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CLASSIC.COM | Software Engineer (Elixir) | Remote (Eastern Timezone) | Full Time | https://www.classic.com

We are building CLASSIC.COM a comprehensive platform for classic, collectible, and rare automobiles. As a leader in our vertical, our platform serves millions of users, and we are seeking two Software Engineers to help take our systems to the next level.

The Software Engineer (Elixir) will work in our Experience Team, which builds the complete experience for our customers. You'll use Phoenix + LiveView to build fast, modern, and efficient user experiences, and help continue to roll out Elixir to the rest of the organization. For more details or to apply, reach out to me at luke @ the company domain.

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Both roles are full remote, we do have flexibility regarding country, however there may be some countries we're not equipped to hire in. Though these roles are full time, we're also available to do contract type roles if necessary. Not interested in any recruitment help.

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CLASSIC.COM | 2 Roles: Software Engineer (Python) / Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) | Remote (Eastern Timezone) | Full Time | https://www.classic.com

We are building CLASSIC.COM a comprehensive platform for classic, collectible, and rare automobiles. As a leader in our vertical, our platform serves millions of users, and we are seeking two Software Engineers to help take our systems to the next level.

The Software Engineer (Python) will work in our Acquisition Team, which is responsible for connecting with 3rd party auction houses, dealers, and venues to bring their inventory into our system and performing additional enrichment to build our database of over a million classic cars. More details: https://www.classic.com/insights/now-hiring-software-enginee...

The Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) will work in our Experience Team, which builds the complete experience for our customers. You'll use Phoenix + LiveView to build fast, modern, and efficient user experiences, and help continue to roll out Elixir to the rest of the organization. More details: https://www.classic.com/insights/now-hiring-senior-software-...

If you reach out from Hacker News, please mention that in the subject line or email body!

Both roles are full remote, we do have flexibility regarding country, however there may be some countries we're not equipped to hire in. Though these roles are full time, we're also available to do contract type roles if necessary. Not interested in any recruitment help.

Comment · 1 year ago
Really like your web design!
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go through with documents this product would be extremely useful. I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with their usual format, therefor making it a less risky product to try?
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Thank you! Learned something new.
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I'm working on a workflow automation tool that lets devs write workflows in simple yaml files, and then deploy them to the cloud _or_ on premise. Each workflow is a set of actions and a trigger that can transform data, make api calls, run AI models, or really anything (via docker!). Each step relies on the output of the last step, and the workflow framework is engineering to be declarative, testable, and versioned. Similar to GitHub actions, but for *anything*. Think webhook to slack, email to support ticket, nightly aws backup & restore, mirror a file each night, etc.
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Fun stuff, got through all the levels but the difficulty only really scales on the last level!
Comment · 3 years ago
Really enjoy working with bits & bytes in Elixir. The syntax looks weird at first but pattern matching against an incoming message via individual bytes is very nice. I've found the gen_tcp / gen_udp stuff's documentation to be a little hard to grok as most of it only gives deep in the Erlang modules but once you "get it" you really get it. It plays very nicely with GenServer's too for super reliable, fault tolerant, tcp/udp acceptor clients. Thanks for the article, this will be a good resource for everyone to learn more about gen_tcp/udp directly!
Comment · 3 years ago
Unsure why, but the arrow examples you have there show up as unicode code blocks for me in Firefox on a Mac. Probably one of the reasons not to use them like that!
Comment · 3 years ago
We use it for our prod deploy pipeline to package the final image. Normal PRs are working because we cache the Ubuntu image, but prod deploys are fresh :(

Sooner or later, SSL expirations will come for you!

Comment · 3 years ago
I've had really poor experiences so far from Elastic.co. Their core ElasticSearch offering seems to be on the backburner while they focus on "App Search" and other unrelated products like their APM offering. This leads to pretty sub-par knowledge and support for the ElasticSearch product. Even simple things like paginating results is an unknown, and you really have to pay deep into their ecosystem to get real implementation support.

Oddly enough too, due to the way their cloud hosting infrastructure works it seems they double dip into bandwidth pricing that should otherwise be free (eg AWS => AWS). It's also treated less as a "Software" as a service, and more a "platform" as a service, so you are left ultimately with the responsibility of managing, maintaining, and updating your Elastic cluster, without any ability to SSH into the servers its running on.

Then there's the unprofessionalism of laying off your account manager during a client call, or telling your client that you're sorry their ElasticSearch infrastructure is down, but they can't really help you unless you're on their "Sapphire Extreme Plan" [sic]...

Even if OpenSearch is just a cog in Amazon's offering, at least it's of a known quantity.

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