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Comment · 5 years ago
Apriwell | VP of Engineering | Berlin | https://apriwell.jobs.personio.de/

We set out to reimagine healthcare and make it more effective, more accessible, more convenient, and yes, more fun! How? Using a mix of technology, medicine and ingenuity. Our vertically-integrated care platform powers a human-first, end-to-end healthcare experience that provides modern consumers with a complete solution for their chronic condition.

In your role as VP of engineering, you will have a direct impact on the evolution of our core technology platform. Therefore, your decisions in terms of architecture, technology selection and team will change lives. Join our experienced team to work on the future of healthcare.

We are currently preparing the move from our MVP product to the first full version of our platform. That means we can already build on our existing learnings but you can still influence key decisions in terms of technologies being used and what team to build.

See more here: https://apriwell.jobs.personio.de/job/383747

Comment · 8 years ago
Smart Host | Berlin, Germany | Senior Backend Developer (Java) | Full-time | Visa | Onsite | https://www.smart-host.com/

Smart Host is giving independent hotels the digital marketing tools that help them stay relevant in the age of booking.com and Airbnb. Our CRM suite consists of 3 modules: Guests: giving the hotels insights about their in-house guests in order to tailor services to their needs. Campaigns: to send only relevant information to their previous guests and turn them into returning customers. Offers: to craft custom offers for potential guests who are requesting a stay. All our modules are using advanced statistical analysis hidden in the background to synthesize actionable information and give clear advice to our customers on how to treat and market to their guests while avoiding to spam them with irrelevant information.

We are handling customer data with all the care it deserves and are, of course, fully compliant with GDPR. We do not mine from any external data sources and instead solely rely on data the hotels are gathering during a guests stay as well as online surveys conducted directly with the guests. This leaves us with generally very high quality of data.

Smart Host is a two year old, VC funded startup that is run by two experienced entrepreneurs who each have successfully founded two companies previously. All the members of the technical team are highly experienced and are looking for support from other experienced and motivated individuals.

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Python), Salary: 65k - 85k.

Full job description and contact details at https://www.smart-host.com/en/about-us/#careers

Comment · 8 years ago
Smart Host | Berlin, Germany | Frontend, Backend, Product | Full-time | Visa | Onsite | https://www.smart-host.com/

Smart Host is giving independent hotels the digital marketing tools that help them stay relevant in the age of booking.com and Airbnb. Our CRM suite consists of 3 modules: Guests: giving the hotels insights about their in-house guests in order to tailor services to their needs. Campaigns: to send only relevant information to their previous guests and turn them into returning customers. Offers: to craft custom offers for potential guests who are requesting a stay. All our modules are using advanced statistical analysis hidden in the background to synthesize actionable information and give clear advice to our customers on how to treat and market to their guests while avoiding to spam them with irrelevant information.

We are handling customer data with all the care it deserves and are, of course, fully compliant with GDPR. We do not mine from any external data sources and instead solely rely on data the hotels are gathering during a guests stay as well as online surveys conducted directly with the guests. This leaves us with generally very high quality of data.

Smart Host is a two year old, VC funded startup that is run by two experienced entrepreneurs who each have successfully founded two companies previously. All the members of the technical team are highly experienced and are looking for support from other experienced and motivated individuals.

We are hiring for following positions: * Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Python), Salary: 60k - 85k * Senior Frontend Engineer (React/Redux), Salary: 55k - 75k * Senior Product Manager, Salary: 55k - 75k

Full job descriptions and contact details at https://www.smart-host.com/en/about-us/#careers

Comment · 8 years ago
I am not with the company anymore but I think the quote originated from a VC who made this analogy during a pitch and the founder liked it so much that it was used it most of the pitches from that point on. Of all the places I would have never thought I would get much critique on it on HN but I absolutely agree that it is lacking clarity.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks, for the feedback. I will improve this and link to the english version next time as well as include info on team and salary.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I have mostly improved on marketing material that was already there but I can see now it should probably be rewritten completely for this purpose.

And I will try to convince them to include salary ranges. I have tried before but did not get permission. It is not required by German law to post the salary and instead sharing these numbers is even less common than what I have seen from US startups, even if their salary levels are actually very good.

Comment · 8 years ago
Smart Host | Berlin, Germany | Frontend, Backend, PM | Full-time | Visa | Onsite | https://www.smart-host.com/

Smart Host is a B2B SaaS platform in the hospitality industry. We offer hotels a powerful yet simple cloud solution to put their guest data to work. We collect guest data from hotels and guests directly, clean and enrich it, while treating the guest’s privacy with the respect it deserves. We analyze this data and utilize advanced statistical methods to take our client’s guest communication and marketing efforts to a new level. We are skyrocketing our clients into the digital marketing age so we need to simplifying the experience to the maximum through great usability. We are an early stage company run by experienced entrepreneurs.

We are hiring multiple positions:

* Senior Backend Engineer (Java/SpringBoot, Python)

* Senior Frontend Engineer (React/Redux)

* Senior Product Manager

Full job descriptions and contact details at https://www.smart-host.com/en/about-us/#careers

Comment · 8 years ago
I know that feeling. To me as someone who is not fully immersed in the JavaScript world the problem was also that there are so many different parts working together. You are describing that in your article as well. It helped me a lot to really just focus on one part of the machinery at a time and completely understand what it's purpose is and how it works exactly before moving on to the next. For example, take 1-2 days to learn webpack, then do the same for JSX and so on. Things become a lot clearer quickly when you understand why each part exists and it will make a lot more sense why things are done in a certain way.

JavaScript frameworks are more like loose constructs that don't hide the interfaces between the different parts very well. This is not a good or a bad thing but it is very different from, for example, Rails which I found much easier to learn as a whole. You can accomplish a lot with Rails without even knowing about the different gems of which it is composed.

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The best you can do where success is guaranteed is to teach underprivileged how to program for free and help them improve their situation by finding a job in the space.

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