Defy Ventures - backend software engineer- NYC
We’re a rapidly-growing startup solving a problem most people never think about.
At Defy, our mission is simple. We help formerly incarcerated men and women become legal entrepreneurs by taking them through a rigorous blended learning program.
At Defy, we believe men with criminal histories:
- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool
- Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished
entrepreneurs and salesmen
- Share skills and talents with top business leaders
Defy Ventures is 'Y-combinator for men with criminal backgrounds.' We harnesses the natural talents of formerly incarcerated individuals, and transform their hustle toward the creation of profitable and legal business ventures.
You would build and scale a customized eLearning platform based on the rapidly growing Open edX platform (http://code.edx.org/)
You: Must be able to develop code front to back, with knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, Marko MySQL, MongoDB, some Ruby and NodeJS
You'll get:
- Competitive Salary
- Full medical
- Unlimited vacation days
- Paid Phone bill
- Paid travel to conferences
Defy is an awesome team of incredibly smart individuals who love what we do and are making waves in the most underserved population in the United States. Come join us and make your work meaningful.
If you're interested, shoot us an email at careers@defyventures.org with the subject line "Hacker News- SE"
TaskRabbit has made a recent shift into a B2B play, too, as they've never been sustainable. They also made a shift in company size laying off several staff members.
Order Placed! I'd be curious to know the the male/female tee style breakdown of the sales. Could the nice folks at teespring provide us with these stats?
Dude, have some compassion. It's upsetting that this is the top voted comment. Not everyone is as well-informed and knowledgeable about things like this as you are, and this first-hand account of her experience will likely help a lot of people experiencing similar issues.
>>Using drugs to gain an unfair advantage over other people at work has unhealthy emotional side effects? Am I to be suprised by this?
Your claim that this stimulant gives its users/abusers/misusers an "unfair advantage" over those who don't use it (ie you) not only contradicts your following statement (that it causes emotional side effects) but also tells me that perhaps you're angered or upset by this perceived 'unfair advantage' you see this drug giving your peers.
If you looked at the big picture, or her story, you'd see that the drug doesn't, in fact, give its abusers an unfair advantage. Whatever temporary 'gain' they are getting is unsustainable and clearly destructive both emotionally and physically.
First of all, the two are not mutually exclusive. She explicitly states that she was better able to perform at work and experienced a better social life, but also faced emotional problems.
To the second point, he probably is. This is to be expected. There is very little reason to by sympathetic to someone who abuses prescription drugs in order to achieve success in school or outlast their peers in the working world. The fact that she decried her plight makes it all the more irksome: before she was a "victim," she consciously chose to abuse these drugs, then lied to her physician and continued taking them for months...
I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it.
Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just stop complaining.
Also, their mobile website isn't fully functional or in some cases usable. I beta test it, and it's riddled with bugs and missing features. Frankly, a lot of services today are skipping mobile web all together, and focusing on driving app downloads to provide a richer experience.
Bottom line: Services valuable to end users are also running a businesses. We must learn to give and take.
Exactly. Assuming what GP wrote would be true about Quora going out of business, maybe it would be better to just let them die? At some point someone will come who will strike the right balance between providing quality, earning money and not being annoying. They will survive, and we'll be better off. StackExchange network proves that it is possible in this case.
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone.
This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.
You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.
Care.com (Matrix, Trinity Ventures funded) is hiring an ios developer to join a small, fast-paced mobile team within care.com to lead our iPhone and iPad developments.
This is a lead iOS engineer position for you to grow into as we grow our iOS efforts.
You'll be working with a talented, fun and passionate team of individuals in a company that offers great benefits and compensation packages. We're also looking for an iOS designer.
We're looking for mobile UI designer to help grow our mobile application team from the ground up, and play a big role in designing and defining mobile web and mobile app experiences for our Karoo and care.com apps.
Ideal candidates will have strong portfolios of work that demonstrate beautiful and thoughtful product design and a passion for designing simple and intuitive mobile web and mobile application interfaces.
You'll also be working on an awesome team in a fast-paced, iterative and entrepreneurial environment. Email or tweet me if interested, my name is Katelyn: friedsonkatelyn@gmail.com, http://twitter.com/kfriedson
At Defy, our mission is simple. We help formerly incarcerated men and women become legal entrepreneurs by taking them through a rigorous blended learning program.
At Defy, we believe men with criminal histories:
- Represent America’s most overlooked talent pool - Are some of the scrappiest and most accomplished entrepreneurs and salesmen - Share skills and talents with top business leaders
More here about the role here :http://defyventures.tumblr.com/lead-engineer