SimplePay | Ruby on Rails Developers | UTC+0 to UTC+8 | REMOTE | USD42k-USD60k
Did you know that developing business software doesn't have to be boring?
At SimplePay, we've brought craftsmanship to payroll software. We love solving thorny business problems with elegant code. That is why I started the company to begin with. This philosophy has brought us 16 000 clients and counting across South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland.
Our development team was already mostly remote pre-pandemic.
To find out more about us, check our developer blog (https://tech.simplepay.cloud) or about page (https://www.simplepay.co.za/about)
Do you believe most SPAs are a pile of steaming crap, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity? Do you laugh when people give up the power of PostgreSQL in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case? If so, you may fit in well with our mindset.
Experience: Due to our full pipeline, we can only hire developers who have a few years of Rails experience at this time, or highly experienced polyglots who at least know some Ruby. The work is mostly on the back-end, but some front-end skills are welcome.
Location: UTC+0 to UTC+8
Please mail developers+hn@simplepay.cloud to apply. Your resume / CV must be attached in PDF format. Start your email body with the following 2 headers:
Timezone: Your timezone here
PR/Issue: A link to a PR or issue you've logged for an open source project, no matter how small or long ago.
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible
## Roles we are hiring for
- Developers, documentation, UX: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.
- Platform as code: DevOps, infosec, documentation, process designers, team and tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, system / server administration
- Legal: #lawyerswhocode or who are very comfortable working with markdown in git
- Business: risk, operations, legal, compliance, finance, administrative, organisational design, documentation, internal communication, investor relations processes
- Investment: economics, analytics, portfolio research, investment research
- Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning
Location: Remote or sponsorship for a visa in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey
Term: full-time, fixed-term contract, flexible hours
## Languages
- Dlang (D)
- Julia
- Kotlin
- we do not use but value experience in modern C++, beautiful C, Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Elm
## Qualities and traits we value
- Courage and daring
- Phronesis (practical wisdom), common sense and commercial orientation
- Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be
- Highly individual people oriented to promoting survival and flourishing of the group
- Inclination and ability to notice and understand links between seemingly-unrelated things
- Curiosity
- Extreme motivation
- Mechanical sympathy
- Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities
- A love of tinkering
- Resourcefulness
- Good taste and love of beauty
## About Us
Symmetry Investments is a post startup USD 7 billion + alternative asset management company with around 220 people across multiple time zones and locations.
Our core technology team has been remote first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID.
I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm.
We are three years into a period of transformation from what was initially a fairly standard enterprise finance technology approach to something new that recognises the importance of both the humane and the technical for discretionary portfolio management and for the business of running an alternative investment manager. Andrei Alexandrescu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ) and Atila Neves (https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/) have been working with us as long-term consultants and we have many other talented people with lower public profiles.
It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming, but are oriented towards solving business problems, with developers who are specialists in programming. To achieve this, we wrote a little functional DSL that's now in production. Type inference of returns and parameters using inequality constraints is in a feature branch and there is plenty more to do on the language itself as well as the ecosystem around it. SIL can compile and call C++ and D at runtime; Python interop is in alpha; and C# is on the way. What might be a project in itself elsewhere can be just a set of functions in Symmetry Integration Language.
The language is written in D, we hosted dconf last year and will do so again this year. So we are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners writing Symmetry Integration Language. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.
It's quite a creative place where we encourage a degree of courage amidst practical constraints, and we are open to doing things a different way if it's commercially sound and in the interests of our investors.
We look for virtues and capabilities over only experience and credentials although those things aren't a disadvantage. Do not let a lack of credentials or qualifications prevent you from applying. We've recently hired experts with C++, Common Lisp, D, Haxe, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with the tools we use.
Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards but is generous to very generous over time by broad technology industry standards. We recognise and reward technical accomplishment and have a very flat structure - don't be surprised if our founder and CIO starts asking you questions about your work.
## Symmetry Talks
- Symmetry Internship Project - calling C++ from SIL (http://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#alexandru)
- All Spreadsheets Must Die (https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk)
- Lessons from a DSL where all you have is Ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuzSlKRmzA)
- Alternative Investment Management (https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis)
## Links
- Symmetry GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments)
# Contact
- Email hiring at symmetry.dev and cc jthompson at symmetryinvestments dot com.
Taskade (YC S19) | Singapore or San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | https://taskade.com
Taskade is building real-time organization and collaboration for remote teams. Manage tasks, write notes, and video chat, in one unified workspaces.
We are reimagining the future of work, remote collaboration, and team productivity. Our mission is simple, to help teams get work done, faster and smarter.
Here is our story: https://taskade.com/about
Our team updates: https://taskade.com/blog
Here are our open roles:
* Front-end Engineer --- React, Redux, GraphQL * Product Engineer --- React, Gatsby, Figma Our Tech Stack: * Back End: NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Elastic, Socket.IO * Front End: ReactJS, GraphQL Key Traits: * Passion for productivity tools and remote collaboration * Excellent problem-solving abilities * Ability to learn and adapt To learn more about who we are, our culture, and whether Taskade is the right place for you, please contact john@taskade.com and check the job descriptions at https://taskade.com/jobsArabesque | Senior Engineers, DevOps | London, UK | ONSITE (REMOTE for now due to COVID-19) | https://www.arabesque.com/
Arabesque S-Ray is a global financial services company that focuses on advisory and data solutions by combining big data and ESG metrics to assess the performance and sustainability of publicly listed companies worldwide. Headquartered in Frankfurt and with offices in London, Boston and Singapore, Arabesque S-Ray empowers investors, corporates and other stakeholders across the world to make more sustainable decisions. The firm’s evolution is a story of partnership between leaders in finance, mathematics, data science and sustainability working together to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future. We offer: Competitive Salary, flat hierarchy, intellectually stimulating work
GCP DevOps Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/arabesquegroup/j/4218D2AACA/
Any questions, feel free to reach out: miles.croxford@arabesque.com