Kudos is a start-up innovating in the digital publishing space, focused on helping researchers demonstrate and increase the influence of their work.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team, someone who enjoys working collaboratively, are comfortable learning new things and who will be eager to learn about all aspects of our platform. Each team member works on every part of the system, from the front end, to the back, to managing our infrastructure.
Some of the technologies we are using, or are about to use, include JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, MySQL and Elasticsearch, running on AWS and GCP.
Rather than looking for engineers with specific technology skills we'd much rather you can demonstrate the characteristics of a good Software Engineer, with the ability and enthusiasm to learn new things along the way.
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Kudos is a start-up innovating in the digital publishing space. Our vision is a new model of scholarly reputation that accelerates the positive impact of research on global health and happiness, and our part in that is to provide researchers with insights and tools to demonstrate and maximize the influence of their work.
We’re looking for Software Engineers to join our growing team that enjoy working collaboratively and are comfortable learning new things. We currently use Sass, JavaScript, Ruby and Amazon Aurora, running on AWS but are actively exploring other technologies, so any experience in equivalent stacks is still relevant.
We're a small, friendly team with plenty of scope for individuals to make a real impact on the way we work and how we do it.
We've got a lot of ideas about where we want to go, with plenty of scope for innovation in:
• Analysing our data sets
• Scaling our infrastructure
• Producing intelligent recommendations to our users
I'd be happy to discuss, feel free to contact me. My contact detail is on my profile.
Other than that I think as phaus just said, the fact to contribute positively to society is a big argument. If your company can't deliver on cash advantage, maybe remote work and social event shoudl be push forward.
Full stack senior developer (with emphasis on backend)
Location: Oxford, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, JS, Ruby, Java and Postgres.
Résumé/CV: On request, my github is on my profile.
Email: kevin (at) 42boxes.com
I'm interested about taking new challenges and love debugging. I'm getting more and more interested to Clojure.
I'm part of a generation who didn't grew up with the PDP but had LOGO and basic available in computers and calculators.
With the Amstrad CPC it was possible to interupt a program and to change a few lines of code to make it do something else which was a great way to keep interested. And with calculator it was possible to code formulas to resolve/check problems.
But how would you teach programming today to a kid?
Would you choose a particular medium such as a computer, a raspberry pi or even a tablet?
And if I may, do you recommend any reading for bedtime stories?
It looks like they are planning on adding a MusicXML export from this issue https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/issues/44. Is there any tool which convert from MusicXML to MIDI?
Why only the SF area? It could be very interesting to see if it's any different in London or Bangkok?
I've heard some very interesting experiences about some hackerspaces in Germany too.
I think there's no proper to learn something, but I find useful to have several resources available. For example it could be interesting to read the source code of jQuery (or something smaller such as http://zeptojs.com/ or https://lodash.com/) and to read a book at the same time (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) and why not trying to make parallel between them. Also don't hesitate to google stackoverflow for javascript question as it is likely that you'll found any answer to your questions.
To finish I think having friends or a mentor will help you a lot.
I wonder if one can make a request for information (Freedom of Information Act) about data personally held from the government?