Perpay | Senior Full Stack/Backend Engineer + Engineering Manager | Onsite in Philadelphia, Full-Time

Perpay is building financial products backed by users' paycheck direct deposit. We believe everyone deserves a chance to improve their financial future, and we’re dedicated to building simple and inclusive financial products that help our members create healthy habits and achieve economic stability.

We're looking for:

- A few Senior Full-stack Engineers (6+ years, and a preference for backend-leaning) across our 3 product engineering teams. We highly value product-mindset, experience building production web apps for real users, and ability to coach and support more junior engineers.

- An Engineering Manager for our Card team (currently 4 Engineers + 2 offshore contractors). Ideally, you have at least a year or two of experience leading people and being accountable for a team's execution, roadmap, and performance. You would be the third "line manager" on our team, and so there's ample opportunity to grab org-wide initiatives that are interesting and impactful.

Our stack includes AWS, Postgres, Python/Django, React/Redux, Datadog

Some other company notes / benefits: Open PTO policy, full health/dental/vision, remote weeks around major holidays + extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW, catered lunch 3 days/wk, 401k w/ solid match, cell phone plan, gym subsidy, and some student loan repayment match

Check out the full JDs here https://perpay.com/careers#open-roles , and feel free to reach out directly! karl at perpay dot com

Fantastical family plan, hands down.

How are you using it that makes it worthwhile for you? I used Fantastical for a long time until their recent rate hike. All of our family scheduling works nicely through shared iCloud calendars, though.

This is my experience. Path in the door for every job I've had since I finished undergrad in the mid-aughts: - 1st job .. I answered a craigslist ad. - 2nd .. HN who's hiring post. - 3rd .. reached out to an engineer on the team on linkedin. - 4th .. referral from ex-coworker's partner. - 5th .. browsed the website of the VC firm that's funded a few of my previous companies, and I reached out to the CEO on linkedin.

http://whenisgoldenhour.com .. tech isn't particularly interesting, but it gets a decent bit of usage. Does a geoip lookup to tell you the golden hour time range for today. Inspired by my photography habit.

> But most simply see increased TCO long term on product they are sort of 'stuck' with, in sense they have workflow and tool they are good at, fast, and understand it

This is my exact issue with lightroom. I have 9 yrs of edit history, and workflows setup + a mobile app that seamlessly imports everything from my phone into my main catalog alongside my "big camera" shots. If there was a competitor that migrated all of this cleanly, I'd be happy to modify my workflows to break out of the lock in.

Though of course the pretty pictures really help with increasing the appetite from the public for spending on projects like this.. and capturing people's imaginations is a necessary part of the long game.

This happened to me in college. Driving home from the movies, chest started to hurt on inhale .. I decided to "sleep it off", which obviously didn't work. Went to the ER in the morning. Got the chest tube and spent about a week seeing if it would heal naturally, then they removed the offending part of my lung, and did a mechanical pleurodesis (a procedure that sticks your lung to the chest wall so it can't collapse). All-in, was over two weeks in the hospital, and a good bit of recovery after.

I fit the 5'9", young, male, otherwise healthy group described here.

For anyone reading these comments with growing anxiety who gets occasional, short duration stabbing pains when breathing in (lasting only a couple minutes at most), allow me to put your mind at ease by directing you to the Wikipedia page for precordial catch syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome

Very similar symptoms, totally harmless, to the point where the recommended treatment is "reassurance". As long as the pain lasts for less than 3ish minutes, you have no reason to panic.

(I used to get very anxious every time I had these symptoms, after a friend of mine in high school described the same experience as the others in this thread, trying to sleep off the pain and ending up hospitalized for a collapsed lung. Learning about PCS really put my mind at ease)

I get that every few months, though I'd describe it a bit differently:

First of all, it is usually brought on by sitting hunched over and breathing shallowly for a while (like, an hour). And the pain isn't exactly stabbing, unless you're counting being poked hard with a Popsicle stick.

It releases if I breath deeply enough, with an odd crunching sensation, sort of like popping really small bubble wrap, or cracking knuckles on a tiny hand.

Wow, thanks for posting this. I've had exactly these symptoms for a long time and despite multiple doctors telling me I'm fine, it's still a pretty stressful experience when it occurs!

I've gotten similar for a long time while growing up. Still get this now and then on my left side. Always my left side.

I just stretch, breath deep despite the pain and sleep it off. It... usually goes away within a day or two. The reason why I've always taken this approach is because it was always just growing pains or my ribs pinching me somehow. (Apparently that's a thing.)

That all said and done, the last time it happened I was genuinely curious and concerned, cause the last time before that I had it happen was years and years ago. And I'm not exactly growing anymore, etc. Not precisely.

But yeah. 5'6, still young-ish, and otherwise healthy I think.

Beware that even a spontaneous primary pneumothrax can turn into a tension pneumothrax, a condition when a natural one-way valve forms and continuously increases pressure inside the chest eventually compressing heart and arteries.

Even a spontaneous primary pneumothrax must be handled seriously. It can become life threatening.

Thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since the last episode, so I kind of doubt this is a thing for me at the moment. But I will keep that in mind the next time I have un-ending pinching and cramping pains on the left side of my chest. Don't worry, far left side. Not near the heart.

I had those kind of pains for years and they were always minor and went away after a few days. Always wondered what they were, but figured they were harmless. Eventually I got a worse one, went to the hospital, got a chest tube. It went away but I got another bad one, so they did surgery. A couple months later the same process happened to the other side.

I'm very glad they did a pleurectomy both times instead of pleurodesis; I've heard people describe pleurodesis and it's pretty terrifying, both the recovery and the permanent after-effects. Noticeably reduced breathing capacity isn't uncommon.

People think it's related to body type, but the surgeon said the more modern understanding is that it's due to "blebs" (actual medical term) on your lung that burst - which the pleurectomy removes. Pleurodesis is usually unnecessary in young people. I was more prone to blebs due to a genetic syndrome.

> I'm very glad they did a pleurectomy both times instead of pleurodesis; I've heard people describe pleurodesis and it's pretty terrifying, both the recovery and the permanent after-effects. Noticeably reduced breathing capacity isn't uncommon.

I've had a pleurodesis on my left side. I never noticed any reduced breathing capacity. The procedure left a few stab-like incisions scars but I actually like them. I'd feel safer if the same was did on the right side too; I like the idea that it will never happen again on the left side but hate the feeling that it can happen again at any time on the right side.

I don't know if the procedure I was submitted is the most common. The surgeon described that they burned (cauterized, I think) the pleuras with an electric scalpel. As it healed, the pleuras stuck on one another. It was painful for just a few days but analgesics were enough to make it bearable.

There was one strange effect: it numbed the tactile feeling of parts of my breast, chest and arm. Immediately after the surgery the numbing effect was so intense that I could pierce the skin with my nails until it bled and felt not pain. I actually did it to demonstrate how numb it was. The medic said it would improve over time. It took years to get the feeling back. It's been twenty years and the feeling still is a bit numb.

That numbness is nerve damage. Sometimes you get numb, sometimes you get permanent cronic pain, and sometimes both depending on the day. More common than people might think with any sort of surgery. I had some damage that lasted about 6 years where it would be numb and then randomly about once a month I'd get a stabbing pain for like 3 seconds.

I got a head wound during a car accident I was involved with as a small child. Left about a 4” scar on my forehead. 30 years later, still no feeling in that part of my head.

Goodness, is this more common than it seems? Happened to me in my mid twenties, same build. I remember talking to the doc (thank goodness it went away with oxygen for a few days) who said "Yup, this stuff just happens to otherwise healthy males your age. No one's really sure why."

Was a little unsettling.

I wonder if environmental pollutants have anything to do with it.

Hope you’re doing better now. That is a lot to go through at a young age to say the least.

I am! Thank you. It's been almost 15 yrs .. I have a few scars from the chest tubes as a reminder. My lung capacity is normal. Every so often I get some numbness on that side when it's storming outside. In the couple years following, I did go through some hypochondria, thinking I had any number of related and unrelated issues. I've been advised not to scuba or go climbing Mt. Everest (ha!), though I do wonder if and when the other side could strike.

Had the same experience, at about 21, although I think they didn't cut anything out, just stapled around the hole in the lung. I was skinny and in good shape.

I’d think you were my good friend in college except the height is wrong. Didn’t realize this was so common.

Ran a `netsend` once from the school library. Saw it pop all over everyone's screens, and immediately :homer:'d out of there. Unfortunately don't remember the text I sent.

Yeah- I'm guilty of this, and try to ask something like "what are you into right now?"

I really like this version, will be implementing it!

Not necessarily. The market will ultimately dictate what a landlord can charge for rent .. if that includes their cost of repairs + taxes, good for them. It's by no means a guarantee, and landlords can go through periods of being cash-flow negative on a property.