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Co—Star Astrology | Full-time | On-site | New York | $130-150k + equity https://www.costarastrology.com

Co-Star is bringing astrology into the 21st century with a social, personalized experience that helps people reflect and connect in real, meaningful ways. Over half of millennials and nearly a third of American adults are into astrology. We just raised $5m from the people behind companies like Glossier, Rent the Runway, eBay, Periscope, and Everlane.

We’re looking to bring talented software developers to join our 8-person team in Chinatown, NYC. We’ve been taking a full-stack approach to the way we work but are open to having you dive deep into areas you’re especially passionate about.

Our stack includes

* Haskell for our backend API

* Swift and Android Native for our mobile apps

* React and TypeScript on the web (costarastrology.com + internal tools)

* AWS to host our infrastructure

* PostgreSQL

We want your help

* Shipping new features in our iOS app

* Scaling our backend infrastructure to >1M daily users

* Developing internal tools to give our content editors super powers

* Using TB of analytics data to help the product team develop insights

* Making this the best place to work

$0 deductible fully-covered health care, unlimited vacation (min 4 weeks), conference/book/whatever budget

Read more details here -> https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs + feel free to email directly with questions -> ben at costarastrology.com



How has haskell been going so far?

I'm also curious why you chose Typescript over the more FP frontend options (not that I think it's a bad choice at all).


I think Haskell's been working really well for us. Strong types give a lot of confidence during refactoring. The language is performant too which has definitely helped us as we've been scaling.

Personally, I like to stay pretty close to the javascript when doing web work. Elm, Purescript, GHCJS all have their benefits but I find it just too difficult to integrate with the rest of the (disjointed) web development toolkit.




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