Prodigy | Various Engineering Roles | Remote (or Columbus, OH / San Mateo, CA) | Full Time
Prodigy is building the future for car buying. More than $1 trillion of cars are sold each year in the U.S., yet it consistently ranks as one of the worst consumer experiences in America. This is the perfect chance to get in early, help fix that, and make a big impact in one of the world’s largest industries.
We recently merged with Upstart, a leading AI leading platform, and are now better positioned than ever to deliver on our mission to create the world’s best car buying experience with cutting-edge auto-retail software.
Prodigy | https://getprodigy.com | San Francisco ONSITE | Full-Stack Engineer, Director of Marketing, Recruiter & People Ops, Product Support Specialist, Account Executive, VP of Sales, Sales Development Representative, Head of Product
Prodigy is a venture-backed startup building the future for car buying. We've been featured in Tech Crunch and Forbes 30 under 30 and have raised $5.4M to date from top valley investors including SV Angel, 8VC, Battery Ventures, and Crunchfund.
Prodigy is a venture-backed startup focused on building the future for car buying. Our goal is out-engineer the entire industry of awful software in the car buying space in order to disrupt the $1.1 Trillion car sales market.
We're a small dev team (currently just me), and are looking for a hungry lead engineer who wants to write a lot of code and aspires to eventually assume leadership in a high-growth engineering environment. We believe that a few passionate engineers can accomplish A LOT, and I drink my own kool-aid.
We're running our infra with AWS, Postgres, and Salt. On the front-end we're using Isomorphic React, Flux, ES6 / Node.js, and Webpack.
Contact me directly (marty [at] getprodigy [dot] com) if interested.
The problem I see with this isn't having to carry your phone around everywhere - its the biometric system itself.
Biometric systems are much less usable than passwords. Users often fail them by doing things like putting their fingers in the wrong place on the sensor or by not looking directly into the camera.
I think probably that users will need to be somewhat trained in order for this to work well. Probably the hackers will train themselves too.
Stealing fingerprints from someone at a bar? Not so farfetched.
Al Jazeera is actually the only source that I generally read when I'm looking for actual news. They come off to me as not only significantly less biased, but also bring up issues that are missing from US newspapers. For example, I discovered on Al Jazeera that the US had begun its first stem cell test on humans.
"Sony didn't bother generating any random numbers to secure the blasted thing."
Not to bash Sony, but I think the interesting point here is that creating secure systems is actually a really hard problem. Creating usable secure systems is an even harder problem.
What about performance? I assume since many routers these days use asymmetric dsl, download/upload from hosts may be poor if only a few hosts are involved, and the hosts use ADSL.
Prodigy is building the future for car buying. More than $1 trillion of cars are sold each year in the U.S., yet it consistently ranks as one of the worst consumer experiences in America. This is the perfect chance to get in early, help fix that, and make a big impact in one of the world’s largest industries.
We recently merged with Upstart, a leading AI leading platform, and are now better positioned than ever to deliver on our mission to create the world’s best car buying experience with cutting-edge auto-retail software.
If interested, you can reach me at [email protected]