jclemenson

Centzy - Software Engineer - NYC of SF - Full-time

Centzy is a search engine for services. We help consumers find, compare and buy local services like haircuts, oil changes and dog groomers. We are tackling big challenges in gathering, structuring and mining this messy set of data from online and offline sources. We are well funded but early stage enough that we can offer significant product and equity ownership and competitive salaries (plus full healthcare, free meals, etc).

We are looking for another smart engineer to join our team of seven. We are looking for someone who is thoughtful, driven and fun. You should be able to engineer solutions that scale as our data, users and team grows. It would be great if you had experience with Ruby or Go, but its not a hard requirement. Email me: jeremy at company name.

At Centzy, we evaluated FoundationDB for several months. Impressive technology (horizontally scalable key-value store with transactions and failover), its fast, and it just works. We were initially concerned about using a proprietary datastore built by another startup, but after having lunch with Dave and Andrew, we decided we had to use them. One of my favorite things was how they sometimes responded to support requests with code.

NYC - Senior Engineer

Centzy is a price-based local search engine. We are a small team of five, tackling interesting problems in search, data, and commerce. We are looking for another smart and driven engineer to join us. We are well funded but early stage enough that we can offer significant product and equity ownership.

We're looking for someone who has done this before - built products from scratch and scaled them. You've probably worked at a startup if not started one. You're passionate about creating great products and tackling big data and technology challenges. We currently use a lot of Ruby and Coffeescript but we're experimenting with Scala.

We have a fun office in sunny WeWork Labs (West Soho). We offer strong equity and salary, cover 100% of your health benefits, and provide lunches and dinners while you're working. Plus, you can choose your own equipment.

We're funded by some great investors: ffVC, Lightbank, Cowboy Ventures, Founder Collective and angels from companies like Facebook and Cloudera.

Email me at hn [at] centzy

NYC - Founding Engineer / Lead Developer (Ruby) at Centzy (http://centzy.com)

Centzy is Kayak for local services - comparison shopping for everyday local services like haircuts, dry cleaners, and oil changes. It's a large, untapped market, and we are funded by great investors who share our passion: Lightbank (Groupon's original investor) and ffVC (Klout's original investor).

We are a team of two (one hacker, one business guy with a CS degree) and we are looking for another hacker. As our first hire, we would consider you a late co-founder and expect as much. You'll get serious product ownership with real equity and a salary. You'll be the third leg of the tripod.

We're looking for someone who has built and scaled products on the Ruby / Rails stack in the past. You've probably worked at a startup if not started one. You are smart and relentlessly resourceful. You'll spend most of your time crafting code in Ruby and Javascript, so you should love it. We think hackers should drive product, so you should be comfortable doing this. You've probably at least dabbled in MongoDB and Node.js.

We have great shared startup space in the Lower East Side with tons of great food and bar options nearby. In addition to equity and salary, you'll get your choice of equipment and we'll cover 100% of your health benefits, and lunches and dinners while you're working. And of course the fridge will always be stocked with soda and great micro brews.

NYC - Lead Developer / Founding Engineer (Ruby) at Centzy (http://centzy.com)

Centzy is a comparison shopping engine for local services (http://centzy.com). What Kayak does for flights and hotels, Centzy does for the everyday services in your neighborhood like haircuts, dry cleaners, and oil changes. It's a large, untapped market, and we are funded by great investors who share our passion: Lightbank (Groupon's original investor), ff Venture Capital (Klout's original investor) and ER Accelerator.

We are two startup guys (one hacker, one business) and we are looking for another hacker to join us. As our first hire, we would consider you a late co-founder (http://startupboy.com/2011/12/13/why-you-cant-hire/). We will compensate you as such (equity + salary) but also expect you to take significant product ownership and to help lead the development team. We're not picky about titles, but Lead Developer seems about right. You should be passionate about building great products and tackling big data and technology challenges. You should have deep experience in Ruby, Rails and Javascript. Experience with MongoDB is a plus.

We would prefer that you work with us in our sunny office in the Lower East Side of NYC. We share a co-working space with other startups so you'll get the benefit of being part of a larger community of fun and motivated entrepreneurs.

Please get in touch with your github profile, linkedin profile / resume, and a short description about an interesting project / product you built.

Feel free to get in touch with me directly and put "Lead Developer (HN)" in the subject line. jeremy at centzy dot com.

I question the value of social search in general. It doesn't matter what your friends like. What matters is what others with similar tastes like. The only good thing about social search is the context informed by the relationships.

http://massivehealth.com/ - stealth startup cofounded by Aza Raskin (former creative lead at Firefox).

https://cakehealth.com/ - mint.com for healthcare.

Great idea. Suggestion: for me location matters more than date so maybe add a map view?

I've actually been working on a product thats very similar: location + product photo. It was pivot from the project I used in my YC W11 application (got rejected). Guess I need to move faster! How do others deal with similar products being released while you're in the middle of developing it yourself? It seems like a delicate balance between keeping the blinders on and continuing to build my vision (ie not reacting too much) and stopping to think about how my vision is different...

yup just what i was talking about, see below

This is a great way to increase the value (or beneficiaries) of altruistic acts. Maybe that startup Skyara should make this one of their use cases, where people with specific domain knowledge could offer lunches and donate the proceeds to charity.

Note: I have no affiliation with Skyara and hadn't even heard about them until I read this HN thread a couple minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874982

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blocks and define_method in ruby

I'm at my best in the morning: 7am - 11am.

Been thinking a lot about this space and am almost done with a prototype. Would love to connect with others who are similarly fascinated by it.

Anyone have a spare invite they'd like to share? Email is my hn username at gmail. Thanks!

got it, thanks!

username at gmail. thanks!

Anyone else have a spare invite?

me too, just bought the pragmatic programmers book.