Hello SeaPig - Season's Greetings! Before we head off with thoughts of St. Nick, I wanted to let know you about a Python role we are currently trying to fill for one of our clients. If you have any interest in finding out more, or know someone else that might be looking for a new opportunity, please let me know! Please email me at [email protected].
Here's the role: We are a Seattle based tech startup using the “lean startup” methodology to build our company. We are venture backed -- small, scrappy, and having the time of our lives. We are building a platform that helps digital publishers create loyalty programs and game mechanics into their site or application through points, badges, levels, virtual currency and virtual goods. But we don’t just offer stinkin’ badges; we build economies for our partners. We’re developing a game mechanics and virtual economy ecosystem based around our RESTful API to interact with our MySQL database for clients and we do high volumes of transactions. Our customers include digital publishers, content providers, app developers, goods vendors, and advertisers. Our platform is extensible in order to allow a wide variety of apps to be built on top of it. In other words, we are trying to make the entire online world a lot more fun and engaging. As such, we aren’t a stuffy, stodgy or boring company. We are a small pack of geeks trying to have as much fun as we can while accomplishing an amazing amount of progress toward our goal. We find resumes boring and dry, but we love real tech demos. As you can tell, this isn’t a “typical” job, and we aren’t looking for a “typical” person. We are looking for people with a technically creative mentality and we are looking for people who have passions outside of work. ’Nuff said. On to the goods. PYTHON DEVELOPER - Python / Django required - Linux Required - SQL - Ruby a plus - Mercurial a plus - Did we say “technically creative”? Our dev stack is: - Linux - Apache - MySQL - Python, Django - SVN - Mercurial - Super-Smart-Geeks who know how to kick ass Experience with VIM preferred. EMACS will be tolerated. . . . The job conditions for this position are in a professional office environment. Employees in this position must be able to lift 50 lbs and use PC/phones on an on-going basis throughout the day. Position requires flexibility for extensive and on-call hours to meet BigDoors availability requirements. Travel may also be required on short notice.
