This is the first in a series of blog posts I intend to write, capturing some lessons I learned after spending over ten years at Block, also known as Square.
Man I really want better analytics and UI for my IoT apps at home. Right now the apps we use are in their infancy compared to what they could be. I feel like we are in web 1.0 of the IoT apps. And the issue is I end up relying on such apps quite a bit. For eg I used the awair app to change the ducting for my home because of its air quality sensor. Hoping companies like Kraftful can disrupt this space.
Are you a senior frontend engineer who has been around the block a few times? Want to mentor engineers? Want to provide a vision for our Ember app? Want to work on beautiful software used by 100s of 1000s of small businesses? This role is for you! (No prior Ember experience required)
Fullstack Engineers - come help define and build software that is the backbone of Services businesses (largest sector of the US Economy). We have fun technical problems to solve on the front-end as well as backend as we scale-up to serve the millions of small businesses across all countries served by Square
Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite, then offer (competitive cash + equity that's liquid since we are public!).
Customer reviews: "Square appointments has CHANGED MY LIFE" | "I love it , I can enjoy more out of my days now . I don't have to keep my book with me 24 hours a day . Gives me a lot of freedom."
Fullstack Engineers - come help define and build software that is the backbone of Services businesses (largest sector of the US Economy). We have fun technical problems to solve on the front-end as well as backend as we scale-up to serve the millions of small businesses across countries served by Square
Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite, then offer (competitive cash + equity that's liquid since we are public!).
Customer reviews: "Square appointments has CHANGED MY LIFE" | "I love it , I can enjoy more out of my days now . I don't have to keep my book with me 24 hours a day . Give me a lot of freedom."
I wish we take from this not that uber has a toxic culture (it may well have that) - but rather see if there are lessons here to help improve their own company cultures. The cost of a good culture is constant vigilance and such blogposts raise important questions. We should introspect and ask - does this happen at my company? What can I do to change this?
Apart from the obvious concurrency based or non-easily reproducible issues, some of my personal nightmare scenarios:
1. Uncommented code, but especially uncommented regular expressions
2. Unnecessary abstraction that runs too deep & so is hard to comprehend
3. Also, take any tractable problem and add timezones to it. Now you have an intractable problem!
MyTime | Senior Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Onsite, Visa OK
ABOUT US
MyTime.com is reinventing local ecommerce. We've built an online destination where consumers can book appointments and purchase local services such as haircuts, house cleanings, massages, and more from nearby local businesses. This allows us to be a true one-stop destination to purchase services from millions of businesses across the country. MyTime also has a suite of SaaS products that SMBs just absolutely love. We are working on a cloud based scheduling product, merchant-to-client communicator, email marketing tools, and many more awesome products.
We deploy to production daily and use technologies like Ruby, Rails, Angular, and AWS to not only to keep up with demands of scale, but also to gain high velocity & reliability. We are technology / language agnostic and use the best tools for the task at hand.
ABOUT YOU
You have prior experience developing high quality software & are excited about doing that at a fast growing company. You know how to have productive technical discussions & how to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler. You want to work at a company that has meaningfully impact on the lives of its clients and users. Additionally, you are more interested in new feature/product development than refactoring someone else's code!
* 3+ years of experience writing software professionally (preferably on RoR stack)
* Successful track record of shipping products / features
* Passion and curiosity for technology
If you're interested I'd love to talk to you. Please send me an email (preferably with either your resume or a linkedin profile): rahul AT mytime DOT com
Hi all, I am the engineering lead at MyTime. We built a scheduling software, even though 100s of such products already exist because we want to provide small businesses with the tools they need to enable online booking and communication with their clients 24/7 - that is mobile first! Scheduling is not an easy problem (http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-com...) but I think we have built a really intuitive product that is easy to use, and feature rich. Ask me any questions you might have. Oh, and we are hiring for all sorts of roles. Send me your resume's at [email protected]
San Francisco, CA [Remote Ok]: Front End Engineer, Full Stack (RoR) Engineer - MyTime.com is hiring for full time roles
About MyTime. MyTime is reinventing local ecommerce. We’ve built an online destination where consumers can book appointments and purchase local services such as haircuts, house cleanings, massages, and more from nearby local businesses. MyTime has integrated into the leading calendar applications on the market, giving us real-time visibility into each merchant’s schedule. When customers book appointments on MyTime, we even write back to the merchant’s calendar. This allows us to be a true one-stop destination to purchase services from millions of businesses across the country.
The Job.
Software Engineers at MyTime are developers who thrive on building products and features from scratch. We are generalists who build features end-to-end, from coding up the back end in Ruby on Rails to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that surprise and delight our users. We build large new features and push daily small product enhancements in a continuous deployment environment.
Bring It.
For front end specialists
* Strong technical skills focusing on HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use JQuery & some Backbone and at some places Angular)
* Experience with Ruby on Rails or Python
* Experience with bootstrap a plus
For full stack engineers
* Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or Python
* Some experience with MySQL, Memcache, and extra credit for ElasticSearch experience
* Some experience with AWS products (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB) preferred but not required
* Some experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Act now, and you’ll also get:
* Competitive salary. Significant equity. Opportunity to make a tremendous impact.
* Full Benefits Package, Catered Meals, Awesome SOMA location.
* The chance to actually make a difference in a growing startup that is solving a big problem.
If you're interested, we'd love to talk! Please send a resume or LinkedIn profile and/or a link to your Github to [email protected].
San Francisco, CA [Remote Ok]: Front End Engineer, Full Stack (RoR) Engineer - MyTime.com is hiring for full time roles
About MyTime.
MyTime is reinventing local ecommerce. We’ve built an online destination where consumers can book appointments and purchase local services such as haircuts, house cleanings, massages, and more from nearby local businesses. MyTime has integrated into the leading calendar applications on the market, giving us real-time visibility into each merchant’s schedule. When customers book appointments on MyTime, we even write back to the merchant’s calendar. This allows us to be a true one-stop destination to purchase services from millions of businesses across the country.
The Job.
Software Engineers at MyTime are developers who thrive on building products and features from scratch. We are generalists who build features end-to-end, from coding up the back end in Ruby on Rails to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that surprise and delight our users. We build large new features and push daily small product enhancements in a continuous deployment environment.
Bring It.
For front end specialists
* Strong technical skills focusing on HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use JQuery & some Backbone and at some places Angular)
* Experience with Ruby on Rails or Python
* Experience with bootstrap a plus
For full stack engineers
* Strong experience with Ruby on Rails or Python
* Some experience with MySQL, Memcache, and extra credit for ElasticSearch experience
* Some experience with AWS products (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB) preferred but not required
* Some experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Act now, and you’ll also get:
* Competitive salary. Significant equity. Opportunity to make a tremendous impact.
* Full Benefits Package, Catered Meals, Awesome SOMA location.
* The chance to actually make a difference in a growing startup that is solving a big problem.
If you're interested, we'd love to talk! Please send a resume or LinkedIn profile and/or a link to your Github to [email protected].