Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full time | ONSITE or REMOTE (NL)
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. In 2019 we hit 1M paying subscribers and have been growing since then. In 2020 we acquired SlideShare.
We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites. We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com.
The Service Foundations team is looking for:
- Ruby Software Engineer: help us define and evolve the next version of our Ruby/Rails foundations for services contributing to observability, logging, automated upgrades, RPC, event streaming and background processing solutions.
https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6179374e-abb9-4cf5-9c3c-b2af754...
- SRE / Platform Engineer: take ownership of our infrastructure as code, work on logging, instrumentation, monitoring SLI/SLOs, and help us drive innovation and cost efficiencies within our global traffic routing layers (service mesh, CDN). https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/8e39d0ec-cfce-400c-a6a8-4612ef8...
The Content Delivery team is looking for:
- Site Reliability Engineer: take ownership of our infrastructure as code, work on logging, instrumentation, monitoring SLI/SLOs, and help us drive innovation and cost efficiencies of our content conversion pipelines. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/7285115a-ed1c-40c0-95b2-ea0b1e8...
The SlideShare team is looking for:
- Senior Backend Software Engineer: after our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/17ccbd20-bbc1-4e59-a15c-a922923...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including our VP of Infrastructure.
For more details reach out to me at nickyp at scribd.com.
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of last year we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...)! We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go). We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity, or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity. We're also looking for a site reliability engineer to help us out in the cloud.
Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance.
We have hired many people from these threads. If you have questions you can reach out to me directly at nickyp at scribd.com (I'm the Engineering Manager of the Core Services team and happy to answer questions related to the role). Please apply directly via: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=ze1h-jCbee&location=A...
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of this year we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...)! We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC '06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go). We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity, or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity.
We're also looking for a site reliability engineer to help us out in the cloud.
Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance.
We have hired many people from these threads. If you have questions you can reach out to me directly at nickyp at scribd.com (I'm the Engineering Manager of the Core Services team and happy to answer questions related to the role). Please apply directly via: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=ze1h-jCbee&location=A...
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of last year we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...)! We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go). We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity, or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity.
We're also looking for a site reliability engineer to help us out in the cloud.
Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance.
We have hired many people from these threads. If you have questions you can reach out to me directly at nickyp at scribd.com (I'm the Engineering Manager of the Core Services team and happy to answer questions related to the role). Please apply directly via: https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=ze1h-jCbee&location=A...
Scribd | Software Engineers | Amsterdam | ONSITE | VISA
Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to change how the world reads. Beginning of this year we hit 1M paying subscribers (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/scribd-1-million-subscribe...)! We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.
In Amsterdam we are hiring backend software engineers with solid experience in building, running and scaling out cloud-native microservices (preferably in Ruby and/or Go).
We value a hacker mindset, clean coding and a natural aversion to complexity, or if you're a glass-half-empty person: an affinity for simplicity.
Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance.
We have hired many people from these threads. If you have questions you can reach out to me directly at nickyp at scribd.com (I'm the Engineering Manager of the Core Services team and happy to answer questions related to the role). Please apply directly via https://jobs.lever.co/scribd?lever-via=ze1h-jCbee&location=A...
It's not 'compliancy' as much as they're reinventing the wheel.
REST was born out of a philosophy that the HTTP protocol already solved much of what you wanted to do.
HTTP not only solved this, but solved this a long time ago and with 'great success' (aka The Interwebs ;-)
- Authentication mechanism
- Operations (CRUD) -> GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, ...
- Caching -> Use HTTP caching mechanisms...
- Resources -> URL's
- Formats -> mime-types + use a HTTP Accept: header
- ...
They reinvent the wheel on many of the bullet points above:
custom operations, custom format handling, custom authentication mechanisms, ...
That's why this really is one of the worst implementation of an 'RESTful' API
Sven Van Caekenberghe (the author of cl-prevalence) and I used this approach to power the back-end/cms of a concert hall back in 2003. A write-up of our experiences can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/svc/RebelWithACause/index.html
The combination of a long-running Lisp image with a remote REPL and the flexibility of the object prevalence made it a very enjoyable software development cycle. It's possibly even more applicable with the current memory prices.
I especially liked the fact that your mind never needs to step out of your object space. No fancy mapping or relationship tables, just query the objects and their relations directly. I guess that's what SmallTalk developers also like about their programming environment.
Learned that soon enough, only 2 Xserves were used and the rest of the rack quickly went back to Linux ;-)
Although those puppies are still up-and-running of course (my Xserve adventure was in 2003)
Ran a couple of Xserves a while ago to run web application stacks on it and most of the time I diverged from using the GUI to administer things I shot myself in the foot (Apache, firewalls, initscripts, networking etc.).
The nice hardware - those CPU load meters were gorgeous - unfortunately doesn't make up for those problems so I switched back to non Apple hardware + Linux and never looked back.
Don't fight the system is a nice mantra to follow when using Mac OS X Server and that's not hard when you use it to administer a collection of other Macs & the network they're on or when using the built-in services without wanting to tweak/upgrade the versions yourself (iCal server, Mail server etc.).
You're right, but I find that there are so many tap targets because of the table rows and cells that one double-tap zoom ('auto-zoom') is a hit-or-miss affair in mobile Safari . Even on the iPad, where the default font size is less of a problem.
HN _looks_ decent on mobile browsers, but doesn't handle all that well on them.
On iPhone: font sizes are really too small, voting arrows are practically not hittable without zooming in and trying to zoom in on the articles list confuses Safari (probably because of all the nested tables)
The Logitech G13 game controller works flawlessly on Mac OS X and is a hell of a lot more comfortable if you want to game on your laptop. It can also store keymap profiles on the device itself so you can use it on any computer.
The article is very thin on the particulars, but my guess is that they're reading the draft on Scribd and a well-known plugin keeps crashing. You can't approve something if you can't read it IMHO!
The main reason for building that mini reddit clone was that the Reddit developers had just switched to Python and to use something different than a mini blog platform for a screencast.
And of course back then there was no Twitter to make 'exciting' little examples to show of frameworks or libraries ;-)
We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites. We have a very friendly, people-first, engineering-driven culture with competitive salary and great benefits. We are ambitious but at the same time value a good work life balance. To learn more, please check out https://tech.scribd.com.
The Service Foundations team is looking for:
- Ruby Software Engineer: help us define and evolve the next version of our Ruby/Rails foundations for services contributing to observability, logging, automated upgrades, RPC, event streaming and background processing solutions. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/6179374e-abb9-4cf5-9c3c-b2af754...
- Go Software Engineer: we are writing more and more of our services in Go. We have interesting challenges in scaling services and building foundations. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/96dca15a-1a0f-456e-b206-ba11775...
- SRE / Platform Engineer: take ownership of our infrastructure as code, work on logging, instrumentation, monitoring SLI/SLOs, and help us drive innovation and cost efficiencies within our global traffic routing layers (service mesh, CDN). https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/8e39d0ec-cfce-400c-a6a8-4612ef8...
The Content Delivery team is looking for:
- Site Reliability Engineer: take ownership of our infrastructure as code, work on logging, instrumentation, monitoring SLI/SLOs, and help us drive innovation and cost efficiencies of our content conversion pipelines. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/7285115a-ed1c-40c0-95b2-ea0b1e8...
The SlideShare team is looking for:
- Senior Backend Software Engineer: after our acquisition, we have dramatically improved the product and plan to accelerate these initiatives in 2022. You will have broad ownership of technical direction. https://jobs.lever.co/scribd/17ccbd20-bbc1-4e59-a15c-a922923...
We have hired many people from these HN threads, including our VP of Infrastructure.
For more details reach out to me at nickyp at scribd.com.