Rubie is helping companies with complex software (ERPs, CRMs, etc) launch with their customers faster. We do this by automating the highly repetitive manual tasks that professional services and customer success teams perform using novel agentic infrastructure. This results in a massively faster customer implementation cycle - in the case of one of our partners, 70% faster!
We are hiring founding engineers in person in NYC. The first step in our process is completing our reverse engineering challenge, which is located here: https://ReverseEngineerThisSite.com
And yes everyone else on the leaderboard is real! :) you crushed it!
https://reverseengineerthissite.com
Hey Hacker News! ReverseEngineerThisSite is a challenge that we put together as a recruiting tool for an open Founding Engineer[1] position, but figured that this crowd may also enjoy hacking around on it (you don't need to be looking for a job). We’ve found it to be a good way to test for very specific competencies we care about while also at least somewhat protecting against AI doing *all* of...
We (Transeo [1]) use Swift and Vapor to power our application which serves millions of users and regularly hits 20k requests per second. We're running on substantially less hardware than we budgeted for, which is great, and the performance is also notable - our p99 response time at peak rps is ~250ms.
That being said, performance isn't the only thing that you should look for when choosing your backend language/framework, as you've noted. We've been using Swift/Vapor for more than 5 years now so we've seen the community grow alongside it, and I am really excited about where it's going. While the ecosystem at one time was a bit of challenge (in terms of finding a package to do something, etc), over the last ~2 years we have rarely run into problems finding code snippets or packages to accomplish our tasks. We do a lot of bulk CSV processing (hundreds of gb's at a time), SFTP transfers, PDF generation/merging, calculated database locking, all of which has been relatively seamless ecosystem-wise. Check out the SSWG projects [2] for some more cool stuff happening in the ecosystem.
Hiring has been fine as well - we have a number of developers on the team that did not have Swift or Vapor experience coming in and were able to map other frameworks on top of it and pick it up quickly.
All of that being said, I will admit that I am biased on this topic :) Frameworks and programming languages are merely tools in your tool-belt, and different tools are right for different workloads.
Transeo is looking for a full-stack engineer.
* What we do: * We build software for schools districts that helps their students understand what their post-high school options are and how to achieve them. By working with Transeo you'll have the opportunity to impact millions of students on day 1.
* Tech stack: * We use Swift/Vapor on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend. Not looking for experts in Swift but experience is great, not required.
* How we work: * We're a fully remote team spread out across the world (with some timezone restrictions) and our development team in particular does a large amount of work via writing. We only have 1 30-min standing meeting per week and the rest of the time is left to you to determine how to best do your work and contribute to the team (with lots of guidance from others, of course).
* How to apply: * Here's a direct link: https://careers.gotranseo.com/p/c8a6835b6fd4-software-develo...
Vapor [1] is wonderful to work with and has a large user base. Apple is also putting significant resources into Server Side Swift with Swift NIO [2]. Lots of really cool stuff happening in that ecosystem
[1]: https://vapor.codes [2]: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio