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Taken from TLDR - full article attached. "To automate entire job functions" it says. Talking about making your job easier? You won't have to do anything! 🤖 In two months they have generated 700k in ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue, so subscriptions. Artisan, a fast-growing startup founded in 2023, is revolutionizing the future of work by developing AI employees, called Artisans, to automate entire job functions, starting with sales. After initially struggling with a self-serve model, it transitioned to a sales-led approach, resulting in significant growth. Artisan is focused on building an efficient inbound lead generation system and aims to create the best outbound AI SDR on the market. It plans to expand into other areas like marketing and customer success. https://lnkd.in/eUnT972j

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Hard to be a Staff Developer when an org is silo'd and trust is low. We empower our Staff Devs through a variety of cross-org tech sharing initiatives, as well as heavily emphasize trust and transparency in our culture-first employee driven org. Check the link in comments to get a taste of what we're about, we're #hiring! #improving #bigdata #backenddevelopers #trust

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Take mental health days. Assuming your company allows it, take them. At Yelp we changed sick days to wellness days to include all types of wellness. As a leader, even if you don't have the title of manager (senior/staff engineer, tech lead, architect, etc), you can set a healthy tone for your team by leading by example. It's one thing to tell my team to use their wellness when they need it, but way more powerful if I use it. I want my team to take that time. I would rather they don't work, take care of themselves, and come back when they can be present. Will people abuse the policy? Maybe. My team has to trust me with their careers, I trust them with a hell of a lot more than following expectations of a simple wellness policy. I'll choose trust here every time.

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Major theme emerging RN as I talk with startup CTO's: There is a HUGE push for hiring #ContractDevs (especially in #PreSeed & #Seed). The expectations that VC's have nowadays for #SeriesA+ money is SOOOOO much tougher than it used to be ... (they want more revenue, more ARR, deeper customer relationships, etc). This means that VC backed startups have to hold on to cash, and they are FAR less likely to hire as many #FullTime #Devs until they raise a big round. Instead, dev leaders are pushing more toward #contract #developers to help build #MVP's or to run special projects that are key to their success, and help them GET to that next round ... Sometimes this still is #fulltime work ... but we're also seeing a LOT of "side work" gigs with startups (i.e. 10-20 hour a week type gigs). Unlike most recruiters, we're happy to run temp / contract / part time side-gig searches for this type of dev. Candidly, we don't make NEARLY the same amount of money on this type of gig (which is why most recruiting companies don't like this type of work) ..... But unlike most dev recruiting shops, we're not desperate, and we know that meeting our clients needs in the short term, means that it comes back around for the long term. :) I've been helping VC backed startups hire for 7+ years, and I'll be in the space for another 20+, so I consider the chance to meet your needs in the short term, the perfect chance to "audition" to earn your business in the long term. If a recruiter is not willing to take on your toughest searches, they don't deserve your business when things are a bit easier, eh? Here to help, and here for the long term :) If you're struggling with finding the right recruiter to help you with your #contract #dev search, HMU - Happy to help, even if it is your toughest, ugliest, weirdest search. #DevRecruiter #StartupRecruiter #ContractRecruiter

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I am expanding my senior engineering team Fimio. I am hiring for two roles: - Staff Front-End Engineer - Staff Infrastructure Engineer Both roles require meeting in person 3x week in San Francisco. https://lnkd.in/gR6_7hTx At Fimio, my goal is to be git for builds. My team and I are picking up where git left off. Our ambition is to create a modern universal build system with fully reproducible builds built in from the ground up. Our point of view is that we can create secure build systems via full transparency. We are expanding the team and want someone who is deeply interested in improving the user experience for Python developers with regards to how they build their applications and deploy them to the cloud. The right candidate will need to be interested in understanding build systems, security, as well as have a passion for great user experience and design. I believe developers need to have the best tools and deserve to build with tools that are lovingly designed and are aesthetically pleasing, and I hope you feel the same! My goal at Fimio is to create tools that are the quintessence of their genre. At Fimio, we spend a lot of our engineering effort building products that beautifully bridge the knowledge gap between infrastructure and code. Here are a few essays that have served as inspiration for our worldview with regards to developer tools: - The Case for Developer Experience, Jean Yang, https://lnkd.in/g23z2Dpy - Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson, https://lnkd.in/gNZTM5jC - Reproducibility in Software Engineering, Pol Dellaiera, https://lnkd.in/gEQif8WX

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I Live In Motel California = Look folks: I have been living in California since 1996 ... Silicon Valley: 1996 - 2023 (27 years) Sacramento, California Capital: 2024 - We know that there is a famous song: Hotel California For this post I thought hard on this post title: I Live In Hotel California I could not do it ... but I could do this instead: I Live In Motel California = The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned a chain retail store that it could face a public nuisance charge due to a large number of phone calls placed to police when thieves repeatedly stole from its Land Park location. A person with knowledge of the warning, but not authorized to speak publicly due to the fear of retaliation, told The Sacramento Bee that city officials threatened the Target at 2505 Riverside Blvd. in the past year with an administrative fine. A Sacramento police spokesman confirmed the location — a site that prompted heavy ire from Land Park residents due to repeated crimes — when asked about the apparent warning. The alleged warning issued by Sacramento city officials — and similar actions by other cities across the state — prompted lawmakers to add an amendment to a retail theft bill that would outlaw such threats made by authorities. Pursuing legal actions against businesses for reporting crime brought heavy criticism from law enforcement. It’s unclear why City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood's office would allegedly resort to issuing such a warning to any business seeking help from police. Swanson did not grant multiple interview requests to the City Attorney’s Office over a period of about a week. Clark Kelso, a professor of law at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, said “there is no question” that city attorneys have every right to pursue a public nuisance charge against businesses in which owners know the property is dangerous. However, experts said it’s unclear if the law allows a public nuisance charge when people steal from the store. The retailer is a victim, and could be seeking serious help when confronted with shoplifters, he said. The alleged warnings by city officials statewide may affect what crime data is reported as businesses contend with the potential of facing legal action for reporting retail theft, a topic spurring heavy debate in California. Lawmakers have said the unreliable data has caused some skepticism about what, if any, legislation should be passed. = I will stop here. What is the difference between a Hotel and Motel? Hotels are larger, have on-property amenities, and are often centrally located in urban areas. Motels are one- or two-stories, have little to no amenities, and are scattered along roads and highways and perfect for road trips, often in rural areas. The word motel (from a blend of motor and hotel) typically implies a roadside hotel in which the doors of the rooms can be entered from outside. Now you decide: Do I live in Hotel California or Motel California?

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Elastic is committed to making Elasticsearch and Lucene the best vector database out there. Our investments into Lucene are key to ensuring that every release of Elasticsearch brings increasing performance and scale. Read more about the recent enhancements and optimizations that significantly improve vector search performance in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene: https://lnkd.in/e3ac-JKE

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Latest q2 software engineering comp report (accepted offers) is out and it's a doozy. Please DM or email me natan@singlesprout.com for the data. Overall trends: - compensation is up big in q2 - companies hiring more for seniority - in-office requirements continue to rise ... and much more

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Hiring for the big seat doesn't have to be complicated if you know what you're doing. To get in on the biggest secrets of successful #ExecutiveHiring, check out our new guide! Link in comments. #recruitcrm #recruiters #recruitment #executiverecruitment #ceo #coo #hiringtips

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Hiring: Attention, Code Whisperers! 📣 Sunnyvale, CA Are you a tech wizard who can speak fluent GraphQL? Does the thought of wrangling a wild distributed system or taming a virtual cloud get your code running? If so, you might be the missing ';' in our program! We're the techno maestros behind Walmart U.S., crafting digital symphonies to empower our stores, eCommerce business, and, most importantly, our customers. From groceries to glitter glue, we've got it all covered, online, on mobile apps, or in-store. Now, we're looking for a tech virtuoso who can play a mean concerto in Distributed System, Virtual Cloud, NodeJS, GraphQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, Looper/npm, GIT, Jenkins, and Kubernetes. Yes, you read it right! GraphQL isn't just a "nice to have" for us. It's a "if you don't have it, don't bother" kind of thing! As part of our ensemble, you'll take center stage in guiding small engineering crews, troubleshooting business and production issues, managing complex projects, and contributing to high-level design. You'll be our maestro, orchestrating business solutions by building relationships with stakeholders, identifying needs, and adapting to changes. So, if you're a tech aficionado who can debug a live application faster than you can say "Kubernetes," and develop high performance, scalable solutions that can handle a ton of big data like it's just another day at the office, we need you on our team! Think you can handle the tempo? Then let's make some music together! Hit the apply button faster than a 404 error and let's code in harmony! 🎵🚀 Raja Kukkadapu #JobSearch #BayArea #GraphQL #WalmartTech #HiringNow #TechHumor

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🚀 Join Instawork's FAST Team: Transforming the Flexible Labor Market Instawork is hiring a senior-level engineer to join their FAST charter: About FAST: Unlike traditional 'labs' teams, FAST at Instawork is about audacious, simple, and impactful actions. Their aim? To develop products that dramatically shift the trajectory while simplifying the experience for their users.  🔹 Who They Need: Are you someone who codes or designs with a deep care for real-world impact? Do you thrive in small, potent teams where everyone brings something to the table? If you've started a company or aspire to lead one, if you're self-aware and solution-oriented, FAST is your next move. Instawork values direct communication, extreme ownership, and the drive to learn and adapt swiftly.  🔹Philosophy: FAST operates on the principles of building simple, lovable, complete products—not just MVPs. They prioritize our users over our convenience, embodying values of empathy, trust, candor, and a bias for action that accelerates our collective pace. 🔹  Your Impact: Joining FAST means you could lead efforts that multiply Instawork’s impact on the market, from increasing user engagement to expanding our reach and solidifying our market position.   📍 Location: San Francisco, in office  💼 Join FAST: If you're ready to be part of a team that values hard work and radical ideas to make real changes, Instawork's FAST is where you need to be. Let's redefine flexibility in the labor market together! Interested? Know someone who might be? Let’s connect! Or feel free to reach out to Jack Giles, who is leading this search. JD link: https://lnkd.in/gRk9bGtA

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🥇 We did it again! 🥇 The G2 Fall Reports are in, and Varnish Software has been crowned the Best Web Server Accelerator! 🎉 Not just for one thing, but for ALL the things that matter: ⚡ Quality of Support ⚡ User Satisfaction ⚡ Content Compression ⚡ Caching & Prefetching ⚡ Content Delivery Acceleration ⚡ Dynamic Content Routing A huge shoutout to our amazing team and community—you’re the reason we keep pushing the limits. #G2Leader #WebAcceleration #TechExcellence #VarnishSoftware #PerformanceMatters

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🎈Attention!! 🎈 Calling all SWE Technical Leaders with “at least 3-4 years” leading/mentoring teams and handling end to end large scale projects, located in the Bay Area, CA or NY Metropolitan locations, supporting Product/Backend Systems or Machine Learning/Data Science domains, and have “NOT” interviewed with Meta in the last 12 months! If you meet these qualifications, please send me a message to connect and chat about the exciting opportunities at Meta! Last week, we released the new version of Meta AI, our assistant that you can ask any question across our apps and glasses. Meta AI has been upgraded with a new state-of-the-art Llama 3 AI model. We believe Meta AI is now the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use, and marks a significant milestone in our AI investments. By open-sourcing this technology, we aim to encourage collaboration and knowledge-sharing among developers worldwide, ultimately leading to even more advanced tools and applications. In addition to this, we have made progress towards our vision for the Metaverse, opening Meta Horizon OS - our operating system powering Quest - so others can design more headsets in our ecosystem. This will allow new headsets to be created in the coming years, focused on productivity, entertainment, exercise, gaming, and more. We also announced new product features and styles for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, including AI integration. These are just a few examples of the groundbreaking work that we are doing at Meta, and we believe that there is no better time than now to join! Learn more about our Meta AI assistant built with Llama 3 here:

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Multi-metric scaling is critical for accurate and resilient resource management. Our latest blog recaps our journey in enabling multi-metric support at Yelp. We dive into scaling improvements, tackling legacy code challenges, and essential lessons learned. #scaling #engineering #yelplife #engineeringblog

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We are growing at TenYour and here is our newest job opening: Job Title: Fullstack Web Engineer (Frontend Emphasis) Location: Sacramento, CA (in-office 3+ days per week) Salary: $140K to $180K (based on experience) About TenYour: TenYour is a venture-backed startup with a mission to help middle class professionals build and sustain generational wealth despite the economic hurdles everyday Americans face—such as layoffs, financial instability, and more. Through our initial product, Safety Net, we provide a unique tool that provides peace of mind, safeguards financial well-being, and creates a pathway to generational wealth, even in the face of an unexpected job loss. Job Overview: We are looking for an experienced engineer who is ready to do the best and most meaningful work of their career, expand their skill set and take on a wide range of responsibilities, participating in the construction and maintenance of a cutting-edge technology system from the ground up. As a Fullstack Web Engineer at TenYour, you’ll work across the entire stack, utilizing technologies such as Next.js, AdonisJS, ExpressJS, MySQL, and Azure. In addition to contributing code, you’ll also be involved in DevOps, UX/UI development, and database maintenance. Your primary focus will be on frontend development, where you will lead efforts to: - Ensure reusable custom hook abstractions and proper MVC patterns. - Optimize the use of SSR vs. CSR for performance and SEO. - Instate and enforce use of semantic HTML - Instate a frontend testing framework. - UI development and component design What This Job Is Not: If you are seeking a traditional engineering role where you simply work on tickets, write some code, and demo your work every two weeks, this is not the job for you. We are looking for a highly motivated engineer who is excited about taking on the monumental challenge of building a modern, performant, and modular technology system from the ground up. Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in fullstack or frontend web development. (Formal experience is preferred, but personal projects count too!) Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and React. Experience with meta-frameworks like Next  or Nuxt  Experience with backend technologies such as Nest.js, Express, Laravel, Django, or SpringBoot. Knowledge of version control systems like Git. Experience working with RESTful APIs and third-party services. Strong understanding of responsive design, performance optimization, and module/component design. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team. Bonus Skills: Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks like Jest, Cypress, or similar. Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization tools like Docker.

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐓𝐎: 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐂-𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 With years of experience recruiting top talent across Engineering, Software Development, and C-level roles, I’ve had the privilege of helping exceptional professionals rise through the ranks to leadership positions. For engineers with their sights set on the C-suite, the path from Engineering Lead to CTO is one of the most exciting yet challenging transitions in tech leadership. Stepping into a CTO role requires more than just mastering technical skills—it demands a strategic mindset, leadership abilities, and a clear vision for innovation. If you’re an engineering leader aspiring to become a CTO, understanding how to map out your path is essential for making that leap. Here’s how to navigate your journey from Engineering Lead to CTO: ➡️ Develop a Strategic Mindset: As an Engineering Lead, you’re already managing teams and solving technical problems. To transition into the CTO role, you must start thinking beyond immediate technical challenges and develop a long-term strategic vision for the company’s technology roadmap. ➡️ Master Leadership and People Management: Moving into the C-suite requires more than managing engineers—you’ll need to lead cross-functional teams and foster collaboration across the company. Focus on honing your leadership skills, including communication, conflict resolution, and team-building. ➡️ Build Business Acumen: As a CTO, you’ll be involved in decision-making at the highest level. This means you need to understand how technology affects business outcomes. Strengthen your knowledge of financial models, operations, and product management. Partner with other departments to gain a holistic view of how the business functions and how technology can drive growth. ➡️ Expand Your Technical Expertise: While leadership is critical, CTOs must also have a deep understanding of emerging technologies. Stay ahead of industry trends like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing. Make sure you’re not just overseeing current technologies but are also actively driving innovation in your organization. ➡️ Mentorship and Networking: Surround yourself with mentors who’ve already leaped C-level roles. Their guidance can be invaluable as you navigate the complexities of this transition. Networking with other tech leaders will also help you stay informed about industry shifts and opportunities. Transitioning from Engineering Lead to CTO is a significant step in your career. It requires a combination of leadership, technical expertise, and business acumen. At Guaranteed Connections, we’re here to help you map out your path to the C-suite and connect you with the opportunities that align with your career goals. Let’s connect and discuss how we can help you on your journey from engineering leader to CTO. #TechLeadership #CTOCareer #TechCareers

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🚀 Exciting Opportunity Alert 🚀 Are you a Principal Engineer passionate about Distributed Machine Learning? Check out this role in Santa Clara, CA: https://bit.ly/3Zl5M4O. Key skills: #gpu #apache #spark #machinelearing #ml #dl #deeplearning #acceleratedcomputing #cluster #rapids #mLlib #XGBoost #PyTorch #cuML #pytorch #tensorflow #apis #api #Kubernetes #YARN #Ray #C++ #Scala, #Python #nvtabiular #cuda #horovod #petastorm #dll. Interested? Reach out to RobKemp@Nvidia.com for more details. Opportunity awaits! 🌟 #engineering #machinelearning #distributedcomputing

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🚨 Check it out - hot off the press! 📰 Sudeep Das, Pradeep Varma and Ying Yang are all hiring as we continue to scale! 🙏 If you have a passion for Machine Learning and expertise within Deep Learning, Computer Vision and/or NLP domains, let's connect! #experimentation #DoorDash #hiring #machinelearning

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