f00biebletch

Remind | Senior Engineers and Engineering Leaders | San Francisco | REMOTE

2020 was a memorable year for Remind. With Zoom and Google we served as the backbone of the US education system as schools pivoted quickly to online learning. I'll never forget the early morning of Friday 13 Mar 2020 when our scale went through the roof and the team worked over the next 2 months to harden and improve our systems during this real-time load test. And we did all this while transitioning to fully remote.

Our sales have also been strong (which created even more load fun!), and we are investing in both continuing to harden our systems and also launch a new coaching business.

We are looking for senior folks who want to serve students, their families, and teachers as we build a successful business on a solid tech stack.

See https://www.remind.com/about/ and https://engineering.remind.com/ for more reading.

Email me (kevin at remindhq dot com) for more info.

Remind | Full-time | anywhere (based in SF) | multiple roles

While many startups are struggling, Remind (https://www.remind.com) is maturely and responsibly growing as our influence and impact on the US education market only increases during this pandemic. We'd love to have you on our team of engineers who value listening, learning, great tech, and joyful, trusting collaboration. We have roles for

* Android engineer (primarily kotlin)

* Fullstack engineer (react/TypeScript, GraphQL)

* Site Reliability engineer (SRE) (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, embedded in product teams)

Feel free to apply directly at https://www.remind.com/about#careers or just email me, I'm VP of engineering: kevin at remindhq dot com.

Remind | Software Engineer | San Francisco or Remote | Full Time

At Remind (https://remind.com/) we are building an ed-tech business on top of our 27 million monthly active teachers, students, parents, and guardians as we strive to get every kid a chance to succeed.

We are looking for senior engineers to help us scale our services as well as take our reliability to the next level. We've got systems in go, node, ruby, and python backed by AWS Aurora, Dynamo, SQS, and lots of other fun tech. See https://boards.greenhouse.io/remind/jobs/496462?gh_jid=49646... for more info, or reach out directly to me.

We are a small but mighty team looking for engineers who want to have deep impact on both education and our business.

I run engineering and am blessed to be able to not only serve teachers with a great app, but also to work alongside a great team building a business.

Email me kevin at remindhq dot com if interested. Thanks!

Remind (https://www.remind.com/) | San Francisco or REMOTE

With 27 million monthly active teachers, students, and parents/guardians, join us as we build a business to give every student the opportunity to succeed! We hack on Swift/Realm on iOS, Kotlin/Java on Android, React in our web client, and Go/Ruby/Python/Node + Amazon RDS/Aurora/Dynamo. We are a small team working on BIG problems.

We're hiring for all roles! Apply at https://www.remind.com/careers; or, if you don't see something you like, hit me up at kevin at remindhq dot com (I run engineering) and let's talk!

I admire the Netflix philosophy- ruthlessly capitalistic.

And, even in SV, most of the industry cannot; certainly the AirBnB/uber/lyft's of the world can, but the smaller companies seem to be falling behind (based on anecdotal conversations at least).

Great point, although said rent is being driven largely by FB and GOOG. I remember the first time I was outbid for a flat in 2016 when a small group of googlers paid cash for the entire first year of rent. I should have moved to Seattle that afternoon :)

Although that notion of "the best" has been deeply challenged by slack, e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/how-s...

I was more looking at the differential between FB -> Alphabet -> Rest. As a member of the Rest in the Bay Area, hiring has become quantitatively more challenging in the last 12 months as FB continues to gobble up talent. Perhaps it's not so much a bubble as it is a deep, likely irreversible change to SV.

I've definitely felt the challenge of hiring in a startup as a result of these kinds of numbers. I'm curious what others think will come of this seeming bubble in compensation.

Remind | Engineers | SF | Full-time | Remote

Remind (https://www.remind.com/careers) is looking for several roles as seek to transform the relationship between teachers, families, and schools in our quest to give each student a chance to succeed in school.

We need

* backend engineers to do distributed systems work on our messaging infrastructure (go, ruby, sql, nosql, sync, async) as we support our 23M active users and scale both users and interactions rapidly

* SRE to automate our infrastructure built on Empire (http://engineering.remind.com/introducing-empire/)

* android engineers to build out features, polish features, and drive our crash free rate from 3 to 4 nines

Feel free to reach out directly, kevin at remindhq dot com

Grammarly | San Francisco or Kyiv | Full Time

https://www.grammarly.com/jobs

Profitable NLP/ML startup with offices in SF and Kyiv. We need a wide range of skills, from NLP hackers proficient in Lisp, to middle tier engineers solid in Erlang, Haskell, Scala, and Java, to front end engineers passionate about amazing user experiences. We are actively working in Deep Learning and ML and need the finest engineers and computer scientists as we pursue our mission.

Feel free to reach out directly to kevin dot mcintire at grammarly dot com for more info.

They are hiring - contact kevin dot mcintire at grammarly dot com

Location: San Francisco or Palo Alto, INTERN or full time

BrightRoll (http://www.brightroll.com) is looking for all kinds of engineers, especially server side hackers to work on composing internal services into a public, Fielding-friendly API. We value functional programming, distributed systems, fault tolerance and high availability, backed by all kinds of languages and persistence schemes. We are serious about scala, erlang, ruby, node, and store stuff in SQL, nosql, and sometimes in plain old files.

Our culture is one of uncompromising transparency and GSD. We value risk taking, learning from failure, provide superb compensation and benefits, and enjoy brewing beer and cider together in addition to hacking together.

Feel free to apply via the web site, and let us know hacker news sent you, or contact me directly (f00biebletch at gmail dot com). Thanks!

See http://newton.newtonsoftware.com/career/JobIntroduction.acti...

Skype - Palo Alto, CA - Software Engineer Fulltime, H1B

We are building large-scale elastic services to support the evolution of the Skype network. The important part is that we have a lot of fun building and owning distributed systems and are looking for engineers who can come in and push their first feature to production within a few days of starting and who can also help us get that duration down to hours. The stack is primarily azure/.net/C#, although there is some node.js in the house and when we do UIs we don't use biggish server-side stacks. But when we do server-side systems we run them on 1000s of instances and support 10^5 req/sec all day, every day.

The key is that we own our own systems and hence our destiny. You can't ask for anything more than that.

You can contact me at f00biebletch at gmail (quicker) or you can go through the official posting (slower): https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&#...

Palo Alto, Skype

We are hiring to help us build massive distributed systems from the ground up on C#/F#/Azure. We run elastic systems backed by a nosqlish data store, async replication, and, in general, do a lot of async programming. We are doing devops, building systems to support Skype's amazing user base and move functionality, so our engineers get to do full lifecycle in an agile environment. It is somewhat like a startup with a lot of money, food, dogs, but we do have a few more managers. My team is smart, experienced, not risk averse, and in control of their own destiny. You can't ask for much more than that.

Contact f00biebletch at gmail dot com for more great info.

Skype - Palo Alto

Skype is looking for a big data engineer to help instrument and analyze the gargantuan P2P network that is Skype. Nosql, hadoop, map/reduce, node.js are the main drivers, although there will be integration with azure and esoteric legacy systems to keep it real. We need a solid, open minded engineer who has worked with all kinds of distributed systems and is not afraid of big challenges.

You'll need to be able to anaylze, interpret, publish, and present complex problems and solutions to a wide variety of people. You'll be involved in the ground floor of Big Data at Skype, so you'll need to be able to find paths to success in a sea of confusion and conflicting priorities.

You should really dig machine learning, data mining, stats, and math in general and understand the fuzziness of "answers" in the real world.

Contact f00biebletch at gmail for info.

Skype - Palo Alto

We are a startup unit inside Skype inside MS delivering very large scale services to transform portions of the Skype P2P network into a server based system. While we work in MS and engineer systems with C++/C#/Azure and nosql backends, our team is a *nix-centric group of hackers who have used erlang, rabbit, mongo, redis, etc, etc in production systems.

While we are not a startup, our org is run by a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits who just likes to get things done, and our culture reflects that. We also have the usual suspects of catered lunches, dogs barking in the office, free caltrain, and even a good bit of node.js lurking around.

We need hackers and engineers who know how to balance beauty with pragmatism to get systems shipped, and who find deep joy in creating beautiful systems that make a real difference in the world.

Contact f00biebletch at gmail.com if interested, this is the best corporate opportunity you'll ever find - stable funding, creative thinkers, risk taking encouraged, no politics, just delivering great systems.

Skype is hiring. OK, it's MS, but we are still very independent, take lots of risks, and are building mission critical high performance distributed systems. We are running services at approx 500k tps distributed world wide to support the brilliant concept that is Skype. The tech stack is nosqlish (azure table store), C# services (F# permitted, we ported stuff from C++ and Erlang to move to Azure). The location is Palo Alto, CA, US.

We need someone who loves to own production systems from conception to support. If you can get things done, contact me at f00biebletch at gmail dot com.

Dolby in Santa Clara needs an erlanger/javascripter/mongodb type who's also not afraid of perl either:

http://careers.dolby.com/detail.asp?jobid=dolby1610

For fastest service, DM me @f00biebletch or email f00biebletch@gmail.com.

Dolby is hiring, in Santa Clara, looking for a javascript/REST/Erlang/Mongo person to hack/design/etc on a distributed validation engine. DM f00biebletch or email kevin.mcintire at dolby.com.