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.
Matrix AI | Lead Engineer | Onsite (Sydney, Australia) | Full Time
Matrix AI (https://matrix.ai) is R&D company that invented the Matrix Operating System and Polykey Secret Sharing System (https://polykey.io). Our OS is an orchestration platform for the cloud and internet of things. Our operating system's primary objective is to orchestrate massive distributed computing infrastructure so that they become self-healing, self-organising, and self-adaptable.
Matrix AI has a team of 9 developers and designers from all over the world working on different parts of the Matrix OS. The tools and languages we use go from low-level hardware to high-level algebraic mathematics.
We are looking for a senior/mid-level/lead engineer to join our team in order to help with:
* Mentoring / coaching / leading juniors as part of your mandate * Must know Haskell, or be capable of learning Haskell ( very quickly :) * Must be in Sydney * Must be able to come into the office sometimes, can WFH
Apply here: https://matrix-ai.breezy.hr/p/2a3aead07634-senior-lead-softw...
Storyboard | TryStoryboard.com | Los Angeles or Remote
Summary: Storyboard is a platform for companies & teams to collaborate through private, internal podcasts for their employees. We are a Seed stage company focused on creating an asynchronous audio channel to deliver a more engaging work experience (with less need for back-to-back video calls). Over 2,000 companies globally have launched channels on Storyboard so far.
To Apply: Please send resume to admin@trystoryboard.com
Roles We're Hiring For:
Full Stack Engineer | Audio / Media Focused
* Experience needed working with Web RTC or Web Audio APIs
* High priority hire
Backend Engineer
* Extremely comfortable working in multiplexed command line environments across multiple cloud hosts, operating systems, and workflows.
* Extensive background with at least one major cloud provider (ideally AWS)
* Professionally experienced writing code in one scripting language (i.e., Python, Node.js, Golang) or a functional programming language (i.e., Haskell, Erlang/Elixir, OCaml
iOS Developer
* Experienced developer working in Swift
* Ideally, experienced working with media (or audio) apps
NoRedInk | Engineering Managers, Data Engineers, and Data Analysts | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Pacific Time (PST) to Central European Time (CET)
We’re a growing ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become better writers! NoRedInk is used by 1 in 2 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 5 billion questions on our platform. If you're looking to join a team of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other, discuss past mistakes openly as we adapt to the challenges that come with progress, all while realizing our mission, then you'll be excited to learn more about us.
Our colleagues span six time zones, California to Berlin and points in between, with lively discourse flowing freely across Slack, Zoom, and the office when we're able to be there. Wherever we're working from, we've always deligted in our work to ship new features—beginning with our curriculum and product teams, designers, through to testing by our dedicated quality assurance folks—that put teachers and students first. [1]
Our engineering team [2] takes prides in producing innovative, maintainable software. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our front-end development. Our back-end is primarily Ruby on Rails, though we're actively moving toward Haskell services as we scale to keep up with our traffic. We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure configured with Chef and OpsWorks, though we're migrating towards orchestration using Kubernetes. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. We've also developed and maintain several useful open-source projects. [3] You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog. [4]
We’re looking for engineers and data analysts who want to work on a mission that makes a difference and who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness. If that's you, you can learn more about our interview process [5] and on-boarding experience [6], and you should definitely apply through our jobs page! [7]
[1] https://www.noredink.com/about/values
[2] https://www.noredink.com/about/team
[3] https://github.com/NoRedInk/
[5] http://tech.noredink.com/post/145260396603/our-engineering-h...
[6] http://tech.noredink.com/post/143787279069/on-boarding-as-a-...
Co—Star Astrology | Full-time | ONSITE (once lockdown ends) | Backend engineer, Android engineer, Technical product manager (multiple positions) | New York | $120-150k + equity
https://www.costarastrology.com
Co-Star is bringing astrology into the 21st century with a social, personalized experience that helps people reflect and connect in real, meaningful ways. We recently raised $5m from the people behind companies like Glossier, Rent the Runway, eBay, Periscope, and Everlane.
We’re looking for iOS, Android, and full-stack software developers to join our twelve-person team in Chinatown, NYC.
We want your help:
• Transforming NASA data into astrological patterns that astrologers can write and map copy to • Using TB of data to define and create personalized, emotionally resonant content • Developing internal tools to give our writers superpowers • Shipping new features & A/B tests in our Apple-lauded iOS app • Scaling our backend infrastructure to millions of daily users, codifying our infrastructure, adding metrics Our stack includes • Haskell for our backend • Swift and Android Native (Kotlin) for our mobile apps • React and TypeScript on the web (costarastrology.com + internal tools) • AWS to host our infrastructure • BigQuery for looking through the haystack • PostgreSQL Competitive comp, $0 deductible fully-covered health care, 4 weeks vacation, $3k office supply budget + basically unlimited conference and book budget.Read more details here -> https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs + feel free to email directly with questions -> tim (at-squiggle) costarastrology.com
https://wire.com/ | Germany, EU | remote or on-site | full-time
Backend Operations Developer (Full-Stack): https://wire.com/jobs/
Tech Stack: k8s, aws, terraform, ansible, haskell, rust, react, swift, kotlin/scala
Wire is transforming the way businesses communicate at the same speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Recognized by IDC, Forrester, and Gartner as one of the most secure collaboration platforms on the market, Wire offers messaging, audio/video conferencing, file-sharing, and external collaboration – all protected by the strongest end-to-end encryption.
*Coming up: Senior Haskell Developer. Keep an eye on the above URL!*
Narrative I/O | Scala/AWS/Spark Backend Engineer, VueJS Frontend Engineer| New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE, REMOTE | http://narrative.io/
Narrative is building a data streaming marketplace that makes it easy to buy, sell and win.
We do this by creating tools that reduce the friction and increase transparency in the data buying process, creating a win-win relationship between buyers and sellers.
We are a small, early stage team looking for great developers who want to jump in and take major systems and user-facing features from design to launch.
We are building the team with a remote-first mindset, and as a result every team member is expected to have an ability to synthesize business requirements, distill the domain, contribute to high-level design documents, efficiently communicate asynchronously, and more generally work autonomously toward a shared vision.
While the company's headquarter is in NYC, the development team is currently made of engineers working from California (US), Québec (Canada), New Brunswick (Canada) and British Columbia (Canada).
Our technical stack (Scala, AWS, Spark on the backend, VueJS on the frontend) looks like:
- Our webapp frontend projects are written in Vuejs, Sass and Pug. We make use of modern and fuctional JavaScript patterns.
- We sit somewhere in the middle of the “Scala as a worse Haskell” and “Scala as a better Java” spectrum. We love functional programming and we do make use of libraries like cats, cats-effect, http4s, doobie, but keep a pragmatic stance on purity and are also exposed to the AWS Java SDK/hadoop/spark ecosystems.
- We are operating in Amazon Web Services. Our long-running services are deployed on EC2, Fargate, and Lambda and provisioned with Terraform. Our scheduled (spark) jobs are mostly executing on EMR and triggered by Jenkins Jobs.
- We also heavily use other AWS technologies such as DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Step Functions and EMR.
- Other services we use include: GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins, DataDog, Crucible.
- Being a small team, we think twice before rolling out custom infra that we need to monitor and maintain.
Job postings and more on our team and culture: https://jobs.narrative.io/
Apply by sending your resume to hiring-dev@narrative.io.