HouseCanary | San Francisco | Onsite only | H1B OK
* Software Engineers (Python)
* Frontend Engineers
* UI/UX Designer
We need more great people to join us. If solving very difficult real estate problems with beautiful software using machine learning, big data analytics, and economic theory sounds rewarding to you, browse our open positions to see what might be a good fit for your interests and skill set.
We're a startup working on price forecasting for US housing markets. We're a rapidly growing team (went from 7-26 in 4 months) looking to fill the following roles:
* Python Engineer (pandas/statistical work a plus)
* Frontend Developer (we use AngularJS)
* Test Automation Engineer
* Data Scientist
Bell did this with their telephones in the 60's and 70's. Customers could not own their own phone while using Bell's service. They even went so far as to stamp "BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY" into the molding. Even after they allowed 3rd party phones, they still charged a monthly fee for the privilege. It wasn't until their divestiture that they began allowing their customers to use their own phones without incurring a fee. Though it seems that was due to competitive pressure more than legal pressure.
This is such a strange thing to resign over. For cooler companies like Reddit and more name brand places like Google and Apple, location is not incredibly important for hiring, but it's HUGE for retention.
When you're excited to start a new job it's easy to overlook the commute. Things come into perspective 6 months later when you're wasting up to 1/12 of your life on a bus/train.
I've personally made this mistake and have noticed when interviewing candidates that one of the top reasons they give for wanting to leave their current position is that it's too long of a commute.
Over the past year we brought together real estate experts, economists, and Statistics PhD’s to build a big data platform to accurately forecast real estate values up to 36 months into the future for all 381 US counties (MSA's) and 25,000 major zip codes. We forecast at this level as real estate truly is local, and we’ve found there are huge differences in how markets move between zip codes in a county. Our forecasts have over 90% accuracy forecasting housing prices up to 3 years out for most US real estate markets. We have back-tested these models for accuracy over the past 40 years, so that we can have confidence in calling the major market turns, and also understand where we are in the cycle and the likely future returns.
We are currently working with sophisticated institutions such as homebuilders, land investors, mortgage banks, etc. to use these forecasts.
We will be building housecanary.com into a full consumer oriented website in early 2014. We want to provide property owners in the US with a simple and accurate forecast for what is likely to happen to their home's value over the next few years (at a zip code level), given that a home represents most people's single largest investment in life. There are many people who want to better understand and plan for future price swings, similar to how they manage the rest of their financial assets, however currently, there is insufficient information available to consumers. We can now provide 80M US households with powerful data/forecasts only the largest banks and hedge funds had access to historically.
Positions available:
UI/UX Designer - Our ideal designer will be able to build beautiful and simple web sites, help out with product design and implement the designs in HTML and CSS. However being able to code is not required, just a huge plus. We’re building very data driven products, so experience working on analytic heavy sites is also a plus.
Frontend developer - Our frontend is compiled statically (hosted on s3 and cloudfront) and all data is pulled via angular from our API. Our graphs are built using d3.js, we use SASS as our css preprocessor and grunt for our builds and deployment. Our ideal frontend developer will have prior experience with angular and prior experience building out analytic driven sites
We’re a small but growing team, so your work will have large impact of the future success of the company. And as one of our first hires you will rewarded with meaningful equity in the company.
We have an office in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We cover health, dental and vision for all of our employees. Please note, we’re currently only looking to hire people who are located in the US or have US work authorization.
HouseCanary, Inc is looking for a freelance designer to help us build our v1.
HouseCanary provides personalized analysis to homeowners about the value of their home, including pricing forecasts, risk factors, sensitivities and ways you can protect the value of your home in the event of a housing downturn.
We're looking for someone who has past experience with data visualization, as well as some product management experience.
If you're interested shoot me an email at joey@housecanary.com
People who have lived in rent controlled apartments for many years skew the stats, as they're paying much below market rate (not saying this is a bad thing).
I had no idea what I wanted to be growing up. My dad worked construction and after working with him one summer when I was 15 I knew I absolutely didn't want to do that.
When applying to college I kind of randomly chose computer engineering since I liked video games and built up a computer once. At the time I had no idea what a computer engineer actually did (I'm honestly still not really sure), but hey, it had computer in the title. I was lucky enough to get an internship as a software dev at a startup and that's what I do now.
Yes, especially for people in the lower half of the socioeconomic scale. I went to a pretty crappy HS in Pennsylvania (bottom 6th percentile), where there were no programming classes (at least in 2004) and very little college guidance since only 20% of kids (of those who even graduate HS) went to college.
Part of me understands why there were so few AP classes and not a lot of focus on college. I mean, since 80% of kids weren't going to college, why not focus more on vocational classes? While my mom certainly couldn't help me out with college tuition, she did have good enough credit so I could actually secure loans via her cosigning. Contrary to what a lot of people think, stafford loans are not "all you can eat" and most of the time need to be supplemented with private loans that you need to qualify for, even for a state school like Penn State. I personally knew a few people that had to take a year off and build up some credit just so they could get loans to go to school.
Fortunately a lot of smart people are starting to take on this problem via alternative means of education. I think that's really the only solution for people from backgrounds similar to mine.
I finished highschool in '95, I was in good school, and we had computer science course - though I didn't notice them ... but my friend gave me his programs from which I learned. We had law classes, everything.
Still I had no guidance in what major to pick in college. Ended up in computer science for same reasons I saw in list - hands aren't steady enough to be doctor, I liked law (took in highschool), but thought I'd have to deal with criminals all day, and I liked video games.
Not once did a job such as taking x-rays, or other medical-field non-doctor jobs pop into my head.
My point is I felt even my good school didn't give any guidance to pick a career. (They let you try a lot of subjects though, all electives - take anything, you want if you want.)
* Software Engineers (Python)
* Frontend Engineers
* UI/UX Designer
We need more great people to join us. If solving very difficult real estate problems with beautiful software using machine learning, big data analytics, and economic theory sounds rewarding to you, browse our open positions to see what might be a good fit for your interests and skill set.
Technologies used:
* Django, Pandas, Scikit
* AngularJS
* Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis
* OpenLayers, Mapnik, PostGIS
more details: http://www.housecanary.com/careers.html