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Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We turn data in action on our clients' sites by doing real-time DOM modification to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve users' problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* We pay market rates

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Funded by First Round and OpenView

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com

Monetate - (Philly suburb) Conshohocken, PA / No remote, but we will help you relocate.

Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We do real-time DOM modification to our clients’ sites to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

About us:

* We were founded in 2008 and are funded by First Round and OpenView (amongst others)

* We pay market comp

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

What we're looking for:

* We use primarily JS and Python as well as all sorts of other open source tools - Google Closure, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr - but we're open to people with any background

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of deep problems to work on

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Please feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We do real-time DOM modification on our clients’ sites to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Funded by First Round and OpenView

* Market comp

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of deep problems to work on

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com

I would suggest finding someone who's trusted in working with local small businesses - probably themselves a small local shop with a few accountants - ask your hardware store owner, coffee shop owner, etc. If you are within a taxing municipality it can be helpful to have someone who knows the local ins and outs.

Generally speaking, the tax implications of being a freelancer are less complicated than small scale retail (e.g. no inventory).

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We do real-time DOM modification on our clients’ sites to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Funded by First Round and OpenView

* Market comp

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of deep problems to work on

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet marketing. We're funded by First Round and OpenView (among others). http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and real-time API problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me with any questions - tjanofsky monetate com

SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote - Frontend - Javascript, HTML, CSS

I'm looking for a number of people who are interested in freelance work in (primarily) JS. Remote is fine, prefer full time (or close) availability. The development will be using our API and the Google Closure library (exp not required). A strong background in JS/HTML/CSS is needed.

There are a large number of projects available and they require little coordination, so they are pretty ideal for remote freelancing.

Contact me at tjanofsky at monetate if you're interested or have any questions.

Thanks!

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet marketing. We're funded by First Round and OpenView (among others).

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and real-time API problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

* Also hiring in QA and project management

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me with any questions - tjanofsky monetate com

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb) - No remote, but we will help you relocate.

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting, merchandising, agile content tools, primarily in internet retail. We're funded by First Round (among others).

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale. * We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me with any questions - tjanofsky monetate com.

FYI - there's a potential defect there - keys are not required to be strings so you should lookup the value before you cast.

Conshohocken (Philly suburb), PA

Monetate is hiring - local only, happy to relocate. We've hired some great people that we met through HN. We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (e.g. content targeting, segmentation, A/B testing). We've got some grad, high-volume customers and we are growing fast.

http://jobs.monetate.com

Technically, we write lots of client-side JS for our customer-facing product as well as code that runs on our customers' sites. We're also looking for backend engineers that want to work on large data and web performance. We work in Python, but experience with that is not a prereq.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Please feel free to email me any questions - tjanofsky monetate com

Same here, happened 2 or 3 times in 10 years. You need to decide if the amount is worth the continued ongoing aggravation of trying to collect. A direct phone call is a good place to start if you haven't already, it's easier to ignore email and letters.

I worked independently for years and health insurance can be really expensive. I eventually discovered the health savings account (HSA) / high-deductible combo. You can find packages that you pay about $300/month for which buys you access to group pricing (so you get the $30 Advil if you go the the hospital, not the rack rate $800 Advil) of which you pay all of up to a high deductible. In the end your exposure to medical bills for an emergency end up the same as or lower than what you'd be paying for low deductible coverage - e.g. $3600 / yr for premiums plus a 5K deductible puts you in the same monthly range you'd be paying for an HMO, but only if you use all the care. Email is in my profile if you want more details.

Also most people forget that the typical approach to singletons can yield multiple instances if the application employs multiple classloaders.

Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We're a growth-phase startup building SAAS tools for internet marketers to enable real-time testing and targeting of content on their sites. We have web services at scale, big data, and tons of interesting browser work. Our languages are Python and JS, although we're happy to give people the space to learn if that's not your specialty. We've got great projects to work on and a great team to work on them with.

We've hired a number of people we've met through HN. Please feel free to email directly if you'd like to chat -- tom at monetate dot com.

Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT). We've got existing high-volume customers.

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client-facing UI. Javascript all around!

Feel free to email me any questions - tom at monetate com.

We do - we don't have degree requirements for anyone.

Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We have fun problems at scale - real-time decision making plus web scale data. We have hired people from HN before and are always looking to meet new people.

We sell SAAS to internet retailers allowing them to test site content, target to visitor segments, and personalize web experiences.

Currently hiring for positions here: http://monetate.com/about/jobs/ - primarily product engineers, front-end developers.

We work primarily in Python and Javascript but are looking for talented engineers of any background who like solving new problems.

We are backed by First Round Capital and are growing quickly.

Please feel free to email me at tjanofsky at monetate.

Conshohocken, PA - Monetate

We're a SaaS provider of testing, targeting, and personalization tools to internet marketers. We're currently hiring Javascript engineers for front-end development and backend engineers (we use Python) - and we have fun web and data problems at scale.

We're having fun and growing fast.

3 people on our team have found us through here and we always look forward to talking to more fellow HNers.

Feel free to email me any questions - tjanofsky monetate com

It's 350 to list a job in the job section, 500 for the ability to search and contact people based on their profile (for 1 week).

Can anyone comment on whether or not they have found advertising on the SO jobs board to be a good source of candidates? I listed a position there in December for a systems engineer with EC2 experience and got no responses - I've had much better luck with Startuply for example.

It was a great event - there is a short writeup of the other talks here: http://trevmex.com/post/3198570101/redsnake-1st-annual-phill...

I second tptacek. This is one of the most effective places we have found candidates - we just hired our 3rd person from HN. Every candidate that has approached us through HN has been thoughtful and intelligent - although obviously not everyone is a match for what we are working on. Certainly I can offer anyone from here a actual person to talk to about your background and interests and what we are working on.

Conshohocken, PA (outside of Philadelphia)

Monetate - jobs.monetate.com

SaaS provider of testing, targeting, and personalization tools for online retail stores.

Open Positions: * backend engineers - work on data and web problems at scale in Python.

* front-end developers - build and test experiments on our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We're small, profitable, and growing fast while still having fun (happy hours, free lunch everyday, group cycling, running). We've hired people through these postings (3 now!) and look forward to interviewing fellow HNers.

Feel free to email me any questions - tjanofsky monetate com

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb)

Local only. Will relocate for the right person but no remote. We've hired 2 great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast. We're funded by First Round Capital. http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale in Python.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me any questions - tjanofsky monetate com.

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburb)

Local only. Will relocate.

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired great people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast. We're funded by First Round.

http://jobs.monetate.com/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale, great people to work with, and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out! We're having a blast.

Feel free to email me any questions - tjanofsky monetate com.

Conshohocken PA (Philly Suburb) - Monetate - Local only

We're hiring at Monetate. We've hired people from HN.

We're a SAAS provider of testing, targeting and personalization tools (i.e. segmentation, A/B testing, MVT) to internet retailers. We've got existing high-volume customers. We're small, profitable, and we're growing fast.

http://monetate.com/company/jobs/

* We're looking for backend engineers who want to work on data and web problems at scale.

* We're also hiring front-end developers who want to help build and test experiments and own our client facing UI. You should be experienced in working with production-quality cross-browser HTML/CSS and Javascript with and without frameworks.

We have fun problems at scale and we get instant feedback from our clients on everything we put out!

Feel free to email me tjanofsky monetate com.

My kids are the same age and I agree completely. At some point after my kids were born I found that the change in responsibility made many other areas of my life simpler.

Once I began to understand how I could fully commit myself to my children and what it means to have kids that fully depend on you, many other things became easier to prioritize and commit to, or reject. It was easier for me to focus at work and realize that I need to make that time valuable, it was easier to exercise and eat right, it was easier to say to no to people and drop activities that were not core to what I was doing. Maybe clarity around priorities is what changed the most for me.

I was an independent consultant for almost 10 years - the first year or two can be the toughest. One of the best pieces of advice that I got before I started was that you know that you're ready to be a consultant when people are calling you and offering you money to do work for them (i.e. your network and reputation is already mature). If you resort to a brokered arrangement the rates aren't nearly as compelling. If you think you've got contract work that will take you through your time period, go for it.

If you want to discuss further, or are interested in discussing F/T work (the company I work at - Monetate - is hiring in the Philly area) feel free to email tjanofsky at monetate dot com.

Cost of provisioning and supporting was already mentioned - that's big .

Another key point to consider is the amount of effort required from the user in order to derive value from your product. If the product can be used easily and passively (e.g. Pandora) than a free signup makes the most sense.

If your product requires higher user engagement to be useful - i.e. they need to dedicate an hour or two to working with it, or need to integrate with something, than a refund or out may make more sense - many people treat free trials as worth what they paid for them - nothing. If someone has to pull out a CC, they have more likely overcome the hurdles necessary to engage with your service.