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TetraScience | Senior Software Engineers | Boston,MA | On-site, Full-time

TetraScience is a Boston-based SaaS company and rapidly growing startup that is applying the Internet of Things (IoT) playbook to lab research. We build both hardware and software components that allow research organizations to connect their existing lab instruments to a single online dashboard where they can coordinate experiments, monitor equipment parameters, and manage experimental data. With the insights and extra control provided by TetraScience, research organizations can more intelligently plan for future research cycles thereby alleviating equipment and process bottlenecks. In short, our goal at TetraScience is to use IoT to reduce the cost of doing science and while simultaneously increasing researcher efficiency overall.

We looking for some Senior Software Engineers to join the team who love to build, who share our interest in facilitating scientific advancement, and who wants to be an early and significant contributor to such an ambitious and impactful venture. We're Node.JS/React/AWS shop but prior experience in these is not necessary if you're wicked smart.

Apply here: https://tetrascience.workable.com/jobs/410837

TetraScience | Lead Backend Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | $100k - $160k + equity | Boston | ONSITE | http://tetrascience.com

TetraScience is a Boston-based SaaS company and rapidly growing startup that is applying the Internet of Things (IoT) playbook to lab research. We build both hardware and software components that allow research organizations to connect their existing lab instruments to a single online dashboard where they can coordinate experiments, monitor equipment parameters, and manage experimental data. With the insights and extra control provided by TetraScience, research organizations can more intelligently plan for future research cycles thereby alleviating equipment and process bottlenecks. In short, our goal at TetraScience is to use IoT to reduce the cost of doing science and while simultaneously increasing researcher efficiency overall.

Because our goal at TetraScience is to effect industry-wide change, we have intentionally built a team of passionately curious engineers of diverse backgrounds who support science and value scientific advancement. As a result, our team is an excellent counter-example to the claim made by Jeffery Hammerbacher the founder of Cloudera when he said “The best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” In a time when aspects of common consumer technology has created problems like filter bubbles and fake news, TetraScience empowers researchers to seek truth from fact.

We looking for a several roles in engineering: a Lead Backend Engineer, a Lead DevOps Engineer and a Full-Stack engineer to join team who love to build, who share our interest in facilitating scientific advancement, and who want to be an early and significant contributor to such an ambitious and impactful venture. See these and all of our available roles here: https://tetrascience.workable.com/ or email me directly dmorgan[at]tetrascience[dot]com.

Lola [https://www.lolatravel.com] | Boston | Full Time | Onsite

We’re a new kind of travel company that provides on-demand, personal travel service through a smartphone app. The Lola app instantly connects people to our team of travel consultants who find hotels, research vacation dreams, book flights and anything else our customers need. We also help while they’re on their trips. In short, we take care of our members’ every travel need.

The name Lola is shorthand for longitude and latitude, a system created to make seaborne navigation easier, and in that same spirit, we started Lola to give more people access to a premium level of travel care.

--Devops--

* 4 years of experience with Linux servers and associated software, plus network infrastructure

* Excellent understanding and application of software development processes (Git, branching, deployment). Experience with continuous integration packages (TeamCity, Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.) a nice to have.

* Scripting capabilities utilizing perl, python or equivalent

* Knowledge of corporate security obligations, including PCI and/or SOX compliance (Information Systems Security, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Threat Management)

* Experience with deployments on Amazon AWS

* Efficient technical troubleshooting

* Interpersonal skills with the ability to work with various levels of management and external vendors

* Organization skills and ability to work on multiple projects and/or assignments simultaneously

Ping me, doug@lolatravel.com, if you're interested!

Lola Travel Company - http://lolatravel.com/ | Web & Server Developers | Boston, MA and Westford, MA | Full-time | On-site

Lola Travel is a well-funded team that is looking to build the next great travel company in Boston. We hire for the person, not for the role. We look for people who have excelled on teams, including multi-year commitments to teams which have built successful mass-market consumer technology products.

A critical part of our success is a special web app that we have in mind. We need some real wizards at building fast, reliable HTML+CSS+JS web applications and scalable/reliable infrastructure to support our travel apps and web sites. Sorry, we are being coy about exactly what this app will do, but it something we think other folks are not paying attention to, and we don’t want to even bring it up.

If you join us, we promise this will be the most fun job of your career, and that you will be more productive here than you've been on any prior team. You will get to invent stuff, and to try it rapidly. Meet the team here: http://lolatravel.com/team/, complete job descriptions here: http://lolatravel.com/jobs/ and send us a note at hello@blade.net. Thanks!

BLADE - http://blade.net | Web Developer | Boston, MA and Westford, MA | Full-time | On-site

Blade is a well-funded team, currently in stealth, that is looking to build the next great travel company, in Boston. We hire for the person, not for the role. We look for people who have excelled on teams, including multi-year commitments to teams which have built successful mass-market consumer technology products.

A critical part of our success is a special web app that we have in mind. We need a real wizard at building fast, reliable HTML+CSS+JS web applications. Sorry, we are being coy about exactly what this app will do, but it something we think other folks are not paying attention to, and we don’t want to even bring it up.

Our ideal developer for this job: - Ace in HTML, CSS--ability to translate a pixel-perfect photoshop mock into a HTML - Expert in JS and/or modern JS frameworks: React, jquery, whatever. - Opinionated about visual design, even if not a designer

If you join us, we promise this will be the most fun job of your career, and that you will be more productive here than you've been on any prior team. You will get to invent stuff, and to try it rapidly.

Meet the team here: http://blade.net/team/ and send us a note at hello@blade.net. Thanks!

That's a really good point - we're just trying to make sure that bad actors can't be spammy and create accounts they have access to for lots of people without their approval (hence the approval step).  It's very possible that we can find a happy balance between the two, and we are actively looking into it.

Just did a search from Oslo to Montreal, and do see some Iceland air options (see link below). https://www.hopon.com/add/flight/results#dates=2015-06-10%2C...

In terms of how to book group/family trips there are a couple ways supported right now, and we're adding more workflow paths regularly:

1) You can invite friends/colleagues who can customize and book their own trips themselves - just click the big red "Invite" button in your triplist and invite the other teams to join you.

2) You can also ask to plan and book travel for a friend/colleague (See Account/Profile/Authorized users - they get an email, add their own password and approve you), then you can book for them using their profile information (you can add their profile info yourself if you want to) and your payment information - perfect for admins/team leaders managing a group of business travelers, or a parent buying for older kids. Booking for children that don't have an account is something we're planning to add. Here are details about how Authorized Users work: http://support.hopon.com/hc/en-us/articles/201240029

Hope that helps! You can always reach us directly at support@hopon.com

It's actually a fairly complicated business development process - we make money the same way the other travel booking/OTA (online travel agency) sites like Expedia/Orbitz do, but we think our differentiation is the simplicity of the site and social features we've built. If people have a good experience and share the site with their friends, then we will grow organically without a lot of expensive advertising.

So fundamentally we think we have built a better Expedia, that also happens to have a lot of social features. The core value of the site is that it's a much simpler way to plan a trip than currently exists. If you happen to be traveling with friends or colleagues, you can also invite people and they can customize and book a similar trip in a few clicks. There is a unique url that you can share with all the info on your trip so that people can check it out and decide to join - here's a example: https://www.hopon.com/triplists/1982?l=26e564b1e19b85ecf8106...

Thanks! Choose Backbone.js mostly because of personal experience in using it beforehand/being comfortable with it.

Thanks for the feedback!

1) Once you create a trip - just click the big red "Invite" button on the right side (desktop site) and you'll get options to invite friends/colleagues by email, share a link where people can see the trip details and decide to join, etc.

2) We just fixed the triplist page so you'll see your cost to book the trip - you ran into an edge case there, sorry!

For flights, we're plugged into exactly the same systems (called GDS's or Global Distribution Systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Distribution_System) that Expedia, Orbitz, etc use for flights. For hotels, we're using the Expedia Affiliate Network right now.

Thanks! Importing existing bookings from other sites (tripit style) is a feature that we have been working on for a while. Not quite ready for prime time yet, but we'll get there!

Thanks for the comment!

We are plugged into exactly the same systems for flight booking that Expedia, Orbitz, etc use for flights, so our prices are identical in 95%+ of the cases.

Yes - we're planning an Android app, but for now we have a (we think) very responsive and feature-complete mobile web app, in addition to the iOS app and desktop site.

While what we've built works great for consumer groups, it goes way beyond that. We've also built:

* Small/medium business features (https://www.hopon.com/why/business)

* Features for recurring solo trips (https://www.hopon.com/why/recurring)

* The ability to share past trips with friends/colleagues for easy copying (https://www.hopon.com/why/vacation)

Give it a shot and let me know what you think!

Yep - "social travel" has earned a bad reputation because previous companies haven't delivered on the promise of being able to easily book travel with friends and colleagues. We've spent the last year and a half building the tool we wish existed for our own personal and work trips - and think we're delivering the goods. Check it out and tell us what we could be doing better!

We use pyramid+gunicorn+nginx without any issue. Behind that is SQLAlchemy & Postgres (with memcached for caching layer)

I know that SurveyMonkey also uses the pyramid+nginx setup.

Edit: Pyramid Documentation: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html#py...

Congrats to Yash and the gang, great to see some GT grads doing exciting things!

hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Senior Visual Designer

hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space.

We've raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excellent track record of building great companies, and we’re now looking to round out our core product team. Our headquarters is in SoMa in San Francisco.

We want our app to be visually stunning in its simplicity. We’re looking for someone who is ready to make a name for themselves by driving the visual design of the next Uber/HotelTonight/Airbnb type of experience. Although the role will immediately be very hands-on, ideally we’d like to find someone who is ready to grow with the company and own the design group.

Want some more details? Reach out to me at doug@hopon.com.

hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time - Mobile & Web developers

hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space.

We've just raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excellent track record of building great companies, and we’re now looking to round out our core product team. Our headquarters is in SoMa in San Francisco.

We’re looking for 2 senior/lead engineers who are ready to make a name for themselves by driving the development of the next Uber/HotelTonight/Airbnb type of experience on iOS & Web. We’re looking for people who are not only well versed in iOS and/or Full-stack Web development, but also have a strong understanding of simple, clean UX. Ideally, we’d like engineers who can work with our CTO and designer to develop the product from scratch, and can then grow into managing our Mobile and Web teams in the future.

Sound exciting? Want some more details? Reach out to me at doug@hopon.com.

hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time - Mobile & Web developers

hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space.

We've just raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excellent track record of building great companies, and we’re now looking to round out our core product team. Our headquarters is in SoMa in San Francisco.

We’re looking for 2 senior/lead engineers who are ready to make a name for themselves by driving the development of the next Uber/HotelTonight/Airbnb type of experience on iOS & Web. We’re looking for people who are not only well versed in iOS and/or Full-stack Web development, but also have a strong understanding of simple, clean UX. Ideally, we’d like engineers who can work with our CTO and designer to develop the product from scratch, and can then grow into managing our Mobile and Web teams in the future.

Sound exciting? Want some more details? Reach out to me at doug@hopon.com.

Congrats guys! Speaking from SurveyMonkey's perspective, we're very happy customers :)

Having worked with Kevin for 2 years at SurveyMonkey, he'll make a great addition to YC, congrats Kevin!

Palo Alto, CA - full-time, SurveyMonkey, Mobile Software Engineer

We are seeking a seasoned mobile developer to become the first hire in our brand-spanking-new mobile team to help define, design and support our growing communication applications. As a developer you will work closely with other talented mobile developers and designers to drive the evolution and expansion of our current applications portfolio into new technology areas and market segments.

What I'm looking for:

* Direct experience building mobile applications for iOS and/or Android.

* Bonus points for building apps that enhance the user experience for a high traffic website or online property.

* Experience working with backend APIs and making improvements to them as necessary. We are a Python shop on the backend (Pyramid web-framework for those interested).

Email me (doug [AT] surveymonkey [DOT] com ) or apply via this job link if interested: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oRq7Wfw4&s=Doug

We also have lots of other jobs openings! Check them out and an overview of our company/culture at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/jobs/

About SurveyMonkey

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SurveyMonkey is the world's leading provider of web-based survey solutions, but there's really much more to us than that. We're a smart, passionate group of people who work hard to deliver the best survey experience on the planet, period. We do this because we believe everyone deserves easy access to the insights and information they need to make better, more informed decisions.

We're also proud to admit that despite our incredible growth over the past 10 years, we refuse to grow up. We are still small and nimble; everyone plays an impactful role; and when we say good ideas can come from anyone, we mean it.

SurveyMonkey is trusted by millions of customers, including 99% of the Fortune 500, as well as other businesses, academic institutions and organizations of all shapes and sizes. In any given month, we collect more than 40 million survey responses from people in all countries around the world.

If this sounds like home to you, and you're ready to make your work matter to millions, we'd love to meet you.

This reminds me some of WeBike: http://webikedoyou.com/

Regardless, glad to see some fellow Yellow Jackets doing well! Good luck guys!

At it's core Lamson is just a really sweet wrapper around smtpd (http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html) using asyncore for asynchronous socket IO.

When a mail is received you can optionally process it and when done processing you can drop it on the floor (e.g. you're done with it) or you can send it to a 'relay' which means a IMAP or POP server (or really anything) if you so choose.

I would generally say that yes, lamson is much more focused on receiving email via SMTP and doing [smart] processing on it.