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ifuller1 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

We're a technology company that brings simple, free investing to everyone.

We’re building all the technology and infrastructure from the ground up.

We're looking for outstanding engineers and engineering leaders to help us scale to our next 200k users.

Multiple roles from £40k to £110k+ (mid to principal software roles and above)

ifuller1 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)

We're a technology company that brings simple, free investing to everyone.

We’re building all the technology and infrastructure from the ground up.

We're looking for outstanding engineers and engineering leaders to help us scale to our next 200k users.

Multiple roles from £40k to £110k+ (mid to principal software roles and above)

ifuller1 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

Careers page: https://freetrade.io/careers/

Location: London, UK, ONSITE

We’re Freetrade.io and we’re building an investment product that will empower millions of users to invest into the companies they believe in - without large fees or industry jargon. Instead of VC funding, we’ve raised over £4 million through Crowdcube - meaning our investors are our users and our community.

We’re hiring across the engineering team. As well as building an Android App to sit alongside our current iOS App, we’re building new data and trading platforms. Some of our current roles include:

- Senior Android Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/61E51094B9 (Kotlin Android)

- Senior Engineer, Growth: https://www.workable.com/j/A687D2A8BA (React, iOS, Android, Typescript…)

- Principal Software Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/7976F658E5 (Systems Design, Typescript, iOS, Android…)

We’re language-agnostic, encouraging engineers to work outside of their expertise. In other words, don’t be put off if you don’t see your skillset. Strong engineers of any discipline - get in touch!

ifuller1 | 12 years ago | on: Args.js – Optional and Default parameters for JavaScript

I'm not sure that embracing a languages dynamic nature should get in the way of leveraging libraries to write more readable code. One advantage of using a standard approach (be it a third party library, or something bespoke) is that you could enable / disable the 'type checking' depending on the build environment. I wouldn't be surprised if your existing toolchain isn't already bringing some static inference to your development - are you using jsdoc and an IDE with autocomplete, for example?

Trusting you find Dart, Typescript, et al agreeable you have to concede that some people are working with legacy code and can only make iterative changes to their codebase?

ifuller1 | 13 years ago | on: Should I tell you that your startup idea sucks?

There are just so many good ideas that are originally decreed as failures that it seems like madness to try and stop somebody from trying. The Xerox R&D team that was told the gui would never really catch on. The investors that told Amazon nobody would purchase books of the internet. Even the Yahoo execs that turned down Google in 1997. Of course some ideas, like the chocolate tea pot, might seemed so doomed to failure that it would be cruel to not call them out. That is until chocolate tea pots become the next big food trend. For more concrete evidence of why this is a bad idea though you should look to the performance of stock market traders over the last 30 years, for the most part their average performance rarely deviates from a 50/50 success rate.