Brainspace Corporation, Dallas, Texas - (Full time, Local)
At Brainspace (http://www.brainspace.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) semantic platform. We're passionate about creating the best possible technology and user experiences.
Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? We work hard and play hard. We’re looking for the best, and offer competitive salary and benefits.
Senior Front-End Engineer
We're looking for an expert front-end engineer to join our team, bringing passion and pixel perfection as we build innovative experiences. Be a team leader on development tasks. You should be able to work independently, as well as mentor junior developers. You’ll assist in defining timelines and development tasks.
* Integrate with internal and external REST API's
* Strong command of HTML5, CSS, and Javascript
* Mastery of the DOM and jQuery
* Experience with multiple MVC JS frameworks like Knockout and Angular
* Experience implementing complex front ends across browsers
On top of that, it would be great if you also:
* Have experience in cloud environments like AWS
* Are familiar with LESS and SASS
* Have design skills
Senior Software Engineer
We're looking for a senior Software Engineer to join our team, bringing passion and perfection in helping us build innovative products. You will be working with really cool Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies, as well as using tools like Lucene/ElasticSearch, Jersey, and maybe some Scala or Clojure.
You need to have the following:
* Expertise in Java development
* Strong OO development skills
* Expertise in build RESTful API's
* SQL Skills
* Familiarity with agile processes
It would be great if you have:
* C# skills
* Experience with PostgreSQL, Tomcat, and Jersey
* Javascript or Ruby knowledge
* Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing skills
* Experience in the Legal/eDiscovery market
If either of these opportunities look interesting to you, please contact us at careers@brainspace.com
At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.
We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for people to shine. Our front-end stack is Ruby on Rails, Knockout.js, Slim, & Coffeescript. We're looking for a Ruby on Rails expert help join our amazing product team, empower the creation of innovative user experiences by working with our powerful core services.
We are a young, fast-moving startup where everyone has a voice and can make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).
On any given day you might...
• Do a daily standup in person or online.
• Evaluate new platforms, plugins, and other technologies.
• Contribute to and maintain internal libraries and frameworks that document what we’ve learned and help us iteratively build better and faster.
• Optimize, optimize, optimize. Because you love to.
• Commit often, ship early, and dodge incoming RC Helicopters.
• Provide input to our ongoing evaluation of the area's best tacos, hamburgers and BBQ
You...
• Have a desire to solve hard problems
• Know the joys and pains of building web applications heavily dependent on APIs
• Want to work at a place where off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
• Want to build something great—even world-changing.
• Have experience deploying a Rails application on a multitude of platforms.
• Have excellent communication skills
• Are comfortable doing full-stack web development
• Have or would love to build web services of your own.
• Regularly star new GitHub repos and keep an eye on RubyGems and npm.
Bonus points for...
• Experience with Postgresql & MongoDB
• Experience with Redis, Sideckick, Resque, etc.
• Strong understanding of high availability best practices in the cloud
• Experience with oAuth
• Experience with Twitter, Facebook and other common APIs

You’ll work with our Product and UX team in our current, early stages through to first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
We offer...
• A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
• A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
• Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
• Generous vacation policy
Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continuing pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.
Interested? Drop me a line: jacob@purediscovery.com
At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.
We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for engineers to shine. We work in Ruby and Java, building complex systems with high scalability in the cloud. We're looking for an engineer to work on our core technology and service infrastructure. We are a young, fast-moving startup where everyone has a voice and cane make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).
Some of our technical challenges include...
• Architecting and building our next generation of web services
• Scaling up our existing systems to handle growing traffic
• Identifying and and building key new features to meet the needs of a growing customer base
Responsibilities:
• Participate in the planning, analysis, design, development and deployment of product features and enhancements
• Work as part of the development team to establish and apply the latest in engineering best practices
• Build high-performance, scalable applications and APIs
You...
• Have a desire to solve hard problems
• Think that real-time analytics at web scale is a fun challenge
• Want to work at a place where off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
• Want to build something great
• Are willing to dig into Java, NLP, and machine learning. And aren't afraid of Scala, Clojure, or
whatever it takes to make great things work at web scale.
Bonus points for...
• Expertise in engineering world-class web applications
• Experience with the AWS toolkit (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)
• Familiarity and experience with modern architectures such as ???
• Experience scaling from hundreds to thousands of users and beyond via load balancing, auto-
scaling server deployment, HTTP accelerator caching, reverse proxies, failover, etc.
• Experience with worker queues and clustering.
• Strong understanding of high availability best practices in and out of the cloud
• oAuth experience
• Experience with Twitter and Facebook APIs
• Excellent typing ability in the presence of flying nerf darts and RC helicopters
You’ll help lead our core development side in our current, early stages through to first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
We offer...
• A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
• A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
• Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
• Generous vacation policy
Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continuing pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.
If this sounds interesting, drop me a line: jacob@purediscovery.com
At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We’re building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking and patented Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.
We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for engineers to shine. We work in Ruby and Java, building complex systems with high scalability in the cloud. We're looking for an engineer to work on our core technology and service infrastructure. We are a young, fast-moving start up where everyone has a voice and can make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).
Some tough things we are taking on:
* Architecting and building our next generation of web services
* Scaling up our existing systems to handle growing traffic
* Identifying and building key new features for our core technology to meet the needs of our growing customer base
Things you’d be doing...
* Participate in the planning, analysis, design, development and deployment of products, features and enhancements
* Work as part of the development team to establish and apply the latest in engineering best practices
* Build high-performance, scalable applications and APIs
You are a great fit if...
* You want to solve hard problems
* You think doing analytics in real time at web scale is a fun challenge
* You want to work someplace where cookie-cutter off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
* You want to build something great.
* You are willing to dig into Java, Ruby, NLP, and machine learning. And are not afraid of Elastic Search, Scala, Clojure, or whatever it takes to make great things work at web scale.
BONUS POINTS FOR:
* Expertise in engineering world-class web applications
* Experience with the AWS toolkit (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, etc) or similar
* Familiarity and experience with modern search architectures
* Experience in scaling a product from hundreds to thousands of users and beyond via load balancing, auto-scaling server deployment, HTTP accelerator caching, reverse proxies, failover, etc.
* Experience with worker queues and clustering.
* Strong understanding of high availability best practices in and out of the cloud * Experience with oAuth and Twitter / Facebook APIs
* Excellent typing ability in the presence of flying nerf darts and RC helicopters
You’ll help lead our core development through its current, early stages to our first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
We offer:
* A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
* A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
* Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
* Generous vacation policy
Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continual pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.
Sound interesting? Let's talk. Drop me a note - jacob@purediscovery.com
I can personally vouch for Indochino. I'm a very slim guy and had always struggled to find a suit that fit just right. I have ordered two suits from them; I sent my measurements and I received a perfectly-fitted suit in less than a week. They even sent a voucher for tailoring (which I never had to use).
I'm of the opinion that you get what you pay for with clothing, and I don't think Bonobos is very expensive for nicely-made pants (you can easily spend much, much more). Indochino happens to be a nice exception. My suits fit as well as (or better than) my friends' $1000+ Italian suits.
Edit: Regarding the "outsourced" comment, Indochino is a team of 6 in Canada that employs 50 tailors in Shanghai.
It isn't so much an issue of taste (or sentiment) as much as it is an issue of the design itself. Typography is about math/geometry as much as it is about taste. Helvetica was designed first, meticulously. Arial came later, resembling Helvetica, but breaking many typographic rules.
I'm a designer and I'm not particularly (at least not inordinately) impassioned about things like this, but I do find it important to recognize the difference between _design_ and art. It's often less about subjective preferences and more about purposeful/thoughtful solutions—in this case, what constitutes acceptable typography.
Note that Arial is not based on Helvetica, it is more like a cousin of Helvetica. Arial's ancestor is Grotesque 215. There's an excellent article about that here: http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
I agree with you that this is design, often akin to industrial design more than art, which could also be described as art meets practical considerations or too narrowly, art meets commerce. And that's why I'm casting a wide net in my remarks by bringing up pixel alignment considerations, as well as licensing and other considerations. These are critical considerations to typography in practice.
For example the politics and business constraints surrounding the development, licensing, and use of Helvetica in the 90's are way more complex than simply saying, "Microsoft didn't want to pay for Helvetica", which is how many designers put it.
These complaints about licensing also, by the way, give away many of their visceral emotion-based reactions to Arial, rather than objective design purity. Clearly every party is affected in some way by the commerce of design, which often seems to inform designer's reactions too, especially when the licensing question is over-simplified.
