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Youth Inc. | Staff Engineer / Technical Lead | Hybrid Boston, Hybrid Chicago or Fully Remote (US) for exceptional candidate

Youth Inc. is a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace focused exclusively on youth and high school sports.

- Backend: Elixir / Phoenix - Data: PostgreSQL - Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, CI/CD

What you'll do

- Primary technical authority for the engineering team - Own architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and long-term technical direction - Lead design discussions and write clear design docs - Guide the evolution of data models, APIs, and system boundaries - Design, build, and maintain Elixir/Phoenix services in production

What We’re Looking For

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience - Strong backend experience with Elixir (or deep experience in another functional or concurrent language with willingness to go deep in Elixir) - Outstanding communications skills

To apply, please send your resume to [email protected].

Youth Inc | Senior Elixir Engineer | On-site Hybrid Boston, USA | Full-time

At Youth Inc., we’re on a mission to empower youth athletes and their families with trusted content and a best-in-class e-commerce experience. Our Elixir/Phoenix-powered platform reaches millions of users—coaches, trainers, and parents—while our B2B marketplace supplies premium team gear to hundreds of programs across the U.S.

What You’ll Do:

- Design, build, and maintain core Elixir/Phoenix microservices, APIs, and worker processes - Lead database schema design, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning - Define and implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines - Establish best practices: code reviews, automated testing, observability (Datadog/Sentry)

What We’re Looking For:

- 4+ years professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or tech-lead capacity - Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, replication) - Strong Linux system administration and cloud operations (AWS/GCP) skills - Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes (or ECS), and Git-based workflows

If you're interested, please email me - [email protected]

Youth Inc (https://youth.inc) | Front End Engineer, Elixir Engineer | Remote (US) | Full Time

Youth Inc. is a digital media network and commerce marketplace working to help youth athletes and their families thrive. We have an experienced founding team, have closed our seed round and are rapidly growing.

We're looking for:

- a full-stack Elixir Engineer to build and own a greenfield supply chain and fulfillment application. Bonus if you have great ops skills as well.

- a front-end engineer ( Next.js / Node / TypeScript ) to own the front-end web application. Bonus if you have great design skills as well.

These two people will form the core of the engineering team and will drive the systems and the culture.

If you're interested, please email me: [email protected]

Nothing you do on Serendeputy will affect anything on Twitter -- I'm not trying to play any viral games. That was a easy first principle to start with.

I'll keep working on the tool tips and the copy. I'm working on the balance of "simple for first time user" vs. "expose the depth of the application..."

You need a Twitter account to sign up. You don't need to have a super-active Twitter account for it to be useful -- the links coming through Twitter seed it for you, but you control everything else.

Everything is public, though, so if you don't want to sign up, all the tag pages are still available for you. If you really like Erlang (as we all do), you can hit https://serendeputy.com/erlang and see the current index. Each page has a RSS feed attached to it, so you get these in your favorite reader.

Thanks, I hope you find it useful!

Please feel free to shoot me any ideas for what you'd like :-)

I've been using Elixir for 4+ years, and I'm very happy with it. I'm a one-man band, so the talent pool isn't an issue.

My biggest joy is that once you get the application working, it stays working. I have ~20 production nodes, and they all just happily run. This was not my experience with Ruby and Rails.

It's not fun to try to interpret Erlang crash dumps, though.

Congratulations to José and the whole core team!

I've been working exclusively with Elixir and Phoenix for the past four years, and it's been a delight.

A lot of the college radio stations have HD2 streams which are really good, too:

XPN2: https://xpn.org/xpn-programs/xponential-radio

KCRW Eclectic 24: https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/eclectic24

Data point of one: I'm on one of these networks, here in Concord, MA, and it's amazing. We already had municipal power, so it's the same organization and the same bill. I've been running for ~4 years with no blips at all.

It's the first thing I recommend to people moving into town.

http://www.concordnet.org/467/Broadband-Internet-Service

I would love for the powers that be to fix Route 2. The neighborhood roads in Concord and Acton are almost unusable at rush hour from Waze, etc. routing around Route 2. It has gotten progressively (and noticably) worse over the past three years.

They ended up having to redo the school bus schedules to accommodate the new traffic levels.

I believe it's a reference to Samuel Johnson's quote: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

I've really enjoyed "Search Inside Yourself," a book by the person who runs the courses at Google. It takes an engineering eye to the benefits of mindfulness.

NPR - Boston - Senior Engineer and Senior Systems Administrator

NPR's Boston engineering office is hiring senior engineers and a senior systems administrator to work on systems that power the digital applications and APIs of public media.

We're starting to plan out the next generation of these systems, so it's a great time to come on board.

If you're interested in talking, please drop me (jbutler@) and Rick Ennis (rennis@) a line.

NPR | Boston | Engineering Manager, Senior Engineers | ONSITE

NPR (National Public Radio) is hiring an engineering manager and senior engineers at our Digital Services office in Boston.

NPR does a lot more than serve 27 million listeners each week with unsurpassed news coverage. We also deliver news, information and music to over 16 million people a month on our digital platforms. We're dedicated to working in partnership with public broadcasting stations to create a more informed public - one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures.

Join the NPR Digital Services team located in Boston, and work with our member stations nationwide to develop digital strategies and capabilities that will grow audience in local markets. We are looking for individuals who have innovative ideas and rock-solid skills, who thrive in a fast-paced, start-up like environment and who believe in what we do.

More here: http://www.npr.org/about/careers/

Or, email me: jbutler@npr

Great Boss, Dead Boss is an outstanding business novel. I've found his models for tribe dynamics very useful.

I bought my standing desk this spring. I started out using it almost all the time, but I was having similar problems after a long time standing.

Now, I use it in sitting mode most of the time, but use it in standing mode for conference calls. That works out to a nice balance during the day. It’s one button press and 15 seconds or so to adjust from sitting to standing and back, so it’s easy to switch.

They appear to be backpedaling. From their Facebook page:

"The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago. It was meant to be taken down long ago and certainly was never enforced."

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Union-Street-Guest-House/1175...

jason at serendeputy.com

Boston Area (Metrowest) - Compass Aging

We're building out a set of tools to help adult children with aging parents conquer the challenges that come along with that. We're part of Gatehouse Ventures, so we have the environment and the mission of a startup with the resources of a public company.

We're hiring for:

* Senior Software Engineer

* Rails Engineers

* Front-End Engineer

* DevOps Engineer

..and more.

See all the jobs here: http://www.compassaging.com/jobs.

I'm the hiring manager, so please feel free to reach out to me directly.