The engineering team at Thumbtack, a local services marketplace, writes about A/B testing, web crawling, and building the company.
Most HN links are Thumbtack's own hiring posts in monthly job threads; the blog is also known for its open-source ABBA A/B test calculator.
http://startupdigest.com/classifieds/
http://www.quora.com/jobs
http://www.eventbrite.com/jobs/
http://foursquare.com/jobs
https://www.airbnb.com/jobs
http://www.cloudera.com/company/careers
http://www.squareup.com/
http://exchange.causes.com/jobs
http://www.quora.com/Union-Square-Ventures
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=company:%28adaptiveblue+OR+10Gen+OR+oddcast+OR+AMEE+OR+Boxee+OR+BugLabs+OR+Clickable+OR+Covestor+OR+Disqus+OR+Twilio+OR+Etsy+OR+Flurry+OR+Foursquare+OR+HeyZap+OR+Indeed+OR+Infongen+OR+Meetup+OR+Oddcast+OR+%22outside.in%22+OR+%22Bug+Labs%22+OR+pinchmedia+OR+%22pinch+media%22+OR+%22Return+Path%22+OR+Simulmedia+OR+%22Stack+Overflow%22+OR+StackOverflow+OR+Targetspot+OR+Tracked+OR+Twitter+OR+Tumblr+OR+Wesabe+OR+%22Work+Market%22+OR+Zemanta+OR+Zynga%29&l=california
http://tastylabs.com/
http://bu.mp/jobs
http://j.mp/vrvjbs
http://www.appmakr.com/hiring
http://www.stumbleupon.com/jobs
http://www.path.com/jobs
http://www.inkling.com/jobs/
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/
http://bloomreach.com/careers
http://tellapart.com/who_we_are/
http://www.topprospect.com/jobs/50
http://www.kiva.org/jobs
http://expensify.com/jobs
http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs
http://www.uberapp.com/jobs
http://www.campfirelabs.com/jobs
http://plancast.com/jobs
http://www.kabam.com/jobs.php
http://twitter.com/positions.html
http://gdgt.com/jobs/
http://1000memories.com/jobs
http://evernote.theresumator.com/apply
http://www.rethink…
Thumbtack | Software Engineer, Product Manager | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.thumbtack.com
Thumbtack is a local services marketplace that connects customers who need to get things done with skilled professionals who can help. We hope to fundamentally change the way customers identify and connect with local services professionals, a market estimated to be $700B in the US alone. We currently have over 260,000 paying pros per quarter on our platform and $250M in funding to enable growth. We’re currently focused on scaling our product even further. Thumbtack has had a stellar 2018; next year promises to be even bigger.
Thumbtack has a strong commitment to transparency, diversity and work / life balance. Having been at a number of companies of all sizes in the Bay, I can say that the people at Thumbtack are some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and genuinely kind that I have worked with. Both from a learning/growth perspective and an overall well-being perspective, this is one of the best places I have ever worked.
We’re hiring for the following roles in SF (3+ years experience minimum):
- Full Stack Engineer
- Front End Engineer
- iOS Engineer
- Android Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Data Scientist
- Product Manager
- Product Designer / UX
- Customer / Product Analyst
Keywords: React, Redux, ES6, Go, GraphQL, Scala, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, AWS, Postgres, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Puppet, Terraform, Python, R
More job details…
Thumbtack - San Francisco
Thumbtack helps people get their person projects accomplished by introducing them to local service professionals. We can help you refurnish your kitchen, hire a wedding photographer, and even a bartender for a party you are throwing. We work hard to empower small businesses to grow and be successful.
Some of our core values are 1) to help locally, scale globally, 2) to obsess over our customers, and 3) to improve relentlessly. To that effect, our biggest markets are actually in other cities such as Los Angelos and New York, and we offer employees a stipend for learning materials and conferences to encourage personal growth inside and outside of the office.
Our engineering team is now 18 people working in an office of about 70 total employees. We eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and play board games.
We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.
We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:
* Front-end
* Back-end
* Site reliability / DevOps
* Analytics and big data
* Statistics
* Data science
* Android
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/20/thumbtack-local-services-100-million-belly-dancers/
H1-B full time employees and summer interns are welcome to apply.
Contact richard @ thumbtack.com for more…
Thumbtack - San Francisco
Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives by introducing them to qualified and available professionals. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses.
Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious.
Our engineering team is a lean 15 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.
We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:
* Front-end
* Back-end
* Site reliability / DevOps
* Analytics and big data
* Statistics
* Data science
* Android
* iOS
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/20/thumbtack-local-services-100-million-belly-dancers/
H1-B and interns welcome
Please contact kthomas @ thumbtack for more information.
Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome)
Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We are a two-sided marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in these service industries. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses.
Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious.
Our engineering team is a lean 14 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.
We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:
* Front-end
* Back-end
* Site reliability / DevOps
* Analytics and big data
* Statistics
* Data science
* Android
*…
These are great! Thank you Evan. Your sample size calculator is wonderful and beats the hell out of the 90s tool I've been using which cautions me that my browser must support "JavaScript" to use it :)
As an alternative to the Chi-squared calculator, people might want to check out ABBA, a tool I wrote here at Thumbtack:
http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/
It shares the visual component and the linkability, two great features you've nailed. It lacks the live updating and the slider, which is really cool and something I've wanted to add to ABBA for a long time. On the other hand, it supports multiple groups compared against the baseline simultaneously and incorporates a correction for multiple testing into its p-values and confidence intervals, which can be handy. It also uses different mathematics under the hood, but that's not going to be a concern for most users.
Glad to see another step towards a more statistically-aware world!