Shogun | Multiple Positions | San Francisco (North America) | Full-time
Shogun is a fintech company building software to empower home improvement contractors (roofers, GCs, plumbers, etc) to level the playing field with the larger players and help them bring their businesses into the digital age.
Our subscription software platform -- Hearth (www.gethearth.com) -- provides contractors a competitive way to sell more jobs by offering financing options to their customers and has expanded to offer digital invoicing, payment collections and other financial tools. We are building an end-to-end financial toolkit to SMB contractors that underpins their entire business.
Backed by 8VC, Founders Fund, and other prominent leaders in Silicon Valley, Shogun has raised $28mm to date and is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the home improvement space.
Shogun has originated hundreds of millions of dollars of financial products since launching under three years ago, grown to over 120 employees and we’re aiming to profitably grow 300% YOY in 2021.
We're hiring for a number of roles right now, including
I feel the same way about Asana and Jira. They're so customizable and cater to too many people that it requires management to be someone's full time job. And I haven't found someone who is passionately in support of such as service as you might find with say Notion.
I've been working on a project that is attacking this problem but from the TODO comments angle. https://cosmolabs.io
Working in Jira and (especially) Asana always feels like working on a VNC share of the person in charge's cluttered desktop-covered-in-folders organizational system. Everything's hard to find and I'm afraid to touch anything for fear I'll accidentally drag something somewhere then not be able to find it again to put it back.
Except it's that plus 1.5GB of memory use and a few tens of a % of a processor core.
[EDIT] and I've found that to be true when working for people so good at using the software that they made popular training videos for it, not just morons who don't know how they work.
Sometime I wish that my project was managed in a folder with neatly arranged subfolders all in ASCII text. Specs in the specs-folder. Release lists in the release list folder.
Bugs in the bugs folder, with a text file for "reported", "active" and "fixed" bugs sorted by release version folders.
I honestly would want to try it. Files and folders are the abstraction that was supposed to replace physical folders with files, but in practice files stored in computers/network/mail are just a bunch of papers randomly put everywhere. How about using folders as they were supposed to ...
Shogun is a fintech company building software to empower home improvement contractors (roofers, GCs, plumbers, etc) to level the playing field with the larger players and help them bring their businesses into the digital age.
Our subscription software platform -- Hearth (www.gethearth.com) -- provides contractors a competitive way to sell more jobs by offering financing options to their customers and has expanded to offer digital invoicing, payment collections and other financial tools. We are building an end-to-end financial toolkit to SMB contractors that underpins their entire business.
Backed by 8VC, Founders Fund, and other prominent leaders in Silicon Valley, Shogun has raised $28mm to date and is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the home improvement space.
Shogun has originated hundreds of millions of dollars of financial products since launching under three years ago, grown to over 120 employees and we’re aiming to profitably grow 300% YOY in 2021.
We're hiring for a number of roles right now, including
* Backend Engineer (Rails, Infra): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shogun/7f5abe0d-c0eb-4166-8529-82f9...
* Full-Stack Engineer (React, React Native, Graphql): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shogun/59118cd6-7a89-4a3d-a6ff-7151...
* Lead Full-Stack Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shogun/1c6f8823-e137-4c0f-b659-e3d7...
For all job postings, visit: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shogun