LeapYear

How we work

We are parents, pet-lovers, physicists, cyclists, teachers, Haskellers, and musicians that get together five days a week to solve complex problems.

We are building LeapYear for the long-term, and we understand that this requires a great working environment, diverse perspectives, and a culture built on shared values.

Recent technical challenges we've been working on

• Developing a Spark-based query engine with strong typechecking.
• Achieving terabyte and petabyte scale on Spark.
• Refactoring our persistence layer.
• Using Haskell to implement enterprise-ready subsystems for authentication, permissioning, job management, and logging.
• Extending the platform to support automated daily data updates.

Our values as interviewers:

• We make evidence-based hiring decisions (Interviews are standardized, cognitive biases are avoided)
• We prefer face-to-face time with you (Zoom calls over phone calls)
• We minimize the difference between interviews and real work (Code reviews and design exercises, not whiteboard coding)
• You deserve to know what to expect at every stage

Typical interview process:

1. Technical screen +
2. call with hiring manager
3. On-site interview
4. References
5. Offer