We make breathalyzers from the ground up. Everything from the hardware and firmware to the software. If you were to go to your local drugstore or BestBuy/Target/etc to buy a breathalyzer, you're buying one of ours. We are hiring for our software engineering team to build our next generation stack.
This position will be working in Python on AWS to build out our APIs. Do you like building APIs and working with large datasets?
BACtrack is a "20 year old startup" in that we build our own hardware, we have customers that pay for our services, the team is the right size that it's possible to know everyone, and each individual can have a large impact.
Our office is in San Francisco (North Beach) but we're fully remote. The local software engineering team comes in to the office once a week but it's optional. We're currently hiring in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas – if remote is your preference, you'll need to be in one of those states.
Come build cool things with us! Email me at Eric dot Willis at our domain name.
I'm hiring for several positions but the most critical ones today are Backend Engineers to work on our API (Java,) SRE (AWS) and data science/engineering (Python.)
Our HQ is in West Hollywood but we're a fully-remote team forever (not just during covid.)
Haven't had any luck connecting either. It seems like I can only connect to the iPhone if I have Personal Hotspot turned on. Even when turning it on, Notifyr still doesn't find the device.
It's possible to eat out cheaply and healthy in SF but it requires years of practice (in my experience.) You'll eventually figure out where to go and what to get where based on the day of the week (specials), time of day (portion sizes) and time of the year (seasonal items.)
For instance, I just happened upon a place in Mission Bay that makes a custom salad (literally, they make it in front of you) with meat, cheese and two other items for $7.50. This salad must weigh 1lb. It's huge, healthy, a great deal and could be split into two meals.
For years, I've been behind the 'stop at the grocery store every day on the way home' way of not wasting food. My wife and I have a routine that is IM around 4pm, decide on dinner, one of us stops for ingredients on our way home. At first, it seems like a pain to go every day but when you realize how little you throw away, it's fantastic. (Granted, we live in a city where hopping off of public transit to stop at the store is no big deal.)
Something else I discovered very late in life: when buying fancy cheeses, you can select a pre-cut/pre-priced piece that is bigger than you need and ask to have it cut in half, a third, whatever and the store will open the cheese, cut it, re-weigh it and re-price it. Then you don't end up with too much five-year Gouda.
For years, I've been a stop at the grocery store every day person, and it is a disaster for me! I spend way more money, and waste more, because I buy for that meal in small quantities, and don't necessarily re-use the tail-end of the ingredients.
Back when I was poor, I used to plan 3 meals a day for 7 days plus snacks, optimising re-use of ingredients that I would purchase for that week.
This is likely just a case of penny wise, pound foolish.
You make a great point of: penny wise, pound foolish. At first, shopping for the day can be like that. However, buying things like spices, oils, rice, etc, in bulk that do not go bad is a part of it. Ingredients you buy daily are exactly enough tomatoes, exactly enough ground turkey, just one small onion, etc, items that are priced per pound rather than cheaper in bulk.
I think that buying your perishables daily (if you can) can save you a lot of money and wasted food.
I do the same thing (sans the wife part) - it's a great way to always have fresh ingredients! Plus you never get stuck cooking something because it's about to go bad.
Someone signed up for their Wells Fargo account with my email address. For weeks, I tried to get in contact with Wells Fargo about the problem. I spent a lot of time on the phone with the 'security team' and nothing ever came of it. In the end, I kept receiving all of this person's banking information.
It wasn't so much a security problem so much as it was annoying to get this person's banking info all the time. (I assume I would have needed more than access to email to get into his account.)
In the end, after several phone calls and then tweeting at Wells Fargo, it was the Facebook reps that were able to get someone to call me and sort the problem out. The rep who called even verified that the first three of my social didn't match the account holder, so it wasn't identity theft.
Completely annoying but in the end, it just took finding that one person that understood and cared to help.
We make breathalyzers from the ground up. Everything from the hardware and firmware to the software. If you were to go to your local drugstore or BestBuy/Target/etc to buy a breathalyzer, you're buying one of ours. We are hiring for our software engineering team to build our next generation stack.
This position will be working in Python on AWS to build out our APIs. Do you like building APIs and working with large datasets?
BACtrack is a "20 year old startup" in that we build our own hardware, we have customers that pay for our services, the team is the right size that it's possible to know everyone, and each individual can have a large impact.
Our office is in San Francisco (North Beach) but we're fully remote. The local software engineering team comes in to the office once a week but it's optional. We're currently hiring in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas – if remote is your preference, you'll need to be in one of those states.
Come build cool things with us! Email me at Eric dot Willis at our domain name.