From rbednark at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 03:55:04 2014 From: rbednark at gmail.com (Rob Bednark) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:55:04 -0800 Subject: [portland] Hiring Python developers Message-ID: My team is hiring Python developers. Give me a shout if you or anyone you know is interested. Call (503-877-2336) or email me if you have any questions. Summary We are hiring several Python developers for our platform engineering team to work on our backend services and REST API. Requirements We are looking for either senior-level developers, or very smart entry-level developers with some experience delivering production code; proficient in Python or in another high-level dynamic language; proficient with Linux, SQL databases, and REST API?s. The Position This is a salaried position, on-site in our Portland office, and includes health insurance, holidays, and unlimited vacation. The Team Our platform team currently consists of three senior-level developers. The backend code is almost entirely in Python; we write automated tests and code review all our commits. The Company We are a 4-yr-old, well-funded, revenue-generating startup that is growing. We have 14 employees in the Portland office and 27 employees total. In addition to our platform team, we have 7 other engineers that work on the front-end web app, DevOps, iOS, and Machine Learning. Our Portland office is located just across the river from downtown. Technologies we work with: Python Postgres SQLAlchemy Redis Cassandra git AWS Ubuntu Linux Ansible Puppet nginx & gunicorn Solr & Lucene (various open source PyPI packages) Please email your resume and anything else you feel might be helpful (github link, code samples, etc.) Rob Bednark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From robotbill at gmail.com Fri Dec 5 16:11:23 2014 From: robotbill at gmail.com (Joe Lewis) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 07:11:23 -0800 Subject: [portland] Winter Coders' Social 8 Message-ID: The 8th Annual Winter Coders' Social and Potluck is just around the corner. Add it to your calendar: http://calagator.org/events/1250467387 * WHEN: Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 from 6:30?9pm * WHERE: Urban Airship, 1417 NW Everett St, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97209 http://goo.gl/maps/hG0Ul * POTLUCK: Signup at: http://goo.gl/8FX50Y First off we?d like the thank this year?s excellent sponsors: * Urban Air Ship http://urbanairship.com/ * Janrain http://janrain.com/ Join Portland's tech community in celebrating the end of another year. This is a fun, free annual event where members of local user groups and their families are invited to mingle, eat and play games. This is the eighth time the event's been held and it's lots of fun every time. We'll have a potluck, so you're welcome to bring something yummy to share with others. If possible, label your food and whether it meets particular dietary needs, e.g. "vegan", "vegetarian", gluten-free", etc. If you'd like, tell others what you plan to bring, or see what others are bringing at: http://goo.gl/8FX50Y . We'll provide beverages, plates, cups, utensils and napkins. Like games? Bring your favorites and play them with others. We'll have tables set aside for such activities. Have an activity or contest that you'd like to organize for the event? Join the discussion at https://groups.google.com/group/pdxgroups . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From freyley at gmail.com Tue Dec 9 00:42:43 2014 From: freyley at gmail.com (Jeff Schwaber) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 15:42:43 -0800 Subject: [portland] [JOB] Startup web app developer Message-ID: Hey Pythonistas! I'm looking to hire a web developer. Come work with a small team on an early stage startup! If you want to talk more, catch me at the coder's social tomorrow. I feel it's important to clarify that I'm an engineer, so you can ask me technical questions too. =) Jeff Here's more: Work with a talented team of engineers across the entire product development cycle for MobilePaks, a fast-growing, award-winning sales knowledge and productivity software company. We?re a small team, which means you can make a big impact. Ideally you?ve worked with the modern web stack, whether that?s in Django and AngularJS or other reasonable frameworks. Play the role that fits you best in a welcoming, collaborative and communicative team. We value and focus our efforts on the success of our customers, personal responsibility and learning. We do practice Agile/extreme programming[1] in short iterations with retrospectives[2] and energized work[3]. If you?d like to know more about what makes us successful, come ask us about what we?ve decided in our last few retrospectives and why. Core skills: * Web development, ideally Django + any frontend framework or AngularJS + any backend MVC framework * Automated unit testing / TDD or equivalent * Ability to identify and locate bugs and propose solutions * Willingness to get involved in the whole cycle of engineering, including * clarifying new features and understanding the user experience * seeking cleaner code and architecture * taking security seriously * participating in planning and reflection Our ideal candidate is a strong advocate for continuous improvement in engineering practice and other areas, and takes an active interest in an area of deeper expertise that matters to us, e.g., quality, analytics, mobile, or data science About Us MobilePaks employees are building a company that fundamentally changes how people develop, access and share knowledge in business today. We make inspiring, easy-to-use products that help people achieve their full potential. We put the user first in everything we architect, making a clean break from the past and taking an innovative approach to knowledge support and sharing. All of us at MobilePaks are passionate about improving performance, and the science of learning and knowledge retention drives our philosophy and goals. How to apply A resume is optional[4]. What we?d really like to see is a paragraph or two describing a project you worked on recently from a technical perspective. You can email me directly, or to careers at mobilepaks.com 1. http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/ 2. http://retrospectivewiki.org/ 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20131006114507/http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-lessons 4. http://blog.alinelerner.com/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bprew at 38zeros.com Thu Dec 18 00:37:54 2014 From: bprew at 38zeros.com (Ben Prew) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:37:54 -0800 Subject: [portland] More hiring! Message-ID: I've got an opening for 2 devs at my company, an embedded developer and a data processing/backend systems developer. We currently use Python for our embedded hardware. If you're interested, let me know. About 38 Zeros Ever wonder what makes smart appliances so smart? Come join 38 Zeros, a hardware/software startup that provides an integrated platform for data retrieval and analysis for energy service companies. We build a hardware device that connects to energy service meters and sends data back to our cloud infrastructure. We process, clean and export that data to third parties for in-depth analysis. We also have a frontend where customers can provision, monitor and retrieve raw data from devices. Our office is on SW 1st, close to PSU/OHSU, and was recently featured in the Portland Business Journal. You can see a few photos of our office here: http://www.38zeros.com/news/meet-38-zeros-in-the-amplify-incubator We?re currently looking to hire for a couple of positions on a 3-6 month part-time contract, with the expectation of going full time after that period. Below are the job descriptions and if you have any questions, you can reach me at bprew at 38zeros.com Backend/Exports developer You?ll be developing our backend app server that responds to the Cloud Logger devices (readings, missions, device status messages, etc) Also, you?ll be working on taking readings and transforming them into something useful for our customers (exports via the website and external exports through .csv or .json files) Experience with: - Go (our backend app server language) - Ruby (our exports system language) - Data Processing via ETL - Experience with job control and queuing systems: - Kinesis/Storm/Rabbitmq/Resque/etc - Time-series/Analytics db (postgres, cassandra, etc) - HTTP/CoAP protocols (nginx, Go?s net/http) - serialization protocols (protobuf, thrift, json, etc) Device developer Embedded device running a stripped-down Linux distro that communicates to our backend app server. You?ll be responsible for helping define the communication protocols and ensuring the stability and functionality of the device. Experience with: - Industrial/Equipment communication protocols (modbus/bacnet/etc) - Python - C - shell (ash/bash) - network communication protocols (HTTP/CoAP) - serialization protocols (protobuf, thrift, json, etc) - Realtime OSes - mesh networking - cellular data communication - hardware diagnostics -- Ben -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: