Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring founding engineer to build AI for testing

Hey HN!

I’m Gabriel, CEO and co-founder of Meticulous.

Our mission is to radically accelerate the pace of software development for every company in the world. We’re starting with a tool to catch UI bugs in web applications with zero-effort from developers.

How it works: Insert a single line of JavaScript onto your site, and we record thousands of real user sessions. We then replay these sessions on head and base commits of PRs, take screenshots at key points, and diff those screenshots to catch visual regressions before they hit production. We employ novel techniques to eliminate flakes. You can watch a 60-second demo at [meticulous.ai](http://meticulous.ai/).

We are a London-based YC company. Our engineering team previously worked at Dropbox, Opendoor, Palantir and Google, and have previously led 100+ engineer organizations at these companies. We raised $4m and are backed by some of the best founders and technical leaders in Silicon Valley, including Guillermo Rauch (founder Vercel, author next.js), Jason Warner (CTO GitHub), Scott Belsky (CPO Adobe), Calvin French-Owen (founder Segment), Jared Friedman (YC partner and former CTO of Scribd) and a bunch of other incredible folks.

Catching visual regressions is just the start. There is an entire category of products to build on top of replay. This ranges from catching exceptions to revealing the performance impact of frontend code.

We want to change the way the world develops software, and influence software approaches for decades to come.

We are seeding a London office and hiring an onsite founding engineer to join our team of four. We sponsor visas.

You will have autonomy in building out this technology, but here are a few problems you might work on:

– Build a distributed system to concurrently replay thousands of sessions, such that a developer gets a result in seconds.

– Speed up the replay of sessions in a way that retains determinism.

– Derive algorithms to detect sessions that cover differing code paths and edge cases, and ignore sessions that are too similar.

– Help build out a team of world-class, highly collaborative, software engineers.

As founding engineer, you get to shape the company, and build the culture and technology from the ground up.

What we look for:

In a sentence: Technically brilliant, delightful to work with, combined with a self-awareness and strong desire to improve. We also want to make sure everyone is highly supportive of each other; we win as a team.

We’re currently only looking to bring on folks with senior level skill sets and 5+ years of industry experience. You should have strong web fundamentals and a deep love for software engineering. Maybe you enjoy programming books like Clean Code, Designing Data Intensive Applications, Pragmatic Programmer etc. or enjoy hacking on interesting side projects. You value transparency and candid feedback, and are motivated by a strong desire to become the best engineer you can be.

You can read about our values here https://ruby-wish-a8f.notion.site/Mission-Values-979c32ec58e…

You will be given the space and time to up-level yourself as an engineer in terms of conferences, reading, or whatever you think will be most valuable. We will also set you up with mentorship, if you desire it, from top engineering leaders (folks running 100-engineer organizations at the world’s leading tech companies).

You’ll get to work alongside some of the best engineers there are, break new ground solving truly novel CS problems and deliver something that transforms how software is built.

If this sounds interesting, please reach out to me at gabe [at] meticulous [dot] ai with “HN” in the subject line and 2-3 sentences about what you find interesting about Meticulous and your resume/LinkedIn/GitHub.

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Martin Amis, British writer of dark comedic novels, dies at 73

Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died at the age of 73, his publisher said Saturday on Twitter.

Penguin Books said Amis “leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.”

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Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, the New York Times reported earlier, quoting his wife, Isabel Fonseca, as saying the cause was esophageal cancer.

Amis, the author of 14 novels including “Money: A Suicide Note,” “London Fields” and “Time’s Arrow,” in 2008 was named one of 50 best British writers since 1945 and listed for the Booker Prize twice.

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Amis, often called one of the most innovative voices of his generation, was the son of the late British author Kingsley Amis, the subject of his 2000 memoir “Experience.” He moved to the United States in 2011.

Amis’ first novel “The Rachel Papers” was published when he was 23. He worked as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and later the literary editor of The New Statesman.

Amis told Reuters in 2012 he was happiest with his most recent novel at the time “Lionel Asbo: State of England” and less happy with its more celebrated predecessors “all the way down the line.”

He said over time, “what happens is your genius gets weaker and your talent gets stronger.”

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In a 2020 interview with the New York Times, Amis said “we read literature to have a good time. Not an easy time, necessarily, but not a hard time and not a bad time.”

Overtime – Episode #453: Privitization, NRA, #MeToo Wall Street, Civil Service

Bill and his guests – Beta O’Rourke, Billy Bush, Pete Dominick, Nayyera Haq, and Andrew Ross Sorkin answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 03/16/18)

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F1 to make €1m donation to Italy flood victims

Formula One said on Friday it will donate €1 million to support communities affected by flooding in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy.

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Magic (https://getmagic.com/) | Senior Software Engineer – AI Enhanced (Full stack Javascript | 100% Remote (preferably APAC, Africa and EU regions) | Full-time

We are the Engineering Team at Magic, a Y Combinator (W15) company. We connect businesses to virtual assistants, with over $30MM raised to date. Our team is currently composed of 17 engineers in 7 countries, growing to 30 engineers worldwide in 2022.

Senior Software Engineer – AI Enhanced (Full stack Javascript

– Design and development of AI-powered solutions that meet the needs of Magic’s core business.

– With solid experience in Javascript full stack development (React, Next, Node)

– Worked on AI products using existing APIs

– At least 3 years of experience managing a team of engineers/developers

– Must be willing to work on Philippine time zone (GMT+8) (commit to ~10 hours/week overlap with core PH hours)

Tech stack: JavaScript, with React on the frontend and Node on AWS on the backend, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB for our databases.

Our workplace: 90% async (very few meetings), open source or civic work supported, work at any time you want from anywhere

Learning culture: mentorship, pairing, talks, conferences, new technologies

Unique hiring process: in less than 3 hours, meet our in-house technical recruiter, meet a hiring manager for a culture fit and pre-tech interview, then choose from 3 ways to showcase your abilities (choose one): (a) simulated code review, (b) show and tell from one of your GitHub repos or (c) live-code pairing to build a to-do application.

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Merry is an early-stage social impact start-up that is building a product aimed at helping millions of Indian smallholder farmers improve the productivity of their farms. We’re about to launch our product to farmers (take a look here: www.merry.in) and are in the process of building out our initial team, including our first tech-hire:

High level details of full-stack developer role:

  - Tech stack: Flutter, Flask, Python, Postgres database
  - ONSITE in Bangalore (2 days a week - rest is flexi)
  - Min 5 years experience
  - Details are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1usLzsFI3DK1mLXc-OLyCiagMU7Ngq8Ff7pRdlHHLrVw/edit#

If you want to have a forming role in building a product that can change the lives of millions, please reach out at jobs@merry.in

Peoplebox (YC S22) Is Hiring a Principal Engineer (Back End)

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Retool (YC W17) is hiring hackers to combine visual programming with AI

Hi HN,

We’re Retool (https://retool.com), a visual programming environment for building internal tools. Here’s a 3 minute demo video: https://d3399nw8s4ngfo.cloudfront.net/videos/intro-to-retool….

You can think of Retool as something like Visual Basic, but in the cloud. The idea is that there are lots of internal applications that businesses need, and today, build from scratch (probably via React). But while React is great for many things (our landing page is built in React, our product is built in React, etc.), it’s possible that it might be overkill for building a simple form that POSTs data back to your API. (Who _wants_ to worry about debouncing the submit button, handling errors from the backend, and authenticating and authorizing the users?)

We launched on HN around five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Since then, we’ve launched three new products – a native mobile product (https://retool.com/products/mobile), an automation product for developers (https://retool.com/products/workflows/), and a database product (https://retool.com/products/database/). We’ve hired and grown the team to over 350, and are proud to have businesses like Doordash, NBC Universal, Mercedes Benz, and the NFL using Retool.

The network at Retool is also fairly strong — our lead investors in the Series B and C were Sequoia, along with Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, as well as John and Patrick Collison. Other investors include the founders of Github, Gusto, Segment, PagerDuty, Plaid, etc.

This year, while other companies are downsizing, we’re doubling down. (Literally.) We’re attempting to double our engineering, product, and design orgs this year. We think the opportunity to invent the future of programming is enormous, and we’re looking for more hackers to join our team.

We think that AI is going to change the way people build software. We think that there is tremendous potential in building interfaces that help humans and AI collaborate together to build software. We want to build a world where humans can quickly assemble full applications by just providing high level directions to AI.

We believe we’re set up especially well to do just that – we have all the building blocks for creating software (frontends, backend compute, data storage) as well as a live interactive builder environment. Why entangle yourself with messy things like Webpack, Docker, and Kubernetes when you can directly manipulate a live app, running right in front of you?

We also think that the world, as a whole, is under-utilizing AI. Businesses are broadly interested in generative AI and LLMs, but don’t know how yet to leverage and use them. It should be simple for businesses to quickly set up flows to have AI automatically triage bug reports, summarize customer feedback, and enrich datasets.

We’ve shared a sneak peak of what we think some of this could look like (https://retool.com/blog/gpt4-in-retool/), and there’s a bunch more coming up that we’re really excited to talk about soon.

If you’re interested in working with AIs and LLMs to change the way companies build software, we’d love to hear from you. We’ve made multiple hires from HN in the past, so we’re posting here. But if you know any friends who are interested, feel free to tell them to reach out as well.

Please email us at snir AT retool with “HN” in the subject line.

Thanks!

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At this year's PGA Championship, Justin Thomas is trying something new

Thomas has struggled since winning his second PGA Championship nearly a year ago, but he’s hoping adjustments will help him get back into championship form. Watch Round 1 Thursday on ESPN networks.

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NewBanking | Full-time | Denmark | Hybrid/Onsite | Relocation

In NewBanking, we’re revolutionizing the way businesses conduct transactions. Our cutting-edge platform delivers verified money – KYC with payments – as a service to our enterprise customers, providing them with the security, transparency, and scalability they need to succeed in today’s fast-paced world.

– Staff Software Engineer – Backend – Node.js – you can learn more about role here (https://jobs.lever.co/recrue/14eaf754-68f2-44c6-b700-0d86cc1…)

Feel free to reach out to our talent partner if you want to know more (hello@recrue.co)

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