San Francisco, CA - Onsite - Shyp
Need to mail something? Don't worry about boxing up your packages or finding the best deal. Request a pickup in the Shyp app, we'll pick it up from you, package it and find the best deal out of UPS, Fedex &amp; USPS to get your items to their location safely, cheaply &amp; on time.
5 server-side engineers are serving operations in 4 cities. We just raised $50m and we're looking for engineers to help us expand.
Lots of interesting problems to work on, including:
- Warehouse optimization
- Driver dispatch/routing optimizations
- Figuring out the best carrier for a given package
- Communicating sundry shipping options across different carriers in a standard way
- People ship a lot of interesting stuff! Tons of opportunity to give everyone a great experience at scale, no matter what they're sending.
Some of the benefits of the job:
- No waking up in the middle of the night! Open hours are 8am to 8pm.
- Whatever laptop setup you want.
- We host tech talks over lunch twice a month - have had people from Bugsnag, Stripe, Twitter, Medium, ngrok, and Layer come give talks in the past four months.
- $400 a year in travel credit, we want you to get away
- Daily Volume (compared to tweets or push notifications or text messages) is low, so systems aren't constantly falling over or about to.
- Our data is stored in Postgres, no worries about writes being acked and not actually saved.
- Servers/stored data are all UTC :)
- No long hours - pretty much everyone leaves the office at 6pm sharp.
- Really generous health/dental/vision coverage
- Office is about two blocks from Montgomery BART, lots of food/culture options nearby.
- We'll help you relocate to SF
If you're interested, we'd love to talk to you! You can't waste our time by getting in touch. We'll answer your questions about Shyp and tell you a little more about what our interview process looks like.
Please drop me a line - REDACTED_EMAIL.
Not looking, but based in SOMA? You might be interested in our lunchtime tech talks - ping me, burke+REDACTED_EMAIL and I'll let you know the next time we have a speaker in.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)