Third Iron | Senior Quality Engineer | REMOTE (US)
Do you want to help scientists, doctors, and historians discover breakthroughs? Join our small, fully-distributed software development team to help connect scholars of all disciplines with peer-reviewed journal articles.
Our company has been remote-first since we began in 2011. You’ll join a team with plenty of experience putting into practice what works well remotely, and avoiding what doesn’t.
We've never taken VC money, and we’ve never had layoffs.
Third Iron software is used by researchers at over 2,000 organizations, including universities, hospitals, corporations, and government agencies, located in over 35 countries.
In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies and those who sell user data, we instead have a straightforward business-to-business model. We sell our subscription-based services to libraries, and anyone affiliated with one of these libraries can use our software. We do not sell user data. Our focus is on building the best software to enable research that changes the world.
### Senior Quality Engineer ###
We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who wants to help us define and continually refine the quality aspects of our software lifecycle, create automated tests, and monitor our quality metrics to ensure we're providing researchers and librarians with a great experience.
Ideally you have many years of quality experience in an agile environment, either as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Release Engineer, or Quality Assurance (QA) role involving web technologies. We care more about the quality of your work than the numbers of years
Playwright and/or Cypress experience is a big positive. We primarily create web apps, and we also have a popular browser extension, along with all the backend APIs and systems that support our many customer use cases.
Interest in working with our top-notch customer support team, release management, accessibility testing, or load testing are all nice extras, too.
> 2,100+
> CEO, CFO, Board, and other executive changes tracked in the past 30 days
Could you add a little metric there such as how many companies are being tracked, and perhaps how that compares to the previous 30 days, or 6 months ago, or 12 months ago?
Maybe a graph showing how many changes happen each month, so we can see when things are more volatile or not.
I was only talking about infants, and I thought Massachusetts's legal requirement of 3:1 was pretty common everywhere in the US, since one adult taking care of 3 infants seems so difficult... but a quick search shows me it's not! 4:1 is pretty common as a minimum nationally, though.
> And even high quality daycares might not help children potty train
It talks about a study from 1944 in the US, specifically in Minnesota. How many of those parents were full-time stay-at-home parents, probably typically mothers, who were monitoring the child and helping with potty training?
How many kids nowadays are in daycare?
When there is a 3-to-1 adult-to-child ratio, doing something like this is much more challenging when there's just one adult and one infant.
I used to use DuckDuckGo, until I realized I was using "!g" far too often.
Then I tried Kagi, and I find that works the majority of the time, including their AI. Someone else in the comments here said Kagi's AI models are bad, but I don't think they are for answering the fairly basic questions that I typically search. I'm not going to have Kagi's AI model refactor code or something though.
Just like the ideal political candidate to vote for generally does not exist for anyone, the ideal company with perfect stances and behavior on everything generally does not exist.
So yes, scale back your purchasing, but as you said: the options are limited, just like political candidates. Choose who matches up best with you, support them, but unlike your relationship to Apple, political participation has a VERY different piece.
You can't just show up and start influencing policy at Apple headquarters.
But you CAN just show up to some local organizing meetings of local grassroots organizations and political parties and influence things. You can have a direct impact, and these groups are usually small enough with few enough participants in your town that you WILL have a decent impact.
Third Iron | Senior Full-Stack Software Developer | REMOTE (US)
Do you want to develop software that helps scientists, doctors, and historians discover breakthroughs? Join our small, fully-distributed software development team to help connect scholars of all disciplines with peer-reviewed journal articles.
Our company has been remote-first since we began in 2011. You’ll join a team with plenty of experience putting into practice what works well remotely, and avoiding what doesn’t.
Third Iron has never taken VC money, and we’ve never had layoffs. Our approach to hiring and selling our products helps us feel confident that this pattern will continue far into the future.
Third Iron software is used by researchers at over 1,500 libraries, including universities, hospitals, corporations, and government agencies located in over 35 countries.
In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies and those who sell user data, we instead have a business-to-business model. We sell our subscription-based services to libraries, and anyone affiliated with one of these libraries can use our software. We do not sell user data. Our focus is on building the best software to enable research that changes the world.
We’re looking for a developer interested in full-stack work, since we have a variety of upcoming initiatives, some being mostly front-end, some being mostly back-end, and some a balance of the two.
The front-end of our stack primarily consists of JavaScript, using EmberJS for two major projects, and React for two others. Our backend is written in NodeJS, and features data storage using PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and CouchDB, and hosting primarily on AWS and HEroku.
If you're not in step with where you're at, and you can find other employment where you'll be happier, why not change?
You could apply your same logic to, "If you're in a relationship with a significant other, don't break up with them... get them to break up with you! You will absolve yourself of any regrets of dumping them." Yes, and you will have wasted both your time, and their time.
And the same goes for working at a company that you feel isn't good for you.
If the chips are cheap and easily available, and you know their failure modes, and they've been field tested for decades, why change?
It's very different from many software development attitudes, but remember that airframe manufacturers and avionics companies employ many people just to calculate risk and failure rates. The failure rates of these things are critical to the safety of your airframe.
I am scared that special grants to research rare diseases will go away, too.
If we're trying to figure out what the most benefit for each taxpayer dollar is, then a rare disease won't win out over, say, cancer research.
Someone may consider researching a rare disease as "waste," even though to everyone including the previous poster who is a widow because of HD, it is far from a waste.
When there is not much of a profit motive to do something - whether going to the moon or fighting a rare disease - public money is the best way to do it. And even throwing a fairly small percentage at it can create big achievements.
And that's one reason I'd like to see how much money and time went into this. We might be surprised that it's fairly small in the grand scheme of biomedical research costs!
What part of this discovery was made thanks to NIH and/or NSF funding from the USA, or the NIHR in the UK?
I don't ask to strictly bring up politics, but instead to try and address the broad lack of understanding of how medical breakthroughs like this are made.
It's not done just by drug companies. The article says:
> UniQure says it will apply for a licence in the US in the first quarter of 2026 with the aim of launching the drug later that year.
That's true, but that doesn't talk about the tens to hundreds of research papers that have been published over likely decades to make this discovery a reality. And it doesn't talk about how much public money went into this discovery.
Many people reading this article probably have a vague idea that more than just this company was involved, but I feel it is not at all clear to the vast majority of people, since the vast majority of people are not involved in biomedical research.
I wish there was an easy way to figure out how many dollars, how many grants, how many researchers, went into achieving this breakthrough. And that the media would put that into news articles like this. Trace all the citations back a few orders, and I bet you'll find a massive number of NIH and NIHR grants.
There is unfortunately not more massive, bipartisan public outcry in the US over defunding the essential basic research the NIH does... and it's not new to the current administration, since it was attempted to be done back in 2017, too [1].
Scientists need better messaging or else we're going to stop having breakthroughs like this... and the breakthroughs are already going to slow down thanks to things like the $783 million in cuts to NIH grants that the US SCOTUS authorized in August [2].
I have run the experiment, and Crunchy Data’s Postgres servers are 4X more bang for the buck than Heroku’s.
I let some folks at Heroku know this who are product managers, and they are investigating it… but I would be shocked if Heroku gets a big performance improvement anytime in, say, 2023.
20X seems like a lot for RDS, though I’d be curious to learn more! We are switching to Crunchy because of that clear cost/performance difference you mention.
Do you want to help scientists, doctors, and historians discover breakthroughs? Join our small, fully-distributed software development team to help connect scholars of all disciplines with peer-reviewed journal articles.
Our company has been remote-first since we began in 2011. You’ll join a team with plenty of experience putting into practice what works well remotely, and avoiding what doesn’t.
We've never taken VC money, and we’ve never had layoffs.
Third Iron software is used by researchers at over 2,000 organizations, including universities, hospitals, corporations, and government agencies, located in over 35 countries.
In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies and those who sell user data, we instead have a straightforward business-to-business model. We sell our subscription-based services to libraries, and anyone affiliated with one of these libraries can use our software. We do not sell user data. Our focus is on building the best software to enable research that changes the world.
### Senior Quality Engineer ###
We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who wants to help us define and continually refine the quality aspects of our software lifecycle, create automated tests, and monitor our quality metrics to ensure we're providing researchers and librarians with a great experience.
Ideally you have many years of quality experience in an agile environment, either as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Release Engineer, or Quality Assurance (QA) role involving web technologies. We care more about the quality of your work than the numbers of years
Playwright and/or Cypress experience is a big positive. We primarily create web apps, and we also have a popular browser extension, along with all the backend APIs and systems that support our many customer use cases.
Interest in working with our top-notch customer support team, release management, accessibility testing, or load testing are all nice extras, too.
If you’re interested in this fully remote position, we're interested to chat with you! Please apply at https://thirdiron.applytojob.com/apply/GRI2SRUc23/Senior-Qua...