Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | instamotor's comments login

Hi everyone, Instamotor is hiring Senior Frontend engineer! JD is available on: https://angel.co/instamotor/jobs/102514-senior-frontend-engi...

if you are interested, you can email me directly: tina@instamotor.com


Hi everyone,

Instamotor is one of the fastest growing peer to peer used car marketplace, with financial services coming soon in 2017. We are based in San Francisco and currently process over $300 million/year worth of transactions, and projecting to reach $1 billion in 2017. Led by a team of industry veterans from Amazon, Google, Lending Club and Nest—we’re driven by the principle that buying a safe and trustworthy used vehicle is a fundamental consumer right. Instamotor currently has over $8 million in funding from top investors who successfully funded companies such as Airbnb, Square, Uber, Zappos and more.

We are looking for a technically solid, product-driven senior full-stack engineer to work on both our marketplace and lending platform.

Responsibilities

  Drive company vision and technical execution            
  Help gather technical requirements for new features
  Work directly with backend and frontend teams to drive feature delivery, and occasionally with other cross-functional teams.
  Lead feature development by working directly with management,        
  Review pull request code, drive technical roadmap, and contribute best-practices to the engineering team                        
 Identify areas of the code base in need of refactor
 Monitor production system and identify performance improvements
 Be awesome, have fun, and enjoy the joys and tribulations of a fast-growth startup :slightly_smiling_face:
                        
Preferred Skillset: - Ruby / Elixir / Node - Html / CSS - Reasonable UI/UX skills and ability to work with our UX team - Bonus: postgres / newsql / docker / redis / elastic search...etc, as well as SEO/page-optimizations

Our Technical Stack

Our web frontend uses a react/redux/node stack with a slightly modified version of bootstrap for markup/styling. Our backend API is written in Ruby / Elixir, and we current use three different storage technology: (1) postgres for transactional; (2) redis for caching; (3) and elasticsearch to support search functionality in our app. Our services run on AWS, are dockerize, and get continuously integrated via a jenkin/github setup. Lastly, we have monitor our infrastructure with tools such as New Relic, Rollbar, Papertrail, Cloudwatch...etc. Lastly, we also have native apps for both iOS (swift/obj-c) and Android (java/kotlin).

If you are interested, send your resume along with your Github account information to tina@instamotor. Thank you and have a great day!


always yes. The more the merrier :)


I just commented the other day to someone that Tinder should analyze the features of those you swipe yes, and build a profile based on your history to auto-swipe in the future. Machine learning at its finest.


We're actually in process of hacking that one too based on your Facebook stated preference :)


I'm talking about using OpenCV on profile pics of those you swipe yes on. :)


It sounds like a neat problem to work on. I imagine a few awkward situations where the algo has "slightly" miscalculated though.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: