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Comment · 3 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | backend/frontend/full stack eng + product folks
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is react/nodejs/graphql -- with some extra public REST apis (all typescript) - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on two main fronts: product + engineering. This is a very very complicated problem space (both from a concept + infrastructure perspective) and we need some crazy people to help us define what needs to be built + actually build it.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us (sr. full stack web eng posting on angellist is here if easier -> https://angel.co/l/2yanqJ)
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | backend/frontend/full stack + customer success/account management + marketing + operations/finance folks
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, operations, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for web people to help us build out our customer-facing product and sales/operations folk.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us (we also have a job site here, if that's easier -> https://jobs.lever.co/fishtail)
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | data eng + devops + eng leadership + backend/frontend/full stack + customer success/account management + marketing + operations/finance folks
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for web people to help us build out our customer-facing product and folks who can help us scale our data work.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Data people (science/eng/devops) + backend/frontend/full stack + operations/finance/marketing folks
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for web people to help us build out our customer-facing product and folks who can help us scale our data work.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Data people (science/eng/devops) + backend/frontend/full stack
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for more data people and web people to help us build out our credit/performance risk models + customer-facing product.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Data people (science/eng/devops) + backend/frontend/full stack
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for more data people and web people to help us build out our credit/performance risk models + customer-facing product.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 4 years ago
We have the flexibility of doing both ;-)
Comment · 4 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Data people (science/eng/devops) + backend/frontend/full stack
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing/propaganda, etc) but are mostly looking for more data people and web people to help us build out our credit/performance risk models + customer-facing product.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Data people (science/eng/devops) + backend/frontend/full stack
We are a super un-sexy, VC-backed, revenue-generating, Trade Finance automation company (think Pipe for the real world) that's bringing the the $10tn Trade Finance space in to the 21st century.
The problem we're solving
When Walmart gives La Croix a $100k order for seltzer, not only does Walmart not pay after receiving goods for 3-4 months but La Croix has to cover the cost of actually making their goods for a bunch of time (months). As a small business, this sucks hard. Fishtail will lend to La Croix when they get an order from Walmart so they can satisfy demand without tying up huge amounts of working capital. Usually banks will lend to folks only when the product makes it to Walmart (and only to large companies, who don't traditionally need $) -- the net effect of Fishtail is that we lend earlier in the chain to smaller businesses (which is a super duper hard problem).
Tech stack
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + turbo/stimulus/tailwind - data stack is python/pytorch + spark. We get a boatload of data tracking every vessel in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets like every trade transaction that has happened over the past N years).
Fun fact
We have a sustainability-linked trade finance product where we can tie the interest rate of our loans to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate) -- this is super nifty when you consider that transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.
What we need
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc) but are mostly looking for more data people and web people to help us build out our credit/performance risk models + customer-facing product.
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help small businesses win while saving the planet with us.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Web lead
We're solving global warming by incentivizing good supply chain behavior with cheap money.
The problem we're solving
Tech stack
What we need
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help save the planet with us.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://lockstep.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | web lead
When P&G ships to Walmart, P&G doesn't get paid for 3-6 months -- Lockstep bridges that gap so that companies can invest in the things that help them grow their business. Even more interesting is the fact that we tie a monetary incentive to sustainable supply chain practices (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate)
Read: we're saving the planet by making the global supply chain a more more sustainable thing through $$$.
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + react + graphql - data stack is python/pytorch. We get a shitload of data tracking every boat in the water (among other datasets).
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc)
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help save the planet with us.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://lockstep.ai | REMOTE | Full-time/part-time | full stack web dev + data science/engineering + sales/marketing
When P&G ships to Walmart, P&G doesn't get paid for ~6 months -- Lockstep bridges that gap so that companies can invest in the things that help them grow their business. Even more interesting is the fact that we tie a monetary incentive to sustainable supply chain practices (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate)
Read: we're saving the planet by making the global supply chain a more more sustainable thing through $$$.
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + react - data stack is python/pytorch. We get a shitload of data tracking every boat in the water (among other datasets).
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc)
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help save the planet with us.
Comment · 5 years ago
https://lockstep.ai | REMOTE | Full-time/part-time | full stack web dev + data science/engineering + sales/marketing
When P&G ships to Walmart, P&G doesn't get paid for ~6 months -- Lockstep bridges that gap so that companies can invest in the things that help them grow their business. Even more interesting is the fact that we tie a monetary incentive to sustainable supply chain practices (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate)
Read: we're saving the planet by making the global supply chain a more more sustainable thing through $$$.
Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + vue/quasar - data stack is python/pytorch. We get a shitload of data tracking every boat in the water (among other datasets).
We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc)
Reach out to [email protected] if you want to help save the planet with us.
Comment · 6 years ago
I run https://duckduckgoog.com (written https://twitter.com/mcrittenden) for those of you who want a default search engine of google but with the magic of !bangs
Comment · 7 years ago
ODYN | Somerville/Cambridge/Boston ONSITE (our office is in Davis) | DevOps Engineer https://angel.co/odyn/jobs/241401-devops-engineer (or email [email protected])
ODYN is modernizing the world of logistics. We provide visualization and analytics of the movement of goods in the global supply chain by analyzing data streams from container vessels, airplanes, and our proprietary tracking devices. Our technology gives our customers x-ray like visibility into global logistics and enables significant reduction in operating capital (read: saves a lot of money).
This is one of the few massive industries ($4T) left that are left to be digitized and completely optimized with technology. We have some funding, customers, interesting strategic partners, and are growing fairly quickly.
Come solve hard problems with us.