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Location: San Francisco, Bay Area

Remote: Yes, open to onsite, hybrid, or fully remote opportunities

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Go, PHP, SQL, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mburst/

Email: https://mailhide.io/en/e/iINzNpnc or LinkedIn

• Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer products at global scale

• Spent 3.5 years building up the mobile app, backend, and business tooling for ride hail operations at Cruise including pricing, payments, real time communication, and geolocation

• Spent 7.5 years across the stack at Imgur working on products such as content recommendation, data platform management, media uploads, image classification, frontend gallery browsing improvements, and more

• Open to full stack or backend roles


I've gotten a job through HN which has turned in to friendship if that counts. Every now and then meetups popup too which are cool


Where do you see meetups? I don't think I've ever seen them on HN but would be nice to go to one while I'm in SF!


They pop up every now and then. Wouldn't say it's a common thing. Fwiw the overlap between a random tech meetup and HN users is probably pretty high. I've gone to a few in SF from meetup.com


Maybe meetup.com?


Oh that is really great! A job thru the internet of programmers and engineers such a blessing. May it last till your end. Do you enjoy that job a lot?


It was a good time for sure. I worked there 7.5 years before leaving. Still keep in contact with a lot of people from that job. On the first work day of the month there are hiring threads on HN if you end up wanting to check those out


Oh yes thanks for the info. Wow 7.5 years is a good run for sure. That's great you keep in touch.


Cruise | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | See links below for pay ranges

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for software engineering talent with backend, frontend, or full stack experience. On the backend we're using Express/Postgres/Redis with Typescript and on the frontend we're using React Native. Come help us build the future of self driving cars!

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/ - Staff Software Development Engineer (frontend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657686/ - Senior Backend Software Engineer II (backend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657665/ - Software Engineer, Consumer Ridehail Quality (full stack, San Francisco)

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software leads on the team


I've seemed to found myself in a limbo between passing a screen and waiting for an onsite to be scheduled without much in the way of feedback from the recruiters on when to expect next steps. I've been working with them for about 2 months now and I'm not seeing an end in site; any suggestions? This is for a Staff SWE role fwiw.


Sorry to hear that. If it's for the role in my link or another product eng role let me know and I can have someone look in to it for you. If not the recruiter you're talking to is likely your best bet.


I believe it was, actually. I know the original rec I was looking at was filled at some point and that threw some things off so the recruiter was looking at this one instead but haven't heard anything since, unfortunately. Is there a good way to send you info on myself for you to pass along?


You can reach me in the email from my original comment or my profile. My first and last name is in my hn profile


Are you folks ok with remote in Canada?


I believe it's US remote only. It can't hurt to apply though. The recruiting team may have other roles that are more globally available that they can point you to.


I want to apply for intern role, whom should i reach out?


Awesome to hear you're interested! You can apply directly through the website there with your resume and someone from our recruiting team will reach out if there is a fit


thanks , will do that.


Cruise | Senior React Native Engineer | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | $166,600 - $245,100 + bonus + equity

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for a mobile expert to come in and help build out our iOS and Android app using React Native. Come help build the future of self driving cars.

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software devs on the team


I started working on a project to solve this exact issue https://github.com/mburst/protomolecule. I haven't spent too much time building out other frameworks, but the first framework is React + Express which fits what you're looking for


It's times like these when I'm appreciative of the simplicity of the HN tech stack. Was talking to some people on discord when it went down and then noticed some other websites were down. Came right to HN to see 5 different threads about this. Will be curious to see what the cause of the issue turns out to be


I really enjoy my pbt key caps. Programmers spend all day at the keyboard and the oils from their fingers wear down the key caps and make their keyboards look terrible. PBT feels better and takes longer to break down. You can get a good set for $30. Just make sure the key caps on their keyboards come off.

Logitech also makes some nice wireless mice around $100 that are pretty ergonomic and comfortable to use. Anything to help prevent carpel tunnel is nice.

A lot of programmers really love the jetbrains tool suite, but that's more subscription based.

A lot of free database viewer tools pale in comparison to their paid counterparts. So something in that arena could be nice


or even just a single keycap with a character or design they enjoy to replace their Esc key or something

those things can get up to $30-50 or higher depending on materials, putting it exactly in the range of "would never buy it themselves but would still love to get it" which imo is peak gift territory


I thought the same thing, but I found it hard to find views of inside of the apartments I sampled from the article. A lot of the apartment websites just talked about the amenities. Some had a floor plan, but no pictures of what the inside actually looked like. For a $7mil+ condo I was expecting a little more, but I'm also not really the target audience of those condos either


Perhaps exclusivity is important to these customers. The real estate agent isn't posting images on the web for the mass market to see.


This reminds me of the Internet Explorer antitrust issue. Eventually Microsoft had to give users a choice on start up. Not sure if it directly led to better browsers or not, but it certainly didn't hurt. I could see the outcome being the same here where users will get to choose which store(s) they want on their device during setup rather than defaulting to the play or apple store


I've been running Flux https://justgetflux.com/ for over a decade now. Windows has something similar built in, but it's not as good as Flux in my experience. Flux has the ability to slower change the hue of your screen over time and gives you great control over it at every level. It also lets you set a notif for when you want to get up so when it alerts me that I'm 8.5 hours away from needing to wake up I know I need to start winding down


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