PawBoost | Engineering Team Lead | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time
PawBoost is a small <10 person tech company founded in 2014 that helps pet owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.
We're looking to hire an experienced backend PHP developer as an Engineering Team Lead to help with our growing pains. You will be transitioned ownership of the monorepo codebase and work with leadership to do things like: establish guidelines for contributions, create development workflows, implement testing procedures, establish release pipelines, etc to help the business scale as we grow and add on more engineering talent.
PawBoost | Senior PHP Backend Engineer | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time | PawBoost.com
PawBoost is a small <10 person tech company founded in 2014 that helps pet owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.
We're looking to hire an experienced PHP developer to transition ownership of our core Yii2 powered backend to. Ideally someone with experience bringing a legacy codebase from the depths of MVP, duct-taped, scrappyness with little testing to a well maintained well operated application and beyond.
Great idea! I really wanted to use this...but then I dug into how it worked.
You have to use their Credo cryptocurrency to get your email through / you receive Credo when someone pays. Which no one has and no one should have. They probably take a fee on every payment.
Once you get Credo you probably want to exchange it for USD or another crypto that is more broadly used and accepted at other merchants. How do you do that? Through their exchange which they take a .25% fee to buy sell.
So they double dip on a micropayment of a few cents.
I wonder which part of this enterprise will survive in the long run...the email service or the exchange or neither once the ICO money runs out
Holding tether is useful when you are trading on an exchange that has no fiat on ramp or checking account. Many exchanges are crypto-only, you send crypto in, trade, crypto out. You can hold tether if you want to be exposed to the USD position without having to send out