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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

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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...

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.

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.

Okay, what does this mean?

Because a meaningless counter is decremented?

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?

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.

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?

But Rails has often tried to add security by default (SQL injections, XSS attacks, etc). So perhaps this claim isn't that correct.

> Either rethink it from the ground up, or leave it alone.

Or, you know, fix the problem at hand.

It shows the type of dissent/criticisms new ideas hear. Some of these retorts did seem very reasonable back then. There is perhaps something to be learned from this hindsight.

But just by the pattern and placement they seem like testimonials, when they were not said in testimony.

The placement makes it seem (to me) that the quotations and made in promotion as opposed to being used as backing for support.

So then, do we always cater to the current cultural trends, or do we pave our own ways in some way? Some times we're not always looking to please, attempts to be polite can lead to concealment of details that matter. So sometimes it's worth not being polite, and politeness, too, is in the eye of the beholder.

Offensive is largely still a subjective matter, you have to decide how much you value this subjectivity.

Some people get offended and start throwing shit at the wall, and some people don't give a fuck.

I should note that the entire organization is totally volunteer run.