People are reflexive. In a different context, driven by someone else, many of the people currently defending Harvard would instead be pointing out that Harvard and the other elite institutions are part of "the problem". In general this year, it's been interesting to me to see Republicans become protectionists and Democrats become neoliberal free traders, both parties flipping their talking points to either align or disagree with Trump.
Yeah, his reasoning is suspect to a lot of folks, but I’m not sure why everyone is so comfortable with the consolidation of wealth at these elite institutions.
Ellevest | Remote - USA only | Full Time | Senior Engineers
As a Senior Software Engineer at Ellevest, you will work to design, build, and support many of the core systems powering Ellevest’s software and user experience. From our web and mobile applications to our financial computation engine, our Engineering team is at the heart of our organization, ensuring a best-in-class experience for our clients. We follow agile methodologies and on a day-to-day basis, leverage Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native. Our systems run on a modern AWS stack, and our entire team works in a highly collaborative, flexible structure to build towards high-impact client facing outcomes. We're hiring for multiple positions on multiple teams, that range from heavy frontend/UX work to backend financial integrations.
We’re looking for:
- At least 5 years professional software engineering experience.
- Solid understanding of Ruby on Rails or Javascript fundamentals, and good command of object-oriented and functional programming.
- Experience supporting and scaling consumer-facing web and mobile applications and familiarity working with third party APIs.
- Good command of SQL and knowledge of proper database design and performance optimization.
- Strong attention to detail and a passion for learning and sharing knowledge.
- Familiarity working with third party APIs.
- Interest in working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and cross-functional work environment. This includes working independently and on a team.
About Ellevest:
Ellevest is a fast-growing, venture-backed financial services start-up built by women, for women. Our mission is to get more money in the hands of women, no matter where they’re starting or how far they’ve come. We started by building the only gender-aware online investing platform that takes totally un-ignorable realities (like pay gaps, different salary curves, and women’s longer lifespans) into account. Then we added banking, learning, and money and career coaching services for Ellevest members, plus a full-service private wealth management service that helps high net worth people, families, and institutions align their financial power with their values.
Ellevest was co-founded by Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck after she realized that the financial services industry was built by men, for men, systemically leaving women behind. During her Wall Street days, she served as CEO of Smith Barney, CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, and CFO of Citi. Ellevest has raised $145 million from investors including Rethink Impact, Pivotal Ventures, Valerie Jarrett, Salesforce Ventures, PayPal Ventures, MasterCard, Khosla Ventures, Morningstar, and Venus Williams.
Unfortunately, many engineers will consider themselves “blocked” after doing only 5 minutes of research and deciding they needed to interrupt someone else’s work for help. They are concerned only with their own productivity, not with the productivity of other team members who have to context switch to solve a different problem.
A standup encourages people to solve their own problems as best as they can, and to aggregate their interruptions to limit the number of individual interruptions throughout the day. Without a system like this, a team’s senior engineers may get nothing done besides assisting others.