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Justworks | Associate Software Engineer, Expenses | Toronto, Canada | HYBRID | Full-time | $109K–$136K CAD

Justworks helps small businesses manage payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance so they can focus on running their business.

We’re hiring an Associate Software Engineer for our Toronto Expenses pod. You’ll work alongside 3–4 senior engineers building expense submissions, approvals and reimbursements, while helping migrate services from Ruby/Rails to Go and develop AI-powered features.

We’re looking for:

  • 1+ year of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience with a modern server-side language and interest in learning Go
  • Knowledge of REST APIs, SQL, and relational data models
  • A product-minded, customer-focused approach
  • Curiosity about AI-assisted development

Our stack includes Go, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Redis, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, and Datadog.

Apply: https://grnh.se/wlv9zr391us

I’ve used 1password secure note feature to share env vars.

oops sorry I did not realize my about section was empty, added email to profile. thanks for the nudge

Justworks | Hybrid (Toronto, CA – 3 days in office) | Full-Time | Senior Software Engineer https://www.justworks.com

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. At JustWorks, we tackle complex HR challenges so our customers don’t have to. We’re a data-driven team that’s constantly iterating and improving, and we care deeply about building meaningful products.

If you’re excited about working in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment and want to have fun while building something impactful, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/justworks/jobs/7721539?gh_j...

This looks amazing! As I learn and experiment more with local LLMs, I'm becoming more of a fan of local/offline LLMs. I believe there's a huge gap between local LLM based apps and commercial models like Claude/ChatGPT. Excited to see more apps leveraging local LLMs.

Fantastic for the team, huge fan for Ruff and Uv. Hope OpenAI continues with the OSS tooling and not introduce restrictive licensing.

Experimenting with: https://github.com/chocks/locode Local-first AI coding CLI. Routes simple tasks to a local LLM and complex tasks to Claude.

also just posted a Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310543

Nice, pretty cool site!

Heya (also from TO ), I had something similar in mind when I built https://www.producthunt.com/products/hitechjobsca , had to shut it down during covid but happy to connect and brainstorm ideas in the Hrtech space if you are up for it. Contact in profile.

This is pretty fun, I tried the two free mysteries and was fun solving them. One nit, would be nice if the SQL editor supported comments so we can comment out old queries before running new one so as keeping a history esp if we need to run the same queries again. Good stuff :)

Happy new year folks!

Thanks! My dentist sends my appointments as text in email and I wanted something to add to my calendar, so I ended up building this tool :)

Direct link in this post works but looks like the one linked from the careers page is broken. https://supabase.com/careers#positions titled "Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres" goes to a broken link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/ba5e5848-0ef7-430d-b773-94...

hey Fred, just a heads up - the career page links to a greenhouse board that seems inactive. https://tandemai.com/careers/#currentopening goes to https://boards.greenhouse.io/tandemailimited which says "The board you are looking for is no longer open."

Also use safari on ios, I started typing my time zone (New York) is the search box and it pulled up and I selected it.

heads up - seems like there's a typo in the url, has a %7C appended to it so can't open the link.

There’s Amazon, Instacart, Snowflake, Doordash, Shopify

Perfectly cooked eggs every single time, bought this in 2014 still going strong: KRUPS F23070 Egg Cooker with Water Level Indicator, 7-Eggs Capacity, White https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00005KIRS/

Snowboard looks great. Congrats on the launch! At my work we currently use this open source tool https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/ mostly to search schemas and tables. Curious to see the differences with Snowboard.

I’m genuinely curious why companies don’t do this? It seems like a great deal, many cities in US are great with decent cost of living. I used to live in Kansas before & home ownership is cheaper and time zones are usually better. Maybe the total cost of hire is still higher? idk

Hey, I’ve felt the same about missing social aspect of office during these wfh days. One thing that has worked for me is, I do virtual coffee chats with couple folks in my team and other friends at work every week and we talk about stuff of mutual interest work or non-work related.

Pretty cool! We use Airflow heavily here at Instacart. Some of our teams use a managed service from google for deployment and orchestration https://cloud.google.com/composer/ For companies wanting a standard structure of dags and self hosting their airflow deployments, your tool would be super helpful to get started. One suggestion - would be cool to add separate deployments for the different components of airflow - webserver, workers, scheduler etc. reading through the readme it looks like you deploy the single image to the Qubole Cloud? Often times deploying code to airflow is updating the dags files in airflows file system.

Sounds like you are have mix of on-perm & aws? If it is all aws, check out EMR: https://aws.amazon.com/emr/. Alternatively, a relatively easier way to build pipelines on AWS is using AWS Kinesis for event streaming to S3 and ingest S3 files to Snowflake https://www.snowflake.com/ - works relatively well for smaller workloads & easy to setup.

IMO - the best way to raise awareness is to build a scrappy prototype pipeline that can be demoed & then demo/over communicate with all the stakeholders :). Having a working demo makes it easier to visualize the pros of the new proposed system compared to the existing one.

this looks awesome! will give it a try. Thanks for creating this :)

I use Trello for this purpose. I have a Trello board with a laundry list of random ideas that come to me. Those that mature get their own card on that I start jotting down next steps etc.

Hey All, This is my first side project that I've built & launched on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hitechjobsca. Any feedback is highly appreciated!

I had a very similar experience in another enterprise storage company with a code base of ~6M loc of C/C++ and gazillion test cases. Originally, it used to take roughly about an hour to just build the system where it did a bunch of compile time checks, linting etc. Then if everything goes well, it goes to code review, then to a set of hourly and nightly integration checks before it gets merged to the main branch. It would take another cool 3-4 months of QA regression cycle before it gets to the final build.

this is pretty cool. look like its built with swagger-ui, so we can play around with the endpoints a little bit.

Would be nice if Python was available in the cloud function environment.

We’ve recently went through this process at our company & chose to use pipenv as the dependency management tool. As mentioned in the article, pipenv is under active development but takes care of many things that we had custom scripts before such as requirements hashs, in-built graph of dependencies, automatic retries of failed dependencies, automatic re-ordering of dependency installations etc. it also has a few quirks - we had to pick a version that had most commands working & also pipenv install is painfully slow & didn’t seem to have a caching strategy for already built virtualenvs.