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Forma | joinforma.com | Fully Remote | Full-time | US-only

Forma is a life benefits platform that helps modern companies design and scale flexible, global benefits programs with options that fit employee’s lives, from health and wellbeing to lifestyle programs and beyond. With flexible benefits that are delightful, distinct, and designed to support people’s wellbeing, Forma has helped companies like Stripe, Zoom, Allbirds, and Twitch design and deliver flexible, inclusive benefits programs to their workforce in a modern way.

We’re looking for Software Engineers and Product Designers, at the moment! We’ll certainly look for Product Managers in the future, as well. We work with full-stack Javascript (including Typescript and Node.js).

As a benefits company, we pride ourselves on creating a company where people love to work. Home to a growing team of bright minds–from engineers and executives to artists and technologists, our work is shaped by a myriad of passions and perspectives. Together, we’re building better benefits that work for everyone.

We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to apply online or feel free to reach out directly to me at john.kempe@joinforma.com!

Also, I'm happy to field questions and/or requests directly via email. You can email me at john.kempe@gusto.com!

Gusto | San Francisco, CA + Denver, CO + New York, NY | Software Engineers & More! | http://www.gusto.com/careers

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide.

Besides the brand-speak, we’re also a really focused, hardworking, and empathetic team that’s growing both our business and our headcount in tandem. We’ve got openings in San Francisco, Denver, and New York for Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers, as well as the occasional remote opening. We’re really focused on senior folks right now (think 7+ years of experience, the more the better) who can help us continue moving our product and codebase forward and deliver value to customers. You can see a bit more about us at our Careers page (linked above) as well as KeyValues (https://www.keyvalues.com/gusto).

We’re not much for talking about valuations, but our last one was $3.8B, and we continue to grow that number at a really fast pace (two years ago it was ~$1B). All that means for new folks to Gusto is that we exist in a fun middle-ground with a large, established customer base as well as a strong track record of growth and plenty of upside ahead. We’d love to tell you more.

Some roles that we have open right now:

SWE, Product (San Francisco): https://boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/1337386

SWE, Product (Denver): https://boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/1337391

SWE, Product (New York): https://boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/1712558

Hi! I'm a recruiter at Gusto. How long ago was this? I'm hoping it wasn't me; sometimes things fall through the cracks.

If you're interested in chatting again, I hope to make this right. Feel free to email me directly: john.kempe@gusto.com

Gusto | San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO | Onsite | Fulltime http://www.gusto.com

we serve 60,000 small business customers with our Payroll, Benefits, and HR software suite, which allows them to move faster and gives them peace of mind about back-office tasks in their business. Our Product Engineering teams build this suite of software, each focused on a different slice of the pie: Payroll, Benefits, and HR.

We're hiring all sorts, but software engineers are my focus. We're a Rails stack (we make Ruby do some fun stuff), but it is absolutely not required to have Ruby OR Rails experience. React on the frontend!

Feel free to apply directly or drop me a note at john.kempe@gusto.com! I can help find the right POC!

We'll be there at Gusto! We're excited to meet great candidates and share more about the work we're doing to build the People Platform for small businesses!

Gusto | Software Engineers (all types!) | SF, Denver, Seattle | http://www.gusto.com

At Gusto, we serve 60,000 small business customers with our Payroll, Benefits, and HR software suite, which allows them to move faster and gives them peace of mind about back-office tasks in their business. Our Product Engineering teams build this suite of software, each focused on a different slice of the pie: Payroll, Benefits, and HR.

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. By making complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal, Gusto is reimagining HR, payroll, and benefits for over 60,000 companies nationwide. Gusto has offices in San Francisco and Denver and the company’s investors include Google Capital, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as the founders of Instagram, Stripe, Nest, PayPal, Yelp, Dropbox, and Eventbrite, among others.

Apply at gusto.com/careers!

Gusto | Software Engineers [Senior Levels] | San Francisco, CA or Denver, Colorado | Full-Time | ONSITE

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business customers truly love our product and we think you’ll love building it. Come join us in SF or Denver and help serve over 60,000 businesses across the country.

We recently launched Flexible Pay, which will help modern employees of SMBs have a more visceral connection to income. Read about it on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/gusto-flexible-pay/

In case you want some more technical details, here's a link to our engineering blog: https://engineering.gusto.com/

Apply here: https://grnh.se/0cagm28b1

Or feel free to email me directly! I’m john.kempe@gusto.com.

Quick callout: we're hiring at Gusto if anyone wants to join us...

gusto.com/careers

Recruiting is pretty hard, actually. It takes a lot of moving pieces, and there's a lot of work to be done. This work is split between recruiters who manage the overall candidate relationship, interviewers who assess the candidates, and managers who are staffing their teams and thus do a lot of other work. There are also coordinators and all kinds of other folks.

If my understanding about product development is correct, it's not that different from building a product. Besides engineers, there are product managers, designers, researchers, and managers in that process as well. There are all kinds of processes and dependencies that go into it. Same with recruiting :)

Ultimately, I believe the heads of both Talent and Engineering have other responsibilities besides recruiting as well. Recruiting happens to be one where they share a lot of responsibility.

Forgot to mention: I'm also looking for recruiters for my team :)

Gusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers [Senior Levels] | San Francisco, CA or Denver, Colorado | Full-Time | ONSITE

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business customers truly love our product and we think you’ll love building it. Come join us in SF or Denver and help serve over 60,000 businesses across the country.

In case you want some more technical details, here's a link to our engineering blog: https://engineering.gusto.com/

Apply here: https://grnh.se/0cagm28b1

Or feel free to email me directly! I’m john.kempe@gusto.com.

NOTE: While we're happy to talk to almost anyone, we're seriously considering senior applicants right now.

Gusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers [Senior Levels] | SF or Denver | Full-Time | ONSITE

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business customers truly love our product and we think you’ll love building it. Come join us in San Francisco or Denver and help serve over 60,000 businesses across the country.

In case you want some more technical details, here's a link to our engineering blog: https://engineering.gusto.com/

Apply here: https://grnh.se/0cagm28b1

Or feel free to email me directly! I’m john.kempe@gusto.com.

Gusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers | SF or Denver | Full-Time | ONSITE

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business customers truly love our product and we think you’ll love building it. Come join us in San Francisco or Denver and help serve over 60,000 businesses across the country.

In case you want some more technical details, here's a link to our engineering blog: https://engineering.gusto.com/

Apply here: https://grnh.se/0cagm28b1

Or feel free to email me directly! I’m john.kempe@gusto.com.

Gusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers | SF or Denver | Full-Time

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business customers truly love our product and we think you’ll love building it. Come join us in San Francisco or Denver and help serve over 60,000 businesses across the country.

We were recently featured in Forbes around our efforts to diversify our engineering team: http://bit.ly/2HRWaUV

And Crunchbase recently featured us in a list of the most valuable YC startups: http://bit.ly/2Fc8nW2

Apply here: https://grnh.se/0cagm28b1

Or feel free to email me directly! I’m john.kempe@gusto.com.

It's really weird that their careers page has no listings.

whois listings

Shocked not to see LA in the post at all. Santa Monica (an LA suburb, more or less) appears once.

Same with the LA area here. "Santa Monica" is mentioned once, but if you aggregated all the locations that fall into the Greater LA area, I bet it would rank higher.

Well, recruiters are in the unique position of getting to talk to tens (or sometimes hundreds) of candidates a week for any given position, and asking them all a bit about salary usually yields a workable model for the market for any given role.

Some recruiters also have access to data from VCs or from other salary reports (there are a number of good institutions that run compensation surveys - access to these usually costs lots of money). Glassdoor is also a good source of data (sometimes) and PayScale is even better.

Probably true. I'm actually in LA, and we experience this too. Honestly, the best thing you can do in salary negotiation (and in almost any negotiation, probably) is to gather as much data as you can to inform your position.

Similar jobs in similarly-funded companies at similar stages should yield a pretty strong dataset of numbers by which you can construct your own ask. Easier said than done, for sure, but if you can - gather data!

I am a recruiter and I will tell you this: you should abandon this advice, for certain.

It's funny - probably the best advice anyone ever gives on negotiation is exactly the opposite of "don't name a number first." It's "anchor high." You should be anchoring to a number that is high but realistic, and negotiating from a position of strength. This is especially true for senior- and late-career individuals who have some experience under their belt.

Well, one of the most interesting features (in this case) of any Tahoe Aubrey McClendon would have been driving would be that it was very likely a CNG-converted Tahoe.

What's the best way to find a tax professional that can help with one's specific situation? I see references to Teaspiller all over Quora, but it's apparently shut down :(

Any advice here?

Twenty20 | Los Angeles, CA | Full Time | Onsite

Twenty20 is helping amateur photographers sell their work, and creating a new inventory of amazing photos for creatives to use in their work, allowing them to break free of traditional, inauthentic, staged stock photography. The oldest photographs in Getty’s image catalog have literally been for sale since 1920 - so boring.

By crafting a mobile experience that allows photographers to get inspired, gain a following and get exposure, as well as sell some of their work, we’ve grown to a massive community of 250,000 photographers, and we’ve got big brands using our photos: Google, Uber, Viacom, and Birchbox, to name a few.

Our values? We are guided by our mission and steered by metrics. We focus on the one thing that matters today. Along with a strong bias for speed and learning, we strive for excellence and elegance. We believe in being open and honest with one another. We believe in obsessing over our users, not our competitors. We are a perpetual work in progress.

We’re looking for:

- Full Stack Engineers (we mostly use Ruby and other elements of a Rails-like stack)

- Mobile / iOS Engineers (the mobile product we build is at the core of our business)

- Product Designers (the intersection of technology with media and design makes this an especially fun place for creators)

- Product Analysts (data is at the heart of everything we do)

If you’re interested, check out our jobs page: http://www.twenty20.com/jobs.

Twenty20 | Los Angeles, CA (Marina del Rey)

At Twenty20, we believe that authenticity matters. Almost 2 billion photos are uploaded to the internet each day, but brands, marketers, advertisers, and other creators are still shackled by the ancient inventory of traditional, staged, boring stock photography. Twenty20 is changing that. Our team's mission is to provide access to the most authentic imagery on Earth.

With a growing community of over a quarter-million photographers, and customers like Google, Uber, Viacom, and Birchbox, to name a few, we're on a mission to change the world of stock photography forever.

Want to know how we operate as a team? We are guided by our mission and steered by metrics. We focus on the one thing that matters today. Along with a strong bias for speed and learning, we strive for excellence and elegance. We believe in being open and honest with one another. We believe in obsessing over our users, not our competitors. We are a perpetual work in progress.

We have openings for fullstack software engineers (Ruby experience a plus) as well as openings on our mobile team.

We're also hiring some non-technical people! Operations/finance, product management, design, and account managers.

Our job board is here: http://www.twenty20.com/jobs

You can also email me (our lead recruiter) at john[at]twenty20[dot]com :)

Twenty20 - Los Angeles, CA - http://www.twenty20.com

Mobile Software Engineers

We're working on democratizing the world of stock photography, allowing amateur photographers to be recognized and compensated for their work and helping brands use better, more authentic content in their visual communication efforts.

We're a Rails shop on the backend, but we're never afraid to grab the latest tools to make us better. We're looking for mobile engineers to join our team... Right now we're focused on iOS. We love generalists who are interested in diving in! We're also hiring some salespeople, but I suspect not many of them are reading HackerNews :)

Twenty20 - Los Angeles, CA

We're looking for a senior/lead mobile developer to come help us change the world of stock photos.

I'm our internal recruiter; feel free to reach out to me at john@twenty20.com.

Here's the job description: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/Y6eZhv/Sr-Mobile-Soft...

Twenty20 - http://www.twenty20.com/ - Los Angeles, CA

Twenty20 is building the world's premier creative exchange. We're disrupting the stock photo industry with the world's largest (and growing!), crowdsourced, commercially-available image catalog. We write awesome software, work collaboratively, and have lots of fun.

We're hoping to meet a senior mobile engineer who has the chops to lead our team in the development of our iOS app. There's a full job description here: http://twenty20.theresumator.com/apply/Y6eZhv/Sr-Mobile-Soft...

Chrome sucks, Firefox kind of sucks, and Safari is good but it lacks extensions.

Are we going to go back to the days of no great browser options? Please no.