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derekrb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
After 5 years, I've seen my fair share of both good and bad here, but this statement is objectively incorrect.

Cogo has pretty a impressive mix of entrepreneurial and engineering talent that I'm excited to work with every day. If you want to know more, you can always reach me directly at derek@cogolabs.com.

derekrb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Uplift Financial (Cogo Labs) | UI Designer | Cambridge (Boston), MA | Full Time | Onsite

The world of consumer finance is complex and poorly understood. Uplift Financial simplifies the process of making better financial decisions. Today, our focus is helping consumers find credit products that actually help them get on the right track - no payday loans here. As we grow, we'll be adding new product categories until we're a trusted advisor for every decision in our users' financial lives.

In this role, you're going to own Uplift's visual brand. You'll be solidifying and refining Uplift's visual identity across our various products and traffic channels, ensuring that our engineering team has the guidance it needs to build modern and consistent user interfaces. Additionally, you'll work hand-in-hand with analytics and engineering to recommend UI improvements across our full user journey from email outreach to funded loan, increasing user satisfaction as well as our financial performance.

Incubating at Cogo Labs (www.cogolabs.com), we're a team of engineers, analysts, and managers, working in a rapidly-growing market with the support of Cogo Labs' engineering and business expertise.

More about us: https://www.cogolabs.com/portfolio/uplift-financial Apply here: https://grnh.se/00257c312

derekrb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Uplift Financial (inbcubating at Cogo Labs) | Front-End Engineer | Cambridge/Boston, MA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME, VISA

The world of consumer finance is complex and poorly understood. Uplift Financial simplifies the process of making better financial decisions. Today, our focus is helping consumers find credit products that actually help them get on the right track - no payday loans here. As we grow, we'll be adding new product categories until we're a trusted advisor for every decision in our users' financial lives.

We're looking for a front-end engineer to help us build and optimize elegant and usable interfaces to connect our users to these products. Our sites are built with Django (Python) on the back-end and, for now, fairly simple HTML/CSS/JS up front. If you have strong opinions about how we could make things better, we want to hear from you.

We're housed in Cogo Labs, an incubator with 10+ years' experience building businesses on the web, including EverQuote (IPO), Autotegrity (acquired, ADP), and CourseAdvisor (acquired, WaPo). Cogo's founders were early investors in other Boston success stories like TripAdvisor and CarGurus. Learn more at www.cogolabs.com

Reach me directly at derek@cogolabs.com to learn more - looking forward to talking!