niallwingham

Boosted.ai | Web Developer | Toronto, ON | ONSITE | $150-200K

(Fully remote until at least the end of this year; onsite downtown Toronto eventually.)

THE COMPANY

Boosted.ai makes machine learning investment techniques accessible to institutional investors. We ingest and clean a huge volume of financial data, and allow our customers to create and test their own models through an interface designed to be friendly to non-ML practitioners.

They bring an investment thesis or strategy; our product lets them implement it more successfully than they could with Excel or simpler quantitative methods.

We have major US and Canadian banks as customers and have recently closed an 11MM (CAD) series A. Though we are a young company, our operating costs are already ~50% covered by recurring customer revenue and we are well-positioned to continue growing even through the recession.

THE ROLE

I'm looking to hire two developers who can help us build complex and data-rich web applications. These applications are what allow our users to create new machine learning models and portfolios, and view their performance over time.

Full stack developers welcome but our team is weakest in front end right now, so expertise and interest there is a must. Some UX design / wire-framing ability is a strong plus. Experience building financial products is nice but not required... we can teach you.

Beyond feature development, a very important part of this position is laying the foundation for stable and productive future growth in our team.

Longer description at https://boards.greenhouse.io/boostedai/jobs/4069937003

THE PROCESS

We respect your time: at most two one-hour phone screens and a half day of "remote onsite" interviews; we can do the whole thing in a week if you want. Interviews are a mix of algorithmic questions and realistic pair programming work, as well as introspective / soft skills questions to assess how you approach teamwork and problem solving.

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Last thing I'll say is: this is a difficult job with high expectations + oncall rotation, but it pays well. I want people who will show up and be very productive at work, earn their paycheque/equity, and then log off and enjoy the rest of their lives. It is not an all-consuming start-up. We are a supportive, collaborative team and have no interest in stereotypical finance or tech bro culture.

Email me niall@boosted.ai if interested.

Boosted.ai | Toronto, NYC | Full-Time | ONSITE | Full-Stack Engineer

We are a start-up making machine learning and portfolio analysis software for hedge funds, banks, and other financial institutions. We are a small company—nine people and two years old—but we have completed a seed round, are well capitalized, and have paying customers. Our team includes general software engineers, specialized ML practitioners, and finance & sales professionals.

We are currently hiring for all seniority levels within our software engineering team. Our backend is mostly python, some java; our frontend is react; our data stores are mostly postgres and solr, some oracle. (That is just FYI, experience in any particular language or framework is not necessary.)

Please email phil@boosted.ai to apply.

UPDATE: We will be closing applications for both positions at the end of this week. If you would like to apply, please do it soon!

Everyone who has submitted an application through our website will receive a response (even if it is just a "no, thank you"). We're a small company and have received nearly a thousand applications so far, so please be patient as we work through them and set up initial interviews.

You can email me (niall@apsis.io) if you've got any questions! Please use the link at the bottom of the job page to actually apply though.

There's a physical office in Seattle. It's small but there should be room for at least one more ;)

Of course you can also work remotely whenever you want, even if you live in Seattle.

Sure, email me: niall@apsis.io

I can't tell if this is sarcastic?

We consider this a full-time job, and our benefits and salary are that of a full-time job. We don't try to compete with e.g. Amazon or Facebook on salary but we are probably at or above the median salary of software developers as a whole.

I personally make about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job.

Oh yeah... Noah's old blog post mentions billable time, but our stance has since evolved that a work week is just 20 hours, billable or not. If we're doing internal work for the company, we still track and time it to make sure we aren't going over our limit.

Apsis Labs | Multiple Positions | Seattle, WA | REMOTE, http://www.apsis.io/jobs

We are a small design & development company working as a fully distributed team. We offer retirement and health benefits, a competitive salary, an unlimited vacation and parental leave policy, and a 20-hour work week.

We are hiring:

1. A full-stack software developer, with interest and experience in user interface design

2. A project/business manager, to help with various non- or semi-technical aspects of our business

We are committed to building a diverse, welcoming, and respectful workplace, and we encourage applications from all genders, races, ages, and backgrounds.

More details and application forms are at http://www.apsis.io/jobs.

We work 20-hour weeks (remotely) at Apsis and it goes fine for us. We're a small consulting company with very little overhead, but I imagine it could work in other contexts as well. It certainly encourages you to eliminate unnecessary meetings!

I'm earning about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job, where I worked 60-80 hours a week. In practice this has meant a more-than-doubling of my free time outside work with only a small change in living standards, so I'm very happy with the tradeoff.

The company gets a pretty good deal too -- our work hours tend to be quite productive -- but I don't know if there's a purely economic argument on the company's side. Part of it may require looking at the company as a vehicle for employee benefit rather than an opposing force trying to extract maximum value.

http://apsis.io/blog/2016/03/14/work-and-passion http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably

PS: Apsis is a U.S. company, though I personally live and work in Toronto, Canada.