janpieterz

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Comment · 4 months ago
Trinsic | Senior Product Engineer | REMOTE (Europe) | Full-time

We're building the first Identity Acceptance Network, the "Visa for ID." Humanity is editing genes, starting space tourism, and verging on artificial general intelligence. Meanwhile, identity verification is still done by taking pictures of plastic cards.

Role - Senior Product Engineer (#5 on the team; ~20% of engineering capacity). High ownership, product-minded, backend and systems leaning. - This is not a ticket-churning role. You should want to understand the competitive landscape, listen in on customer calls, bring engineering insight to product discussions, and own features end-to-end. - You should be a Barrel: someone who can take on ambiguous work, pull together the right context, make tradeoffs explicit, and drive without needing to be told every next step. Revenue is surging, we need judgement to help shape the product. - Strong backend/platform experience; generalist enough to move up/down the stack when the product needs it. - You care deeply about user privacy and data security. We work on identity. Sloppiness here is not an option.

Stack & ways of working - .NET (C#) backend, React + TypeScript frontend, Azure Container Apps, Azure SQL/Storage, Bicep IaC, GitHub CI/CD. - Remote-first; North America (CT +/- 2) or Europe (CET +/- 1). Strong async work habits; 4 hrs/week of scheduled meetings on average; pairing/huddles when useful. - We use AI aggressively and prudently. You'll have a large token budget, but we expect strong judgment around the risks.

Comp & apply

- Salary is set by our compensation philosophy, with meaningful equity. We discuss compensation early so neither side wastes time.

- Apply: https://www.trinsic.id/careers/senior-product-engineer?utm_s...

If you're in a workable timezone and excited about identity infrastructure, I'd love to talk.

JP, CTO @ Trinsic

Comment · 1 year ago
We can have a great philosophical chat about it! Let's chat.
Comment · 1 year ago
Since we do location based pay (based on benchmarks) it's tough to give a range as it'd be a huge range (North America has a significant variety of pay scales), and the various levels themselves in just the US have big ranges as well.

We'll address this in our first orientation call with a candidate to make sure we're in the same ball park of ranges.

But point taken, we'll look into if we can make some range indications available. For now, if you lookup compensation ranges for companies in our peer group and your geography it should match, but very happy to discuss your specific during a call.

Comment · 1 year ago
Trinsic | Software Engineer | REMOTE (North America) | Full‑time

We’re building the first Identity Acceptance Network—the “Visa for ID.” Humanity is editing genes, starting space tourism and working on artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, identity verification is still done by taking pictures of plastic cards . We’re bringing identity into this new age, where trust is essential and becoming more so every day with AI. We enable accepting digital IDs that users already have (mDLs, BankIDs, reusable IDs) and verify users ~10x faster across 40+ networks covering 500M+ people.

Role

- Software Engineer (#5 on the team; ~20% of eng capacity). High ownership, product-minded, backend and systems leaning.

- You’ll ship fast, prune scope, and help shape our engineering culture.

- You’ve thrived in early-stage environments, can tackle fires independently, and care as much about product as code.

- Strong backend experience; generalist who enjoys moving up/down the stack.

- You care deeply about user privacy and data security.

Stack & ways of working

- .NET (C#) backend, React + TypeScript frontend, Azure, GitHub CI/CD.

- Remote‑first in North America; strong async work habits; <5 hrs/week of recurring meetings; frequent pairing/huddles.

- We’re keen but responsible adopters of AI tooling to hit our high bar of excellence.

Comp & benefits

- Salary set by a transparent formula (we target ~60th percentile cash for our stage) + meaningful equity, usually 90th+ percentile for a startup of our stage.

- Premium US healthcare (75% of premiums covered for you & dependents), at least 15 days PTO, $900/yr fitness stipend, $350/mo coworking or $200/mo home office, first week is “Think Week” to help you transition into your new role, paid family leave, top‑tier laptop, twice‑yearly in‑person offsites.

Learn more / apply

- JD: https://trinsic.notion.site/Software-Engineer-163b6be993cd80...

- Comp philosophy: https://trinsic.notion.site/Compensation-Philosophy-bf9b66a5...

- Working at Trinsic: https://trinsic.notion.site/Work-at-Trinsic-0faef9dbfbd84627...

How to get in touch

Reply with your GitHub/LinkedIn + a few lines on what you’ve built, or email [email protected].

If you’re North America‑based and excited about identity, I’d love to talk.

JP, CTO @ Trinsic

Comment · 1 year ago
Love it! Even just simply freeing my main branch would be a big win so I can keep working as well.

But no way to find out if there’s any data sent to your servers etc, unless I’m missing some links?

Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps to some degree, but I've never seen a skyscraper that was almost done being torn down to be re-architected and rebuilt.
Comment · 2 years ago
Waterfall in software development was different than a Gantt chart based "project that was managed" like the construction of a bridge (an example close to my house). They added new requirements to this bridge (like they wanted the surrounding grounds to be maintained nicely, so added irrigation and gardening etc). But no new requirements were added to the foundational "here's a bridge and it needs to cross this stream from this point to that point" (high level).

Waterfall in software was continuously changing those fundamental parts. You'd be fine tuning the irrigation and needed to destruct the whole bridge because some new requirements came up. That's where the anti-Gantt and "bad waterfall" comes from, the reality is the software world as a whole moves way quicker and requirements are way more malleable, subjective than building a bridge.

Comment · 2 years ago
How do you suggest we handle the rental market?
Comment · 2 years ago
I assume they were talking about re-usable plastic containers vs glass. Glass breaks.
Comment · 2 years ago
Right, but now I’m basically running a huge performance hit, need to parallelize my queries etc.

I was parsing a document recently, 10-ish questions for 1 document, would make things expensive.

Might be what’s needed but not ideal.

Comment · 2 years ago
How would I do this reliably? Eg give me 10 different values, all in one prompt for performance reasons?

Might not need JSON but whatever format it outputs, it needs to be reliable.

Comment · 2 years ago
What would you recommend?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Yea, that's my understanding of the introduction of the NEM 3 policy. Production of energy isn't the problem in California (aka: sun), having it stored and accessible at the right moment is. Previously people would be feeding back solar during peak sun hours and getting paid, while taking energy at night and having an effective "0 dollar use" bill if they consume the exact same amount (there is some base connection fee).

The NEM 3 policy reduces a lot what you get paid unless you contribute back during the peak use hours, they say it's "avoided cost" pricing. On the surface it seems fair, you're paying for more than generation when you use energy so you generating and contributing back during huge surplus isn't as valuable as you using during night time.

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