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samratjp

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Product hacker/founder. Currently consulting. Previous life founding engineer @maker; eng in residence at designerfund. Founded Vayable.

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samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
Tram Case | Hiring Tech Lead, Backend, Full Stack & AI Engineers | Remote (LATAM Latin America Only) (Spanish & English required)

We’re building AI-powered tools to help law firms work faster, smarter, and with less busywork.

Our first module is an AI call center that transcribes and classifies calls to help teams prioritize urgent cases. But that’s just one part — we’re building an end-to-end platform that automates the entire case lifecycle, from intake to resolution.

We’re a small, senior team based in LATAM. You’ll be working directly with the founders and building features from scratch. No layers of approval, no legacy code — just thoughtful product work, shipped fast.

If you're excited about solving real problems, working closely with strong engineers, and being part of something early (but real), we’d love to hear from you.

Our tech stack is: Python, Javascript/TypeScript, and ML/AI pipelines in AWS.

Apply here: https://tramcase.na.teamtailor.com/

Learn more about us on: https://www.tramcase.com

samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Tram Case | Multiple Engineering Roles | LatAm Remote | Full-time

• We're building AI-powered tools that make legal work smoother, smarter, and more accessible.

• As a well-funded stealth company with usage at scale, we're looking to expand our foundational team to take it to the next level. We found our amazing first engineer on HN!!

• We're solving hard problems at scale using AI, building solutions that literally change people's lives (our first product helps an immigration law firm help their clients of domestic violence and humanitarian crisis survivors find steady footing).

• Our engineering team uses best-in-class tools and practices learned from top Silicon Valley teams - we don't take shortcuts with quality.

• As a LatAm-based product and team, we're looking for talented engineers across Latin America to join us in shaping the future of legal tech.

Remote Engineering Roles at Tram Case (LatAm Only):

• Staff Full-Stack Engineer ([https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Full-Stack-Engineer-12f...](https://www.notion.so/Staff-Full-Stack-Engineer-12f5666d7ece...))

• Staff Backend Engineer ([https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Backend-Engineer-12f566...](https://www.notion.so/Staff-Backend-Engineer-12f5666d7ece807...))

• Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Front-End Focus) ([https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Full-Stack-Engineer-Fr...](https://www.notion.so/Senior-Full-Stack-Engineer-Front-End-F...))

• Senior Backend Engineer ([https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Backend-Engineer-12f56...](https://www.notion.so/12f5666d7ece8026a46fd93bd9533cbf?pvs=2...))

• AI Engineer ([https://www.notion.so/tramcase/AI-Engineer-1ad5666d7ece80bdb...](https://www.notion.so/1ad5666d7ece80bdbc95f8a8ce93dfa5?pvs=2...))

Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Python (required for all engineers), AWS, Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Speech to Text, LLMs, Legal Tech, Conversational AI. Apply directly through our careers page and mention Hacker News as source for faster responses :)

samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
Tram Case | Multiple Engineering Roles | LatAm Remote | Full-time We're building AI-powered tools that make legal work smoother, smarter, and more accessible. As a well-funded stealth company with usage at scale, we're looking to expand our foundational team to take it to the next level.

We're solving hard problems at scale using AI, building solutions that literally change people's lives (our first product helps an immigration law firm help their clients of domestic violence and humanitarian crisis survivors find steady footing).

Our engineering team uses best-in-class tools and practices learned from top Silicon Valley teams - we don't take shortcuts with quality. As a LatAm-based product and team, we're looking for talented engineers across Latin America to join us in shaping the future of legal tech.

Remote Engineering Roles at Tram Case (LatAm Only):

* Staff Full-Stack Engineer (2 positions) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Full-Stack-Engineer-12f... * Staff Backend Engineer (1 positions) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Backend-Engineer-12f566... * Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Front-End Focus) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Full-Stack-Engineer-Fr... * Senior Backend Engineer - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Backend-Engineer-12f56...

Tech Stack: TypeScript, Go, Node.js, Python (required for all engineers), AWS,

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Speech to Text, LLMs, Legal Tech, Conversational AI Apply directly through our careers page and mention Hacker News as source for faster responses :) https://tramcase.notion.site/Join-Us-at-Tram-Case-12e5666d7e...

samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Tram Case | Multiple Engineering Roles | LatAm Remote | Full-time

We're building AI-powered tools that make legal work smoother, smarter, and more accessible. As a well-funded stealth company with usage at scale, we're looking to expand our foundational team to take it to the next level. We're solving hard problems at scale using AI, building solutions that literally change people's lives (our first product helps an immigration law firm help their clients of domestic violence and humanitarian crisis survivors find steady footing).

Our engineering team uses best-in-class tools and practices learned from top Silicon Valley teams - we don't take shortcuts with quality. As a LatAm-based product and team, we're looking for talented engineers across Latin America to join us in shaping the future of legal tech.

Remote Engineering Roles at Tram Case (LatAm Only):

* Senior Engineering Manager (Mexico preferred, Spanish fluency required) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Engineering-Manager-12...

* Staff Full-Stack Engineer (2 positions) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Full-Stack-Engineer-12f...

* Staff Backend Engineer (2 positions) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Staff-Backend-Engineer-12f566...

* Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Front-End Focus) - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Full-Stack-Engineer-Fr...

* Senior Backend Engineer - https://www.notion.so/tramcase/Senior-Backend-Engineer-12f56...

Tech Stack: TypeScript, Go, Node.js, Python, AWS, Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Speech to Text, LLMs, Legal Tech, Conversational AI

Apply directly through our careers page and mention Hacker News as source for faster responses :) https://tramcase.notion.site/Join-Us-at-Tram-Case-12e5666d7e...

samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Maker | San Francisco | Roles open for Sr. Backend Eng/ Frontend Eng/and a Sales Lead | ONSITE | https://angel.co/maker

Maker is the first creative platform that helps online retailers and brands enhance existing websites with compelling content, dramatically increasing engagement, conversion and revenue growth.

We're a small, well funded, pre-launch team of pixel-perfecting engineers & product folks. Currently, we're looking for product-loving, performance obsessed engineers:

- A Frontend Engineer who loves writing functional code in React + Redux + ES6; and are performance obsessed with your load times... on like 3G Slow!

- A Ruby/Rails full stack engineer who is obsessed with end-user to backend performance and resiliency

- An experienced Sales Lead with Enterprise SaaS experience to help us accelerate our revenue

If you're interested, please get in touch at - s at maker dot me

samratjp··on David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment
Were you perhaps referring to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqYCFRzqNoA&list=PL1n30s-LKu...? I love this series and highly recommend it to anyone interested in either of them or in Non-duality.
samratjp··on Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker
Putting this out here in case if anyone finds it useful - I like a lot of good ideas from Contracts.rb such as the type signature looking more expressive (personal taste - looks Haskell/Elm ish) and support of Maybe's. Granted it's not static but def some good ideas to steal from.

https://egonschiele.github.io/contracts.ruby/

samratjp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Maker | San Francisco | Roles open for Sr. Backend Eng/ Frontend Eng/and a Sales Lead | ONSITE | https://angel.co/maker

Maker is the first creative platform that helps online retailers and brands enhance existing websites with compelling content, dramatically increasing engagement, conversion and revenue growth.

We're a small, well funded, pre-launch team of pixel-perfecting engineers & product folks. Currently, we're looking for product-loving, performance obsessed engineers:

- A Frontend Engineer who loves writing functional code in React + Redux + ES6; and are performance obsessed with your load times... on like 3G Slow!

- A Ruby/Rails full stack engineer who is obsessed with end-user to backend performance and resiliency. You're not afraid of rolling your own microservices in ruby / node / whatever (looking at you Elixir :) to get the job done.

- An experienced Sales Lead with Enterprise SaaS experience to help us accelerate our revenue

If you're interested, please get in touch at - c0BtYWtlci5tZQ==\n (base64 but you knew that ;)

samratjp··on Life Aboard the Longest Train Ride Through India
"equatorial sun"?! Last time I checked India is way up north of the equator...
samratjp··on Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language
Yeah it was - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2191800
samratjp··on Show HN: Grid-based window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls
I have loved using Divvy for ages - http://mizage.com/divvy/
samratjp··on What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014
I started a major rewrite for a Rails App that I'm converting to Rails API + Ember with Ember Data. Yeah, the learning curve has been huge and Ember Data pretty much didn't help things. But, I've stuck with it and everytime I struggle with something (happened first with routing nested resources - still feels a bit magic sometimes), I take a step back and look at the Ember way of doing things and I usually become enlightened with the very well thought out decisions.

For those of you struggling with Ember Data - this is your best friend - https://github.com/emberjs/data/blob/master/TRANSITION.md probably the best documentation on the matter. If you got Active Model Serializers, use the right serializer on Ember data side to get going.

IF you're using Ember Rails - be sure to check that it's pulling the latest Ember Data.

I like that there are more tutorials and demos coming out but seriously, we need some more non-trivial UI examples. Maybe after my project I'll write up a blog post if anyone here is interested.

samratjp··on How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime
I would love to hear more about this!
samratjp··on Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced
I've actually interacted with Mollie and she is more like a Dictator of Happiness and totally deserves the title =)
samratjp··on A year without caffeine (part 2)
He wrote a first part here - http://bryanalexander.org/2013/01/04/a-year-without-caffeine... (this was on HN earlier and sets the context for the caffeine free lifestyle).
samratjp··on Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
ah yes, you're right - meant to say that handle the serialize/de-serialize yourself at first to get your feet wet.
samratjp··on Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
Ember Data is a heavy hard-hat area and no wonder you were frustrated. Really, just start with your own data layer and get used to Ember first. Ember has a very Rails-ish philosophy and just like in the Rails world - magic happens (but ya should know how it happens anyways). This blog post is a good intro to how Ember works - http://trek.github.com/ (though routing has come a long way since - http://emberjs.com/guides/routing/defining-your-routes/
samratjp··on Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby
+1 - I've been following the Ember progress and have been blown away with the progress made last year. It's the most mature UI friendly framework for frontend out there. Fwiw, this (slightly outdated router code but a good philosophical intro) post is super useful for diving into Ember - http://trek.github.com/
samratjp··on Heroku Sandy Situation Room
it wouldn't matter as much. if your primary app and workers via Heroku is down (which presumably are the ones using the add-ons) none of the end users are going to notice the add-ons being down.
samratjp··on Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City
Here's an under rated reason - a night owl's schedule! Tech startup founders and early teams get most of their shit done at night when there are fewer or no distractions. When you're on this schedule, the city life is much more accommodating in terms of food, socialization, etc. Then suddenly, dinner time is suddenly like lunch time.
samratjp··on What should be the goals of creating an open discussion around an API spec?
(Sorry didn't realize this was actually linked to the github discussion/thought it was an Ask HN)

Forking the specs sounds good.

Meant the lacking in answers for API docs in general. Especially facebook in the past; though Graph Explorer is much nicer!

samratjp··on What should be the goals of creating an open discussion around an API spec?
It'd be nice to be able fork or even comment the API docs as a developer using the API. Tooo many times I googled for an answer that the API docs neglect and found the answer instead on StackOverflow. If I had a facebook credit for every time I found the answer I was looking for with facebook's API docs, I'd be pretty poor :-p
samratjp··on Ask HN: Best payment processor for marketplace webapp
Balanced Payments (https://balancedpayments.com/) is pretty awesome! They saved us when PayPal shut us down! They do everything you need.
samratjp··on Airtime Launches
I wouldn't hold my breath. Did you really expect the former President of fb (and Co-founder of Causes - also, fb login) to have a non-fb signup flow :-p ?
samratjp··on Airtime Launches
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/airtime-experience-together...
samratjp··on Weekend Hack: Rotten Tomatoes reviews overlayed on Netflix (Extensions)
This is exactly what I was looking for over the weekend - thank you!!
samratjp··on PoundPay: The Payments Platform for Marketplaces
After we got hosed by Paypal, I was crying over alternative solutions for creating an escrow solution for our marketplace. These guys saved us a lot of headaches dealing with escrow and helped us get setup at 2 A.M! I was a bit disappointed when the entire setup from registration to implementation to getting paid only took 15 minutes (translation: I was absurdly happy it was working so quickly). I spent the rest of the night removing my ugly ole paypal implementation.

That and their client libraries make it stupidly easy to get setup! Highly recommend it for marketplace startups!

samratjp··on Twitter Close To Acquiring AdGrok
Whoa! Nice work guys :-)
samratjp··on Vayable Is A Marketplace For Unique Travel Experiences
The former is the correct way to pronounce it :-)
samratjp··on Vayable Is A Marketplace For Unique Travel Experiences
My cofounder Jamie did.
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