gstathis

Traackr | Boston | Sr. Software Engineer | 100k - 130k + equity

Our mission is to build trust and transparency between brands and people. Our stack includes: search (Elasticsearch/Lucene), NoSQL (MongoDB), queuing systems (RabbitMQ), content processing pipelines (Apache Camel), APIs (Scala/Spray.io), email notification apps (Node.js), Ansible, AWS and that's just to name a few.

We are looking to inject new DNA into our team, learn some new tricks from the people that join us and maybe share a few tricks of our own. You'd be working on our backend distributed data processing systems and search engine technology.

If you are looking for a 9 to 5 gig, keep looking. If you are looking for a challenge, a seat at the decision making table and want to be empowered to take ownership, you should check us out. We have an open vacation policy: no-one will bean count your time off, just make sure your team is taken care of while you are sipping Piña colada somewhere tropical. Our office is located in the impressive WeWork space in downtown Boston (https://www.wework.com/locations/boston/south-station), an easy commute from pretty much anywhere. And if you need to work from home part of the week, that's ok too. Lots of us do just that.

If you're interested, we'd love to chat. Check out http://traackr.com/careers/ and/or ping me at gstathis [at] traackr [dot] com.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Traackr | Boston | Sr. Software Engineer | 100k - 130k + equity

Our mission is to build trust and transparency between brands and people. We work on a ton of interesting tech: search (Elasticsearch/Lucene), NoSQL (MongoDB), queuing systems (RabbitMQ), content processing pipelines (Apache Camel), APIs (Scala/Spray.io), email notification apps (Node.js), Ansible, AWS and that's just to name a few.

We are looking to inject new DNA into our team, learn some new tricks from the people that join us and maybe share a few tricks of our own. You'd be working on our backend distributed data processing systems and search engine technology.

If you are looking for a 9 to 5 gig, you won't be happy here. If you are looking for a challenge, a seat at the decision making table and want to be empowered to take ownership, you should check us out. We have an open vacation policy: no-one will bean count your time off, just make sure your team is taken care of while you are sipping Piña colada somewhere tropical. Our office is located in the stunning WeWork space in downtown Boston (https://www.wework.com/locations/boston/south-station), an easy commute from pretty much anywhere. And if you need to work from home part of the week, that's ok too. Lots of us have kids and do just that.

If you're interested, we'd love to chat. Check out http://traackr.com/careers/ and/or ping me at gstathis [at] traackr [dot] com.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks for the reply jxiong. I think that many startups would be delighted to strike such a deal. Internships are the traditional way to go about this and some might even pay something little. In return, you get exposure and an early peak at how things work in a startup. In my company all of our interns end up leaving with very fond memories of their experience here. If I were you, I would find a company you are interested in and contact them to see if they have any internship positions. You never know until you ask. Make it clear that you are not looking for a paid position, just the experience.

So, what online resources do you use to learn more about startups? Do you find those resources useful?