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Ground Signal | Remote (US only) | Multiple Roles | Full Time | https://groundsignal.ai

Ground Signal uses social analytics and AI to help suppliers in the alcohol industry optimize sales. Our platform processes billions of records and delivers insights through a robust SaaS product used by top-tier analysts and global brands.

We're a fully remote team of 20+ distributed across the US. We care about capability over titles, value outcomes over process, and keep ego to a minimum. We collaborate tightly, move fast, and meet up in person a few times a year to recharge and plan together.

We are currently recruiting for the following positions. We are not able to sponsor at this time.

Software Engineer (Backend, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, dbt) https://wellfound.com/l/2BiEQL

Associate Data Engineer (Python, SQL) https://wellfound.com/l/2BtEEq

Data Insights Engineer (Python, Jupyter, SQL) https://wellfound.com/l/2zf39a

Product Designer (UX/UI design for complex data/analytics) https://wellfound.com/l/2Bn56J

Ha ha, yeah I hear you. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not marketing my music to make money (because I know there won't be any LOL). I do it because I spend hundreds of hours writing, producing, mixing, and mastering my music, and if I spend that much time on it, then damnit I want someone other than me to hear it! :)

If you have any presence on Sound Cloud, then definitely check out Repost Exchange. It's a peer to peer site where fellow artists like and repost each other's work. It's great for discovery.

Keep grinding!

I'm not trying to tell you how to market your music, you do you, but with services like Tune Core, Distro Kid, etc that allow you to submit your music to every single music service in existence with one click, why wouldn't you just put your music everywhere? You may be surprised at just how big of a community there is for your niche genre on Spotify and elsewhere!

https://open.spotify.com/search/didgeridoo/playlists

Anyways, I agree that the Spotify requirement is artificially limiting, especially if this is targeting up and coming artists. They should probably support all of the biggies (Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc) as well as indies like Sound Cloud, Band Camp, etc.

One bit of feedback after submitting a track: The list of genres to select from is too course-grained IMHO. There's a gazillion sub-genres of electronic dance music for example, but "Electronic" was as close as I could get. Genres like metal have the same issue. It doesn't matter so much now given the current UX, but if you consider others' suggestions on adding genre/sub-genre specific lists (which I agree with 100%), then I think you'll want to allow people to get as fine-grained as they want to (sub-genre lists could all bubble up to a parent genre list, and all of the steps in between). Submit Hub does this very well, if you're looking for examples/inspiration.

My two pennies. Good luck with the site!

"Use Alpine liberally for local images if you like, but don't use it for production."

We take the exact opposite approach: default to Alpine based images, only use another base OS if Alpine doesn't work for some reason. The majority of our underlying code base isn't C-based, so maybe that's why Alpine has been successful for us, but as always, everyone's situation is different and YMMV.

It's been a while since I've done any Ruby/Rails development, but just curious why they chose to use a Debian/Ubuntu based image in the default Dockerfile instead of an Alpine based image?

If you're looking for other space-themed music to play, might I suggest

https://spacejunkisforever.bandcamp.com/album/space-junk-is-...

Merryfield | Senior Software Engineer (frontend) | Full-time | Boston, MA and/or REMOTE (US ONLY) | https://www.merryfield.com

Merryfield is a first-of-its-kind app that instantly rewards consumers at least 5% back every time they choose better-for-you products from our collection of trusted brands. Every purchase earns points that can be redeemed for great gift cards to dozens of awesome retailers, and 1 percent of our revenue is donated to No Kid Hungry, a non-profit organization on a mission to end childhood hunger.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in leading the design and development of Merryfield’s various web applications.

Technologies: React.js, Node.js, Express.js, HTML/CSS, TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL

Full details here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2799043146/

Please submit your resume / CV to jobs[at]merryfield.com and include "Hacker News 12/21" in the subject line

Merryfield | Senior Platform Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time, ONSITE

Merryfield is a first-of-its-kind app that instantly rewards consumers every time they choose clean label, better-for-you products from trusted brands. Every purchase earns points that can be redeemed for great gift cards, and 1 percent of our revenue is donated to No Kid Hungry, an organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. We are located in downtown Boston near South Station.

The Senior Platform Engineer will work collaboratively across the organization to help define, design, and deliver key functionality for the Merryfield platform, including RESTful APIs, event-driven microservices, asynchronous job processing, data engineering, and 3rd party integrations.

Tech stack: node.js/express, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Prometheus

Full description: https://angel.co/company/merryfield/jobs/683925-senior-platf...

Get in touch: [email protected]

Ground Signal | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE https://www.groundsignal.com

Ground Signal is a consumer insights startup enabling some of the largest brands and agencies in the world to better understand and reach location-based audiences. We use social data at global scale combined with proprietary analysis to offer unique abilities to segment, understand, and reach customers.

As a Software Engineer on the product team, you will design and develop new features for our flagship Insights web application. Working on a small, agile team consisting of product managers, designers, and other software engineers, you will have a direct impact on the company's success, and help shape our engineering culture and technology stack going forward. We are located in the WeWork South Station.

Tech: JavaScript (Vue.js), CSS/HTML, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, MapD, Docker, Terraform, AWS

Full job listing here: https://angel.co/groundsignal/jobs/235609-software-engineer

Interested? Drop us a line at [email protected]

Ground Signal | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | ONSITE https://www.groundsignal.com

Ground Signal is a consumer insights startup enabling some of the largest brands and agencies in the world to better understand and reach location-based audiences. We use social data at global scale combined with proprietary analysis to offer unique abilities to segment, understand, and reach customers.

As a Software Engineer on the product team, you will design and develop new features for our flagship web application. Working on a small, agile team consisting of product managers, designers, and other software engineers, you will have a direct impact on the company's success, and help shape our engineering culture and technology stack going forward.

Full job listing here: https://angel.co/groundsignal/jobs/235609-software-engineer

Interested? Drop us a line at [email protected]

My testing shows that versionist works just fine with rails-api apps to provide versioning capabilities. If you run into any problems, please file an issue.

https://github.com/bploetz/versionist