in SF and our team is cranking - from engineers to design to product. We also recently launched our engineering blog: http://eatcodeplay.com.

NEXT STEPS

Feel free to email me at chris at realscout.com with any questions or to apply. https://www.realscout.com/team http://eatcodeplay.com/careers

RealScout - Mountain View, CA - Full-time - Full-stack (Rails) & iOS engineers

Thousands of real estate agents have chosen RealScout to help convert $20 leads into $10,000 commission checks. We amass hundreds of data points on every single property, track buyer preferences and behavior, and expose analytics and insights to agents so they can appear super-human to their clients.

GROWTH

Earlier this year we inked our largest brokerage deal with Sereno Group at 250 seats and we’ll double our addressable market by end of year by moving into SoCal.

FUNDING & TEAM

We're backed by Formation 8/Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), DCM Ventures ($2.5B under management), Ken DeLeon (#1 Realtor in the US 2012) and Matthew Moore (former EVP at Realtor.com).

Along with our recent announcement of $6m in funding, we’ve attracted some amazing people:

* Duke Fan, former VP Product of Mobile at Realtor.com * Pierre Cadzilla, one of the first employees at Trulia * Betty Kayton, former CFO of Dropbox

ENGINEERING @ REALSCOUT

We value continuous improvement and having fun. We have a small team focused on shipping great product and being the #1 engineering team in real estate.

We recently upped our game by spending 3 months at Pivotal Labs in SF and our team is cranking - from engineers to design to product. We also recently launched our engineering blog: http://eatcodeplay.com.

NEXT STEPS

Feel free to email me at chris at realscout.com with any questions or to apply.

https://www.realscout.com/team http://eatcodeplay.com/careers

RealScout - Mountain View, CA - Full-time - Full-stack & iOS engineers

Thousands of real estate agents have chosen RealScout to help convert $20 leads into $10,000 commission checks. We amass hundreds of data points on every single property, track buyer preferences and behavior, and expose analytics and insights to agents so they can appear super-human to their clients.

GROWTH

Last month we inked our largest brokerage deal with Sereno Group at 250 seats. Our Agent Sales team was 150% above plan in January and is on track to do the same in February and we’ll double our addressable market by end of year.

FUNDING & TEAM

We're backed by Formation 8/Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), DCM Ventures ($2.5B under management), Ken DeLeon (#1 Realtor in the US 2012) and Matthew Moore (former EVP at Realtor.com).

Along with our recent announcement of $6m in funding, we’ve attracted some amazing people:

* Duke Fan, former VP Product of Mobile at Realtor.com * Pierre Cadzilla, one of the first employees at Trulia * Betty Kayton, former CFO of Dropbox

ENGINEERING @ REALSCOUT

We value continuous improvement and having fun. We have a small team focused on shipping great product and being the #1 engineering team in real estate.

We recently upped our game by spending 3 months at Pivotal Labs in SF and our team is cranking - from engineers to design to product. We also just launched our engineering blog: http://eatcodeplay.com.

NEXT STEPS

Feel free to email me at chris at realscout.com with any questions or to apply.

https://www.realscout.com/team http://eatcodeplay.com/careers

One example happened last week when we upgraded our mocking library from rr to rspec 3. We didn't pair for that since it was just rote syntax changes.

Shshshano's comment is technically correct - we treat our dev branch as master - or at least how I've always treated master. It's the most up-to-date and production-ready branch.

Our git strategy can be summed up with:

- Commit everything to one, main branch

- Cut production releases on a separate branch or with tags

Good points in there. It might be that our personalities on our small team lend well to pairing and it might not scale out as we grow the team.

I would say though that it feels like we have even better visibility into new discoveries/successes/failures.

Every morning, we have a standard standup and afterwards we talk about anything anyone jotted down on the whiteboard from the previous day.

Today, it was huddling around some code for 10 minutes that refactored the way we setup some of our specs.