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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 434 ms ] threadHowdy HN! Distil Networks is a growing startup in the web-security industry. We build SaaS that blocks malicious bots, scrapers, and scripts from attacking our customer’s websites and APIs. This reduces fraud, content theft, spam, and helps eliminate lots of security issues. We have a global network that actively blocks web traffic based on human/ non-human signatures. Our customers love us, our investors love us, and we’re looking to hire. We have offices in SF, DC, North Carolina, London, and now Sweden!
What we’re looking for (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks?lever-via=3TYvimYmGi):
Specifically we need:
-A Data Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/c2f85048-55da-49c9-9c0c...)
-DevOps - System Admin (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/e7f0ede3-647b-4282-bf07...)
- DevOps - System Engineering (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/b4c90b41-7d35-451e-858a...)
-Customer Success Managers (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/4d09d09d-d68a-478d-8bbe...)
-Support Engineers (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/29f2ad17-fccd-4caa-95ad...)
- Front End Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/6e54a1b2-7192-49c3-be82...)
- Senior Learning and Development Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks/a3d0b123-ca99-476c-ba4c...)
We’re also hiring for Marketing, Recruiting, Finance, and Sales! Basically everything.
We're building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We’re following in the footsteps of great companies like Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) and Zenefits in making essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and like Wealthfront, in making sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.
We also just closed a substantial seed round from top investors, but we’re currently just six people. If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.
We have a lot of open roles, so we'd love to hear from anyone interested to working with us. Specifically, we're looking for Account Managers (entry level welcome!), Growth Marketers, Designers, and JavaScript engineers.
Reach out to careers@captain401.com, or apply at https://captain401.com/careers
We're an online video platform (OVP) headquartered near Boston's South Station (with offices around the world), and power video for many of the world's largest media companies. We work on fun, difficult problems within a casual work environment. We have a fully stocked kitchen, ping pong/arcade machines, frequent catering, unlimited vacation policy that employees actually use, generous work/life balance, 401k matching, etc. etc.
Boston, MA:
* Principal Android Software Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3hIqNhwY)
* Senior iOS Application Developer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3IIqNhwp)
* Senior Full Stack Web Developer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3JJqNhwr)
* Software Engineer, Video Delivery (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3YJqNhwG)
* Principal Software Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?30JqNhwI)
* Senior Software Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3aIqNhwR)
* Mobile Software Engineer in Test (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3dIqNhwU)
* Systems Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3mIqNhw3)
* Senior Software Engineer, Zencoder Video Ingestion (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3oJqNhw6)
* Senior Network Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3tJqNhwb)
* Principal Systems Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3yJqNhwg)
* Senior Security Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3QIqNhwx)
* Lead Security Engineer (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3XIqNhwE)
Seattle, WA:
* Principal Software Engineer, Video Analytics & Billing (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3hJqNhwZ)
* Principal Software Engineer, Billing Team (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3lJqNhw3)
* Senior Software Engineer in Test (http://app.jobvite.com/m?3eJqNhwW)
- DevOps / Infrastructure engineering (Golang, AWS, ChatOps, Docker)
- Campaign Management (Adwords, Facebook)
- Growth Hacking (SEO/SEA, PR, Online Marketing)
Culture:
- an intense learning culture with high degrees of autonomy and room for personal growth
- a sane development process with lots of code reviews and pairing
- great mentoring and regular feedback
- every two weeks is Dev Day, reserved for automation, simplification and tech talks
About us:
- 6 founders, each with a solid track record, equity possible for any level
- we're founder owned, sustainable and rather share the company with our employees than with VCs
- B2C and B2B products with great traction already
Come see us at: https://www.justwatch.com/us/talent
PreTalen Ltd. is a rapidly growing, employee-owned company that is looking for engineers specializing in digital signal processing, reverse engineering, cyber security and embedded systems. Due to the nature of our work, you need to be a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to receive a security clearance.
This is an opportunity to work with smart engineers in a fun hacker-type culture. You'll be working on challenging problems and really pushing your engineering skills to the limit.
Here is one of the positions that we are currently looking to fill:
===Digital Signal Processing Engineer===
Responsibilities:
-Processing digital signals using SDR technologies
-Development of DSP algorithms in C/C++ or Python
-Use of Linux based SDK's and DSP frameworks (i.e. GnuRadio)
-Embedded DSP circuit design and reverse engineering
-Engineering wireless technologies and systems
Requirements:
-Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years experience in a DSP related field
-C or Python development experience
-Ability to work with Linux based operating systems
-Wireless security background is desired
-Experience using SDR peripherals (i.e. USRP, HackRF)
More job descriptions can be found on our web site at: https://www.pretalen.com/careers
For questions about open positions or to submit your resume, contact careers@pretalen.com .
We're looking for a senior software engineer to join our small, agile engineering team at MM.LaFleur.
== Who are we? ==
MM.LaFleur is a professional womenswear company based in New York City. We aim to be the go-to wardrobe solution for modern women of purpose. How? By delivering luxury-quality clothing via a seamless, direct-to-consumer stylist experience.
== What skills should you have? ==
- You should know PHP backwards, forwards, and upside down. MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, too. Magento? Great!
- Be good at (or ready to learn) commerce platform management and development.
- Love the entire stack, from devops to cross-browser styling to A/B testing marketing campaigns to internal tooling.
- Desire to set the foundation for an awesome engineering culture and help build the team.
- Be excited about analytics and data-driven decisions.
- Appreciate UX and the designers and engineers that make it possible.
== Tech Stack ==
- PHP, Magento, Slim, WordPress
- MySQL
- JavaScript, jQuery, Grunt
- CSS, Sass
- Git
- AWS, Braintree, Ghost Inspector
- Vagrant, Ubuntu
== Contact ==
You can apply directly here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/mmlafleur/jobs/134873
Or for more information feel free to send me an email at luke.evers@mmlafleur.com
We’re looking for super smart Front End, Full Stack and iOS developers to join the JustPark team and help us take our product to the next level.
The stack
Frontend: Gulp, Sass, Browserify, Babel, React
Backend: PHP, Python, MySQL, MongoDB
About us
Parking is a broken industry. It drains our fuel tanks, our wallets, our time and our sanity. It's been clogging up our towns for too long. At JustPark, we've officially had enough, and life's too short not to fix things.
We connect the dots to ensure that those who need parking find the people who have it going spare. Our business is unlocking potential: we help homeowners, churches, schools, hotels, pubs and commercial car parks to boost their income by filling their empty spaces, making the most of the assets they have.
JustPark is one of London's most exciting and fast-growing startups - with a record-breaking £3.7m equity crowdfunding round under its belt, on top of investment from BMW and Index Ventures. In 2015 alone, JustPark were featured in WIRED’s top 10 hottest startups, crowned winners of Richard Branson's 'Pitch to Rich', and nominated for the Growing Business Awards UK Employer of the Year.
Benefits
- A salary that is actually competitive.
- Generous stock options to match.
- Unlimited holiday.
- Free daily gourmet lunches, prepared by our lovely in-house chef.
- MacBook Pro.
- Table tennis and Friday beers on tap.
- Free parking at any JustPark space.
Learn more about the roles and apply: https://justpark.workable.com/ or email jobs@justpark.com.
Immediate Need | Great Culture and Tremendous Impact | Well Paying | Apply Now!
For SF: Backbone/React/D3 https://percolate.com/careers/70476/sr-front-end-engineer-sf
For NYC: Backbone/React https://percolate.com/careers/139585/sr-front-end-engineer-n...
OR you can email your resume to me: chintan at percolate dot com
=== What we do ===
We are building a digital hub for creative professionals (and yes, that means pretty much most hard-to-automate professions). We help our customers with lead generation (helping them use video storytelling in a smart way) and are building a SaaS offering, providing customers with collaboration and content/client management software, while facilitating many to many transactions (and that truly means many transactions in an industry worth $114bn in the UK alone).
=== Crib sheet ===
-You will be part of small fun team, working in London, United Kingdom (Baker Street)
-We have backing from an incubator
-50 creative professionals' usage based on our existing community product prototype (under private-Alpha) built with Meteor JS
-We will be transferring our learnings into a new mobile multi-tenant application to be built from scratch (tech-stack choices still to be made). You will have the opportunity to be part of it from the start, establishing the culture and setting the standards.
=== Looking for ===
-Senior software engineer / Full Stack developer
-This freelance opportunity can develop into a full-time lead role (CTO) should we be the right fit for each other.
If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at jobs@experienceconomy.com mentioning Hacker News in the subject line.
More about us at http://www.experienceconomy.com
Read our medium post: http://bit.ly/1UoZjLc Apply here: homeheart.workable.com
Want to join an international team of brilliant, talented, and passionate product creators?
Planetary is a New York City-based digital product studio where happiness, empathy, and exploration are our core values. We want to inspire our clients and build products that will make them (and their customers) more productive and impactful in their industries.
We build everything from platforms to mobile apps and we'd love for you to join us and be part of the team. Check out the listings[1][2] and shoot me an email if you're interested: josh@planetary.io
Frontend Engineer: https://angel.co/planetary/jobs/106991-senior-frontend-engin...
Lead Designer: https://angel.co/planetary/jobs/115566-lead-designer
First things first. We look for aptitude over APIs. It doesn't matter whether your resumé says PHP or PhD: if you're smart, know some stuff and have empathy, we want to work with you.
Pivotal's goal is to change the way the world makes software and we kinda sorta really mean it. We're broken into three basic divisions: Pivotal Labs (yes, that Pivotal Labs), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data. Rotations between divisions, temporarily or permanently, are possible.
We have offices in San Francisco, New York City, Santa Monica, Palo Alto, Seattle, Boulder, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Dublin, Tokyo, Berlin and Sydney. More offices are coming soon. Relocations, temporarily or permanently, are possible.
Each of the three divisions has a constantly evolving and deliberately cross-pollinated culture. We are constantly thinking about how we work and how we can work more sensibly, effectively and enjoyably. Right now we are particularly trying to grow in Labs and Cloud Foundry.
-- Pivotal Labs, from which the company draws its name and cultural seed, helps clients to become better at development. For engineering we are religiously lean and agile. In practice that means we pair program and TDD every line of code from the outside. Our product managers are fantastic at keeping products sharply focused, our designers are masters from users to pixels. We have a growing data science practice, and some engagements include all four roles.
-- Cloud Foundry solves application deployment and management. We're the main contributors to the Cloud Foundry project. We're constantly improving the leading opensource PaaS -- our distribution has the fastest-growing sales of any opensource product ever.
It's also the only PaaS I'd personally bet a company on. Except for integrated upstream code, every line is pair programmed and TDD'd. We dogfood the cutting edge of the technology on our own commercial public cloud (Pivotal Web Services). It works because we took the XP and Lean DNA of Pivotal Labs and scaled it up to build the best cloud platform bar none.
-- Generally
At our offices we have free breakfast, weekly tech talks, good benefits and competitive pay. Ping pong is not mandatory, but it's popular. I think west-coast ping pong is harder to beat, but east-coast style is more entertaining to watch. The beer fridge has more IPA than I prefer but I guess that's life in paradise.
You can apply through our website: http://pivotal.io/careers. You can also email me at jchester+hn@pivotal.io to answer any questions you might have and potentially help me score one of our generous referral bonuses.
For what it's worth, I'm just an engineer. My replies might not be immediate, sorry.
Mixlr (http://mixlr.com) is the biggest platform for live music and audio content, now with over 4 million registered users and 40,000 active broadcasters each and every month.
With our desktop, tablet and mobile apps our community can broadcast live to the world with one hit of a button. Once live, it’s easy for friends and followers to chat, heart and share - becoming a part of the live event themselves.
Founded in 2010 by Greg Lloyd and Rob Watson, we are an established startup and growing fast. You would join us as the fifth engineer in our team, and as such have a great impact not only on the code but also on the future of our product, and company.
Part of our product lineup:
* Web application (Ruby on Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Resque, JavaScript, Backbone)
* Desktop app for Windows and Mac (C++, Qt, QML)
* Native Android and iOS apps (Objective-C, Java, Android Studio, Gradle)
* Embeddable player (HTML5, JavaScript, Flash)
* Real-time messaging system (NodeJS, Redis, WebSockets)
* Streaming backend infrastructure (NodeJS, JavaScript, Java, Icecast)
We are looking for a Ruby/Rails developer who is proficient, can work in a fast-paced environment, but is also passionate about learning new skills. We use agile methodologies to guide our development process, and we’ll aim for you to deploy to our live site on your very first day.
We are hiring for frontend, backend and full-stack roles.
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More information:
Company info: http://tech.mixlr.com/jobs/
Job posting: http://tech.mixlr.com/jobs/webdev.html
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.
Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.
There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience . If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.
You can email me personally at alexr@factual.com, or view our job postings here: https://www.factual.com/jobs#openings
(New York / New Jersey- Possible remote within the U.S)
Nucleus - is an early stage startup with unprecedented traction redefining family communication via an innovative smart home intercom device.
The Nucleus team is seeking a Senior QA Manager to establish a culture of quality early in the lifeblood of the company. Nucleus’ namesake product is a thin, affordable, connected device, giving families the easiest way to stay in touch, secure the home and connect to what matters most.
The Senior QA Manager will face the ambitious challenge of ensuring hardware and software work flawlessly in preparation for a massive launch this summer in over a thousand Lowe's stores and on Amazon.com. This position will be the second QA hire at the company and will be tasked with working with engineering to establish innovative and efficient processes and procedures to scale with the enormous growth potential.
The right candidate will be inspired and driven by the challenge of building innovative technology to help families communicate.
http://www.nucleuslife.com/
Please feel free to reach out to me directly at john@grayscalable.com
Software Engineer | Saint Paul, Minnesota
MySQL DBA | Saint Paul, Minnesota
Cloud Support Engineer | Saint Paul, Minnesota
More than 1,000 government organizations use the GovDelivery communication platform to reach over 90 million people on multiple continents. The end result is safer communities, happier commuters, and healthier families. In short, Better Government.
Our platform connects government organizations with the public via email, social media, SMS, voice, and more. We are growing significantly and consistently and that revenue gets plowed right back into technology. Come help us build a world-class solution using Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, Puppet, Java, and more. Together we can transform government communications and help create a more well-informed and engaged constituency.
If this sounds good to you, check out http://geeks.gd/ to get a real sense of the GovDelivery tech team, or contact brian.meline@govdelivery.com directly.
* Software Engineer (DC)
* DevOps Engineer (DC)
* SQL Developer (Boston or DC)
* UX Designer (Boston)
* Software Engineering Interns (Boston or DC)
* UX Design or Engineering Interns (Boston)
NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We offer an integrated platform that combines the best fundraising, compliance, organizing, and digital products available. We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our fast-growing digital platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.
NGP VAN has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine for seven years in a row, and one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by both the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. We are a successful and growing company with a passion for our employees’ career advancement. We are an open-minded, flexible workplace that values learning and contributions of many different kinds.
Company Site: http://ngpvan.com
We are open to interviewing across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.
Keywords: ONSITE INTERNS
http://airtable.com
Airtable's mission is to expand human productivity by letting people create tools to organize their world. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airtable as a toolkit of building blocks that people can repurpose to create their own applications. Our product roadmap is filled with interesting enhancements and additions to this toolkit that will push the boundaries of Airtable's capabilities.
Our users love us: https://twitter.com/airtable/timelines/566728799115440128
We’re hiring engineers for web (JS, Node, React), iOS (Objective-C, Swift), and Android. There are 13 of us right now, with backgrounds from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. We believe in the power of highly motivated and capable individuals to accomplish great things in small teams, with end-to-end ownership of projects and rapid iteration.
We’ve raised over $10 million in funding, and we were recently featured on the App Store.
You can apply here: https://airtable.com/jobs
We’re building a place where imaginative, ambitious, and passionate people can come work together and thrive. Our current venture is a service for the gaming community. We’re founders looking to build out the rest of our core team with people who love multiplayer gaming almost as much as they love engineering and creating.
Each addition to our team has to have the heart of an artist - they’ll take the risks and make the sacrifices required to build something extraordinary. They need to be comfortable around all walks of life and have a wide range of experiences and expertise.
We’re looking for people who shine in a collaborative environment, communicate well, and know how to check their egos at the door. Above all, we need people who understand, and can enthusiastically commit to, the life that comes with being part of an early-stage startup.
We’re looking for people who can hit the ground running, so the more experience you have in the following areas, the better:
If you think you’re ready to join the Buildry team, let us know why. Contact work@buildry.com.Thumbtack's mission is to help people accomplish their projects by matching them with the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help.
We are backed by Sequoia, Google Capital, and Baillie Gifford. A friendly, ambitious team of ~50 engineers, we work in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food and unlimited vacation.
We're looking for engineers, SREs, and data scientists interested in working with Go, Scala/Spark, machine learning, Angular, iOS, Android, full-stack, and AWS. Join us!
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering
Please reach out to (nate@)thumbtack.com with any questions.
StackPath is hiring Software Engineers for our Platform team. Our Software Engineers are responsible for designing, building, maintaining, improving, and integrating our software platform. Software Engineering team members are key contributors to the products vision in addition to writing code.
Our goal is to make the internet a safer place. We need more help from people with the right passion and skills to help us get there.
Learn more and apply: http://stackpath.applytojob.com/apply/IyDgQ7/Senior-Software...
Humanities Administrative & Academic Computing is a small development team (4-6 people). We are looking for a lead programmer for administrative web applications & misc research projects. This position will maintain existing applications as well as build new ones from the ground up.
As a part of a small team that operates the entire stack (from the physical servers up) and has personal relationships with our clients you will have the opportunity to learn or get involved in many aspects of web application development beyond just writing code:
- Consulting with the actual end users to build exactly what they need rather than just something that looks good in a powerpoint deck.
- Training end users, giving demos, mentoring student assistants
- Automated testing, config management & deployment, basic performance tuning
Our stack is presently Ember.js / Ruby on Rails / Postgres / Solr / Redis / Ubuntu Linux (and a bit of Drupal/PHP) and this position would have a significant role in making future choices in technology direction.
This is a full time on-site position in Chicago, IL with sensible working hours.
Application & more details at:
https://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?qui...
The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity / Disabled / Veterans Employer.
Twilio is a platform that has always put the developer first. This means building APIs that are easy to understand and easy to use. Over time the platform has evolved to provide richer communications capabilities to a broader array of developers across a much broader set of web and mobile devices. The challenge is therefore to make sure that no matter what kind of applications a developer is trying to build that they have the tools they need to easily debug and thoroughly test their integration before pushing to production.
About the job:
As a member of the API Tools team you will build software that runs the gamut from command line interfaces to real-time cloud-based logging services to auto-generated testing simulators. This will require real world experience using 3rd party APIs, a diversity of programming experiences and a strong desire to improve the software engineering experience (prototyping, debugging, testing) for Twilio developers.
More: https://boards.greenhouse.io/twilio/jobs/93900
Hiring Manager: Carter Rabasa, carter@twilio.com
Join the Wingspan eTMF development team, creating a next generation of cloud-based document management solutions for regulated industries. Our web-based client makes heavy use of React.js and Kendo. Our server side is written mostly in Scala, and uses Jersey for RESTful services.
Wingspan Technology is a small, family friendly software company headquartered in Blue Bell, PA. The Wingspan engineering team is responsible for architecture, implementation, and maintenance of the company’s enterprise software products that target highly regulated industries, primarily life sciences. Current projects span the whole software lifecycle, from maintenance of industry-leading solutions to the development of new, unannounced products; some are on-premise and some SaaS.
Our engineering team has exposure to a wide range of technology; for new projects we’re using Scala, React, Solr, and Postgres, with an emphasis on functional programming techniques where appropriate. Internally we use Atlassian tools for defect tracking, continuous integration, and code reviews. Engineers involved in tier 3 support typically work with older technologies, but are able to see how real customers use their work.
Email - gsieling@wingspan.com
http://www.wingspan.com
https://github.com/cid-harvard/job-descriptions
* UX Designer * Web and Data Developers * Web Development INTERNS
What we do: We take real world government data and research, and turn them into interactive data viz tools. The Atlas of Economic Complexity is our current online tool that lets you interactively visualize a country’s trade and explore growth opportunities for more than a hundred countries worldwide. Last year we launched a Mexican Atlas http://complejidad.datos.gob.mx/ which allows users to explore data and understand policy effects at regional and local levels. This year we are launching similar tools in Colombia and Peru.
Our stack: We use python, django, mysql (hopefully postgres soon), elasticsearch, ansible for the back end. For the frontend, it's ember / d3 on the country projects, jquery/d3 on atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ and WebGL with Three.js on some 3d projects that we’ve launched such as globe.cid.harvard.edu/ Everything we do is open source: https://github.com/cid-harvard
Demo of the current atlas: An example of how the atlas is useful take this story here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/21/world/europe/h...
Recently the EU placed sanctions on sales of oil equipment, but not on oil imports. Why could this be? Almost 70% of russia's exports are petrol products: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/all...
And Russia exports the overwhelming majority of its petroleum products to Europe: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/sho...
The big blue chunk is europe, meaning a sanction would really hurt Russia. However, when you look at who else the EU could buy from, the situation is grim: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/net_export/sho...
There’s practically no one who’s a real political ally that Europe could depend on, save for Norway. It’s interesting how it’s practically impossible to buy oil from a country that’s relatively stable and doing well on the HDI front. It’s worse if you consider the cost of transporting it, and how close Russia is: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/map/net_export/show/all...
Which probably explains why EU hasn't placed sanctions on oil imports from Russia.
Think you could design/build/use this better? We think you can too!
Get in touch:Send us some work you're proud of to greg_shapiro at hks dot harvard dot edu.