Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site
Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer
Mode is an analytics platform. We build an integrated toolchain that combines SQL, python notebooks, visualizations, and interactive reporting together so that companies can answer their most challenging analytics questions quickly and easily. We're a team of analytically minded people dedicated to serving data analysts, scientists, and engineers in companies and communities of any size. We're looking for folks who are driven to make change and who believe that a world where analysts are more impactful is a world they'd rather live in.
Tech-wise we primarily use Rails and Go on the backend and Javascript/Typescript on the web side. Some of our engineers work in adjacent parts of the stack and some prefer to focus in on deep expertise in one part, it's really up to you and where you want to focus and grow.
On top of contributing to a product that our customers love you'll be contributing to a culture that you love. There's a lot more to a fulfilling life and successful career than just "crushing code". Come work at a company that thinks more intentionally about work-life balance, diversity, inclusivity, and productivity.
Mode Analytics — San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-Site
Data Engineer, Backend Engineer, UI/Frontend Engineer
Mode Analytics builds integrated productivity tools for analytics teams. Our product combines SQL, analysis,
visualization, and document management into a single web and mobile platform for both businesses and the
open analytics community.
We're about 24 folks today and we're looking for sr. engineers who want to make analytics teams more impactful.
We primarily use Java, Go, Ruby/Rails, and Javascript. Some of our engineers work in adjacent parts of the stack
and some prefer to focus in on deep expertise in one part, it's really up to you and where you want to focus
and grow.
On top of contributing to a product that our customers love you'll be contributing to a culture that you
love. There's a lot more to a fulfilling life and successful career than just "crushing code". Come work
at a company that thinks more intentionally about work-life balance, inclusivity, and productivity.
The power grid isn't nearly as affected by latency as data connections. Several years ago I worked at a company that outsourced its IT midway through my time there. The latency was so terrible that it took 45 minutes just to check one's email at the start of every day, a task which should have taken 5.
That works because the power grid and power generators are heavily regulated by the government. Is AWS ready to classify itself as a utility and be under government regulation?
That seems like an unreasonable jump to make. Building power plants doesn't work ONLY because of a regulated energy market, though I'm sure it helps. What if the parent commenter hadn't used a utility as an example? If the example of "economies of scale" were ethanol fuel production, would you ask if AWS was ready to classify itself as a corn field?
Power only became regulated because it became so central to a functioning society.
In a couple more decades cloud computing will be almost ubiquitous and yes, it will become more regulated.
The AWS GovCloud region is already a move in this direction. Also the private cloud they are building for the CIA shows that AWS is willing to jump through various hoops for $$.
Co-founder and CTO of Mode here. I'm not too concerned that visual exploration is going to replace SQL for ad-hoc data analysis or data modeling for business intelligence. I think proprietary viz platforms are strictly inferior to open sourced ecosystems like Vega in any case. Open ecosystems win over closed ecosystems in the long-run.
We're more interested in integrating the tools and ecosystems people are already using in novel ways than we are in being yet another dashboard or visualization tool. Dashboards and visualizations are incredibly valuable but they're just one of the many ways that analytics teams deliver value to the organization. There are a lot of "jobs to be done" for an analytics team and the list isn't getting any shorter.
The airport exists at and is allowed operated at the will of the government and citizens of France of which the cab drivers are merely a small part. No single union could ever claim the exclusive rights to transportation to and from the airport it as their worksite. That's an absurd analogy.
The taxi union is actually used to having a monopoly on travel to the airport[1][2]. So they actually have been able to claim that exclusive right, as absurd as it seems, for a long time.
