Flexpa is making it easy for patients to share their claims, benefit coverage, medications, and other data from health plans. We're a developer-first platform with rich APIs, robust developer documentation, and other tools to help applications to build novel patient and provider experiences powered by claims data.
We believe in open standards, open source, and open, transparent culture [1]. We surround ourselves with excellent people who want to build the best products, with high independence, drive, and enthusiasm. We're building the Plaid for healthcare and we want you to join the team.
As a Senior Full Stack Developer at Universe, you will apply your passion for technology and live events in your quest to build a world-class Event Ticketing platform. In this deeply technical and business-minded position, you’ll architect, implement, and evolve our frontend and backend systems with a talented team of like-minded peers. As a senior developer with great influence on our product, you’ll be challenged with the rewarding tasks of understanding our customers with strong empathy, curating an amazing product experience, and championing our vision to new heights.
_What your day would look like_:
- Writing new application code for our core product API and client (especially transactional pieces)
- Advocating best practices for development and testing
- Performance profiling new and existing features in both our server processes and in the browser
- Mentoring junior developers on the team and promoting skill growth
_What we’re looking for_:
- Experienced in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and/or MVC backend frameworks
- Experienced in Ember or React frontends
- Excited about BDD, automated deployment, fixing bugs, and shipping code
Now they just need to support the Foreign Data Wrapper extension with egress connections. Really wish that was built in because FDW itself is amazing, and AWS RDS is easy to manage.
Agree 100%. Would be awesome if you could have RDS with FDW connected to a Redshift instance. (don't know if that's possible given the version of Postgres upon which Redshift is based)
Kind of strange that there's no mention of actual behavioral genomics research here. Aside from the quip that:
> Scientists have found some genetic code that contributes to hereditary behaviors, but the bulk of it is unlikely to ever be found. Why? Because it plainly does not fit.
This is plainly not true. We've found lots of evidence for the genomic basis of hereditary behaviors. See Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis for example - plenty of statistical research is out there.
I did look up recent findings and they were meager. I followed your advice and looked up "Complex Traint Analysis." It is also quite meager. Were you able to find something close to 10mb? If you did, link please. I would expect that that category of genes would get a technical term alongside with "regulatory" and "encoding" genes the moment enough of them surfaced.
Right! It's obvious he's lacking some (relatively) recent information. And he vastly overestimates our ability to do things like simulate biochemical interactions.
Is he arguing that Dwarf Fortress has codes for souls? Because I feel like his argument and example say exactly the opposite.
That's just willfully ignorant. For majority of people, differences in opportunity are SO much more influential in their lives than differences in skill or intelligence.
Consider three kids -- one is rich, suburban white, IQ is 170. The other is rich, suburban white, IQ is 75. The third is poor, inner city black, IQ 170.
In this situation, which lives do you think look most similar to one another? If you answered 'obviously the white kids', then great! You get it. If you answered 'the two kids with an IQ of 170' then you need to spend some time in the real world.
Let's add kid #4 -- poor, black, inner city, IQ 75. If we want to compare across QoL, opportunity, really almost any metric, we're going to group across socio-economic lines, not IQ.
If you find yourself thinking 'Well what if that young black kid catches a lucky break and gets out of poverty' you're almost there -- the need to catch a lucky break to escape is a defining aspect of poverty and it works against even the most naturally skilled people. The amount of skill needed to overcome that lack in opportunity makes it silly to bring skill into the equation when talking about opportunity.
Really, come on. That kind of 'they can just pull themselves up by the bootstraps' is ignorant enough to sound like dog whistling.
> If we want to compare across QoL, opportunity, really almost any metric, we're going to group across socio-economic lines, not IQ.
Do you have any academic literature to support your claim? The only evidence you offered was just an insistence that I should agree, which shouldn't convince any fair minded person. Here's something that I found within 15 seconds of journal searching, that contradicts it: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-1130.2011....
> The results from a series of follow-up studies indicate that the IQ score at age 13 could be viewed as a relatively good indicator for future life outcomes, defined in terms of attained education, occupational status, and material well being
Finally:
> Really, come on. That kind of 'they can just pull themselves up by the bootstraps' is ignorant enough to sound like dog whistling.
I don't think we can, and I don't think I said anything like that.
> Opportunity is not evenly distributed, yes. But neither is skill.
Skill can be learned with enough drive. Opportunity is required for success, there's plenty of smart, skilled people in the world who are stuck in the workforce because of lack of it.
Malcom Gladwell's book "Outliers" is a good read on the effect opportunity (or the lack thereof) has on our lives. It can come off as pretty over simplified and anecdotal so don't take my praise of the book as me touting it as something it's not, but it's worth reading (and I rarely say that of required texts from courses I've taken).
Studies of the form article mentioned helped solidify the link between smoking and cancer also.
People are looking for smaller effects than before, and the incentive to publish any and all significant results is just so great that you get tons of noise.
So this article is about people like me. I went to school in Toronto and stayed. In the > 5 years since:
- I joined a seed stage startup
- That startup raised a series A ($N millions in total financing)
- Was then acquired by a Fortune 500 company, which has kept the business as a separate unit for > 1 year
- I was a party to the deal :)
I have found salaries to be competitive when total cost of living adjustments are made (even despite the currency value). Importantly, the labour market here values skills over credentials - so there's a distinct pragmatism in the air.
So as far as startups go - not the publicly traded and pre-series-G-mega-SF-corps - I think there's a vibrant opportunity and reality.
Flexpa is making it easy for patients to share their claims, benefit coverage, medications, and other data from health plans. We're a developer-first platform with rich APIs, robust developer documentation, and other tools to help applications to build novel patient and provider experiences powered by claims data.
We believe in open standards, open source, and open, transparent culture [1]. We surround ourselves with excellent people who want to build the best products, with high independence, drive, and enthusiasm. We're building the Plaid for healthcare and we want you to join the team.
We build with:
* Fullstack TypeScript (strict mode) and ES2020
* Turborepo and a one repository monorepo
* NextJS, React, and Tailwind
* Fastify and JSON Schema
* PostgreSQL and Prisma
* HL7 FHIR
To apply see our careers page https://flexpa.applytojobs.ca/ or email us at hiring@flexpa.com.
[1] https://handbook.flexpa.com/