SalesJack | Data Engineer | Hybrid (Hamilton/GTA Canada) | C$130K-C$150K + equity and benefits | salesjack.com
SalesJack is a sales software platform (CRM, Prospecting Service) for independent businesses in the construction supply industry. We are growing quickly and profitably. Our founding team and customers are based in the US, and we aim to grow engineering capabilities in Canada.
This role is responsible for leading our data pipelines development. SalesJack operates data ETLs from sources like client ERPs (enterprise resource platforms) and municipality open data to power our CRM features. You will collaborate directly with founders and lead engineers at the company and help:
- Enable scalability in our pipelines as we onboard more customers and data sources
- Setup visibility, monitoring and alerting in all parts of our ETL processes
- Allow plugging in AI led transformations at the right stages of our pipelines, and enable this to be done easily
- Lead RnD effort for AI toolings that transform a lot of manual work in the industry
We are looking for:
- 3+ years of data wrangling and pipeline scaling experience. We prefer if you have done so with a focus on reliability and efficiency (both in terms of compute and costs) in the past.
- Someone who loves experimenting with data, regularly tries out new tools, and enjoys exploring the possibilities of AI and machine learning—especially large language models (LLMs)—we want to hear from you.
Our hiring process will be:
1. Initial call with our founding engineer to briefly discuss your experience and introduce SalesJack ~ 30mins
2. Technical Exercise (this will a live coding on a screen-sharing call where we will ask you to work on some problem) ~1.5 hours
3. Call with one of our founders to see cultural fit ~ 30mins
4. Offer
We aim to have the full process take no more than 2 weeks from the initial call.
This is a hybrid role, with in-person 2-3 times a week in Downtown Hamilton, Ontario.
I would love to hear what the Syrian hacker news community has to say about this. I’m reading so many comments here but not sure how many are from actual Syrians who probably have a deeper understanding and hope/fears about what comes next.
Made an account for this. Like another commenter said, you certainly won't get a cross section of "Syrians" here, and even I as a diaspora born in America to Syrian Christian parents can only loosely proxy the "Syrian Response." It's split -- some relatives and family friends have hated Assad for ages before the war (e.g. someone they knew was "arrested", they got property essentially taken from them, etc.)
Overall, though, there's a lot of fear. Just recently family of mine were going to visit for medical/humanitarian reasons, but now won't any time soon. We all know people there who've been struggling economically for years with the sanctions, but there's a different feel when this sort of ambiguous future violence looms. I'd disagree with other commenters stereotyping "most Syrians are celebrating", it does vary with a spectrum of wanting "stability" and wanting "freedom". farkanoid's stuff about torture and the mukhabaraat (never seen that mentioned in English!), can somewhat confirm, but am personally further away from that since I haven't been to Syria since the war started. The most definitive thing to say is the variance in Sryians' responses is not completely explained by their ethnicity or religion, and that just like any political people, their feelings come less from geopolitical simulations and staring at battle maps, more from their history and connections.
I'm not qualified to give predictions. I mostly wrote this comment to demonstrate that there are sort of Syrians on this website, not to give detailed political analysis. And finally, the sample you see here ARE sort of the "elite" that aprilthird2021 mentioned -- my people are Christian doctors, and farkanoid's Alawite relatives I'm guessing are more well off than the median.
And those different (or similar) views are what would be important and what I would be interested to read. Because the views of the people from that land are what matter the most during these events.
Talking to actual people is the magical, indispendible ingredient you need in your analysis.
Of course they're quite often biased. That's not the point. But at least you get a human perspective. And even when they're biased, it turns out that "actual people" are usually far less intellectualized and rigidly ideological than the stuff you'll read online. And when they do have an axe to grind, usually there's at least a story behind it ("my family went through this") that you can at least incorporate into your dataset.
And the more actual people you talk to, the more you get to triangulate. Plus, they sometimes invite you into their house for really awesome food.
But if all one does is soak up online narratives and analysis (and worst off all, the crap that thinktanks typically put out, even when they're mostly on the right side) -- one basically becomes a language model.
Statistically most would be. Assad's regime were Shiites (~13% of the population) and the HTS are Sunni (74% of the population).
This doesn't necessarily mean they are better but at the very least of two very theistic groups, the latter better represents the population than the former.
And of course while this means Russia and Assad are finally out of the equation, the governments in North and East Syria aren't exactly stoked about the HTS' explosive growth in power.
Syrian here, born, raised, and finished my studies in Syrian.
Been to many countries like UAE, Saudi, and finally Germany.
I can tell that the joy is immense. Most druze and alawite are not too happy and fearing, mainly because of the feare built into them throughtout the war years.
Incertanitiy is very big, but the joy of seeing a north-korean-like system collapse in few days is unimaginable.
I have seen too many nk documentaries, I can say that it applies 100% to Syria, with many many more complexities in the region.
Honestly, my Sunni relatives from Tartus, Homs and Dimashq are elated. My alawite and druz relatives from Tartus and Latakia are almost distraught.
There is a massive disparity between the treatment of Alawites/Shiites/Druz and Sunnis in Syria (Re: employment opportunities, etc)
I've always heard horror stories about starvation and torture from my father (Sunni) who served over a decade in Hafiz Assads military, as well as constant fear of the "Mukhabaraat" (government informants), leading to huge amounts of self-censorship when speaking on the phone or in public.
My alawite/druz relatives are generally well off and would tell me "eh, it wasn't so bad", despite having the same informant fears and self-censoring
It's not uncommon in Tartus, but far less common in Homs and Dimashq. Oddly enough it's usually Sunni husband and 'x' wife.
For example we have Sunni/Shia, Sunni/Druz, Sunni/Christian and most recently Sunni/Alawite in our extended family, all from Tartus.
Our relatives from Homs/Dimashq are almost exclusively Sunni, religious, and tend to marry from their own sect and even city.
There are irreconcilable differences between (for example) Sunnis and Shiites that would usually prevent marriage if the husband is 'stricter' in faith, not to mention the rift caused during family gatherings by the politics behind each sect (ie: Alawites are generally pro-Assad, Shiites are usually pro Hezbollah, Sunnis are usually against both)
Edit: This is obviously a gross oversimplification, basically less religeous more intermixing.
Most Syrians don't speak English and aren't here. Only a very small elite of Syrians will ever really be accessible to you. But even that perspective can be valuabl
This is not a recent addition. It is more than 10 years old but was shut down during Covid. They are slowly starting to bring it back. It also wasn’t restricted to just Cathay before, but a large number of major airlines had counters at HK Station for check-in services. It’s wonderful - you can check in your bags before heading to work in the morning and in the evening take the train to the airport directly.
I absolutely love Postico. For postgres, there really is no comparison for a Mac native db client. DBeaver seems so clunky in comparison, but I use that for everything non postgres.
DBeaver is somewhat clunky, yes, but for me that's a minor downside since it acts as a Swiss army knife, regardless of what DB I'm trying to access. That saves cognitive load from having to learn multiple tools. Pretty much anything with a JDBC driver is fair game. It being cross platform is a big boon as well since I use all 3 major OS fairly regularly - Mac at work, Windows and Linux at home.
BC CRT is great when the happy pathway happens. They send legal letters to all parties so they are able to arbitrate, and that letter might be enough to get things resolved.
I had the misfortune of trying to use them for a company which had just stopped responding and in the end even though I did get the default judgment in my favour, actually enforcing the judgment still required me to go through the normal courts (which in my case was not worth the cost). But the process of dealing with CRT was nothing short of delightful.
- A pair of wireless headphones with good battery life
- A pair of wired earphones/headphones with an attached microphone in it for meetings
- An external camera for meetings, or if you have a spare phone you can use Camo (or iPhone's continuity camera) to stream video from the phone as a camera. When combined with a good phone stand, this setup beats most external cameras.
- A footstool/ottoman to rest your feet
- If you drink coffee, then experiment with and find good coffee beans that you would enjoy
- A desk placement that has you facing a window, this makes sure you can just look up to see outside and also keeps unwanted reflections on your monitor low
And of course a good desk and a chair. Search on FB marketplace for really good deals.
I’m someone who often takes trains when I can, over planes. The scenery is sometimes nice, but in the NE corridor it’s largely just backyards and tree-lined alleys through industrial areas. More pleasantly, I don’t need to interact with TSA, I don’t get the weird derealization that comes to me in airports, I don’t get dehydrated or pressure headache, the seats are larger/comfortable, the internet is faster/cheaper, and finally, the carbon emissions are fewer per passenger-mile.
edit: and when I’m restless the train has much more space for light exercise or walking.
Profiles not only separate cookies but also extensions, bookmarks, history, and tab groups.
Firefox also has profiles, as does Chrome. Firefox does not provide a nice interface for them, and so a lot of people aren't aware of them. To see the Firefox profile interface go to about:profiles.
SalesJack is a sales software platform (CRM, Prospecting Service) for independent businesses in the construction supply industry. We are growing quickly and profitably. Our founding team and customers are based in the US, and we aim to grow engineering capabilities in Canada.
This role is responsible for leading our data pipelines development. SalesJack operates data ETLs from sources like client ERPs (enterprise resource platforms) and municipality open data to power our CRM features. You will collaborate directly with founders and lead engineers at the company and help:
- Enable scalability in our pipelines as we onboard more customers and data sources
- Setup visibility, monitoring and alerting in all parts of our ETL processes
- Allow plugging in AI led transformations at the right stages of our pipelines, and enable this to be done easily
- Lead RnD effort for AI toolings that transform a lot of manual work in the industry
We are looking for:
- 3+ years of data wrangling and pipeline scaling experience. We prefer if you have done so with a focus on reliability and efficiency (both in terms of compute and costs) in the past.
- Someone who loves experimenting with data, regularly tries out new tools, and enjoys exploring the possibilities of AI and machine learning—especially large language models (LLMs)—we want to hear from you.
Our hiring process will be:
1. Initial call with our founding engineer to briefly discuss your experience and introduce SalesJack ~ 30mins
2. Technical Exercise (this will a live coding on a screen-sharing call where we will ask you to work on some problem) ~1.5 hours
3. Call with one of our founders to see cultural fit ~ 30mins
4. Offer
We aim to have the full process take no more than 2 weeks from the initial call.
This is a hybrid role, with in-person 2-3 times a week in Downtown Hamilton, Ontario.
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