I've been an early engineer in multiple start-ups, have co-founded 2 startups, and about a year ago, took a position where my primary role was to in-house logistics software in the healthcare space being developed by a 3rd party for about 4 years.
To succeed, you need a founder-type person IMO, who's full-stack, and has built great engineering teams. Hard to find, but possible.
The company I joined was also not a software/tech company, and they put the trust in me to define our engineering policies, how product-management happens, and put an emphasize of knowledge transfer for my first 3 months.
If you want to connect + talk more I'm at michael[at]mat.tax
Clincierge | https://www.clincierge.com/ | Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Remote | Full Time | $180 - $200k
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS
At Clincierge, we support patients in clinical trials worldwide. The key to our success is our collaborative and innovative environment. We are always looking for new ways to invent solutions to ensure the clinical trial process is easier and more personalized.
What we’re working on:
• Launching a travel portal serving the clinical trial logistics needs of patients, trial sponsors, and medical centers
• API Integration with ridesharing platforms, travel agencies, and clinical trial management software
• Powering customized data analytics/business intelligence reports
Not much traction on our Shown HN post, but we've had a lot of growth through our standup bots in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Still very much a startup, but we've re-branded to https://jell.com, have 4 employees, and a growing customer list!
We're building Jell (https://jell.com) to tackle this problem. We have 2 sets of core functionality: OKR tracking, and "checkins" which can act as a daily/weekly/monthly "standup".
You can add plans/tasks to your checkins (and mark them as complete), and link these items to your OKR's.
We've seen a lot of companies have success with our tool (many replacing daily standups with it). We'd love feedback.
I managed a small team of engineers and synchronous daily standups just broke down with remote teams and timezones.
It also just felt unproductive - it became something we did to feel like we had "best practices" when in reality it was a waste of everyone's time.
I got the sense that everyone would essentially forget what they said/heard at the end of the meeting (or was simply tuned out).
I ended up launching a tool to solve this problem: (https://jell.com).
We're a lot happier showing a "todo list" with each other and still have a place to write out the challenges/progress we're making - all while respecting each others time.
Disclaimer: I've been working on a similar product (https://jell.com) We don't have a bot (we do support slash commands).
One thing that sticks out to me (and a lot of the other standup bots) are that the screenshots/demo often only include the simple case of a user inputting a single answer to a question.
Does your bot handle multiple answers? Seems like that could be a differentiator for bots (and the reason why we've stuck with Slash commands).
They currently do, but some prefer a UI to manage the containers, and since we're using OSX, making sure boot2docker and the underlying VBOX image is in a good state can sometimes cause a few wrinkles that take a developer to straiten out.
Kitematic could abstract that layer (boot2docker) away with a GUI.
I wanted to use Kitematic as a way to get our non-CLI savvy designers up and running with our software stack on docker. They key feature missing IMO is the ability to "open" a docker-compose.yml file.
I want the ability for a designer to select "file open" and then select the docker-compose.yml file to "launch" our stack.
Without that, it seems like you still need to rely on the docker-cli to build images from a Dockerfile.
Great Pros/Cons on remote working. I've definitely felt cabin fever. I find a balance by going to a co-working spot once or twice a week.
Timezones can also be hard. We've struggled with getting our team together for daily standup meetings in the AM, which led us to build our own tool (http://heyflock.com).
Formstack is an 8 year old company with its roots in Indianapolis. Our customers span 110 different countries, and our employees live and work across the U.S. and the globe. We have employees in: Oklahoma City, Charlotte, Raleigh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cynthiana, Krakow Poland, Bethlehem, PA, Atlanta, Bloomington, and Indianapolis. We provide a remote work environment that is flexible and provides great freedom for those who can perform. With that said, relocation is not required if outside Indianapolis.
What You'll Do:
You'll be our first dedicated DevOps hire. You'll be in charge of maintaining production servers and the applications that run on them. You'll ensure that our MySQL databases are not only performant, but being backed up properly. You'll be in charge of ensuring that we have the redundancies and policies in place to support the high availability of our applications. You'll work with our engineering team to ensure the software that we build can scale.
How You Qualify for the Job:
- 3-5 years experience as a system administrator or DBA.
- Strong experience scaling the LAMP stack
- Strong experience with large MySQL databases (300GB+)
- Strong understanding of networking and systems architecture.
- Automation: CHEF, Puppet, Ansible, Fabric, Docker, or other configuration management software
Extra Credit Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS (EC2, EBS, RDS)
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- A love for Vim
- Language experience with PHP or Python
What Formstack Offers:
- Remote environment
- Medical, Dental, Vision as well as company-paid Disability and Life Insurance Benefits.
- 401k with matching company contribution
- Friday Lunch (Indianapolis Office)
- The most up-to-date technology, including company-issued Macs, the latest software and other tools needed to excel at your job
Great post, we (Formstack) built DailyStatus (http://dailystat.us) to ease our standup meeting pain. We're a remote company so dealing with timezones and internet connections for video was always a pain.
To succeed, you need a founder-type person IMO, who's full-stack, and has built great engineering teams. Hard to find, but possible.
The company I joined was also not a software/tech company, and they put the trust in me to define our engineering policies, how product-management happens, and put an emphasize of knowledge transfer for my first 3 months.
If you want to connect + talk more I'm at michael[at]mat.tax