Duel | Tech Lead / Staff Engineer | Bristol, UK (Hybrid)
Tech stack: Angular moving to React | Node / Bun | ECS | Mongo | Snowflake
Small team doing big things.
We've taken the team AI native, the platform will be there withing a few months. An existing v1 platform built with "boring" technologies allows us to make sure money and data remain safe whilst ensuring the frontend can be built at the speed that AI enables.
One of our team is taking everything they've been playing with for the last couple of years and stepping in to a YC principal role with our blessing. We're looking for their replacement to help continue bringing the team to the same level.
We've spent years creating the brand advocacy category, and are now seeing huge growth in all areas. We took Series A last year, are seeing massive growth, and still finding the time to have fun.
You need to back yourself. We'll expect a lot form you, but you'll be given the autonomy you need to do your best work.
We focus on hiring bloody brilliant, utterly lovely people.
No recruiters. The role is being opened as we speak (I'm on holiday, spotted the who is hiring!); for now, please reach out to: joe via duel.tech.
A lot of anthropic's recent improvements are coming from the task focus and improved orchestration around the models, not purely massive changes in the models themselves.
This bodes well for us being at a point that even if the bubble burst, we'd still have usable AI going forward.
Having a similar story, I can tell you the the answer is not to try and fill that hole with someone else until you've worked out who you are, and what you really want.
You're not the person that you were when you moved out of your parents, and you need to work out what is "you" vs what was "us".
Don't rush to the next stage of your life. Live in the discomfort you are feeling and find out what quietens it. Easier said than done, I know.
Believe it or not there are those if us in Tech who crave that human connection.
Things that I've tried:
* Salsa was mentioned somewhere else, that's amazing to meet people, laugh at yourself, and learn a skill
* Walk the dog without earphones. It's amazing how dog walkers will give that knowing smile to each other. Lean into that. Say a hi, and ask about their dog. Simple, but if you're walking the same time every day you'll soon be chatting.
* Go and exist somewhere. The coffee house etc (I avoid bars, though I like a drink, as ironically lonely bar people are not the inspirational people I seek), just be there. I get that these are the 3rd places.
* Go to events (plays, theatre, cultural places). Turn up early, smile and say hi to random people. You've got an in there as you're there for a specific reason. Do a bit of research prior.
* Try a few different gyms. The vibe is different in every one. Be there longer than your workout.
* To the above, when you go places, be there early, don't rush off.
* If you can get yourself in to the tech leaders round table style dinners (8-10 people), you'll very quickly find interesting like minded individuals. You may have to commit to travel a bit to do this. Not sure how that works with the dog for you.
Things I've tried and don't work
* The random meetups. Unless they are focused on something you can all relate to (i.e. board games etc).
* Pubs / bars as above
* Professional networking events with over 20 people. That's just hustling.
If you want to just chat shit, or say hi to a human, feel free to reach out. I'm sure it would be good for both of us!
When you’re trying to type a URL there’s a period next to the space bar where your right thumb usually hits space, but if you’re just texting iOS won’t show that. That’s my theory, just muscle memory.
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