Our mission is to empower people to do what's best for their money. We built Betterment, and are continuing to better it, because we want to help our customers live better and spend their time doing what makes them happy.
We're here to disrupt finance in a big way. The people who already know how to do that don't exist. We're hiring for learners and adapters—people who can help us make financial services the way it ought to be.
We're a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interests. We're not incentivized to recommend certain funds, and we don't have our own investment products to sell. That means we'll do what we believe is right for you, always.
Recommended reading to have a good understanding of us as a company, what we do, how and what we value:
- Software Engineer - Backend (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)
- Software Engineer - Full Stack (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)
- Staff Software Engineer - Front End (NYC or Philadelphia)
- Engineering Manager - Full Stack (NYC only)
- Lead Data Engineer (NYC or Philadelphia)
- Head of Analytics (NYC only)
We use Ruby on Rails, Java 11/8, Scala, Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes and whatever else we deem fit for the problem we're solving. The engineering org deeply values mentorship, learning and cross team initiatives.
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Our mission is to empower people to do what’s best for their money. We built Betterment, and are continuing to better it, because we want to help our customers live better and spend their time doing what makes them happy.
We’re here to disrupt finance in a big way. The people who already know how to do that don’t exist. We’re hiring for learners and adapters—people who can help us make financial services the way it ought to be.
We're a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interests. We're not incentivized to recommend certain funds, and we don't have our own investment products to sell. That means we'll do what we believe is right for you, always.
Recommended reading to have a good understanding of us as a company, what we do, how and what we value:
We use Ruby on Rails, Java 8 (11 coming soon :), Scala, Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes and whatever else we deem fit for the problem we're solving. The engineering org deeply values mentorship, learning and cross team initiatives.
We built the new way of managing money will forever put customers first.
In 2010, we set out to build an institution. A place that helped our customers pursue happiness, efficiently, and an environment where our team would look back and feel that they were enabled and encouraged to do the best work of their lives.
We set out to become the first and leading independent online financial advisor because we believed financial services could be better—that people deserved better. It's a belief that's shaped how we work, what we build, and our undying mission: to empower people to do what's best for their money, so they can live better.
We're a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interests. We're not incentivized to recommend certain funds, and we don't have our own investment products to sell. That means we'll do what we believe is right for you, always.
Oh they'll get you speeding on photo radar alright. The question is if the fine will actually get to you before 3 months because the system is so poor. And then you ask for the photo evidence and they'll tell you that you have to pay for it (this happened to me once).
Fines for running red lights are an instant very serious offense and two of these will suspend your license. Speeding depends on how much you went over the limit but it's a bit more flexible.
4-way stop signs are the stupidest idea when there is very little traffic or when there is a lot of traffic in a given intersection. In fact, they only work well in a moderately trafficked intersection; vehicles are supposed to stop once and then go through the light.
Roundabouts solve this entirely because for low, medium and even high congestion areas they are very effective at clearing out traffic. Sure they are definitely harder to tackle but as long as you're not in Braga (go around the outside or you'll crash into someone) you will have little to no issue doing them as most people are civil enough to tackle them properly. The issue is placing them because they require significantly more space and not all locations are suited to having them; if you notice most new planned roads all include roundabouts.
One thing that the author may not be aware of is that, despite the light turning red for you and oncoming traffic, it may turn green for any side streets. Running the red light has potential consequences much more severe than just a ticket (such as crashing into another driver) so no one ever dares to do so.
I completely agree that these are better than speed bumps because people speed through those too. And there's no need to slow down to 15 Km/hr either, you can do it at the speed limit with some margin of error (around 15% iirc).
Portuguese here. Speed cameras are definitely legal, although it's mandatory to have a sign indicating their presence x meters beforehand (if I'm not mistaken). Also mobile police units with speed cameras in very discreet places is a common thing. What happened in Lisbon some time ago though was that most of the radars ended up dying due to lack of maintenance (due to lack of funds/attention/whatever). A lot were recently reactivated I heard.
But yeah these speed sensitive red lights are common and I agree that they work pretty well. Social pressure is good for behavioral nudging. Reminds me of those led signs that show a sad face if you go over the limit on certain residential areas for example.
However I must say that nothing beats Belgium in speed radars. Especially in Flanders, there are so many of these damn Gatso speed traps... What really makes the whole thing work though is a very good system behind it. Here in Belgium, if you're caught by a speed camera, you'll get the fine within 2 weeks tops. In Portugal however you might not even get it because the pile of fines to process is too big and the system isn't prepared for it.
I can confirm the roundabout obsession too :) those can be really annoying but they sure slow people down.
Our mission is to empower people to do what's best for their money. We built Betterment, and are continuing to better it, because we want to help our customers live better and spend their time doing what makes them happy.
We're here to disrupt finance in a big way. The people who already know how to do that don't exist. We're hiring for learners and adapters—people who can help us make financial services the way it ought to be.
We're a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interests. We're not incentivized to recommend certain funds, and we don't have our own investment products to sell. That means we'll do what we believe is right for you, always.
Recommended reading to have a good understanding of us as a company, what we do, how and what we value:
- https://betterment.engineering/
- https://www.betterment.com/careers/
- https://www.betterment.com/TheBettermentWay
Looking to fill various roles:
- Software Engineer - Backend (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)
- Software Engineer - Full Stack (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)
- Staff Software Engineer - Front End (NYC or Philadelphia)
- Engineering Manager - Full Stack (NYC only)
- Lead Data Engineer (NYC or Philadelphia)
- Head of Analytics (NYC only)
We use Ruby on Rails, Java 11/8, Scala, Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes and whatever else we deem fit for the problem we're solving. The engineering org deeply values mentorship, learning and cross team initiatives.
Please reach out to me directly at andre@betterment.com or apply directly at https://www.betterment.com/careers/current-openings/ (please mention HN May 2019).
Happy to answer any questions via email, please reach out!