honestly the slack app store and it’s ridiculous policies makes publishing apps completely unworthy of the time investment. after having published numerous apps across dozens of marketplaces, I would advise everyone to avoid apps.slack.com at all costs. slack is beyond the maximum bloat threshold in virtually every aspect imaginable, TOS and licensing most especially. build elsewhere
This is maybe more of a semantic disagreement, but I would expect the frontline manager, not middle management, to be the first in management to shrink in population on account of AI. If software and AI is to be made more responsible for managing the hourly worker, then naturally your frontline manager should be capable of managing more humans at once, thereby reducing the company's need for frontline managers. As a result, managers can be made responsible for more people at once, teams can be larger, and fewer frontline managers being needed.
However, claiming that management will be affected "before" the hourly employee is an invalid prediction in today's age. The hourly employee has already been disproportionately affected by AI, some even made obsolete by robots or automation. Retail (especially brick & mortar) has already seen many of those jobs be replaced by much less sophisticated advancements (ecommerce, d2c, etc), arguing to the contrary would be impossible to back up at this point.
Pathlight, Inc. | https://www.pathlight.com/ | Full-stack, Mobile, SRE, Design | Remote US/Canada or Onsite San Francisco/Toronto
Pathlight's goal can be simply stated as putting a world-class manager into everyone's pocket. Managing teams of people is a hard job and software should be here to help, but for most modern teams, a combination of spreadsheets and dozens of browser tabs full of charts and tables is still the de-facto solution. Pathlight aims to replace this archaic system of metric management with one that is centralized, made real-time and transparent to all. The same set of tools we set out to be build specifically for managers is now proving useful at all levels of the organization. Especially so for the underserved frontline, who is ultimately the most capable of improving one's performance.
We've recently closed our Series B and are growing at a very fast pace. This is a rare opportunity to join a small team of exceptionally talented engineers on a team with vast amounts of green field, where you're able to play an influential role in the growth and success of a category creating product.
We are hiring for multiple positions, including:
- Senior Full-stack Engineers (Python/Django/React)
- Full-stack Engineers (Python/Django/React)
- Senior SRE (Python/AWS/Postgres)
- Android Software Engineer (Kotlin/React-native)
- iOS Software Engineer (Swift/React-native)
- Product Design Lead (Figma)
Pathlight (pathlight.com) was founded by two entrepreneurs who wanted to tackle a challenging and unsolved problem: managing people every day is really hard and no one has built software to help. After selling their last company to Yelp, they started noticing that managers in every department were struggling, regardless of how experienced they were. Engineering managers weren't able to flag, diagnose, and manage anomalous behavior. Sales and Customer Service managers had 20 tabs open in their browser just to figure out was going on. Every single one of them was reinventing the wheel and their teams were suffering because of it. After all, who hasn't had a bad or stressed or too busy manager?
Trey and Alex realized that, for the first time, there's enough data available for software to help intelligently manage people. The idea for Pathlight was born.
We're at this exciting inflection point – we've shipped product, have users that love us, and have just raised our Series A from a Top VC, but the team is still super small, with a lot of opportunity for ownership and leadership. Joining Pathlight now means becoming part of the founding team of engineers, each of whom will have a massive impact on the product, platform, engineering culture, and company itself.
Front-End: React, Redux
Back-End: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
We're pragmatic about using the right tool for the task at hand.
Pathlight (pathlight.com) was founded by two entrepreneurs who wanted to tackle a challenging and unsolved problem: managing people every day is really hard and no one has built software to help. After selling their last company to Yelp, they started noticing that managers in every department were struggling, regardless of how experienced they were. Engineering managers weren't able to flag, diagnose, and manage anomalous behavior. Sales and Customer Service managers had 20 tabs open in their browser just to figure out was going on. Every single one of them was reinventing the wheel and their teams were suffering because of it. After all, who hasn't had a bad or stressed or too busy manager?
Trey and Alex realized that, for the first time, there's enough data available for software to help intelligently manage people. The idea for Pathlight was born.
We're at this exciting inflection point – we've shipped product, have users that love us, and have just raised our Series A from a Top VC, but the team is still super small, with a lot of opportunity for ownership and leadership. Joining Pathlight now means becoming part of the founding team of engineers, each of whom will have a massive impact on the product, platform, engineering culture, and company itself.
Front-End: React, Redux
Back-End: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
We're pragmatic about using the right tool for the task at hand.
Pathlight (pathlight.com) was founded by two entrepreneurs who wanted to tackle a challenging and unsolved problem: managing people every day is really hard and no one has built software to help. After selling their last company to Yelp, they started noticing that managers in every department were struggling, regardless of how experienced they were. Engineering managers weren't able to flag, diagnose, and manage anomalous behavior. Sales and Customer Service managers had 20 tabs open in their browser just to figure out was going on. Every single one of them was reinventing the wheel and their teams were suffering because of it. After all, who hasn't had a bad or stressed or too busy manager?
Trey and Alex realized that, for the first time, there's enough data available for software to help intelligently manage people. The idea for Pathlight was born.
We're at this exciting inflection point – we've shipped product, have users that love us, and have just raised our Series A from a Top VC, but the team is still super small, with a lot of opportunity for ownership and leadership. Joining Pathlight now means becoming part of the founding team of engineers, each of whom will have a massive impact on the product, platform, engineering culture, and company itself.
Front-End: React, Redux
Back-End: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
We're pragmatic about using the right tool for the task at hand.
Pathlight (pathlight.com) was founded by two entrepreneurs who wanted to tackle a challenging and unsolved problem: managing people every day is really hard and no one has built software to help. After selling their last company to Yelp, they started noticing that managers in every department were struggling, regardless of how experienced they were. Engineering managers weren't able to flag, diagnose, and manage anomalous behavior. Sales and Customer Service managers had 20 tabs open in their browser just to figure out was going on. Every single one of them was reinventing the wheel and their teams were suffering because of it. After all, who hasn't had a bad or stressed or too busy manager?
Trey and Alex realized that, for the first time, there's enough data available for software to help intelligently manage people. The idea for Pathlight was born.
We're at this exciting inflection point – we've shipped product, have users that love us, and have just raised our Series A from a Top VC, but the team is still super small, with a lot of opportunity for ownership and leadership. Joining Pathlight now means becoming part of the founding team of engineers, each of whom will have a massive impact on the product, platform, engineering culture, and company itself.
Managing a team of people is no easy task (as any pointy-haired boss will make sure to let you know). Managing an organization of hundreds or thousands of people is several orders of magnitude more difficult. Strategy is often impossible to orchestrate, implementing any amount of change happens at a glacial pace. Keeping an organization on the same path becomes a near-impossible task. Pathlight offers up a solution to this monumental problem through what we call management automation.
Pros:
- Green field development
- Real world problems. The kind that companies pay $100K+ to solve
- Experienced founders. This is our 2nd startup - our first was acquired in 2013
- Well-funded and well-run. Series A, low burn. Capital efficiency is important to us
- Product market fit. Companies already using it every day
Cons:
- Very early. Very uncertain
- We’re not going to match your offer from Facebook
- No free lunches, gym memberships, massages, etc. But, we do have several flavors of La Croix
- We play Yacht Rock on Fridays
Our top priority is in finding a Lead Data Engineer, if this sounds anything like you, I'd love to hear from you:
- Have experience with data pipelining, warehousing, ETL (bonus: Presto, Spark, Redshift)
- Not shy of SQL (bonus: PostgresQL, Hive)
- Proficient in Python (bonus: Django, Celery)
- Have experience modelling data (bonus: sklearn, numpy, pandas)
We are also looking for Full-Stack Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and more. To apply, visit https://www.pathlight.com/careers/ for more information or email careers[at]pathight.com
