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I work for a small financial SaaS in Boston. 30-50 people. Nobody offshore. I've worked here for 18 years and 11 months and a couple of days. Yes, we're hiring.
by dsr_ 5y ago
I work for a small financial SaaS in Boston. 30-50 people. Nobody offshore. I've worked here for 18 years and 11 months and a couple of days. Yes, we're hiring.
The best thing about the company are the people who are already here. The basic hiring criteria are "clever, competent and kind". That doesn't mean we never have disagreements, but they tend to be technical disagreements about the best approach to reach the same goal. Before the pandemic, and hopefully after it, the kitchen was the center of the company: casual questions turned into great discussions, explanations... there's a big whiteboard wall in the kitchen, and it got used a lot.
That goal, incidentally, is to drive down the cost of good portfolio analysis until it's within everyone's reach. We're succeeding: there are clients who have programs where people start their investments with $50/week.
Our folks are reasonably diverse in terms of background and talents. There's a robust co-op program. The benefits are pretty good -- fully paid health care premiums -- but it's definitely the people that make it great.
- AYBABTME 5y agoWhat does "Nobody offshore" means here?
- sneak 5y agoIt means they don't hire non-Americans, which tells you something else about the company.
- pieix 5y agoWhat else does it tell you?
- jimmyed 5y ago"folks are diverse...in terms of background" Tells me they don't have any other diversity (hopefully not due to a deliberate policy)
- runnerup 5y agoOf the 35 people I can see on linkedIn: 17 appear to be white men 9 appear to be women Overall that seems somewhat better than usual for small tech companies. I'd say taking 'dsr's assertion that his colleagues come from diverse backgrounds at face value may be a reasonable charity to give him.
- pmarreck 5y agoNo, no it doesn’t. Given the significant advantages of hiring physically-local people, you cannot simply draw whatever conclusion you seem to desperately want to.
- dsr_ 5y agoWe don't outsource our employees. All development, IT, etc is in-house. That's in contrast to "offshore development", where the US team is augmented by contracted development companies in some other part of the world. We have sponsored H1B visas, on occasion. Employees are required to have the legal right to work in the US, and are expected to make their legal residence in the US.
- monktastic1 5y agoSounds heavenly! Is it worth putting a link to your company here?
- dsr_ 5y agoIf you're interested, I have an email address in my profile here.
- loxias 5y agoThat Junior Financial Engineer position looks exciting to me! I think I'd qualify for the Sr. one, in terms of C/C++, the math, and the Linux experience, but I'd never held a "financial" job before. Having to move back to Boston wouldn't be ideal but I lived in Cambridge for 7 years and could do it again. I also really dig lots of the topics I see on the company blog, and will be reading them later. Are the compensation numbers I see on glassdoor in the ballpark?
- dsr_ 5y agoI can't say for certain, but I expect remote will continue to be an option going forward. I also don't have a clue about compensation outside of my department. Drop me an email (address in my profile) and I'll forward your resume right to the responsible party.
- jimmyed 5y ago(loxias has an mit edu address)
- giantg2 5y agoThat sounds interesting. Made me think of the Neoxam Boston office at first.
- mraza007 5y agoJust curious if you don’t mind can you share the name of the company you work for
- dsr_ 5y agoI work for Smartleaf -- www.smartleaf.com
- ab_testing 5y agoAre these salary ranges correct. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Smartleaf-Software-Engineer-Salaries-E1328687_D_KO10,27.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Smartleaf-Software-Engineer... Looks like a software engineer would need to pick up a second job to make up for Boston's cost of living.