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cstefanovici

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I'm Cat, a developer, designer, and web entrepreneur. www.cstefanovici.com
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cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
SportsRecruits | Senior and Midlevel Software Engineers working with PHP, Laravel, Vue and React Native | Remote (US) | sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the leading sports recruiting network, connecting athletes, clubs, events, and college coaches in the recruiting process. The company’s network and tools are trusted by sports organizations such as the IWLCA, IMLCA, NFHCA, and Junior Volleyball Association. Every year, millions of connections are made on the network, resulting in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions.

SportsRecruits is part of IMG Academy, the world's leading sports education brand.

Looking for:

1. a senior engineer with strong OOP and DDD skills. https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/m7xDEkcmrX/Se...

2. a mid-level engineer with a background in PHP, laravel and Vue and a strong desire to learn and work on a great team https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/yEdtjhFkby/Fu...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
SportsRecruits is hiring for REMOTE roles: SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, players, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

- Full Stack Software Engineer - Laravel/VueJS/ReactNative: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/HZLoke1GEk/La...

- DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/jlII3IyD0W/De...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
SportsRecruits is hiring for REMOTE roles:

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, players, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

- Full Stack Software Engineer - Laravel/VueJS: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/hLkfIQV9Zz/La...

- DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/458Y9KOgTK/De...

- Laravel / ReactNative Full-stack Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/RHHKNzYbzZ/La...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
SportsRecruits | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Remote | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, players, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

Here are our open roles:

- Full Stack Software Engineer - Laravel/VueJS: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/hLkfIQV9Zz/La...

- DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/458Y9KOgTK/De...

Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins, Terraform, ECS/Docker

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Laravel/Vue Full Stack Software Engineer SportsRecruits | Remote, HQ in Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, high schools, athletes, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join our team working either remotely or in our Brooklyn, NYC office. Working remotely you would be expected to be able to travel to NYC a few times per year for team building events. Our current team is a mix of remote and in-office (currently all working from home due to COVID-19). You will contribute to solving complex problems that will make our platform even better at connecting thousands of student athletes and college programs. Some interesting projects we’ve recently worked on are:

- New, in-browser video clipping and editing for making highlight reels - Robust player search for college coaches - React-native based hybrid iOS/Android app for recruiting events scheduling - Tools to intelligently automatically merge duplicate user data

Our two main technologies that we are investing most of our resources in are Laravel (a modern PHP framework), which we use for our API and Vue.js (javascript frontend framework), which currently powers the frontend application. We are looking for a candidate who is already interested and excited by the Laravel ecosystem and writing code that adheres to SOLID principles.

Tech Stack: PHP7, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins

More info here: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/VBWcuXFmym/La...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
SportsRecruits | Laravel/Vue Full Stack Software Engineer | REMOTE

Online recruiting platform providing clubs, athletes and their families online recruiting tools to communicate with and gain exposure from every college program in the country.

Work on projects involving custom video players, browser-based video editing, queues, activity feeds, hybrid apps

Tech Stack: Laravel, VueJS, React Native, Tailwind CSS, MySQL, Redis.

Apply here: https://sportsrecruitsllc.theresumator.com/apply/NVjeKmQboG/...

cstefanovici··on Show HN: Team newsletter instead of sharing links on Slack
This is a very nice experience and concept! Nice Job!
cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
Senior Front-end Developer SportsRecruits | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite or Remote | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, high schools, athletes, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

We are looking for a senior front-end developer that will take ownership of maintaining and building new JavaScript components, profiling front-end application performance, instilling best practices and working with the design team to iterate on our style guide, and application user interface.

This position will be reporting to the VP of Engineering.

More info and where to apply: https://sportsrecruitsllc.theresumator.com/apply/2tbB8Hz2lB/...

Tech Stack: PHP7, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)
SportsRecruits | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite or Remote | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, high schools, athletes, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

We are looking for a senior front-end developer that will take ownership of maintaining and building new JavaScript components, profiling front-end application performance, instilling best practices and working with the design team to iterate on our digital design system, style guide, and application user interface.

This position will be reporting to the VP of Engineering.

More info: Senior Front-end Developer (JS, Vue.js, Laravel)

https://sportsrecruitsllc.theresumator.com/apply/2tbB8Hz2lB/...

Tech Stack: PHP7, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
SportsRecruits | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, players, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/sportsrecruits

Here are our open roles:

- Full Stack Software Engineer - Laravel/VueJS: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/Wq3GmXc4oe/Fu...

- SEO Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/0KOg1Zg9C0/SE...

Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
SportsRecruits | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite | https://sportsrecruits.com

SportsRecruits is the platform that provides clubs, players, and their families with access to every college coach in the country. Club organizations use our platform to empower their players in the recruiting process and oversee their efforts and communication with complete transparency. Connections made on the platform have resulted in commitments to the best academic and athletic institutions across the country.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/sportsrecruits

Here are our open roles:

- Full Stack Software Engineer - Laravel/VueJS: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/Wq3GmXc4oe/Fu...

- SEO Engineer: https://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/0KOg1Zg9C0/SE...

Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, node.js, Gulp, Sass, Jenkins

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
SportsRecruits | New York, NY | Software Test and QA Engineer | Full-time | On Site

LinkedIn for college recruiting. SportsRecruits is a privately held NYC-based company founded in 2009. We empower student athletes to pursue their dreams. Our digital platform streamlines the recruiting process, allowing high school athletes to more easily and efficiently get recruited by college coaches.

Responsibilities:

- Review code (PHP, Javascript, HTML/CSS) - Write and review behavioral tests and Integration tests - Implement a process to allow developers to do continuous deployment using third party tools like TeamCity - Site reliability - ensuring third party APIs are functioning and have proper fallbacks - Work with the Product team to clarify requirements and identify different use cases and usability concerns - Solve complex automation challenges surrounding generating data for both automated and user testing

Requirements:

- Working knowledge of PHP and Javascript is required - Experience writing automated tests (behavioral, unit, integration tests) - Experience working on a continuous deployment team - Working knowledge of SQL, MySQL or equivalent db systems - Comfortable working with command line tools like Composer, npm, bower, etc... - Knowledge of Laravel is a huge plus - Desire to investigate and understand requirements, user behavior and bizarre bugs

Apply: http://sportsrecruitsllc.applytojob.com/apply/pYS4Xx/Softwar...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
SportsRecruits (http://sportsrecruits.com)| Full Stack Developer - PHP/MYSQL/Node.js/AWS | New York City | Full-time

We are "LinkedIn for high school athletes and college coaches". SportsRecruits streamlines the college sports recruiting process allowing high school athletes to more easily and efficiently get recruited by college coaches.

We are hiring a Fullstack Developer. We've built a platform that spans across 4 sports with thousands of paying users and club organizations, we have a real fun team, are growing quickly and always trying new technologies. You'll be able to have a direct impact on growing and scaling our product and join the team at an early stage.

Lots more details at: http://sportsrecruitsllc.theresumator.com/apply/WjOt2A/Full-...

Other links: http://soccerrecruits.com/club http://lacrosserecruits.com

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
http://builditwith.me/ has been around for a while but without much success
cstefanovici··on StackOverflow closed my question, that's why we exist
This website is brilliant. I am looking forward to contributing to Coding Style Guide.
cstefanovici··on We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer
Why doesn't anyone mention that our diets are also culprits because they weaken our immune systems. Diets full of fats cholesterol and cooked vegetables do not have the required nutrients that we need day to day. This is pretty eye opening: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528734/?ref_=nv_sr_1
cstefanovici··on Get help building your company: questions and projects with top experts
Thanks
cstefanovici··on Get help building your company: questions and projects with top experts
No it's a site that provides companies and their teams the following resources to build and grow the company:

- access to articles, advice, expert contacts according to their areas of interest

- questions and answers with top experts in any field

- paid projects with top experts done on the site leveraging Basecamp for getting the job done (this part is like a freelancing site... in which you know how good the person you hire is).

cstefanovici··on Resources to help you build and grow a company
Thanks Tom. Tom will be one of our leading experts in Web Development and is sure to work with some awesome companies in return.
cstefanovici··on Show HN: Timeboxing app for Mac
Sad to report that although the website for your apps look real good neither Zonebox or slap worked for me. - Zonebox crashed on launch - Slap doesnt let me add any websites.
cstefanovici··on Open sourced my code that gets updated stock quotes for stocks
Yeah it uses a Yahoo Finance Community table (YQL). I'd check the license for exactly where/how you can use it but it's essentially free yes. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=show%20tables&...
cstefanovici··on Petition to remove DA Ortiz reaches 25,000 signatures
Please don't forget about this one. Although it's more symbolic than useful:

Posthumously pardon Aaron Swartz https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardo...

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for suporters' projects. Would you use it?
Exactly the point. And you'd see what those who you follow are investing in as well.
cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for investors' projects. Would you use it?
my fail. I meant "investors who DO NOT get equity"
cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for investors' projects. Would you use it?
I think you misunderstood. Let me clarify:

By investors here, I mean backers/donors who receive a perk according to the size of their donation and who only receive that perk (which sometimes is the product the project is developing) if the project meets its goal. This is for investors who DO NOT get equity in a company.

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for investors' projects. Would you use it?
CLARIFICATION: By investors here, I mean backers/donors who receive a perk according to the size of their donation and who only receive that perk (which sometimes is the product the project is developing) if the project meets its goal.

This is for investors who get don't equity in a company.

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for investors' projects. Would you use it?
You would come to discover new things that others are working on either from your friends or from categories.

We would also have a more editorial section where we would keeps tabs on the projects you invested in.

For a user/investor/project backer the value proposition is: - you'd post your investments (and we're thinking of the most seamless way this can be done so there is no friction) so they can seen by others to help project succeed - you would follow people you know to see the projects they invest in and maybe get interested in those as well. - you can search by category, location, project type... to find interesting projects from across many crowdfunding plaforms (of which each is tailored to a certain niche)

cstefanovici··on Ask HN: Crowdfunding aggregator for investors' projects. Would you use it?
Not at all. Angel List is for companies and angel investors or VC investors. This is for people who invest in projects like the Tesla Museum on Indiegogo or the Android-powered Ouya console on Kickstarter
cstefanovici··on Ask HN: would you share your stock portfolio to be able to see everyone else's
I think it is more relevant what portion of their portfolio the investor allocates to one stock.. Zynga in your example. Which is something that we will are planning on showing a breakdown of.
cstefanovici··on Ask HN: would you share your stock portfolio to be able to see everyone else's
That's precisely the intended approach. We don't store your brokerage login data, we get an access token when you link your account and allow our application access.
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