jcberk · HackerTrans

I'd call this Lead Data Engineer, but it matters less what you call it and more what you put in the job description. For the requirements you've given, I'd suggest looking for someone who's set up tracking and the modern data stack from scratch, regardless of whether their title at the time was software/data/analytics engineer. Searching for "modern data stack" will get you a (growing) set of relevant tools.

You might also want to read The Informed Company by Fowler & David, which does a good job starting with a very simple setup and walking through how and when and what to add on - the folks you're looking for are in high demand, and if you don't find someone quickly, the book might give you enough to help your junior devs make reasonable choices for where you are now.

jcberk

8년 전discuss

In addition to others already mentioned, "Becoming a Manager," by Linda Hill: follows a group of new managers for a year, discussing how their understanding of their role changes. Absolutely great - for a long time I kept a home copy and a work copy. Follow-up "Being the Boss" is also good. And "The Leadership Pipeline," by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel: what you need to learn/change to succeed at each different level of management.

jcberk

8년 전discuss

jcberk

8년 전discuss

Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | full time (sorry no interns) | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the almost 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 80MM registered members, and are mostly self-funded to 120+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We're one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to get applications from people with experience in comparable technologies.

Engineering manager (front-end focus) - Lead a front-end engineering team working on member and employer applications (mostly in Ruby on Rails). Collaborate with product management and customer success teams, improve our development process, and build the careers and knowledge of your team of engineers.

Front-end engineer (especially principal/senior level) - Build all our member-facing applications including Jobcase.com, working mostly in Ruby on Rails. Drive the member experience for acquisition and social network features, working closely with product management and design/UX.

Quantitative data analyst - Own a slice of our business metrics and drive member acquisition and engagement. Send email/SMS communications, work with engineering to build new flows and features, and come up with experiments to optimize the member experience.

Data science / machine learning / information retrieval (experienced) - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with all of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...

jcberk

8년 전discuss

HR views recruiting as a funnel process, similar to sales. There are a set of screening steps testing different skills, and at each step you lose a fraction of candidates, until you get down to the set who accept offers.

E.g. https://www.jobvite.com/recruiting-process/7-benchmark-metri... https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/4-tips-for-hiring-t...

That's a reasonable model, but it works best if all your filtering steps are effective tests for the things you care about. Getting that right is demonstrably hard, between some hiring managers who don't know or don't communicate what they're looking for, some recruiters who don't understand what they're looking for or how to recognize it, and some job-seekers who don't communicate or demonstrate their skills through the hiring process. And so everyone sees and resents flaws in the funnel.

jcberk

8년 전discuss

Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | full time (sorry no interns) | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the almost 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 80MM registered members, and are mostly self-funded to 100+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We're one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer (including technical lead) - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to get applications from people with experience in comparable technologies.

Front-end engineer - Build all our member-facing applications including Jobcase.com, working mostly in Ruby on Rails. Drive the member experience for acquisition and social network features, working closely with product management and design/UX.

Quantitative data analyst - Own a slice of our business metrics and drive member acquisition and engagement. Send email/SMS communications, work with engineering to build new flows and features, and come up with experiments to optimize the member experience.

Data science / machine learning / information retrieval (experienced) - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with all of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...

As one of our members said recently, "How Jobcase works is that when you get hired, you help pay it forward and help others get hired, as much as you can!"

jcberk

8년 전discuss

Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | full time | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the almost 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 80MM registered members, and are mostly self-funded to 100+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We're one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer (including technical lead) - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to get applications from people with experience in comparable technologies.

Front-end engineer - Build all our member-facing applications including Jobcase.com, working mostly in Ruby on Rails. Drive the member experience for acquisition and social network features, working closely with product management and design/UX.

Quantitative data analyst - Own a slice of our business metrics and drive member acquisition and engagement. Send email/SMS communications, work with engineering to build new flows and features, and come up with experiments to optimize the member experience.

Data science / machine learning / information retrieval (experienced) - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with all of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...

As one of our members said recently, "How Jobcase works is that when you get hired, you help pay it forward and help others get hired, as much as you can!"

jcberk

8년 전discuss

Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | full time | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the almost 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 80MM registered members, and are mostly self-funded to 100+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We're one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer (including technical lead) - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to get applications from people with experience in comparable technologies.

Front-end engineer - Build all our member-facing applications including Jobcase.com, working mostly in Ruby on Rails. Drive the member experience for acquisition and social network features, working closely with product management and design/UX.

Quantitative data analyst - Own a slice of our business metrics and drive member acquisition and engagement. Send email/SMS communications, work with engineering to build new flows and features, and come up with experiments to optimize the member experience.

Data science / machine learning / information retrieval (experienced) - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with all of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...

As one of our members said this week, "How Jobcase works is that when you get hired, you help pay it forward and help others get hired, as much as you can!"

jcberk

9년 전discuss

Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | interns / full time | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 70MM registered members, and are self-funded to 100+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We've just been voted one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to talk to people with experience in comparable technologies.

Data science / analytics / information retrieval - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with both of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...

jcberk

11년 전discuss

edo Interactive - London/Chicago/Nashville - http://www.edointeractive.com/

Both based in London:

- Senior Data Analyst / Modeller - own our EU predictive models (mainly in SAS, also translated to R / Hadoop ecosystem) and contribute to our analytics product roadmap

- Data Analyst with specific European retail market knowledge (drop me a line for details; if we're not in your country yet, we might be next year)

Other locations at http://edo.theresumator.com/

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 180+ banks and top card issuers including Visa Europe.

Apply or ask questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com - say you came from HN.

jcberk

12년 전discuss

edo Interactive - Chicago/Nashville - http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * Data Analysts, Chicago/Nashville
  * Data Science / Analytics Manager, Chicago/Nashville
  * Product Manager, Chicago
  * Software & QA Engineers, Chicago/Nashville - Java, Spring,
      JavaScript, DevOps
  * Director of Ops & Engineering, Nashville
  * Project Manager, Chicago/Nashville - launch new products /
      new bank partners, PMP desired

jcberk

12년 전discuss

edo Interactive - Chicago/Nashville - http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * Analytics Manager, Chicago - marketing models and model governance,
      some text analytics, whatever awesomely useful thing you come up
      with next, lead team of 3-5 analysts
  * Data Warehouse Engineer, Nashville - Hadoop and Pentaho
  * Project Manager, Chicago/Nashville - launch new products /
      new bank partners, PMP desired

Work with gobs of anonymized credit/debit card transaction data, using Hadoop/Hive/Impala, Postgres, Pentaho, R, Tableau, etc.

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 180+ banks and top card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals. See how it works at http://www.edointeractive.com/resource/edo-card-linked-offer.... .

Apply at the website above - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com.

jcberk

12년 전discuss

edo Interactive - Chicago/Nashville - http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * Analytics Manager, Chicago - marketing models and model governance,
      some text analytics, lead team of 3-5 analysts
  * Data Analysts, Chicago - financial experience desired
      (not sure about interns - still working on it)
  * Data Warehouse Engineer, Nashville - Hadoop and Pentaho

Work with gobs of anonymized credit/debit card transaction data, using Hadoop/Hive/Impala, Postgres, Pentaho, R, Tableau, etc.

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 180+ banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals. See how it works at http://www.edointeractive.com/resource/edo-card-linked-offer... .

Apply at the website above or email me (not all these specific roles are posted yet) - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com.

jcberk

13년 전discuss

edo Interactive - Chicago/Nashville - http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * Data Warehouse Engineer, Nashville - Hadoop and Pentaho
  * Analytics Manager, Chicago - marketing models and model governance,
    lead team of 3-5 analysts
  * Data Scientist, Chicago
  * Data Analysts, Nashville or Chicago (interns should be welcome - working on it)

Work with gobs of anonymized credit/debit card transaction data, using Hadoop/Hive/Impala, Postgres, Pentaho, R, Tableau, etc.

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 180+ banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals. See how it works at http://www.edointeractive.com/type/product-demos/ .

Apply at the website above or email me (not all these specific roles are posted yet) - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com.

jcberk

13년 전discuss

edo Interactive | http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * BI Director, Nashville
  * Analytics Manager, Chicago
  * Data Scientist, Nashville or Chicago
  * Data Analysts, Nashville or Chicago

Work with gobs of anonymized credit/debit card transaction data, using Hadoop/Hive, Postgres, Pentaho, R, Tableau, etc.

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 180+ banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals. See how it works at http://www.edointeractive.com/type/product-demos/ .

Apply at the website above or email michael.doran at edointeractive.com (not all these specific roles are posted yet) - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com.

jcberk

13년 전discuss

edo Interactive (http://www.edointeractive.com/) in Chicago and Nashville. Full time & possibly intern.

http://edo.theresumator.com/ lists open positions.

Focused on hiring:

  * data analysts (junior and more senior)
  * software & QA engineers
  * junior ad operations person (QA Operations Associate)

We're a 100-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 140 banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals.

Our data analysts are building our reporting/insights/modeling infrastructure as fast as we can. We currently spend our time in SQL, Excel, R, and Pentaho reporting - new tools welcome.

From an engineering perspective, we value well-designed, test-driven, service-oriented code. We're looking for people who can act decisively on the challenges they're tackling. Our process is small-a agile; we value both usability and technical design, and technical itches do get scratched here. If you have problem solving skills and an interest in working with rich data, we'd love to hear from you.

We use Java, Grails, and JavaScript; Postgres and Hadoop; DevOps and automated testing.

Apply at the website above or email michael.doran at edointeractive.com - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com .

jcberk

14년 전discuss

Chicago IL / Nashville TN | edo Interactive | http://edo.theresumator.com/

  * Software and QA engineers
  * Data warehouse engineers and DBAs
  * Data analysts and data scientists

We're a 75-person funded startup providing an easy way to personalize offers and make them automatically available through credit or debit cards and mobile devices. We work with major national advertisers, and with 140 banks and three of the top six card issuers. TechCrunch called us the anti-Groupon - we take the hassle out of deals. See how it works at http://www.edointeractive.com/video .

From an engineering perspective, we value well-designed, test-driven, service-oriented code. We're looking for people who can act decisively on the challenges they're tackling. Our process is small-a agile; we value both usability and technical design, and technical itches do get scratched here. If you have problem solving skills and an interest in working with rich data, we'd love to hear from you.

We use Java, Grails, and JavaScript; Postgres and Hadoop; DevOps and automated testing.

Apply at the website above or email michael.doran at edointeractive.com - say you came from HN. Happy to answer questions at jennifer.berk at edointeractive.com (I sit next to the CTO).

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