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previously founder of felt.com, now at modal.com — now writing on justoffbyone.com

email: can@duruk.net

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cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
Modal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com

Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... — We also recently passed over a billion sandboxes created and on our way to 2B soon.

I am one of the hiring managers here, hiring for the Product Engineering team that builds the observability tooling for our developers. Modal is the cloud for many of our customers and we help them reason about what's happening in their systems, help them expand their use and generally have a good experience.

If you are interested in a product engineering role, please feel free to reach out directly via email at can@modal.com with a recent resume. This role is NYC or SF based and is on-site, so please mention your current location to be considered. I am especially looking for folks with deep ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Python experience.

Please mention how you have used Modal or similar tools in the past and link to a recent resume. Resumes and emails that are clearly human-written will go to the front of the line. I wrote this by hand, so can you. Or can you?

Product Engineering Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be...

For all other roles, please apply from our website.

All roles: https://modal.jobs

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
Modal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com

Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun... — We also recently passed over a billion sandboxes created and on our way to 2B soon.

I am one of the hiring managers here, hiring for the Product Engineering team that builds the observability tooling for our developers. Modal is the cloud for many of our customers and we help them reason about what's happening in their systems, help them expand their use and generally have a good experience.

If you are interested in a product engineering role, please feel free to reach out directly via email at can@modal.com with a recent resume. This role is NYC based and is on-site, so please mention your current location to be considered. I am especially looking for folks with deep ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Python experience.

Product Engineering Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be...

For all other roles, please apply from our website.

All roles: https://modal.jobs

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
Modal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com

Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun...

I am one of the hiring managers here, hiring for the Product Engineering team that builds the observability tooling for our developers. Modal is the cloud for many of our customers and we help them reason about what's happening in their systems, help them expand their use and generally have a good experience.

If you are interested in a product engineering role, please feel free to reach out directly via email at can@modal.com with a recent resume. This role is NYC based and is on-site, so please mention your current location also. I am especially looking for folks with deep ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Python experience.

Product Engineering Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be...

For all other roles, please apply from our website.

All roles: https://modal.jobs

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Modal | Software Engineers (Product, System, SDK) | SF, NYC (ONSITE) | Full Time | modal.com

Modal builds the serverless cloud used by many of the most popular AI companies you've heard of. People use Modal for inference, training, batch operations and also, sandboxes. A good example is the Ramp Inspect tool, that was built on Modal sandboxes. https://engineering.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-backgroun...

I am one of the hiring managers here, hiring for the Product Engineering team that builds the observability tooling for our developers. Modal is the cloud for many of our customers and we help them reason about what's happening in their systems, help them expand their use and generally have a good experience.

Feel free to reach out directly at can@modal.com if you are interested in that role.. Modal is hiring in SF, NYC, and Stockholm. My team is primarily in NYC, and this is an in-office role.

Product Engineering Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/a4b8b2b6-5d0c-4ba6-9256-b84be...

All roles: https://modal.com/company#careers

cancan··on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
this is hilarious and incredibly interesting at the same time! thanks for writing it up.
cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Thank you, you are very kind!
cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
I have to agree — in general, most people have a good sense of what's urgent or not and with a few kind nudges, they align quickly.
cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Astro is a JS framework for building websites. It’s dynamic enough for my needs but generates static sites.

I’ve built a custom visualization tool for the graphics.

cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Yeah this is something I want to learn more about for sure and is the weakest part of this piece. What have you found that works for you? Or is just that knowing that you’ll get interrupted will force better discipline?
cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Definitely agree with your assessment. That’s the feeling I wanted to convey at the end. The goal is to make people aware it’s not their fault but they have some things they can try to make things better for them.
cancan··on The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
I am the author of this piece. It was something I put together as a curiosity and wanted to play with Astro. Hope you all enjoyed it!
cancan··on Avoiding the Trailing Slash Tax on GitHub Pages and Astro
This site is hosted on Github Pages as a statically built site; it's not served by Astro. I don't think I can control what they do with trailing slashes or the lack of it. This is also clarified on the Astro config.
cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
Felt | Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

For the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users. This role comes at a special time where we have launched a brand new version of our SDKs and APIs where customers, especially in large enterprises, can fully integrate Felt into their own tooling [2]

Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.

As mentioned, this role is the first product role at our fast growing company and will have strong leadership potential. You'll be joining a team that's build groundbreaking tools before, and is on the cusp of doing it again.

We are well-funded with a long runway and a strong revenue funnel already. You can read more about it our first funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to. This role is based in SF Bay Area, in our Oakland office that's right next to the BART station. [6]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/build-mapping-apps-with-felts-apis [3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [4] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [5] https://felt.com/careers [6] https://felt.com/map/Felt-HQ-IX9C6uwPnTPCrVVMchyjGcA?loc=37....

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.

We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.

Ideal candidates will have experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloudformation, CDK, Terraform or similar. We handle many different types of data on a daily basis and it's key that we iterate really fast; our IaC tools enable us to do that with confidence.

Also, for the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users. . Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
My experience suggests the opposite; the city was an upwards trajectory until 2018 or so but it's taken a turn for the worse since.

I lived in SF from 2009 to 2024. Every part of the city has gotten worse. When I moved, parts of Mission were definitely rough and they've cleaned up quite a bit. Even SoMa became somewhat interesting, as much as area like that could have before Covid.

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.

We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.

Ideal candidates will have experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloudformation, CDK, Terraform or similar. We handle many different types of data on a daily basis and it's key that we iterate really fast; our IaC tools enable us to do that with confidence.

Also, for the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users. . Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, GIS) | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.

We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.

Ideal candidates will have experience working with GIS tools such as Rasterio, GDAL, Shapely as well as AWS primitives such as Cloudformation, CDK, and Lambda. Experience building infrastructure of either kind is a plus!

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and Infrastructure role.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here
We are very happy with Elixir and Phoenix at Felt and have multiple internal apps built via LiveView, which I'm confident would take weeks more to build with anything else. Congrats to the team!
cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Felt | Elixir Contractor | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabyte. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years like hundreds of millions of people do every day, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC 2014 founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for an exceptional Elixir engineer on a contract basis for our Applications team. This team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an Elixir engineer, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4]. Our larger team builds a data ingestion and processing pipeline that churns through terabytes of data and make it accessible.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6].

Once again, this is a contract role; we pay competitively for the right talent.

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN. We can't wait to hear from you!

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
Felt | DevOps Eng — Elixir Eng — Social Media Rep | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabyte. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for three roles!

First is an infrastructure focused engineer. This role involves shaping cloud infrastructure and APIs to ensure platform scalability and security. Ideal candidates are experts in major cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), skilled in designing user-friendly public APIs, and experienced in leading teams to make strategic architectural decisions. They should be proficient in modern approaches like Kubernetes, serverless computing, and IaaC (via CDK) to optimize deployments for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

Second is an exceptional Elixir engineer. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an Elixir engineer, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be joining is full of expert engineers, and well known people in the Elixir community. You might have used their work already.

Our third role is an social media and community representative. We are creating a new category of tooling in a giant industry and we need your help to tell the story. The ideal candidate will have experience building a community around a grand vision, while being grounded in our customers' successes and our team's ability to ship.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are interested in.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: What's an interesting software development niche?
Hi there! I’m the founder of felt.com. Obviously, I am biased but I do work in this industry for the reasons you mentioned. It’s a great intersection of challenging technology, real-world impact and pure fun. Also, I’d say the GIS world is changing so fast right now; the modern GIS stack will look a whole lot different in a few years than it did.
cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Felt | Web App / Elixir Engineer and Social Media/Community Rep. | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the leading cloud-native GIS solution. It's surprisingly hard work with geospatial tools day today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for two roles

First is an exceptional Elixir engineer. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an Elixir engineer, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be joining is full of expert engineers, and well known people in the Elixir community. You might have used their work already.

Our second role is an social media and community representative. We are creating a new category of tooling in a giant industry and we need your help to tell the story. The ideal candidate will have experience building a community around a grand vision, while being grounded in our customers' successes and our team's ability to ship.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced Elixir engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Felt | Community and Social Media Reps and Sales Engineers) | REMOTE (US timezones only) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps and work with geospatial data on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. We are taking on an industry that's been stagnant for more than 30 years, but is essential to the workings of practically every company.

Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

First, we are looking for a Community and Social Media Rep. who will put our platform in the front the eyes of the right people, foster the right kind of community and be our voice online. The ideal person will have worked for a technical product and knows how to talk about it, have worked on launches (we do a lot! [2]]) and is comfortable in a start-up environment.

Second, we are looking for sales engineers who will help close the loop with our customers. We operate in a very technical field and our sales engineers will be bridging the gap between what our customers want and what our tools can do for them.

We are well-funded, and have been around. You can read more about it our funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]

If you are an experienced Community / Social Media Rep or a Sales Engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog [3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [4] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [5] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Felt | Product Marketing Manager (and Sales Engineers) | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps and work with geospatial data on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. We are taking on an industry that's been stagnant for more than 30 years, but is essential to the workings of practically every company.

Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are looking for a product marketing manager who will put our platform in the front the eyes of the right people. The ideal PMM will have worked for a technical product and knows how to talk about it, have worked on launches (we do a lot! [2]]) and is comfortable in a start-up environment.

We are well-funded and organized. You can read more about it our funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]

If you are an experienced PMM or a Sales Engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog [3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [4] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [5] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
I can't speak for Tyler (the author) but as someone who's worked with him and managed him for over 2 years, I'd say take Tyler at his word versus assigning malice to his writing.

He's a powerhouse of a developer, loves, LOVES the ecosystem and has always wanted to give back as much as he could. He's submitted patches to the core, he did so much for our Elixir CI and felt bad not giving it back via open-sourcing it and then blogging on our platform.

Tyler was instrumental in many of our technical decisions at our company, and I can confidently say nothing he made us buy was unnecessary, and he often worked very hard to save us the smallest bit of money.

Just my 2 cents!

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Felt | Web App / Elixir Engineer | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for an exceptional Elixir engineer. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an engineering manager, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be joining is full of expert engineers, and well known people in the Elixir community. You might have used their work already.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced Elixir engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
Felt | Engineering Manager, App and Data | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a hands-on engineering manager for our application and data teams. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an engineering manager, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be managing is full of expert engineers from Facebook, Carto, Mapbox, and Uber. You might have used their work in mapping already; such as Tippecanoe. We also recently announced our sponsorship of QGIS [5] and have some amazing stuff planned in the next couple of quarters.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [6], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced manager, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://felt.com/blog/felt-flagship-member-of-qgis [6] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [7] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Felt | Engineering Manager, App and Data | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a hands-on engineering manager for our application and data teams. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an engineering manager, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be managing is full of expert engineers from Facebook, Carto, Mapbox, and Uber. You might have used their work in mapping already; such as Tippecanoe. We also recently announced our sponsorship of QGIS [5] and have some amazing stuff planned in the next couple of quarters.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [6], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced manager, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://felt.com/blog/felt-flagship-member-of-qgis [6] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [7] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Felt | Engineering Manager, App | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for a hands-on engineering manager for our application team. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an engineering manager, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

If you are an experienced manager, please reach out via hello@felt.com!

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... [3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day [4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel... [5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [7] https://felt.com/careers

cancan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
Felt | Frontend Engineer | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for our next frontend engineers. At this role, you will help build our beautiful interactive mapping front-end, pushing the boundaries of what's possible on an infinite canvas. Ideal candidates will have experience with Canvas, WebGL and other web graphics technologies, comfortable with complex UIs that work in multiplayer settings. Feel free to check out our blog on some of our work [2][3] and see if this excites you.

We are well-funded and and you can read more about it our funding here [4], and our announcement here [5]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[6]

If you are an experienced frontend engineer, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN!

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r... [2] https://felt.com/blog/from-svg-to-canvas-part-1-making-felt-... [3] https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... [4] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie... [5] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a [6] https://felt.com/careers

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