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Comment · 9 years ago
Financeit | Software Developer, Frontend Developer, Product Manager, UX Designer | Toronto, ON, Canada | ONSITE | Full-time
Financeit is one of Canada's leading fintechs. We're primarily focussed on the home improvement industry – making the billions spent on home renovation purchases every year affordable.
We are located in the heart of Toronto’s vibrant Entertainment District, within easy reach of TTC subway and streetcar access. Our office is spacious and bright, in a modern loft style. We don’t worry too much about titles, and our doors are never closed because we don’t really have any doors.
Our tech stack is Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, Ember.js, MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis.
Software Developer | https://www.financeit.io/ca/en/careers/software_developer
Frontend Developer | https://www.financeit.io/ca/en/careers/front_end_developer
Product Manager | https://www.financeit.io/ca/en/careers/product_manager
UX Designer | https://www.financeit.io/ca/en/careers/ux_designer
Comment · 12 years ago
We were doing our MX record migrations today (Sunday maintenance) from financeit.ca to financeit.io
Try again?
Comment · 12 years ago
Rails is a nice to have, but it's not a pre-requisite for the QA position.
Comment · 12 years ago
Financeit - Toronto, Ontario, http://www.financeit.ca (soon to be financeit.io)
Financeit connects merchants with lenders allowing the merchants to offer financing options to their customers. Since 2011, we've processed over 700MM in loan applications. We recently raised a big series A to bring our product to the US. [1]
We're looking for a Senior QA to:
* Work with developers and dedicated QA engineers to automate as much of the QA process as possible
* Work with a tech team where testing and QA are already deeply embedded in their DNA
* Roll up your sleeves and manually test the last mile when new features are rolled out
* Work with a team that already understands the importance of testing - all code must have rspec and cucumber tests written before getting shipped
* Help the developers understand what needs to be tested by involving yourself in the requirements gathering process early on
* Make an impact as we build a 21st century loan management system
Amongst your skills:
* Years of QA experience testing web, mobile and API products
* You love setting up frameworks and love giving input on how to re-organize roles and responsibilities to improve QA
* You're motivated to automate as much of QA as possible - and love researching new ways to do so
* Nothing gets by you – you understand a complicated product deeply and think of all the edge cases
* Proactive – you love giving feedback and strive to build a better product
* Very good at what you do
* Not afraid to think
We have:
* Sane working hours
* Great compensation
* Opportunity to work at a startup seeing huge growth and lots of success
Email us, mention hackernews: [email protected]
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/19/financeit-raises-13-million...
Comment · 12 years ago
If you're reading this Ryan: <3
Comment · 14 years ago
Actually, your idea of racism is precisely inverted. Racism isn't just about calling people names and hurting their feelings, racism also includes a systemic exclusion of a group. And if we end up with 100% white guys time and time again that is racism, again, whether you like it or not.
Selecting qualified underrepresented people would not be racist or sexist. Ending up with white men all the time would be. And we should throw these labels around, this is something that should be discussed and addressed in variety of ways.
Comment · 14 years ago
If you don't have diversity as one of your goals (either from the start or tacked on at the end) you are part of the system that perpetuates racism, whether you like it or not.
2010: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."
2011: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."
2012: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."
Yeah, okay.
Comment · 14 years ago
>> we're not our mind
Okay, what does this mean?
Comment · 14 years ago
How many people install software on their microwaves?
Comment · 14 years ago
Now I remember why I have a rule of not commenting on Hacker News anymore.
Because a meaningless counter is decremented?
Comment · 14 years ago
Okay, maybe I jumped the gun a bit.
I'm not sure why you're repeating the "that's all women can do" part. I don't think that's the specific complaint.
Perhaps you can tell me why having women on the list of things, bolded no less, is a selling point? Why is it relevant? And to whom?
Comment · 14 years ago
And why would putting women in an ad be any different?
I mentioned Indian because I am of that descent, but that your mind jumped to "illegal" is something you need to examine about yourself. I think this is probably somehow connected to why you can't understand using women for this purpose in this advert is not appropriate.
Comment · 14 years ago
"Perhaps I'm not in the best position to be commenting on this"
Yeah, perhaps not.
Try replacing "Women" with "children" or "Indian people" and reread that. Does that feel right?
Now put yourself in the shoes of an Indian person reading that. How does that feel?