dimitry

Pineapple Payments | Backend (Kotlin, Node), Full-stack (Node, React), DevOps | Pittsburgh, PA | Onsite | Full-Time

Pineapple Payments is a Pittsburgh-based payments technology start-up company on a mission to enrich the payments experience by empowering partners, merchants, and cardholders alike with easy to use payment solutions.

We are building a payments gateway and other value-added solutions from scratch to empower more than 20k merchants in our portfolio.

We have a modern tech stack (Kotlin/Node/React/AWS) and there's no lack of interesting engineering problems to solve.

Perks: Competitive Benefit Packages; Paid Parental Leave; Holiday time-off and generous PTO; Access to on-premises gym, locker rooms, indoor bicycle storage, and lounge; Occasional remote work allowances for eligible employees

- Backend: https://pineapplepayments.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- Full-Stack: https://pineapplepayments.com/jobs/full-stack-developer/

- DevOps: https://pineapplepayments.com/jobs/dev-ops-engineer/

Or clone to start your own based on a current one.

It depends on the rental market. Here in Pittsburgh, more landlords in the city are bad because it's such a heavy student population. What's the incentive to be good or to update apartment features? Every apartment gets rented out anyways.

US-only for now. We'll edit the frontpage to include more information. Thanks.

This is an API, not an application. In other words, if you want the end-user to get an SMS reply, you have to write code and instruct the API to send a message.

Mobivity gives you simple marketing tools (voting, pre-defined messages to reply with, etc.).

Also, more about how it works: http://www.gumband.com/learnmore.php

good to see alphalab cranking out new stuff.

im not sure id use this but email is something that hasn't been innovated on in a WHILE. im glad someone is doing something about it. great job, keep working on it.

also, drop the 77 hours thing. who cares?

Sounds a good validated business concept. Start it overseas.

He talks about enterprise web software, not so much public sites/blogs/etc.

"Actually, almost none of the conversation about the stuff has to do with any of the things that make Skittles Skittles: It’s just folks mentioning Skittles to get on the Skittles home page."

He clearly misses the point. They're mentioning Skittles and that's effective brand building.

Good! Transparency and customer communication are a huge plus

good read. different point of view.

This is a startup? How?

That title is nothing new. I'm just glad someone (with a big audience) is saying it publicly.

Good stuff Sumon and the crew. Being able to change and adapt is key and seems like you guys got it down.

Go get 'em

Article states that they're both doing great

This book is mostly about styling tables. So as a response to the title: I highly doubt it!

To answer the question in the title.. I don't know yet :)

Keep going at it Paul

First half of the article - good & inspirational. Second half - horrible.