Impact.net | Flutter / Mobile Eng | LA (onsite) or US (Remote) | Full Time | https://angel.co/l/2vtYt6
Impact is a professional network for the entertainment industry. Founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (incubated in the Imagine Entertainment parent co), Impact raised its first external round of funding in November 2020 from Benchmark. We have Brian Grazer, Bill Gurley (Benchmark) and Michael Lynton (Chairman of Snap) on our board.
We are building a professional network and on-set communications tool serving the crew-side of streaming, cinema and TV productions. Our app crew-facing app is mobile first and we are building it in Flutter. Backend and web app is a full stack javascript.
Join our small, but really excellent engineering team. We pay well, offer great equity, fully covered great health care, matched 401k and we offer an inclusive and diverse working environment.
Credit Sesame | San Francisco, Mountain View | Onsite
Credit Sesame is one of the fastest growing startups in fin-tech with a user base exceeding 8 million and growing fast. We pride ourselves on being an irreplaceable tool for consumers by delivering a clear picture of your assets and liabilities and by offering recommendations based on your personal finance goals.
We have a brand new office at 100 Montgomery in SF and are building a new space out in Moutnain view. We offer competitive base and a huge chunk of equity (for our stage of company). Its a great team, you should join us!
Hired is basically a team of recruiters (well, at least there are a good 10 of us coming from various flavors of recruiting) and even we have a need for external recruiters and internal interview coordinator.
The external recruiters we use are in markets we don't know a lot about (like Marketing - which we are hiring for big time right now). The internal coordinator helps keep onsites organized and managing the huge amount of interview flow through the organization so that key stakeholders still have some time to do their jobs.
The low-end contingency recruiting agencies have given the whole profession in San Francisco a bad name, when in reality there are great people (like Oliver, from the post) who do great work and are incredibly valuable to a fast growing organization.
Hired, Inc - Talent Marketplace, Full Cycle Recruitment Solution - San Francisco - No Remote or Telecommute
We have a variety of technical and non-technical roles. On the non-technical side, you can check out our careers page: http://hired.com/careers. We are looking for candidate centered recruiters and product managers that can manage our marketplace transactions.
On the tech side, we hire exclusively from our marketplace (https://hired.com/signup?btn=HomeHeader) and have 3 open engineering positions as well as a junior designer. We're a Rails shop with an Angular front-end, and while we like Rails and Angular folks, we'll also look at other excellent individual contributors (the last guy we hired had a Clojure / Java background).
Terms seem pretty fair. Any recruiter that can live by those, is being unreasonable.
The startup I joined, Hired, just started offering 1% per month instead of 15% upfront. It better ties our output (you having an employee that is successful) to our fee, which I think is a win for all.
Should make it a little easier on startups where there isn't cash flow and other tech companies that just don't do contingency fees.
I've found that start up founders try to rely on themselves too much for recruiting (really sourcing) and marketing. Just hire someone and take it off your plate - you are more useful raising money, building product and getting users. Recruiting is important but can by very time intensive.
Define clear goals, values and process and then Hire someone to do it. Let them fill the funnel through boards, social media, recruiters or other marketplaces (cough Hired.com cough). You and your team can then evaluate and hire.
Developer Auction - San Francisco - Full Time / Onsite only
2 Roles: Full Stack Rails, Developer Advocate
Developer Auction is the talent market place. We make it easy and transparent for top engineers to find top companies. We raised 2.7MM from places like GV, Sierra, and NEA. Currently we have 7 developers, and looking to add an 8th. Our stack is ruby of rails, but mostly just looking for good generalists that can ship.
We are also looking for a Developer Advocate. Our marketplace is about people as much as it is about technology, and we need a few friendly, organized folks who like helping people through the marketplace. We have a junior and a senior role, and will look at anyone coming from a technical background, technical recruiting, internal HR, or growth hacking.
Its more than just base and stock - employers can also offer a bonus (sign-on, relocation, or end of year guarantee) and it does describe the benefits (vacation, health, etc) for each employer. The offer is as complex as the employer needs it to be in order to attract talent.
Technical recruiting is hard, but I think good technical recruiters approach things differently than this. Its not as black and white, everything lives in the nuances:
We are looking for some sort of external validation: A really popular module on CPAN? Graduated with a 4.0? Graduated from Stanford? Hired full time by Google? That is all external validation, and it is something that shows me that other people / organizations think you are good. I really need just one piece of solid validation for me to speak with a candidate and this can take on a lot of forms. In lieu of this, we can administer a coding test if someone is on the cusp.
The second thing I look for is passion: Is this person a 9 to 5 code monkey in it for the solid and consistent paycheck? Or do they love the work they do and constantly push themselves to further their craft? You can almost always get to the bottom of this question on the phone. Journeymen programmers are fine for a lot of jobs, but not for the jobs we are talking about here.
If both of those line up then the candidate is good, and we will represent them. We can't promise a placement, but I would be surprised if someone with both of those boxes checked didn't get at least one offer. They are really hard to find.
One of our clients, a high frequency trading market maker, is looking for top Java developers with a strong skill set in CS fundamentals and statistics. This firm is not your typical finance outfit, and will actually not look at candidates coming from finance. They want people coming from low latency, high through-put environments who understand the network stack from top to bottom. This is a very flat organization, loaded with very passionate developers. They are also relatively small, about 200 people globally, and they wont be growing much beyond that number.
Constitution Group - Quant Trading Recruitment Firm
Remote / New York / Contract or Full Time
We are looking for a C++ developer to help us source and vet candidates. We would be open to either a contract / hourly basis or a full time hire with commission. There is definite partnership / equity potential as well, if interested.
We are a recruitment firm focused on the quant trading market. We work with many of the systematic prop trading firms, hedge funds and banks to hire top development, quant and trading talent. Our firm was started in 2009, and is small, very candidate focused and technology forward.
We have an office in NY, but would be open to someone working remotely (Ill be working out of the Dominican Republic next year, for fun).
Great opportunity for someone personable who likes reviewing code more than writing code, but would still want to pull in over $100k per year with a lot of life flexibility. If interested, email [email protected]
tl;dr: Use smaller agencies or solo recruiters, ignore the big firms.
Just another prospective (from a high-end recruiter): You get what you pay for.
10% on a developer making $60-100k means that you need to push a ton of paper to make out a decent living at an agency. Its like the difference between Apartment Brokers vs Real Estate Brokers: The Apartment Brokers are jokers, because they need to deal with 1000's of people to make the 30-40 fees a year that make up a decent living. A Real Estate Broker can do a tenth of the deals and make twice as much. The quality of service is a lot higher.
Likewise, in high paying industry with top tier compensation the recruiters are much higher quality. I only need to make 5 placements a year to make six-figures, where as the jokers at Selby Jennings or those other massive paper houses need to make 15-20 placements to even get close to that.
I can afford to treat candidates with respect, protect their information, and tailor their search. Most technical recruiters can't.
My advice, if you don't make over $100k and want to use a recruiter, go with someone working at a really small firm or by themselves. They take service much more seriously than the well known spam-a-lot agencies.
PS: We're hiring, and work in a very cool, niche high tech space.
Jersey City, NJ - High Frequency Trading Firm - No remote:
We have a position at a high frequency trading firm looking for a strong perl applications developer. Less web side, more client-server type applications. No prior finance background needed. Firm will pay for relocation, has top pay (much higher than in the Valley) and great benefits. While its technically a finance firm, they pride themselves on working like a software firm. Email me at [email protected] for details.
A few acquittances have asked me about wanting to start a business that makes "2-3k" and doesn't take much time...I always laugh a little bit, because the 2-3k thing is possible, but no matter how you shake it, your probably going to need to spend a lot of time to get there.
If you like at the businesses Tim Ferris built: They were very low maintenance, which is what you want, but that doesn't say anything about the amount of time to build up and get to a point where you can live a low maintenance lifestyle.
I've seen a few people do some cool, cheeky things that skirted the above, but in general I wouldn't count on it.
Jersey City, NJ - Constitution Group Hiring Recruiters
We're hiring recruiters for our quant trading division. Could work remotely. We'd definitely consider people coming from technical backgrounds, but you really have to be a self motivated person who is ready to be on the phones 2-4 hours a day. Very possible to make low six figures in the first year, but mid-six figures long term, but it is a commission based job.
Los Angeles, CA - Quant Trading Firm - Not remote, must be authorized to work in the US.
One of my clients is looking for a network programmer. The developer will be responsible for low level, low latency feed handlers (from market data providers) and in improving/developing drivers for their distributed computing infrastructure.
Position is very competitive, but no former financial knowledge or experience needed. Must know C++ and socket (TCP/UDP) programming very well. They will look at junior to senior people, and can pay very well.
I just got the CR-48 today (really surprised, no clue it was on the way). Happy surprised with the hardware thus far, and as commented above, it was the easiest setup I've experienced in an OS by far.
Need to figure out a way to get dropbox to somehow work and would like to get a command prompt to be able to SSH into the server.
Makes sense. Another article spoke of how documenting the Bush and Obama presidencies will be tough and probably not that thorough, as the juicy bits are written on scraps of paper that are immediately disposed of.
There is a market for an offline, secure technology, like a modern day codex.
Impact is a professional network for the entertainment industry. Founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (incubated in the Imagine Entertainment parent co), Impact raised its first external round of funding in November 2020 from Benchmark. We have Brian Grazer, Bill Gurley (Benchmark) and Michael Lynton (Chairman of Snap) on our board.
We are building a professional network and on-set communications tool serving the crew-side of streaming, cinema and TV productions. Our app crew-facing app is mobile first and we are building it in Flutter. Backend and web app is a full stack javascript.
Join our small, but really excellent engineering team. We pay well, offer great equity, fully covered great health care, matched 401k and we offer an inclusive and diverse working environment.
All our open roles here: https://angel.co/l/2vtYt6
Or email me trent [at] impact.net