YipitData, NYC, Fulltime. VISAs welcome.
Data Systems Engineer: <a href="http://yipitdata.com/jobs/#job-engineer" >
YipitData develops clever ways to learn about businesses from online data. We specialize in acquiring this difficult to obtain but extremely valuable information through modern, large-scale technology.
We are profitable, VC backed, and our clients include the largest funds on Wall Street. Our goal is to predict quarterly financial performance and identify long-term inflection points for every public internet company. There are over 100 such companies today that create meaningful data, and 15 new ones go public every year.
We are building the premier destination for understanding data about important companies. We think this is the future (<a href="http://avc.com/2012/08/it-is-hard-to-hide-from-the-web/" >) of investment research.
YipitData:
- Python + Redis + MySQL
- Continous integration with Travis CI and Buildbot
- Continuous deployment
- Cloud hosting in AWS with Cloudformation and Chef
- "Automate the boring stuff"
You:
- Conscientious about assumptions baked into a system
- Critical eye for small things that "seem off"
- Disdain for inefficient processes (you often find yourself 
complaining about elevator algorithms)
- Curiosity to dig deep into issues that you don't fully understand
Your first day will consist of:
- Fresh bagels (is there any other way to start a new job in NYC?)
- Unwrapping your new MacBook
- Your first commit (adding yourself to our about page)
- Your first production rollout (this is automatic since we practice continuous deployment)
- Introduction meetings with team members from across the company
- Learn about our different products by going through the codebase with another engineer
- Welcome drinks!
Your first week will involve training for the following:
- Overview of our infrastructure
- Introduction to Finance
- Web Extraction
- Introduction to Sell Side Research
- Introduction to Outsourcing
- Overview of our internal libraries that allow us to quickly develop new products
Within three months of joining, you will:
- Investigate and evaluate the potential for new data products
- Help write the technical spec for a new data product
- Take primary ownership for the development and maintenance of that product
- Configure the servers in the production environment for this product
- Work with data analysts to refine the resulting data from this product
- Start to contribute back to the shared libraries we use across products
- Pair program with data analysts on smaller projects
- Help in recruiting more data engineers
We offer highly competitive salary, equity, and excellent benefits. YipitData promotes strong engineering and company cultures; candidates should be excited about being a part of a fast growing start-up.
Send me an email if you are interested: REDACTED_EMAIL
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