Hightower Inc | New York (ONSITE) | Full Stack Engineers + Data Scientists
Hightower is a collaboration platform for owners of commercial real estate. We're replacing clunky Excel sheets and email workflows with a beautiful and purpose-designed technology platform. Since our founding in April 2013, we've grown from a 3 to 90 person team, from a windowless WeWork conference room to eight offices in three countries, and today power leasing at many landmarks buildings across the US and Europe.
Our of our earliest investors wrote that commercial real estate is like "a lost tribe in the Amazon". Although it's not an especially charitable characterization, it describes well the scale of the opportunity. We're essentially rebuilding the technology platform for a 13 trillion dollar global asset class. There's a lot of roadmap yet to build :)
We're organized as small, cross-discipline collaborative teams which fosters high-velocity, high-quality development and tons of customer empathy. Trust me, our customers need you :) I'm focused on recruiting full stack developers to our team (our stack being AngularJS and Rails) and building new competencies in data science and DevOps.
Drop me a line if you're interested in learning more about how we work, and what happened when a technology startup met a giant industry still playing catch up with this whole "Internet" thing :)
Hightower Inc | New York (ONSITE) | Full Stack Engineers
We met one of our first engineers via HackerNews on this day two years ago (hi @erikwithfriends!) and since then have grown to a 20 person product team, and are still recruiting :)
Hightower is a workflow and collaboration platform for commercial real estate leasing. Hightower replaces clunky Excel and email workflows with a simple, beautiful and purpose-designed tool. In the past two years, we've grown from 3 to 65 people, raised $21 million from BVP, Thrive and RRE, and today power leasing at many city landmarks in New York, San Francisco and other cities around the world.
We're hiring full stack developers to join our development team. You'll be working in small collaborative groups with interaction designers and product managers at our SoHo office (pictures here: https://goo.gl/hno0mi). Our stack is RoR and AngularJS and ~50% of our engineering team hails from Pivotal Labs & ThoughtWorks.
Drop me a line if you're interested in learning more about how we work, and what happened when a modern technology startup met an industry still playing catch up with the Internet - niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.
Hightower Inc | New York (ONSITE) | Full Stack Engineers
We met one of our first engineers via HackerNews almost two years ago (hi @erikwithfriends!) and are still recruiting :)
Hightower is a workflow and collaboration platform for commercial real estate leasing. In short, our customers use Hightower to replace clunky Excel and email workflows with a simple, beautiful and purpose-designed tool. In the last 24 months we've grown from 3 to 62 people, raised $21 million, and now power leasing at many landmarks in New York, San Francisco and other cities around the US and globally.
We're hiring full stack developers to join our team in SoHo, NYC. Our stack is RoR and AngularJS (~50% of our team hails from Pivotal Labs & ThoughtWorks). Developers, designers and product managers work together in small cross functional teams, and use the best tools we can find.
Drop me a line if you're interested in learning more about how we work, and what happened when a modern technology startup met an industry still playing catch up with the Internet - niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.
We’re building a collaboration and workflow tool for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry -- "Trello, but for CRE". Our first product targets commercial leasing teams, who run a highly mobile and collaborative workflow using tools like paper (!) and 90s-era desktop productivity software (yes, I'm looking at you, Excel).
Our founding team is Brandon Weber, a HCI graduate from CMU and former commercial real estate broker, me - Niall Smart, founder of YC W09 company Echodio (sold to RealNetworks) and Donald DeSantis, founder at LIFFFT, Giant Thinkwell, and an early Redfin employee. We’re backed by top-tier investors in enterprise tech and CRE, including Thrive Capital (42Floors, Honest Buildings, Urban Compass), BVP (Box, Intercom, Clearside), Aaron Levie, Lee Linden, David Tisch and Gary Vaynerhuck [1]
If reimagining the technology toolset used by an entire industry is the kind of thing that floats your boat, come talk to us – we're still a small team, and you can have a huge impact. We’re currently hiring full stack web developers who have a solid portfolio of building product at startups. Our stack is Rails + AngularJS + iOS. Knowledge of CRE is not a pre-requisite.
Drop me a line to learn more – niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.
Ground floor opportunity at a commercial real estate software startup :)
Commercial real estate (CRE) is one of the largest parts of our economy ($7T in U.S. asset value) but incredibly underserved by technology. We've actually met teams using different color sheets of paper to manage and track their sales pipeline. One of our investors described the opportunity as "finding the proverbial lost tribe in the amazon" [1]. If reimagining this world sounds interesting, come talk to us – we've got a product in market, just closed a 2.1M seed round, and are hiring engineer #1.
Our stack is Rails + AngularJS. We've been using AngularJS since day 1 and love it (and have paid it forward in some pull requests). Our development workflow is simple and robust – Trello for task management, CircleCI for continuous integration, and deployment to Heroku.
The product is a collaboration and workflow platform for CRE leasing teams. Our goals are to dramatically increase their operational efficiency with a purpose built web + mobile experience, and to leverage the underlying data to deliver performance insights to insititutional owners.
Hightower is being actively piloted by some of the biggest names in CRE, and we've raised a 2.1M seed round led by BVP and Thrive Capital with participation from a host of amazing angels and VC including Aaron Levie, Lee Linden, David Tisch and Gary Vaynerhuck. Our founding team is Brandon Weber (CEO – CMU graduate and former VP @ CBRE), Niall Smart (CTO, formerly founder of YC W09 company Echodio, which sold to RealNetworks) and Donald DeSantis (CDO, formerly founder of LIFFFT, early Redfin employee).
We're hiring engineer #1. Knowledge of CRE is not a pre-requisite. In fact, possibly the less you know on that front, the better :) You should have deep experience with any or all of: Rails, Backbone, Angular, Ember, Django, Node -- and a strong history of building product at startups. Meaningful equity + cash compensation is on offer for the right person.
Drop me a line to learn more – niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.
I assume from the spelling of cheque that you're located outside the US. :) The banking system is ridiculously archaic, compared at least to Europe. For example, there's no simple way for me to directly transfer funds to a friends bank account (we would have to use PayPal, or I would have to pay a "wire transfer" fee). It's also quite common for the payroll department to ask you to bring a "voided check" on your first day at work so they can get your account details.
There's also a big generation gap between those who think checks are ridiculous archaic and those who think they are a heck of a lot simpler than doing it online.
If you're on payroll, some employers let you split your paycheck between multiple accounts. That's a useful way to get some money in and try the service without having to totally go all in.
I currently bank with Wells Fargo, and am gradually making the switch over to Simple. Couple reasons why:
– like most banks, WF have a ludicrously outdated web interface that makes doing the simplest thing inordinately painful.
– like most banks, WF suck at providing a complete historical transaction history and search. Case in point – a couple weeks ago I wanted to query a transaction on an older account, after checking online and being transferred between at least four different customer service agents in different divisions, I was none the wiser. The best they could do was offer to send me printed statements, at a $100 cost.
- like most banks, WF make obscene profits while engaging in shady practices - e.g., trying to upsell me every single time I call them, mailing me an offer for a "free" credit score service (that, if you read the small print, is actually a subscription) and not least discriminatory lending practices (c.f., recent settlement with Justice Dept)
Once I called Wells Fargo to ask about a fee on my account that didn't make sense, and when I looked back later I noticed they had added a charge of $2 for the privilege of talking to them on the phone about the original suspicious fee. They are not trustworthy at all.
I then moved over to ING. It has been great, but they were bought by Capital One and I am worried that things will go downhill (and I don't particularly want to do business with Capital One). Simple looks like a great alternative--I wish I could get a guarantee that they won't be bought by some shady megabank a year after I take the time to change over.
All of your reasons are common complaints, and I share them (with the exception of USAA). I work at such a bank, and can tell you from painful firsthand experience how difficult it is to do good UX design work inside of a traditional banking environment. I think Simple had the right idea to essentially decouple the "backend banking" stuff from the UX by partnering with a bank and somewhat removing many of the constraints a full-on bank has to wrangle with.
What's interesting though is that despite these complaints, consumers generally are averse to switching their banks.
I've worked at a bank for several years, and agree 100%. It's basically impossible for them to pull off something like Simple.
So the question is – how valid is that research given consumers haven't had a real alternative?
Now that we're (finally) moving away from paper payments, seems to me that it's a bad idea to bank on consumer complacency. Either way, I'm just happy that there's a decent alternative.
Hightower is a collaboration platform for owners of commercial real estate. We're replacing clunky Excel sheets and email workflows with a beautiful and purpose-designed technology platform. Since our founding in April 2013, we've grown from a 3 to 90 person team, from a windowless WeWork conference room to eight offices in three countries, and today power leasing at many landmarks buildings across the US and Europe.
Our of our earliest investors wrote that commercial real estate is like "a lost tribe in the Amazon". Although it's not an especially charitable characterization, it describes well the scale of the opportunity. We're essentially rebuilding the technology platform for a 13 trillion dollar global asset class. There's a lot of roadmap yet to build :)
We're organized as small, cross-discipline collaborative teams which fosters high-velocity, high-quality development and tons of customer empathy. Trust me, our customers need you :) I'm focused on recruiting full stack developers to our team (our stack being AngularJS and Rails) and building new competencies in data science and DevOps.
Drop me a line if you're interested in learning more about how we work, and what happened when a technology startup met a giant industry still playing catch up with this whole "Internet" thing :)
niall.smart (at) gethightower.com.