Hi, we're a newly founded fintech startup based in Soho, London. Our vision is to build a
better savings account - current solutions are too dumb and leave us to our own devices.
We’ve personally never been good savers even though we always had it in the back of our
heads that we should be saving money. We’re starting with a savings assistant which
automatically saves money for you. It is powered by an algorithm that looks at your
historical and current spending and builds a model on how to save money for you.
We’re looking for a smart Python engineer to help us out over the summer. It's a paid gig
but you have to live in London or be willing to spend the summer here. The stack is Python, React, RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL.
We’re super early so there’s a lot of cool things to work on! We’re currently bootstrapping
while raising an angel round. If you are interested, email alex@withplum.com with a few words about yourself and something exciting that you worked on recently.
Stockholm, Sweden – Tictail (http://tictail.com) (VISA candidates welcome!)
Tictail is the easiest way to start a beautiful, online store. We're now home to 45000 stores and plan to grow 3x over the next year. We care deeply about user experience and want to make e-commerce as accessible as starting a blog. As a result, more than 80% of our store owners would recommend us to a friend.
At Tictail, you'll be building something that helps people all over the world grow their own business from their passion. You’ll work with some of the best people you’ve ever met, making ambitious things, with a great amount of responsibility. Our stack is Python (Tornado, Flask), CoffeeScript/JavaScript (Node, React, Backbone), Redis, RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch. We host our infrastructure on AWS and manage it using Chef.
Because Tictail is nothing without our colleagues and our culture, we might not match your expectations of a normal recruitment process. We will definitely want to figure out if you’re smart and get things done, but more importantly we want to figure out if we click.
If this sounds interesting, get in touch at jobs+hn@tictail.com and tell us a few things about yourself and a project you've enjoyed working on. If you want to learn more about how we work and build product, you can take a look at our product blog (https://medium.com/tictail-makers) and code (http://github.com/tictail).
I'd like a service that allows me to write internet-connected scripts that can be scheduled or executed on demand via webhooks. I have a bunch of things I want to do (like monitor a site for example) without messing around with servers.
To take it even further these scripts can come with their own store (just a simple key-value will do the trick), exposed over an API with a private key.
You can probably do this with several different existing services. Parse.com Cloud Code (either express endpoints, or cloud functions) can definitely handle this.
Hardware: Mac Air 13'' with 27-inch Thunderbolt Display, WASD keyboard (love it!), Magic mouse, Beyerdynamic DT 770 headphones.
Software: Sublime Text for code and blog posts. Vagrant with Virtualbox/VMWare Fusion for local VMS with Ubuntu 12.04/Debian Squeeze. Python, JavaScript and lately Go. Github for repos.
Servers: AWS at work, Digital Ocean/AWS at home.
Location: Stockholm.
Other things: Cheap IKEA desk/bad chair at home, cheap IKEA desk/better chair at work, Spotify, 1Password, Dropbox, Skype, Hangouts. Screenhero for remote-debugging customers.
Like to have: A better chair, I'm starting to feel the pain.
Tictail is the easiest way to start an online store. We're home for 35000 stores and plan to grow 3x over the next year. We care deeply about user experience and want to make e-commerce as accessible as starting a blog. As a result, more than 80% of our store owners have recommended Tictail. We've also recently launched Tictail Apps, a platform for third-party developers to make apps for Tictail stores.
We're currently 7 people in the tech team and we're looking to hire a few more talented engineers with a good product sense. The platform is mostly written in Python and production is currently served by Tornado, Flask and node.js. Our infrastructure is built on AWS and we use Chef for configuration management. Search is currently powered by Solr but we will soon be migrating to Elasticsearch.
