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Truework | Software engineers [Frontend + backend] | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, employee-first employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play a big part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Remote & Onsite Positions | https://www.truework.com/careers/ Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, employee-first employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play a big part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Remote & Onsite Positions | https://www.truework.com/careers/ Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, employee-first employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play a big part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, employee-first employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play a big part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which has enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and helps employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before. Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We leverage Django and React (Typescript), our infrastructure runs on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile info)

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which has enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and helps employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Very interesting. Most people I've talked to with ADHD share this experience of sudden loss of motivation...

I can focus easily on tasks - even hyper focus for hours. Problems arise when there's an important but boring task vs a nonessential but interesting task. I will struggle to just think about starting the boring task. It can be really crippling when working with other people or in a startup.

I tried to write about my own experiences with ADHD, in particular regarding distractions. https://www.kabdebon.com/founder/2020/08/25/creative-mayhem-...

Truework | Software engineers / Security Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which has enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and helps employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before. Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

That's the view from my apartment's window. No edit or HDR, just Halide without white calibration.

It actually looks pretty beautiful, Blade Runner style. Unfortunate that it's because of fires though...

https://twitter.com/victor_kabdebon/status/13037150297792307...

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Not to plug too much my writings but I dedicated an article about this topic:

https://www.kabdebon.com/cto/2020/06/20/making-boring-techni...

My two cents, if you want to build a business or a project for a company: go with battle-tested, mature technologies, always. Take away the risk of immature technology getting in the way of the only mission: delivering value to your customer

Now for a personal project... go crazy, have fun and try what's new out there.

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Disclaimer - As a CTO of a company I have to take a stance on these issues. As a matter of fact, as you raise money, part of the due diligence is to audit the libraries that you use to make sure that you don't use libraries that can jeopardize the future of the company.

Using an AGPL library for a Saas company will be flagged as a risk by lawyers during the due diligence process.

At Truework, we love open source and try to contribute when we can, but the reality is that if a library is AGPL, I'll ask my team to not use it. It's just not worth it to risk so much for a single library. Yes, it's unlikely that you will have to go to court because you use that one library, but if you do... well that's bad news for you.

If you build a business, it's about making sure that there there is a reasonable ROI for risks that you take. APGL tilts the balance towards "we shouldn't use this, it's too risky". Make your own decisions, but keep that in mind.

1. CTO, is that cheating?

2. It's not so much leaving Software Engineering, it's reframing it. Software Engineer when done well is about creative thinking and problem solving. If you feel that you are in a rut, try going to an organization that's not just about coding. If you are really not interested about Software Engineering as a discipline, I'd start by taking a break then reassessing.

I have no dog in this fight, but I was at LinkedIn at the time, on teams that worked closely to this. I can assure you that these changes were not made to force log in. It was a recommendation from the security team.

I know it's Hacker News and it's easy to criticize LinkedIn for shady growth practices and get praise for it. They often deserve it, but assigning malicious/growth intent for every change they make is misguided.

Truework | Software engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification in the United States.

Banks and background check providers often request employment and income data from your current and former employers to approve mortgages and loans or complete pre-employment screening. Your employer likely shares important details about your employment, including your title, job duration, and wages, with third party credit agencies to fulfill these requests. Unfortunately, this process is not transparent for employees and can be slow and error-prone for employers and verifiers.

Truework is building a modern, consent-driven employment and income verification platform to give employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which have enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and help employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our engineering team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS. If you want to learn more about the things we’ve built, check out our engineering blog at https://www.truework.com/blog/engineering/.

If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at victor @truework.com. (more options in my profile details)

Truework | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

Truework is reshaping the way personal information is exchanged online by giving back control to consumers. We are currently handling thousands of deep-identity verifications per month and are growing fast. These transactions are enabling billions of dollars in loans to be approved as well as make sure that the background check is successful.

As one of the engineers at Truework, you'll be working on systems that allow critical information to be exchanged between parties. You'll make sure that only authorized entities can access private information and enable consumers to own their data and control the flow of information truly.

If you're interested or want to know more, please email [email protected] or victor [at] truework.com directly (more options in my profile details)

Some of the technologies that we use:

Django / React (Typescript) / Celery / AWS Lambda /And more :-)

More information here https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/identity-management-startu...

Truework | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

Truework is reshaping the way personal information is exchanged online by giving back control to consumers. We are currently handling thousands of deep-identity verifications per month and are growing fast. These transactions are enabling billions of dollars in loans to be approved as well as make sure that the background check is successful.

As one of the engineers at Truework, you'll be working on systems that allow critical information to be exchanged between parties. You'll make sure that only authorized entities can access private information and enable consumers to own their data and control the flow of information truly.

If you're interested or want to know more, please email [email protected] or victor [at] truework.com directly

Technologies used:

Django / React (Typescript) / Celery / AWS Lambda /And more :-)

More information here https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamelton/2019/07/30/truewor...

Feel free to reach out to me directly, info on my profile

No problem!

Yes, earning trust is the most important piece. However, organizations are excited to participate once you show that you are the right security & privacy practices in place. We've had a lot of great momentum there.

For regulatory frameworks, it depends on the circumstances and the type of data that you are dealing with. For most of our use cases, it's:

* FCRA, aka Fair Credit Reporting Act that all Credit Reporting Agencies must follow.

* HIPAA, for health data

Of course, you have more generic frameworks such as CCPA, GDPR but that's true for all companies.

wl, you summarized pretty well how it works indeed :-). A lot of players in the industry hides behind long legal documents.

In our case we get employee information from your employer but it’s never shared to third-parties by default. We always go through the process of notification to the employee before releasing any data and, as an employee, you can refuse to share that data. The requester is in a holding pattern until you consent to data sharing.

Hope that helps

Hey Vageli,

Thanks for your question. I wish our website was clearer :), but we’re working on that!

When Truework gets a request for data on you from a third-party we send you a notification to know whether or not you want to share your data with that third-party.

If you refuse, we will not share that data. It’s different from the current model that our competitors use, which is to just share right away.

It’s really a loss for consumers across the United States.

The reality is that a large part of the fintech sector still depends on the data provided by Equifax. Their data is also used for KYC and other security use cases.

We have started Truework (https://www.truework.com) to break that dependency and give consumers control of their data. If you’re interested to help us, please contact me by email.

Disclaimer: I worked at LinkedIn. Currently, Linkedin's job classification system doesn't have open API. You can check their documentation but they won't provide access to it. So if you want to use it in our application that'll be difficult.

SOC is a good basis but our API allows you to correct for errors, synonyms, etc... That makes our approach way more robust. We plan to provide a mapping from our classification system to the SOC at a latter time.

Truework | Full Stack Engineer, Frontend Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

Truework is reshaping the way personal information is exchanged online by giving back control to consumers. We are currently handling thousands of deep-identity verifications per month and are growing fast. These transactions are enabling billions of dollars in loans to be approved as well as make sure that the background check is successful.

As one of the engineers at Truework, you'll be working on systems that allow critical information to be exchanged between parties. You'll make sure that only authorized entities can access private information and enable consumers to own their data and control the flow of information truly.

If you're interested or want to know more, please email [email protected] or victor [at] truework.com directly

Technologies used:

Django / React (Typescript) / Celery / AWS Lambda /And more :-)

More information here https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamelton/2019/07/30/truewor....

Truework | Data Scientist | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

[See above for description about Truework]

As a data-scientist at Truework, you'll be working on large employment, income, and demographic datasets. You'll help make sense of information about millions of people and help standardize the way we understand work and income.

For example, you can play with our title normalization API:

https://www.truework.com/docs/api#normalize-a-title

Feel free to reach out to me directly, info on my profile

Truework | Full Stack Engineer, Frontend Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

Truework is reshaping the way personal information is exchanged online by giving back control to consumers. We are currently handling thousands of deep-identity verifications per month and are growing fast. These transactions are enabling billions of dollars in loans to be approved as well as make sure that the background check is successful.

As one of the engineers at Truework, you'll be working on systems that allow critical information to be exchanged between parties. You'll make sure that only authorized entities can access private information and enable consumers to own their data and control the flow of information truly.

If you're interested or want to know more, please email [email protected] or victor [at] truework.com directly

Technologies used:

Django / React (Typescript) / Celery / AWS Lambda /And more :-)

More information here https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamelton/2019/07/30/truewor....

Truework | Data Scientist | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite | https://www.truework.com

[See above for description about Truework]

As a data-scientist at Truework, you'll be working on large employment, income, and demographic datasets. You'll help make sense of information about millions of people and help standardize the way we understand work and income.

For example, you can play with our title normalization API:

https://www.truework.com/docs/api#normalize-a-title

Feel free to reach out to me directly, info on my profile