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Our second product was Pencil, an active stylus that works especially well with Paper. It too has received critical acclaim (e.g. "the best iPad stylus yet" —The Verge).

We're hard at work on our third major product, a sharing and collaboration service to bring your ideas together. And we'd love your help in shipping it.

We're looking for experienced back-end web engineers, both on the purely programming side and on the operations side. Our jobs page has all the details, but the highlights are:

- We run our app on Node.js (w/ CoffeeScript) deployed to Heroku.

- We run our non-app infrastructure (e.g. our Neo4j database) on AWS, e.g. EC2 and Route 53.

- We automate with Ansible and bash (moving over to Node.js).

Experience with most/all of these isn't expected, but at this stage, we are looking for existing experience somewhere. Show us what you've built.

It's not every day you find a startup that's building both software and hardware, that's making multiple things people love, that's making significant revenue from day one even as a consumer company, and that strongly values a maker culture at the same time.

If this sounds interesting to you, please do reach out. http://www.fiftythree.com/jobs ==> [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

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5 aseemk 13 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 13 years ago

Indeed! I have much respect for Max and company. We use and love Streamline.js ourselves -- works great with CoffeeScript.

https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs

I'd love to talk on or write about Streamline at some point too.

Comment · 13 years ago

Thanks for the great feedback. I think you're totally right.

I didn't intend to come across as so preachy in my post. I was just writing freely without (too) much worry.

Live and learn. =)

Comment · 13 years ago

(I didn't downvote you.)

It's great that you tried CoffeeScript and prefer JS. Your opinion is well-formed.

With my statement, I was referring to the many developers I've encountered who haven't tried it, yet actively dislike it and argue against it. Hence the (subjective) "most" in my first sentence that you quote.

Cheers.

Comment · 13 years ago

Thanks for the compliment! The viewer doesn't quite look and feel right on the iPhone, but glad you didn't think so. =)

I don't know what your stack is, but FYI on Node we use Connect/Express middleware that automatically compiles CoffeeScript files to JS -- and in production, caches the results -- before serving them. No manual building/compiling/packaging needed at any point. You might find something similar for your stack if you haven't already looked: