Hi HN, I created Sunvoice.me based on my experiences as part of the early team at Venmo, plus as the product manager for accounts receivable software at a B2B cannabis distributor. Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
We have openings in Oakland and LA for engineering, design, data science, HR, and supply chain. Reach out directly if you or anyone you know might be a good fit!
First, thanks for putting salary ranges up in your listings. That's something I _really_ wish more companies did, and, regardless of anything I say below, is really appreciated.
However, speaking of things I wish more companies did, your job listings would seem to preclude remotes? (even for the data scientist position?) Given the pay ranges specified and lack of equity, having to relocate to Oakland seems like a very hard sell to my eyes. I wonder if others could comment on whether I'm living in a bubble (could 100% believe that) or if this resonates.
In any case, feel free to ignore the above, congrats on the launch! It's a very compelling sector, or I wouldn't even be asking this.
RankScience (YC W17) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | On-site only | Salary + Equity + Benefits + 15 day minimum vacation policy
We're hiring for an engineer focused on product at RankScience! Junior- or entry-level experience okay. On-site at RankScience HQ in San Francisco (no remote). Our office is at 17th & Valencia in the Mission!
Why this role matters to RankScience:
- Scalability: This role enables our company to scale to 50 customers, and then to 500 customers, and then 5000 customers.
- Bleeding-edge business model: This role enables our unique business model to have the scalability of a product company while also charging at the price point of an agency.
- Software eating the world: We want to change the way people think about acquiring search traffic, and this role will help our software eat the search marketing industry.
What you will gain from this role:
- Breadth of product exposure: We have lots of software to build to interface with many different types of users or other services. We think that 1-2 years at RankScience right now will offer more learning than 1-2 years at most other companies.
- Distributed systems expertise: This role will work with many if not all of the services that we have in our infrastructure. We expect this role to provide plenty of opportunity to develop broad distributed systems skills.
- Create outsized impact on a growing startup: We’re looking for team members who want to play a huge role in a startup pursuing hypergrowth.
- The ability to create bleeding-edge technology: We have some unique tech that has never been built before, and we want to continue building even more unique tech. After your time at RankScience, you’ll be able to build anything you want.
Responsibilities: Build software to interface with all of the following...
- Our CDN servicing 1,000 requests per second
- Our SEO managers to implement thousands of concurrent A/B tests and automated SEO changes
- Our customers to gain visibility into our tech
- Other services within the RankScience stack
About RankScience: We sell SEO software. We're funded by Y Combinator. We're almost 10 people now and are focusing on building out our product!
Hey 0bfus, we're working on a fancy performance metrics dashboard and status page to answer these questions! Also, we've done extensive research on pageload speed's effect on page rank, and we found that <25ms of incremental latency does not have any impact. We're working on a case study for the latter!
It's a true honor to speak with an SEO A/B testing OG! :)
> How does RankScience play into this?
That's a really great point. Right now, our software either focuses on only pages which are good for SEO, or it runs less frequent experiments on the "bad" pages. We've had a few success stories of turning "bad" pages into good ones and having them become big revenue generators for our customers, but that's not common as I'm sure you can imagine.
We focus on being automated! Our software never stops working to grow your search traffic, even when you're asleep or if you don't want to think about SEO at all.
