Dirac | Finance Director | London | Acton | £130k TC (base+equity)
We're building the next £100bn+ retailer, and hiring an FD to help us build our capital flywheel, sort inventory financing and negotiate credit terms, interact with our db + codebase to automate and build reporting.
Applicants should send me their favourite old annual report and what they learned from it, to ethan at dirac dot software
Looking for my Shel Kaphan | Dirac | Lead Founding Engineer | London Acton
Dirac is going to displace Amazon in e-commerce, and I’m looking for a suitably ambitious partner in crime to take us from series seed to A and beyond.
You’ll be building price/demand estimators, AI agents to run operations, helping our two excellent (but inexperienced) devs, running our systemd, doing dbadmin work, our stock backend etc.
Investors include will thorndike, charlie songhurst, patio11, backedvc
email ethan [at] dirac [dot] software if interested - don’t forget to include a favourite bit of coding/maths/engineering, a book recommendation and an interesting pun. Visa sponsorship possible!
Looking for my Shel Kaphan | Dirac | Lead Founding Engineer | 5% equity + £70k base (£100k base after series A) | London, Acton | in-person only
Dirac is building the next Walmart-sized retail company over 10+ years. We sell d2c and are doing £300k-£500k monthly sales (lots of toys and reasonably seasonal). I built most the initial systems which run the company’s backend (purchasing, databases, pipelines etc.) but we will need something (and someone!) better to reach £1bn+ sales over the next four years
We need to go from a bunch of bash scripts coordinated by systemd, adhoc estimators and pipelines to a more coherent machine for demand estimation, matching products, warehousing and purchasing.
You’ll be mostly writing code (django+postgre+a hetzner server) but also helping our two more junior devs.
The vision for the company is twofold: (1) find 1000s of suppliers and wholesalers worldwide and (2) to ingest all their pricing, logistics and then move stock to where prices and demand is highest.
Visa sponsorship possible.
Investors include will thorndike, charlie songhurst, patio11, backedvc and some others!
email ethan [at] dirac [dot] software if interested!
Dirac | Junior SWE | Full-time | In-Person, London
We're building the 'walmart of import export'; think forklifts + hacking away on code above our warehouse eating deliveroo every night; investors include patio11, backedvc, invisible technologies.
To apply, send your CV to ethan [@] dirac [dot] software
don't forget to send the following alongside your cv ;)
-favourite book
-favourite mathematical integral, algorithm from computer science, or anything suitably nerdy of that sort
Dirac | Founding Software Engineer | VC+patio11-backed startup looking to unseat Amazon in d2c online retail | London | in-person
Merry February! About us: a small team (four in the office) working on the logistics, purchasing and warehousing stack required to sell O(£10^10)+ of d2c consumer goods sales p/a by 2030. We had sales of £407,000 in January, up 3.76x on Jan '24.
You'll be helping build the software backend for our operations. That means integrations for new marketplaces and suppliers, accountancy, pricing and order optimisation, logistics etc. You'll be reporting to the co-founder/ceo but also reviewing his code <'the most disorganised code I have seen in my entire life' said one person in a code review, apologies!!!> :)
What we do: we buy stock from suppliers and sell it online. Stock purchasing and logistics is handled by an internal backend which you will be helping to write!
About you: >2σ on ambition, >2.5σ technically. Formidable with some business sense. Wants to drive a forklift (our office and warehouse are on the same site).
Email ethan at dirac dot software if interested!!!
Dirac | Founding Software Engineer | VC+patio11-backed startup looking to build the Walmart for import-export | London | In-Person
Happy New Year! We're looking to hire our first Senior / Lead SWE. We're growing ~3x YoY and doing >£0.5m revenue per month
You'll be helping build the software backend for the Walmart of import-export. That means integrations for new marketplaces and suppliers, accountancy, pricing and order optimisation, logistics etc. You'll be reporting to the co-founder/ceo but also reviewing his code <'the most disorganised code I have seen in my entire life' said one person in a code review, apologies!!!> :)
What we do: we buy stock in one country and sell it to customers in a different country. Stock purchasing and logistics is handled by an internal backend which you will be helping to write!
About you: >2σ on ambition, >2.5σ technically. Formidable with some business sense. Wants to drive a forklift (our office and warehouse are on the same site).
Founding and Lead SWE | $8.77m ARR | VC+patio11-backed startup looking to build the Walmart for import-export | London | In-Person
Merry Christmas! We're looking to hire our first Senior / Lead SWE. Significant equity on the table and competitive salary (inversely proportional with the equity offer, think b/w 1 and 2.25). We've grown 3.28x in the last year and your mission is to help us maintain the exponential!
You'll be helping build the software backend for the Walmart of import-export. That means integrations for new marketplaces and suppliers, accountancy, pricing and order optimisation, logistics etc. You'll be reporting to the co-founder/ceo but also reviewing his code <'the most disorganised code i have seen in my entire life' said one person in a code review, apologies!!!> :)
What we do: we buy stock in one country and sell it to customers in a different country. Stock purchasing and logistics is handled by an internal backend which you will be helping to write!
About you: >1.5σ on ambition, >2.15σ on building amazing things, >1σ on being good company in the office at 10pm. Generally formidable. Has some business sense. Wants to drive a forklift (our office and warehouse are on the same site).
Backed by patio11 & backedvc, we're an exporting startup, offering a chance to write code (django/postgres/python), learn to drive a forklift (Hyster J2.0UTT) and wire up label printers (brother-ql 1100c + a new zebra one which I bricked using Chat GPT sending commands directly through).
Experience as a forklift driver not essential. You should feel excited by writing and designing code which will analyze cash flows, optimise pricing, improve shipment monitoring.
The role would ideally start in November, but we can be flexible (forecasting labour demand on an exponential curve is non-trivial)
Dirac | Software Engineer (£80k) + 0.5% equity, Sales/Ops (£60k + bonus) + 0.5% equity| London, Acton | Visa sponsorship possible | In-person |
Run rate: £3m (Aug '24) up from £1.05m (jul '23) Backed by patio11 & backedvc, we're an exporting startup offering...
To the software engineer: offering a chance to write code as either our third or fourth engineer (django/postgres/python), learn to drive a forklift (Hyster J2.0UTT) and wire up label printers (brother-ql 1100c + a new zebra one which I bricked using Chat GPT sending commands directly through).
Experience as a forklift driver or as a software engineer not essential.
To the sales/operations hire: help us open new marketplaces; get stock to whomever you sold it to; also learn to drive a forklift; dealing with compliance, licenses and related issues; map navigation skills and aviation a plus (the last one was a joke, but if you can drive that might be handy).
The roles would ideally start in late September/early October, as we are planning on reaching £1m/month in December 2024.
Run rate: £3.8m (july '24) up from £1.05m *jul '23)
Backed by patio11 & backedvc, we're an exporting startup, offering a chance to write code (django/postgres/python), learn to drive a forklift (Hyster J2.0UTT) and wire up label printers (brother-ql 1100c + a new zebra one which I bricked using Chat GPT sending commands directly through).
Experience as a forklift driver or as a software engineer not essential.
The role would ideally start in October, but we can be flexible (forecasting labour demand on an exponential curve is non-trivial)
We're building the next £100bn+ retailer, and hiring an FD to help us build our capital flywheel, sort inventory financing and negotiate credit terms, interact with our db + codebase to automate and build reporting.
Applicants should send me their favourite old annual report and what they learned from it, to ethan at dirac dot software
Looking forward to hearing from you!