Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

Come shape the future of streaming! Redpanda, a Kafka-compatible event streaming platform. With a compelling combination of no data loss, operational simplicity, and consistent performance at scale, Redpanda takes advantage of modern hardware to deliver the modern streaming platform for mission critical workloads.

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming. A fully distributed, diverse team, with members of Medellin - Colombia, London, San Francisco, St. Petersburg - Russia, NYC, San Diego, Germany, Canada, Poland and growing! Redpanda is looking for the following roles:

Software Engineer, Cloud - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4062311005

Software Engineer, Core Enterprise - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4104059005

Developer Experience Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4104548005

Developer Support Engineer- https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4017665005/

DevOps Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4116603005

Senior Product Designer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4118598005

Director, Growth Marketing - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4097209005

Solution Engineer (Pre-Sales) - https://boards.greenhouse.io/redpandadata/jobs/4115187005

To apply, visit the above job-specific URL, or at https://redpanda.com/careers/

About Upwave:

Upwave is a YC/venture-funded startup that helps large enterprises plan, measure, and optimize brand advertising campaigns. We offer a comprehensive set of tools that help our Fortune 500 clients understand and improve how they’re perceived in the marketplace, how aware consumers are of the value they provide, and how much consumers trust them to provide the value they promise.

We've been rapidly expanding our list of enterprise customers and deepening our integrations with "household name" partners like Amazon and Clorox. As we grow, we need engineers to help us build even more unique, differentiated, valuable, scalable, and robust analytical SaaS tools and products.

About the Role:

Upwave is a startup and we need an experienced generalist “startup engineer” who’s experienced doing the wide variety of technical work that modern SaaS startups need. That includes backend web development (JVM frameworks), frontend SPA development (mostly React), AWS-based cloud engineering, and some data engineering.

Our team emphasizes high-quality, high-velocity, sustainable software development in a collaborative and inclusive team environment. We’re a small team that gives our engineers a lot of autonomy, and we want people who are excited to step in and learn whatever’s needed to get the job done (whether that’s new technical skills or business domain knowledge.)

Depending on your interests and background, this could also be a "lead" role involving light management and leadership responsibilities. But in any case, it'll be a substantially technical and hands-on role.

If interested, email me: george@upwave.com

We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.

The problem we're solving

When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).

Tech stack

Our web stack is react/nodejs/graphql -- with some extra public REST apis (all typescript) - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).

Fun fact

We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.

What we need

We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on two main fronts: product + engineering. This is a very very complicated problem space (both from a concept + infrastructure perspective) and we need some crazy people to help us define what needs to be built + actually build it.

Reach out to hiring@fishtail.ai if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us (sr. full stack web eng posting on angellist is here if easier -> https://angel.co/l/2yanqJ)