I recently went through a similar situation (decided to leave my startup after 4 years of growing it). I wrote about my decision on Medium (https://medium.com/@klistwan/why-im-quitting-my-4-year-old-s...), and took about 4 months off to travel and decompress. I spent quite a bit of it reading, reflecting, trying new things, etc. Feel free to send me an email or PM on twitter if you want to ask more questions! :-)
Our mission is to help schools predict their most successful students. We're used by almost half of the top MBA programs across North America, and are quickly growing in engineering, undergraduate business and science programs. We haven't had a single school churn and we just acquired our first competitor.
Here's what we use: Python (Django), JavaScript (jQuery, RequireJS, FlightJS), Bower, MySQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Wowza, AWS,.
Since we’re a small company (you’d be #21), we have lots of fun together! We host bi-weekly lunch & learns, beer o’clock on Friday afternoons, board game nights every few weeks and have done tons of activities outside of work (e.g. wine tasting, cottage retreat, movie nights).
My name is Konrad, and I'm one of the founders! Send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com if you're interested!
Our mission is to help schools predict their most successful students. We're used by almost half of the top MBA programs across North America, and are quickly growing in engineering, undergraduate business and science programs.
Applicants complete timed and written assessments created by the school, that test non-cognitive competencies like leadership, creativity and empathy. Admissions teams can then better evaluate students and build a stronger program overall.
We've raised over $3M of financing, and are growing our engineering team in all areas (full-stack web, infrastructure, etc).
Here's what we're working on: - architecting and building global infrastructure to scale our video recording and streaming - workflow features that help admissions team assign applicants to certain reviewers, and manage their reviewing teams - capturing analytics data about how our users use the product, and making decisions internally - data trumps everything!
Here's what we use: Python (Django), JavaScript (jQuery, RequireJS, FlightJS), MySQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Wowza, AWS,.
You’d be a great fit to our team if you have:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in production
- Proven yourself as an A+ engineer through great work results, interesting hobby projects, open source contributions, or superior academic results
- Deep experience with multiple programming languages including Python, C, Java, Ruby, JavaScript
Since we’re a small team (you’d be #16), we have lots of fun together! We host bi-weekly lunch & learns, beer o’clock on Friday afternoons, board game nights every few weeks and have done tons of activities outside of work (i.e. wine tasting, cottage retreat, etc).
My name is Konrad, and I'm one of the founders! Send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com if you're interested!
Kira Talent (www.kiratalent.com/about/) - Toronto, Canada
Full-Time
Our mission is to help schools predict their most successful students. We're used by almost half of the top MBA programs across North America, and are quickly growing in engineering, undergraduate business and science programs.
Applicants complete timed and written assessments created by the school, that test non-cognitive competencies like leadership, creativity and empathy. Admissions teams can then better evaluate students and build a stronger program overall.
We've raised over $3M of financing, and are growing our engineering team in all areas (full-stack web, infrastructure, etc).
Here's what we're working on:
- architecting and building global infrastructure to scale our video recording and streaming
- workflow features that help admissions team assign applicants to certain reviewers, and manage their reviewing teams
- capturing analytics data about how our users use the product, and making decisions internally - data trumps everything!
Here's what we use: Python (Django), JavaScript (jQuery, RequireJS, FlightJS), MySQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Wowza, AWS, ActionScript.
You’d be a great fit to our team if you have:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience in production
- Proven yourself as an A+ engineer through great work results, interesting hobby projects, open source contributions, or superior academic results
- Deep experience with multiple programming languages including Python, C, Java, Ruby, JavaScript
Since we’re a small team (you’d be #16), we have lots of fun together! We host bi-weekly lunch & learns, beer o’clock on Friday afternoons, board game nights every few weeks and have done tons of activities outside of work (i.e. wine tasting, cottage retreat, etc).
My name is Konrad, and I'm one of the founders! Send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com if you're interested!
At Kira Talent, we help organizations find exceptional talent through video.
A bit about us:
- we’re a small team (you’d be #15), based in the heart of downtown Toronto;
check us out at www.kiratalent.com/about/
- we’re had paying clients since day 1 of the company, and are well funded
- we’re hiring both mobile and backend developers
- we believe that even enterprise software can be beautiful,
and pride ourselves on our design
- every single one of our developers have committed code within their
first day at work (some within their first hour), and because
we love continuous deployment, so we're constantly pushing to
production and seeing the impact of our work
Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:
- building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording
and streaming; imagine thousands of applicants from countries
all around the world submitting video interviews right before a deadline
- designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and
employers alike
- presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user,
and our team internally
Our toolkit involves Python (Django), JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), MySQL (and some MongoDB), Celery, RabbitMQ, Wowza Media Server. We use AWS for hosting, CircleCI for continuous integration and GitHub for everything else (i.e. code reviews, issue tracking).
If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, I'm the co-founder/CTO, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
At Kira Talent, we help organizations find exception talent through video.
A bit about us:
- we’re a small team (you’d be #15), based in the heart of downtown Toronto;
check us out at www.kiratalent.com/about/
- we’re had paying clients since day 1 of the company, and are well funded
- we’re hiring both mobile and backend developers
- we believe that even enterprise software can be beautiful,
and pride ourselves on our design
- every single one of our developers have committed code within their
first day at work (some within their first hour), and because
we love continuous deployment, so we're constantly pushing to
production and seeing the impact of our work
Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:
- building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording
and streaming; imagine thousands of applicants from countries
all around the world submitting video interviews right before a deadline
- designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and
employers alike
- presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user,
and our team internally
Our toolkit involves Python (Django), JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), MySQL (and some MongoDB), Celery, RabbitMQ, Wowza Media Server. We use AWS for hosting, CircleCI for continuous integration and GitHub for everything else (i.e. code reviews, issue tracking).
If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, I'm the co-founder/CTO, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
At Kira Talent, we help employers spot top talent earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.
A bit about us:
* we’re a small team (you’d be #14), based in the heart of downtown Toronto
* we’re well funded (we just raised a $2M seed round) and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company
* we’re hiring both mobile and backend developers
* we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design
* every single one of our developers have committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour
Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:
* building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming
* re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS
* designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike
* presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team internally
We mostly use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), MySQL (and some MongoDB), but you’d be free to choose your own tools and libraries. If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, I'm the co-founder/CTO, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
At Kira Talent, we help employers spot top talent earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.
A bit about us:
* we’re a small team (you’d be #13), based in the heart of downtown Toronto
* we’re well funded (we just raised a $2M seed round) and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company
* we’re hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, analytics
* we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design
* every single one of our developers have committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour
Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:
* building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming
* re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS
* designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike
* presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team internally
We mostly use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), MySQL (and some MongoDB), but you’d be free to choose your own tools and libraries. If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, I'm the co-founder/CTO, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)
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