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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
SigFig | San Francisco | http://sigfig.com
== Sr Software Engineer, Data ==
We're looking for an engineer to lead one of the the world's biggest portfolio tracking platforms! We currently sync $75 billion with over 80 brokerages.
The ideal candidate will have deep experience in web scraping and web service APIs to build out and expand our platform. If you have a knack for scraping websites with challenges such as requiring authenticated sessions and relying heavily on AJAX to render content — and have a strong interest in finance — let's talk.
= Responsibilities = * Develop and expand our technology for importing data from brokerages and other data providers * Build systems and monitors to ensure the imported data is reliable and accurate * Lead other engineers who are fanatical about web scraping challenges
= Ideal Qualifications = * Relentless resourcefulness (of course!) * 5+ years experience in software development, and in particular web scraping technologies * Expert in developing (PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++) * Extensive experience building scalable, reliable distributed services * Knowledge of Amazon Web Services, NoSQL, or Statistics is a plus * Interest in investing a huge plus
Please contact [email protected] with your LinkedIn profile or resume.
Comment · 13 years ago
Guessing a large portion of that funding go towards marketing. They've likely proven that their acquisition costs can scale profitably. They should grab customers before others come along with a similar offering.
Comment · 15 years ago
We've surveyed over 1600 Groupon merchants, and 75% say they would like to use Groupon again. In general, it seems they are pretty satisfied.
We did a text analysis of over 150,000 words of open-ended responses:
* Fewer than 2% of all these merchants even mentioned "cash upfront" as a benefit of running a deal. Not a single one mentioned it as a primary benefit/drawback.
* A few merchants did in fact complain that Groupon sometimes held on to the cash a little TOO long before funding their accounts
* FYI, the top stated benefits were "New Customers" and "Advertising Effect".
Groupon is in no way perfect, but its characterization as a check casher is pretty silly. I'm sure if you hunt hard enough, you can find an unhappy Groupon merchant and put words in their mouth.
SigFig tracks over $315 billion in assets for everyday investors like you. We recently launched personalized, software-based asset management that anyone can afford for $10 per month, flat.
We're backed by Union Square Ventures, Bain, and Doll Capital Management.
Lead SRE / DevOps: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/4
Full-Stack Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/1
Lead QA Engineer: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs/Engineering/3
Growth Engineer: If you're obsessed with growth, love scientific experimentation and think that the most exciting code is what impacts the business the most, email [email protected] so I can accelerate the process for you
Full list of opportunities for engineers, designers and product managers here: https://www.sigfig.com/l/jobs