Posts Tagged ‘Plastiq’
Ask the Head of Technology – What do you look for when hiring?
At Plastiq today, we are hiring for a lot of Engineering roles. At various prior companies I’ve been involved in the hiring and onboarding process for 100s of Engineers. As I’ve grown in my career and gained more experience, I’ve actually simplified my hiring philosophy down to 3 key questions that I ask myself (or…
Read MorePlastiq Welcomes New Leaders to Our Leadership Team!
On the heels of two very exciting announcements for Plastiq, our Series C funding rounds in November 2018, and expanding our presence to Boston with a new engineering office in December 2018, I am now thrilled to welcome not only great talent, but great people, to our growing executive leadership team. Bruno Perreault joins as…
Read MoreMeet an Engineer – Cody LaRocque
Tell us a little about yourself. I started working at Plastiq in November of last year and my work background is mostly in frontend development. As clich√© as it sounds, when I’m not working I enjoy traveling, mostly because I like to eat and drink. I also enjoy all the outdoor activities the Bay Area…
Read MorePlastiq named in Best Places to Work by Built In Boston
I am absolutely delighted to share that Plastiq has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” by Built In Boston for 2019!¬†These awards recognize companies that go out of their way to provide employees with the support they need to thrive. At Plastiq we highly value our Engineers and gave them lots of…
Read MorePlastiq Hiring Event in Boston
Plastiq is delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at Built in Boston’s upcoming¬†Top Companies Hiring event at Ned Devine’s in Fanueil Hall on Thursday January 17th from 5.30pm. This is a great opportunity for you to meet members of our Boston Engineering team, learn about the work we do and what opportunities we…
Read MorePlastiq & Machine Learning (part 1)
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, skynet. It seems you can’t find a budding new startup bio or VC elevator pitch that doesn’t include these terms today. And for good reason! There are some truly amazing things being accomplished with machine learning lately. In fact one of the leading researchers in this space, Andrew Ng,…
Read MoreThe Massachusetts Conference for Women
The Massachusetts Conference for Women was held in Boston on Dec 11th and 12th. It’s the 15th year the event has been held in Boston and it has become extremely popular, selling out with over 11,000 people attending. The goal of the conference is to offer inspiration, motivation, networking, personal & professional development, and community.…
Read MorePlastiq Engineering expands in Boston
Plastiq’s story is a tale of two cities – namely Boston and San Francisco. Boston – as Plastiq was initially founded there in 2012. San Francisco – as Plastiq is headquartered there since late 2014. Over the past 4 years, we have been hiring and growing our Engineering staff in San Francisco. However we continued…
Read MoreBack to Boston!
My co-founder Dan and I are thrilled to announce that after four years in the Bay Area, we are expanding from coast to coast, and opening a new office where it all began – Boston. While Plastiq’s headquarters will remain in San Francisco, where we are hiring nearly 100 roles across all functions, we’re excited…
Read MoreEngineering Key Values
Earlier this year, I first came across the site KeyValues.com. I was really impressed with the site’s unique approach to filtering potential companies for a next role. When you read a company careers page or their job descriptions it can can be very difficult (read: impossible) to find out what their team values really are…
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