Hive is hiring developers #3, 4, and 5 on our engineering team. Our business is healthy & profitable (& we're scaling off our profits) and we're growing as fast as a VC-funded company (with less of the downsides!). Our team is super talented and a ton of fun.
We're looking for experienced engineers to join our team, take on a ton of ownership & responsibly, and make a serious impact quickly. We write Python/Django on the backend and React/Typescript on the frontend. We don't care if you've used either before - we're sure you're a quick learner!
Full post/apply here: https://angel.co/l/2xRy8y or if you want to apply directly: please email patrick+hn [@] hive.co, include "HN" in the subject line, and tell me in a few sentences what specifically you're excited about @ Hive.
We're a profitable company growing off our revenue - not investor money. We've hit product-market-fit and tripled our revenue this year. We're super intentional about what we build and who we hire to help us build it. Read more here: https://blog.hive.co/why-is-hive-such-a-uniquely-dope-place-...
Hive.co (YCS14) | Full-Stack Software Engineers & Designers | Kitchener/Waterloo, ON, Canada | FULL TIME ONSITE | http://www.hive.co
Hive is a Y-Combinator backed smart email platform that helps thousands of brands personalize and automate their marketing campaigns. Our technology helps brands sell more stuff, while keeping their customers happy, engaged, and spending money.
Our tight-knit team is a bunch of hackers and hustlers, and we split our time between offices in Kitchener-Waterloo and Los Angeles. You’ll be engineer #3 or designer #1 on our product & engineering team in Kitchener, ON, Canada.
Required Skills:
- Passionate about building things. You've got side projects you're proud of and you probably read Product Hunt, Twitter, or Hacker News more than is healthy.
- When it comes to design and development, you're comfortable owning, designing, building, and shipping your own features/products
- You love thoughtful, clean design with an emphasis on usability and our users’ needs
- You thrive or want to thrive in a startup environment
- Brands, e-commerce, large amounts data and innovative marketing campaigns get you excited
- You've built things with our stack before (or can google and learn how to quickly):
- Python/Django (MySQL/Redis) web app, jQuery and CSS (LESS) on the front end
- Celery (RabbitMQ) for billions of asynchronous data-processing tasks
- MongoDB/Elasticsearch for big-ish data
- AWS Stack (RDS, EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Elasticache)
- Git (Github) for source control and code reviews, whatever code editor you like
- You might have a great CS or Engineering degree, or something else, or you dropped out, or you didn't even go to school! Our team is made up of all kinds of smart people.
Bottom line... We're looking for fast learners who are passionate about what we're building. You'll be well taken care of: meaningful equity, salary, and the benefits you need to be happy & healthy.
Finally (and most important), culture is important to us. After a few days of busy work, you've got to know how to let loose - our team loves everything from concerts and music festivals, to ski trips and tech talks - and of course, whatever you’re in to!
Hive.co (YCS14) | Full-Stack Software Engineers & Designers | Kitchener/Waterloo, ON, Canada | FULL TIME ONSITE | http://www.hive.co
Hive is a Y-Combinator backed smart email platform that helps thousands of brands personalize and automate their marketing campaigns. Our technology helps brands sell more stuff, while keeping their customers happy, engaged, and spending money.
Our tight-knit team is a bunch of hackers and hustlers, and we split our time between offices in Waterloo and Los Angeles. You’ll be engineer #3 or designer #1 on our product & engineering team in Kitchener.
Required Skills:
- Passionate about building things. You've got side projects you're proud of and you probably read Product Hunt, Twitter, or Hacker News more than is healthy.
- When it comes to design and development, you're comfortable owning, designing, building, and shipping your own features/products
- You love thoughtful, clean design with an emphasis on usability and our users’ needs
- You thrive or want to thrive in a startup environment
- Brands, e-commerce, large amounts data and innovative marketing campaigns get you excited
- You've built things with our stack before (or can google and learn how to quickly):
- Python/Django (MySQL/Redis) web app, jQuery and CSS (LESS) on the front end
- Celery (RabbitMQ) for billions of asynchronous data-processing tasks
- MongoDB/Elasticsearch for big-ish data
- AWS Stack (RDS, EC2, ELB, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Elasticache)
- Git (Github) for source control and code reviews, whatever code editor you like
- You might have a great CS or Engineering degree, or something else, or you dropped out, or you didn't even go to school! Our team is made up of all kinds of smart people.
Bottom line... We're looking for fast learners who are passionate about what we're building. You'll be well taken care of: meaningful equity, salary, and the benefits you need to be happy & healthy.
Finally (and most important), culture is important to us. After a few days of busy work, you've got to know how to let loose - our team loves everything from concerts and music festivals, to ski trips and tech talks - and of course, whatever you’re in to!
We've hooked up lambda to boot "on-demand" Celery (http://www.celeryproject.org/) workers. Allows us to scale up workers (for async task processing, etc.) in ~1-3 seconds vs the ~3-5 minutes it takes to boot EC2 instances for extra capacity.
They announced that support was on its way, but they missed the "end of 2015" release estimate. This seems to be the most up-to-date thread on their support forums (we're following along closely!): https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=178841&st...
Founder here: Chris' comment is correct. Since we're selling something physical (an (e)-ticket to a real life show) and we don't use IAP, we don't have to give Apple a cut. We're happily using Stripe to process payments.
Having recently returned back to school after an 8mo internship in SF on a J1, your write-up sounds pretty much spot on! I'll make sure this gets added to our school's collection of documentation that gets sent out to co-ops going to SF/NY/etc. each term.
A couple of things worth mentioning, though:
- Rent at $1k/mo for rent is (now) hard to find unless you're living in a living room or a slum. Prices for my friends ranged from $1300(decent place w/ 2+ roomates) - $2000+(nice studio)
- We all had pretty decent experience staying in a student hotel/hostel upon immediately arriving in SF rather than relying on an airbnb or related. Places like the Herbert Hotel (http://theherberthotel.com/) are ~$1100/mo (can't confirm weekly/nightly rate) and are a great place to settle at first, but you shouldn't bank on staying there for long. Bonus: you've got a "hotel" booked once you arrive in SF (customs loves to hear this).
- As soon as you get to SF, join the ~"bay area interns group" on Facebook, invite the entire (2K+) group out for dinner wit hone post, and instantly meet 15+ new friends at once. It's definitely the best collection of smart, talented, cool kids I've ever come across and everyone is working on something cool (usually outside of work, too).
Most importantly: someone PLEASE build a better product for visa sponsor companies (Intrax for me, CIEE/local rep for you) to streamline the J1 (and other visas, I'm sure) application process. I have never had a more frustrating experience going back and forth via email with so many different people at my sponsor company, having to upload identification and documents, print/fill out/scan/send forms, and bug them for the status of my visa application. The application fee was something my host company paid for without hesitation and would have paid more for to streamline. I've looked into this problem and would have built it myself if it weren't for the bureaucratic requirements req'd by the US gov't (which are fair, just hard to MVP) - ping me if you are interested in solving this problem :)
Thanks, I'll add some of these notes later. I was also pinged about UWaterloo's unofficial guide earlier today and it's listed in links, overall good stuff about living and practicalities.
I know that J1 process is relatively simple compared to other visa types but it still takes a lot of time. I originally wrote this guide as I couldn't find a good resource and I was the first student from my school to get the J1 for a startup internship.
I'm not sure to what extent hiring managers have to interact with the software that powers the co-op process (Jobmine), but as a student who has used it to secure 5 terms of work, Jobmine is definitely up there on my list of the worst designed/most frustrating pieces of software to use. Jobs for CS students are good and plentiful, so its still worth sludging through the system. Looking forward to the replacement, if it ever comes (startup idea?)! (http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2011/feb/25fr.html)
For students it's easy to criticize Jobmine as users of it. But given the even worse (or in many cases, non-existent) co-op application systems at other schools, Jobmine is light years better.
I remember working with some Waterloo alumni from the 80s/90s and they spoke of the chaos of the application and ranking process when everything was done on paper. I personally can't even fanthom how UW managed to do any of this (although obviously there were less than half the number of students then to what we have today).
Hive is hiring developers #3, 4, and 5 on our engineering team. Our business is healthy & profitable (& we're scaling off our profits) and we're growing as fast as a VC-funded company (with less of the downsides!). Our team is super talented and a ton of fun.
We're looking for experienced engineers to join our team, take on a ton of ownership & responsibly, and make a serious impact quickly. We write Python/Django on the backend and React/Typescript on the frontend. We don't care if you've used either before - we're sure you're a quick learner!
Full post/apply here: https://angel.co/l/2xRy8y or if you want to apply directly: please email patrick+hn [@] hive.co, include "HN" in the subject line, and tell me in a few sentences what specifically you're excited about @ Hive.