what is your startup working on?
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Our mission is to bring trust, transparency, and ease to one of life's most stressful experiences - moving. We're helping drive a better consumer experience and our SaaS product helps these companies run their business. The problems we solve for this industry are the same faced by many service businesses, so the opportunity is big.
Just this past year, more than 11,000 moves were booked and managed through our platform. We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new!
Our stack is Rails, React, React Native, and Postgres.
What you'll get at Oncue:
- The opportunity to join a small but highly nimble engineering team.
- A competitive salary and meaningful equity in a company that is rapidly signing up paying customers.
- Work with experienced Sales and Product leaders at an early stage startup that has a proven business model.
- A diverse and inclusive team. 60% of our leadership team is female. We also strongly believe in promoting internally to leadership roles.
Some core values and benefits:
- As an engineer, you will be working on projects that not only impact small businesses but also end consumers like yourself. You will be building not just to help businesses grow but also materially impact consumer experience.
- We provide a high degree of autonomy and ownership over projects. This is not just lip service. We are there to help each other, but trust in your drive and initiative to take projects to successful completion.
- All of us work from home on Fridays!
If this sounds interesting, reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co
-Vineet, Co-founder
Hiring and having a welcoming but selective process is rough :)
Our on-site interviews are highly contextual and rooted in the real-world where candidates work directly in our codebase. They are reasonable in the things we ask candidates to do (re-factor something, review PRs, implement a small enhancement).
If someone can't code in one of our core languages, it's a tougher assessment since we would have to resort to hypothetical/whiteboard crap (which we hate). How do you assess someone then? We recently had a candidate do a take-home where they didn't do well, and it did save 5-6h of everyone's time and their effort of coming in and being subject to the pressure of the interview.
I'd love to hear counter-opinions on this.
As the hiring manager, I wish I didn't have to deal with recruiters and their 20% fee. But sourcing candidates and reaching out to them is painful too. OTOH there is too much noise in applications that come through your job board/career page links. Using any of these platforms is a full-time job in itself. Sifting through dozens of profiles and reaching out individually is extremely time consuming.
As someone who had to look for a job, that sucked too. You either go to a recruiter who forces you into a bunch of interviews, or you apply cold.
Referrals definitely make it easier on both sides but you can't always rely on just that one channel.
What can materially improve the discovery process, on both the hired and hiring sides? I think about this often. How can talent find roles suited to it and vice versa? Wasn't technology going to make this a breeze?
We're an Oakland-based startup with a mission to bring trust, transparency, and ease to one of life's most stressful experiences - moving. Much of this industry still runs on pen and paper. We're changing that, and in the process, building a superior consumer-side experience as well.
We're growing fast. Just this past year, more than 11,000 moves across more than a dozen states were managed through our platform. To keep up with demand for our service, we'd like to bring a Senior Engineer on who can help us take the product to the next level.
YOUR ROLE: As an experienced engineer on the team, you get to establish the practices and systems that foster a strong, high-performing engineering team. You're ideally someone who is very hands-on and enjoys rapidly iterating and shipping high-quality software. You'll guide the team towards the right technical decisions.
WHAT WORKING AT ONCUE IS LIKE: As a company, we're committed to helping you grow. We believe in promoting internally and have done so on multiple occasions. You'll work with experienced Sales and Product leaders at an early stage startup that has a proven business model. We're also proud of the fact that 60% of our leadership team is female.
OUR STACK: Rails, React, React Native, Postgres.
INTERVIEW PROCESS: A bit about our interview process for senior engineers, which I think is different from many others, and a lot more real! See https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
APPLY: I'm one of the co-founders. Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
I recently wrote a piece about the things we have done right shipping product: https://medium.com/@vinthanedar/teams-that-ship-de7b909bb8d6 - your experience may resonate with it.
We’re solving real-life business problems for owners and operators in an industry that impacts millions each year - moving. We're changing the consumer moving experience through our platform by bringing trust and transparency to what is typically a stressful experience in everyone's life.
In the process, we’re building a much-loved product and service that is transforming a largely pen-and-paper experience for businesses.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new! Our stack is Rails, React, React Native, and Postgres. We're looking for a senior engineer who wants to join a startup that has proven product-market fit. The ideal person for us would be someone who is very hands-on but can be the technical leader on the team.
Our engineering team is an eclectic mix of passionate people (one engineer is a former jazz musician, another's a brilliant painter).
What you'll get at Oncue:
- The opportunity to grow an engineering organization and help establish a great culture
- A competitive salary and meaningful equity in a company that is rapidly signing up paying customers
- Work with experienced Sales and Product leaders at an early stage startup that has a proven and highly profitable business model
- 60% of our leadership team is female.
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more
https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder, head of product
Is the goal to ship or play? If latter, no harm done, else that’s your resistance, nothing else.
Where are you based out of? Would love to get coffee nonetheless if you're in the bay area. In the least, it appears we have some interesting stories to swap.
OTOH, are you looking for something new with the same excitement as the early stages but with product market fit and growing? I'd love to speak :)
We’re a funded startup solving real-life business problems for owners and operators in an industry that impacts millions each year - moving.
In the process, we’re building an amazing and much-loved product and service that is transforming what is today a pen-and-paper experience for businesses. We're also changing the consumer moving experience through our platform.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new! Our stack is Rails, React, React Native, and Postgres. We're looking for our first engineering lead who wants to join the early stage of a startup that has proven product-market fit.
Our eng team is an eclectic mix of passionate people (one engineer is a former jazz musician, another's a brilliant painter).
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more
https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder
We’re a funded startup solving real-life business problems for an industry that impacts millions each year - moving.
In the process, we’re building an amazing and much-loved product and service that is transforming what is today a pen-and-paper experience for businesses. We're also changing the consumer moving experience through our platform.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new! Our stack is RoR, React, React Native, and Postgres. We're an engineering team of three and are looking for our first Lead Engineer who wants to join the early stage of a startup that has proven product-market fit.
We're highly flexible with how you want to work and believe and trust our people that they'll figure out what works best for them.
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more
https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder and Head of Product & Eng
We’re a funded startup solving real-life business problems for an industry that impacts millions each year - moving. In the process, we’re building an amazing and much-loved product and service that is transforming what is today a pen-and-paper experience for businesses. We're also changing the consumer moving experience through our platform.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new! Our stack is RoR, React, and Postgres. We're an engineering team of three and are looking for our first Lead Engineer who wants to join the early stage of a startup that has proven product-market fit.
We're highly flexible with how you want to work and believe and trust our people that they'll figure out what works best for them.
Check the position out at https://angel.co/oncue/jobs
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder and Head of Product & Eng
Managers and leaders get paid more for that singular reason. Shepherding a team to achieve a desired result is harder than it seems.
Of course there are bad managers...
We’re a funded startup solving real-life business problems for an industry that impacts millions each year - moving. In the process, we’re building an amazing and much-loved product and service that is transforming what is today a pen-and-paper experience for businesses. We're also changing the consumer moving experience through our platform.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new!
Our stack is RoR, React, and Postgres. We're an engineering team of three and are looking for our first Lead Engineer who wants to join the early stage of a startup that has proven product-market fit.
We're highly flexible with how you want to work and believe and trust our people that they'll figure out what works best for them.
Check the position out at https://angel.co/oncue/jobs
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder and Head of Product & Eng
We’re a funded startup solving real-life business problems for an industry that impacts millions each year - moving. In the process, we’re building an amazing product and service that is transforming what is today a pen-and-paper experience for businesses. We're also changing the consumer moving experience through our platform.
We have paying customers and are rapidly adding new!
Our stack is RoR, React, and Postgres. We're an engineering team of two and are looking for people who thrive at the early stage of a startup that has proven product-market fit.
We're highly flexible with how you want to work. Want to do 4-days a week only? We're cool with that. 3 days in the office, and 2 from home? We're open to that. We believe and trust our people that they'll figure out what works best for them.
Check out our open positions at https://angel.co/oncue/jobs
Reach out to me at vineet[at]oncue dot co if you're interested.
Our interview process is quite unique as well. This should tell you more https://twitter.com/vinthanedar/status/991149057555906560
-Vineet, Co-founder and Head of Product & Eng
While this is obviously risky, in the 2/10 chance where the startup IPOs or gets acquired, everyone stands to benefit a big deal.
I recently heard about the case of a private school which was able to invest $15K in one of $SNAP's funding rounds (the VC partner was a parent at the school). At IPO, the school netted $50M on this investment. This school was already well off but I can imagine what this would do for a lot of public schools if this option were available to them.