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Axial | Full-Time | New York, NY | ONSITE

Axial is building the most data-rich network for private capital markets. We help private business owners find capital or sell their businesses by connecting them to relevant advisors and investors. We are backed by First Round, Redpoint and Comcast Ventures.

I am hiring for two positions --

Senior Data Engineer -- We are looking for someone to own our data infrastructure. We have a functional Data Warehouse and ETL pipeline but there is tons of room for improvements. We are also looking at ingesting (paid or publicly available) new data feeds and would need this person to lead the architecture and implementation of this project.

Full spec here: http://www.axial.net/about/current-openings/?gh_jid=114413

Data Analyst -- We are looking for a recent college graduate to come help us with our decision research and business intelligence projects. This will be a great position for you if you are looking to operate on the boundary between data and business strategy.

Draft spec here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y7K7o9VXfRE1rCWp2eibXHXG...

More info on our benefits etc. here: http://www.axial.net/careers/

Feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected].

Axial | New York, NY | ONSITE

Axial (www.axial.net) is building the online capital market for private companies - connecting those companies to the capital they need to succeed. CEOs and transaction professionals join Axial to access advice and capital, build relationships and exchange opportunities that help them and their organizations grow. Axial is the largest network on the internet for professionals who run, advise, and finance private companies. Every week, over 200 private companies use Axial to passively explore or actively pursue a financial transaction for the next stage of their business.

Currently hiring for:

  - Senior Software Engineer
  - Senior Data Engineer

Our stack includes Pyramid web application framework, Python, Kafka, AngularJS, Ionic, Sass, and PostgreSQL. On the data side, we use Amazon Redshift for our data warehouse and Tableau/R for BI and reporting.

We are located in the Flatiron district of NYC with beautiful views of the city from our office on the 19th floor.

Get more details here: http://www.axial.net/about/current-openings/

I'd be happy to answer any questions -- shoot me an email at [email protected].

Mind if I ask how you use Spark for your ETL jobs?

Axial (http://www.axial.net) | NYC | Full time | On-site

We are hiring engineers, data scientists and analysts to build out our Data Team.

Our stack includes Postgres, Redshift and Apache Kafka and it's all glued together using a combination of Python, Perl, Java and SQL.

If you are in NYC and want to get in on the ground floor while we build the Data Team, send me a note. I am at [email protected].

We also have a bunch of other openings -- Python engineer, front end engineer, PM -- so check out our Careers page.

I work at Axial (http://www.axial.net) and this is what we do. Check us out and if it seems interesting, submit the form and someone will get back to you.

(Caveat: the size of the business you're looking for is on the lower end of the deals on Axial)

Axial | Senior Python Engineer, Mobile Engineer, Frontend Engineer | New York, NY - http://www.axial.net/axial-engineering/

We are working to make the private capital markets more transparent by bringing together capital providers, advisors and entrepreneurs who operate in the middle market.

Backed by top-tier VC firms, we are furiously adding to our Engineering team to build the tools necessary to serve our varied customer base and grow the network.

We are hiring for multiple positions and you can find the list here - http://www.axial.net/axial-engineering/.

Located in the Flatiron, we are in the midst of everything awesome NYC has to offer.

Reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

New York, NY CB Insights (http://www.cbinsights.com)

We're looking for many positions including: - Full-stack developer (Go, Python, PHP) - Front-end developer (data visualization, D3.js heavy) - QA Engineer - Machine Learning Engineer (NLP) - Digital Marketer - Tech Industry Analyst (use data to model & predict disruptive tech trends)

More positions here -- www.cbinsights.com/jobs

We are bootstrapped with 7-figure per annum recurring revenue and will be 20 people by this summer. Send us an email at [email protected] if you're interested in learning more about the company.

Recognized as one of NY's 15 enterprise tech companies to watch.

In my experience, there is no better way than to build it. You learn quickly from your failures and become aware of subtle issues that no text-book or article will ever touch since they are so domain specific.

The best way to learn by doing, IMO, is by joining an organization that works on a large and complex code base. It won't be as exciting as writing new code, but adding to an existing complex system will force you to take into consideration things that you otherwise would not.

New York, NY CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com)

We're looking for many positions including: - Front-end developer (data visualization, D3.js heavy) - Tech Industry Analyst (use data to model & predict disruptive tech trends)

More positions here -- www.cbinsights.com/jobs

We are bootstrapped with 7-figure per annum recurring revenue and will be 20 people by this summer. Recognized as one of NY's 15 enterprise tech companies to watch.

To your comment about working at a big company not being a mistake (I agree), I think the art of learning through 'apprenticeship' is getting lost in the whole 'hacker' hullabaloo.

My first job out of college was at a large company and I worked with some old timers who had been in the industry for years and on code that, at least parts of it, had been written almost 20 years ago. Learning from my colleague's experiences and through the code was incredible and I am certainly better for it. These sort of experiences can rarely be had working at a startup.

I have no exposure to Lua. How is the library support for scientific computing?

The big question for me is whether Julia will be able to maintain its "purity" as it gains adoption.

R probably started out "beautiful" and "thought out" but has lost that edge with years of community driven development. It's also what make it so damn useful -- you can pretty much find anything on CRAN, often multiple implementations of it.

Hey guys - Farhan from CB Insights here. We're collecting and analyzing a ton of mobile data (50GB a day, 650M+ rows so far!) and are trying to surface interesting publishers and trends.

If you have any questions about the analysis or have any topics you'd like us to look at, let me know. We're always looking for ways to slice and dice this data set. I'm at fahmed at cbinsights.com.

A well-deserved win. Can't wait to see what else Magnus goes on to accomplish.

Couldn't agree more.

Redis code base is like a best-practice document.

Wow, don't know if they are delusional or just wrong.

Serious question - is Mathematica popular outside of academic circles? I remember being blown away in college but haven't used it since.

Any sufficiently fast language that allow the user to focus on the problem rather than the syntax or semantics will do better than its peers. I for one am looking forward to Julia maturing.

What does Harvard have to do with any of this?

Any pros/cons you're willing to share?