BuildZoom (YC W13 - www.buildzoom.com) is hiring for two full-time ONSITE positions.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - competitive salary / generous equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Engineer #8 (Full-stack Rails) - Full Time - competitive salary / generous equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between.
We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Front-end Engineer - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Full-stack Rails Engineer - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between. We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Product Manager - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
Chiefly responsible for coordinating our efforts in driving a product, currently used by millions of people each month in the enormous, trillion-dollar construction industry. Reports directly to the company's founders - we're looking for someone who is talented, diplomatic, strategic, detail oriented and works relentlessly to hit our company's goals.
Lead UI / UX Designer - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
Design is a key element to our continued success - users come to BuildZoom on the brink of making large financial investments and their first impression will be framed by our design. The transactions we enable can be intimidating to the uninitiated so one of our core challenges is to lay things out in a simple and straight-forward manner while always communicating that we have the user's back.
Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Full-stack Rails Engineer - Full Time - Competitive salary / equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between. We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
BuildZoom (YC W13 - www.buildzoom.com) is hiring for two full-time positions.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - $90k-$110k salary / 0.25%-0.5% equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Engineer #5 (Full-stack Rails) - Full Time - $85k-$105k salary / 0.2%-0.6% equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between.
We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
Half our team has kids, and most of our team comes from a variety of countries half way around the world.
99% of candidates don't even get into the salary discussion phase. It's hard to hire because candidates think they know more than they really do. Some have 5 years experiences, many have 1 year experience five times.
You're correct about start ups having serious problems that need solving and a good match in a candidate having the skills to do it.
The rest is far from it. The value of those skills to the start up is not a secret. Posting a range in a job listing doesn't convey to a potential candidate what his skills are valued at.
How much you deserve is determined by the biggest offer you can get. Compensation packages for early stage start ups aren't "cheap" as many on this thread tend to call. If all you care about is the salary, then early stage start ups are simply not for you. This is what I was attempting to convey in my original reply. This isn't a negative thing. If you think equity is worthless (which is how these packages are supplemented for the salary), then instead of getting offended that a start up is trying to rip you off, enjoy working at a bigger company that has the deep pockets for the salary you believe you deserve.
An early stage start up has a very limited amount of funds and time to develop their idea into its next stage. For each idea, there is a very unique combination of time, money, and resources. Paying the salaries benchmarked by companies that have billions at their disposal, will make a start up burn through their small amount of money, without ever having enough resources, in much less time than needed.
Reading about companies like Uber, Dropbox, Pinterest, and other big names get fortune-level valuations leads to misconceptions that these companies are still start ups and other start ups have the same capital.
Early stage start ups are companies you most likely haven't heard of yet. If you listen to a podcast course from Stanford by Sam Altman, you'll learn that it takes many years to build up a start up.
All this leads me back to my original statement: if you're looking for top-level salaries, don't care about equity, and think that believing in the product/vision is a joke, you shouldn't be looking at job postings on Hacker News.
I completely agree that being excited and not capable will not get the engineer and the company far. Yet being capable and only interested in the paycheck will not make an engineer understand the customer and what the problem being solved is.
In a start up with a team of 10 or less (including all roles), it's critical everyone is excited about what the start up is doing.
Actually if you look at the history of success stories, the core team was always filled with those who believed the vision. Start ups that have failed, most likely did not fail due to the team having too much passion for their product.
BuildZoom (YC W13 - www.buildzoom.com) is hiring for two full-time positions.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - $90k-$110k salary / 0.25%-0.5% equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Engineer #5 (Full-stack Rails) - Full Time - $85k-$105k salary / 0.2%-0.6% equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between.
We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
Couldn't agree with you more. Higher salaries very much represent a company's ability and desire to pay top dollar. I do caution on the long term bet. It's not as solid as may seem. I've come across many companies who throw money at the problem of not being able to attract/retain talent with market rate range salaries. Could be a number of reasons, including politics, lack of interesting projects, unsustainable culture, etc.
Another major point to keep in mind is salary today vs growth in coming years. Getting a high salary today may bring with it unrealistic expectations. It may be your future bonus and raises that suffer. Your annual review will roll around and the managerial perception will be that you're already paid more than everyone on the team, so you're not getting a notable slice of the budget.
My point is that things aren't always black and while, and long term may be not as advantageous as they seem. If you're looking for a career, hoping jobs every year will not help. Becomes a red flag on the resume.
This thread, and even forum, may not be the best place to get salary information first. Reason being, is this is a YC-related forum, full of early stage start ups, who are looking for core team members. A key attribute of key members is to be excited about the problem the company is solving first.
Salary is a very reasonable point of interest when it comes to new opportunities. This may not be the right place to seek those opportunities. Glassdoor, dice, craigslist may suit your needs much better.
Simply being blunt, if all you care about is a paycheck and hopefully writing great code, being Engineer #X at a start up is not for you. Every early member needs to be a natural advocate for the company.
There's also a middle ground between posting salaries on listing and going through 4 rounds of interviews. Companies don't want to waste their time either. You can also easily find out salary ranges for many of the jobs posted by looking at angellist.com.
In the end, if you and a company are a great match for each other, the compensation package will be much less of an obstacle.
Do you really want to miss the opportunity of a lifetime by skipping a company that simply doesn't post salaries?
BuildZoom (YC W13 - www.buildzoom.com) is hiring for two full time positions:
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Data Engineer #1
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Engineer #5 (Full-stack Rails)
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between.
We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
Outsourcing works if you're able to define the requirements of new features in extreme detail, covering every nuance and edge case. This is the opposite of what start ups are all about: incremental steps and iterations.
The result of outsourcing in start ups frequently ends up with a most of misunderstanding and back and forth. Code not written with potential business needs in mind, and everything that goes with that.
It would be cheaper if it took the same time as doing locally and provided same level of quality. This usually doesn't happen. So what's saved in developer salaries is spent in founder/product manager time and delay of release.
You're not screwed. If you're within commuting distance from San Francisco shoot me an email: [email protected]. We are hiring smart engineers with potential.
Our goal is to take the risk and complexity out of construction and remodeling by providing homeowners with all the information they need to make great decisions. To get there, we put the product first and are passionate about building something people love and want to use.
Headquartered in a beautiful office in downtown San Francisco, our diverse company includes an economist who lectures at Berkeley, a licensed general contractor, game designer turned marketer and a team of talented engineers.
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Data Engineer #1 - Full Time - competitive salary / generous equity
We're looking for a talented data engineer with experience in large data sets, to take ownership over our system that collects, analyzes & publishes the data.
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Engineer #8 (Full-stack Rails) - Full Time - competitive salary / generous equity
In this role, you’ll be working throughout the stack to move our consumer marketplace site forward. Responsibilities will range from server configuration to front-end implementation and everything in between. We're looking for someone that will jump at the opportunity to take ownership of product features that drive traction, which will be used by tens of thousands of users each day.
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Email [email protected] to chat about the roles.