jpcody

CampusOptics | Product Engineer | Hybrid ~2x/wk | Austin, TX | Full-Time

CampusOptics is an environmental health and safety platform for universities. We're hitting product market fit, quickly adding customers, and looking to add another product engineer to our engineering team of 5.

Most importantly, you're excited to work in a close-knit team to build features without bureaucracy and make a big impact in our Rails/Hotwire application. And you'll influence a product that makes a material impact on campus safety. The ideal candidate would have UI/UX/product sensibilities, and we're open to all levels of seniortiy.

I'm a founder, the CTO, and the hiring manager for this role. I got my professional start on "Who's Hiring March 2011", so I'm partial to candidates from here :)

You can see more details here: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/82f33ff98afedaca7018082933019...

To apply, I'd love to hear why you think you'd be a good fit and what excites you about the role at jcody@campusoptics.com.

CampusOptics | Senior React Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite OR Remote

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind campus safety platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education.

A key piece of our strategy is our mobile application, built in React Native¹. We'd like to find an engineer to join us and serve as the linchpin of the mobile app going forward and take the lead on continued development. You'll walk into a high-quality codebase that's easy to work with, but you'll have something between input and autonomy on everything from lint configuration to testing strategy to product direction.

We're a small team with big goals and lots of experience. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for our practices, product, team, and codebase.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/senior-react-engineer

1 - We're confident you can quickly get from here to there with some support from our end if you're interested in React Native but have only worked in React.

CampusOptics | Senior React Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite OR Remote

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind campus safety platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of facilities and safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

A key piece of our strategy is our mobile application, built in React Native¹. We'd like to find an engineer to join us and serve as the linchpin of the mobile app going forward and take the lead on continued development. You'll walk into a high-quality codebase that's easy to work with, but you'll have something between input and autonomy on everything from ESLint rules to testing strategy to product direction.

We're a small team with big goals and lots of experience. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for our practices, product, team, and codebase. Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/senior-react-engineer

1 - We're confident you can quickly get from here to there with some support from our end if you're interested in React Native but have only worked in React.

CampusOptics | Lead Mobile Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite or Remote

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind facilities and safety management platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of facilities and safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We've used contractors to build our React Native application, and we're looking for an engineer to take the lead on continued development. You'll walk into a high-quality codebase that's easy to work with, but you'll have something between input and autonomy on everything from product direction to ESLint rules.

We're a small team with big goals and lots of experience. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for our practices, product, team, and codebase. Most importantly, you love to ship, and do so in a way that leaves the codebase a little better than you found it.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/mobile-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Lead Mobile Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite (~2 days a week)

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind facilities and safety management platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of facilities and safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We've used contractors to build our React Native application, and we're looking for an engineer to take the lead on continued development. You'll walk into a high-quality codebase that's easy to work with, but you'll have something between input and autonomy on everything from ESLint rules to testing strategy to product direction.

We're a small team with big goals and lots of experience. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for our practices, product, team, and codebase.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/mobile-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Lead Mobile Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite (~2 days a week)

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind operations platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of safety and facilities professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We're looking for an engineer to continue building out our cross-platform React Native application, and we would welcome someone who wanted to make an impact outside of just the mobile application.

We're a small team with big goals. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for our practices, product, team, and codebase. Ideally, we'll be sitting over a coffee or beer in 5 years toasting to the great team and product we built together.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/mobile-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Lead Mobile Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite (Remote for now)

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind safety platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We're looking for a mobile engineer to continue building out our cross-platform React Native application, and we would welcome someone who wanted to make an impact outside of just the mobile application.

We're a small team with big goals. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for the product, team, and codebase. Ideally, we'll be sitting over a coffee or beer in 5 years toasting to the great team and product we built together.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/mobile-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Mobile Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite (Remote for now)

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind safety platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We're looking for a mobile engineer to continue building out our cross-platform React Native application, and we would welcome someone who wanted to make an impact outside of just the mobile application.

We're a small team with big goals already making a big impact in campus safety. We'd love to find someone excited to join early and eager to help lay the foundation for the product, team, and codebase.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://www.campusoptics.com/mobile-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Lead Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Onsite (Remote for now)

CampusOptics is building a first-of-its-kind safety platform for distributed campuses, starting in higher education. We enable teams of safety professionals to see the big picture, stay on top of the small details, and prevent harm on their campus.

We're looking for a second engineer to work alongside me to advance the foundation of the product, the codebase, and engineering team. Ideally, you'd be willing to work the full stack, and you'd be working in Rails, StimulusJS, React Native, AWS, Terraform, and Postgres.

Email me (I'm a cofounder, the CTO, and the hiring manager) at jcody@campusoptics.com to hear more or start a conversation.

https://campusoptics.com/lead-software-engineer

CampusOptics | Software Engineer | Austin | Full-time

CampusOptics (https://campusoptics.com) is building the first comprehensive fire safety software platform specifically for higher education. Schools have a high regulatory bar to meet for fire safety compliance, and the consequence of failure can be dire.

Since our previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20869425), we've built a Rails app and an iOS app and are working with a handful of initial development partner schools to iterate and get feedback. Our 8-person team has deep higher ed experience, and the need for our product has outstripped our expectations. Now we're looking for an additional engineer to help us keep building it out.

Out of the gates, we've relied heavily on Swift, Rails, PostgreSQL, Turbolinks, StimulusJS, Terraform, and AWS. These are technologies that have enabled us to develop large amounts of value as quickly as possible, while maintaining a high bar for quality.

The two of us in engineering today are generalists with a commitment to quality and understanding, and we'd love if you were as well. That means you don’t already need to be an expert at all of technologies we're using, but a firm command of some and a desire to learn is necessary.

In the near-term future, this will be a heavily product-focused role. You'll primarily be working on the web and potentially working on features like representing complex policies and fire standards in code, working with geospatial data to assist inspectors in the field, and creating visualizations of the state of fire safety on campus. And we aim to do all of these things with code that is well-factored, well-tested, and able to scale with our customer base over time.

I'm biased, but I think it's a great chance to be apart of building something great from early on :) Email me at jcody@campusoptics.com if you'd like to learn more or talk about whether there might be a fit.

CampusOptics | Engineer #1 | On-site in Austin, TX | Full-Time

CampusOptics is building the first comprehensive fire safety software platform specifically for higher education. Schools have a high regulatory bar to meet for fire safety compliance, and the consequence of failure can be dire. After a few months of market research, we've put a sales and client services team together with deep higher ed experience, and I'm looking for a software engineer to join me in Austin to build the product.

We want to deliver large amounts of value as quickly as possible, and we’ll use technologies that enable that aim. Out of the gates, that will probably mean relying heavily on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL and only introducing the complexity of front-end frameworks where they make a meaningful difference. We’ll also be delivering a mobile application with to-be-determined technology choices and tradeoffs.

While you don’t already need to be an expert at all of these, we’ll be collaborating on things like defining our core data model, building the API that powers our mobile application, representing complex policies and fire standards in code, working with geospatial data to assist inspectors in the field, and creating visualizations of the state of fire safety on campus.

In the near-term future, this will be a heavily product-focused role. Over time, this engineer could move into a people-management role (EM, Director of Engineering, etc…) or a technical-leadership (technical lead, software architect) role, so please apply whichever direction you're headed.

Email me at jcody@campusoptics.com if you'd like to learn more or talk about whether there might be a fit.

Fullstack Engineer (Mid-to-Senior Level) - Rails, JavaScript

Beterra Health | Newnan, GA | Onsite 2x per week | Full-time | https://beterra.com

Beterra is looking for an engineer in a very early-stage (4 folks) team to make a big impact in the hospital patient safety space. You'll work closely with a talented and friendly team of subject matter experts to legitimately make a difference in outcomes at hospitals across the world.

We're moving from a single product focused on survey data intake and analytics to an additional product based on workflow-driven improvement. Over 150 hospitals already use our analytics, and we're getting great signals about our next product. Our entire application is built in Rails, and our analytics visualization is built in Ember. You'll have a lot of impact over our next technical decisions and get to make a huge impact on the future of the product.

Reach out to me directly at jcody@beterra.com with what interests you about the opportunity for more information.

Software Engineer | Blackbaud | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind. What problems? Help kids afford college by making it easier for them to find and receive scholarships.

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The Job: You'll be writing vanilla JS, React, HTML, CSS, and wiring things to Rails on the back-end. More technical details forthcoming—read on.

The Department: We're a 4-member product engineering team within a 13-member engineering department Technical Details: Rails, React, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. And we're kind, respectful, and obsessed with the customer experience along the way.

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joshua.cody@blackbaud.me

Software Engineer | Blackbaud | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind. What problems? Help kids afford college by making it easier for them to find and receive scholarships.

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The Job: You'll be writing vanilla JS, React, HTML, CSS, and wiring things to Rails on the back-end. More technical details forthcoming—read on.

The Department: We're a 4-member product engineering team within a 13-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, React, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. And we're kind, respectful, and obsessed with the customer experience along the way.

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joshua.cody@blackbaud.me

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind. What problems? Help kids afford college by making it easier for them to find and receive scholarships.

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The Company: A small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education The Department: A 3-member product engineering team within an 11-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. Our company values are kindness and respect, engagement, and obsession with our clients' experience, and we all strive to exhibit those daily.

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jcody@academicworks.com

More: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind. What problems? Help kids afford college by making it easier for them to find and receive scholarships.

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The Company: A small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education The Department: A 3-member product engineering team within an 11-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

--

You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. Our company values are kindness and respect, engagement, and obsession with our clients' experience, and we all strive to exhibit those daily.

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jcody@academicworks.com

More: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind.

The Company: A small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education

The Department: A 3-member product engineering team within an 11-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), then our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

--

You're pragmatic, smart, work well with others, and take ownership of features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better as an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. Our company values are kindness and respect, engagement, and obsession with our clients' experience, and we all strive to exhibit those daily.

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jcody@academicworks.com More: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve hard problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind.

The Company: A small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education

The Department: A 3-member product engineering team within a 10-member engineering department

Technical Details: Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

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You find pragmatic solutions to difficult problems, work well with others, and take ownership of entire features from planning to production. Preferably, you're proficient with some of our technical stack, and you'll make the entire team better by being an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil.

We're piling up accolades for workplace happiness and company growth. We take a lot of pride in accomplishing disproportionately big tasks, and to do that we treat engineers like professionals with clear expectations and regular feedback. Our company values are kindness and respect, engagement, and obsession with our clients' experience, and we all strive to exhibit those daily.

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The Interview Process: You'll talk to me (Product Engineering Manager), talk to our CTO, do some remote coding to chat code, come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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jcody@academicworks.com

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/AcademicWorks-Reviews-E460...

More details: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve really big problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind.

The Company: We're a small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education

The Department: You'll join a 3-member product engineering team within a 10-member engineering department

Technical Details: Ruby on Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

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You:

* Find pragmatic solutions to difficult problems

* Take ownership of entire features and see them through from research to production

* Work well with product management, design, and the rest of the team to accomplish big goals

* Make an entire team better by being an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil

* Have proficiency with some of our technical stack or can make a very strong case you can pick it up quickly

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The Interview Process: You'll talk to a team member, then our CTO, then do some remote coding (submit existing, triage an open source issue, or we'll supply something) to chat code, then come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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Contact: jcody@academicworks.com

Company Site: https://www.academicworks.com/

Even more details: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Senior Software Engineer | AcademicWorks | Austin, TX | Onsite (Relocation Available)

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Solve really big problems that truly matter with a team that's smart, experienced, and kind.

The Company: We're a small-and-growing (45 members) company using technology to improve access to higher education

The Department: You'll join a 3-member product engineering team within a 10-member engineering department

Technical Details: Ruby on Rails, AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, and some internal tooling in Go

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You:

* Find pragmatic solutions to difficult problems

* Take ownership of entire features and see them through from research to production

* Work well with product management, design, and the rest of the team to accomplish big goals

* Make an entire team better by being an individual contributor, a teacher, and an occasional foil

* Have proficiency with some of our technical stack or can make a very strong case you can pick it up quickly

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The Interview Process: You'll talk to a team member, then our CTO, then do some remote coding (submit existing, triage an open source issue, or we'll supply something) to chat code, then come on-site and pair, meet the team, and meet a founder.

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Contact: jcody@academicworks.com

Company Site: https://www.academicworks.com/

Even more details: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f1187d6d0828d6620633f8f6a3b3d...

Front-End Engineer - Austin, TX

We're a 30-person, product-focused SaaS company helping schools and students manage the scholarship process.

We're looking for a second front-end engineer to work here in Austin with me. We'll be building new products and improving our design and front-end for our current application, future applications, and internal tooling. You'll work with a super sharp engineering team (8 of us) accomplishing disproportionately large goals.

After 3 years, our main product has hundreds of thousands of active users, and while our front-end is still very nice to work in, I think we have tons of room to improve our front-end process, performance, and mobile friendliness. Come help us make it so.

I've got a gist with even more details: https://gist.github.com/jpcody/f68727f9d6b2e5c86206

Give that a read, and if you email careers@academicworks.com, it'll get to me. Thanks!

Ruby Developer for AcademicWorks in Austin, TX

We're a small group that loves working together and running a business that's built to last.

http://www.academicworks.com/rubyist.html