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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Ruby on Rails Developer
U.S. only - remote available depending on experience)
20spokes - Chicago,IL
Who we are
20spokes is a small and growing web development agency in Chicago. We work with a large variety of clients, from launching a new web app to expanding an existing business with a new mobile app. We're looking for #4 to join our team and help us to continue to grow!
Who we want to hire
A talented full stack Ruby developer who wants to help us build great projects.
- 2-5 years of experience as a mid to senior level engineer. - Ability to develop a feature from a concept - Understanding and experience with other web technologies such as Sass, Javascript, Rails, Postgres, React, Backbone - Team player who is respectful and looking to contribute - Pragmatic in making decisions - Passionate about learning and enthusiastic to share with the rest of the team
Why should you work with us There's a ton of great places for developers but we stand out as the little shop with great ideas. You'll have the opportunity to directly impact 20spokes. We're small with you joining as #4. Fridays are open days to contribute to our own products that are in use now, work on open source, write a blog, and more. We invest in the people who join us. Your time is also very important to us. We don't want our team to be in the office late at night but out enjoying their lives.
Comment · 12 years ago
Chicago, IL Remote - Full time Ruby on Rails Developer - http://www.engageuat.com
EngageUAT is a new service that has been growing for the last 2 years. We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. EngageUAT is an online tool focused on user acceptance testing. We are a small team with the opportunity to gain a lot of experience and responsibility. Our main team is located in Chicago. The position is available remotely.
Our current stack is Ruby on Rails with Backbone and ReactJS for the views.
If interested or want to learn more email us at [email protected]. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
Comment · 12 years ago
Be careful though. Yes, you are young and yes the world is your oyster but everything still has consequences good or bad. Passion doesn't mean you have to throw yourself at the work while ignoring other factors.
Passion may be working for 3 - 6 months to save to go to a development bootcamp or just working through it. I know several have programs to get financing to do it, if that is a possibility.
I've hired people from dev bootcamp and can say these programs are worth it. Just be smart about it.
If you are passionate, then dedicating several months to save money to go to one of the schools by taking any job while staying sharp should be worth it. To the point, you are 18 yrs old and can take the few months now of working a whole to set up the rest of your life.
Just don't go in debt. That lasts awhile, and I'm sure there's plenty of people here who have been in it through a bad startup.
Comment · 12 years ago
EngageUAT is a new service that has been growing for the last 2 years. We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. EngageUAT is an online tool focused on user acceptance testing. We are a small team with the opportunity to gain a lot of experience and responsibility. Our main team is located in Chicago. The position is available remotely.
Our current stack is Ruby on Rails with Backbone. We will be migrating our front end to a new Javascript framework. We are currently evaluating all the options.
If interested or want to learn more email us at [email protected]. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
Comment · 12 years ago
20spokes - Chicago, IL - Full-Time, Remote
20spokes is hiring experienced Ruby on Rails Developers. We are a Chicago-based (remote is available) development agency that has been steadily growing for the past 4 years. We are always exploring the best and right technologies for projects. 20spokes was started so that we could focus providing the best value for our clients and our people. We also have several home grown products of our own.
We are a small team with a huge priority on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and education is an important factor of our everyday work.
Our development stack is a mix of Ruby on Rails, Backbone, Angular, Ember, Java, Go, and IOS (mobile).
Check out our mission statement - http://www.20spokes.com/mission-statement/
If interested please reach us at http://www.20spokes.com/careers/ or email us at [email protected]. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
Comment · 13 years ago
20spokes - Chicago, IL Ruby on Rails Developers [REMOTE dependent on experience]
We are hiring all levels of Ruby on Rails developers. We are a Chicago development agency that works with an assortment of projects. We are always exploring the best and right technology for jobs. It was started to focus on providing the best value for clients. We are also focused on several of our own products that are growing.
We are a small team with a focus on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and gain a lot of experience.
Check us out! http://www.20spokes.com/careers/
Comment · 13 years ago
I have a short attention span for sites and after clicking around for approximately 30 seconds I have no clue what is going on. It seems to be an expanded team environment PaaS?
If I didn't click on this from hacker news, I would have bounced immediately.
The other thing is if I can't understand their marketing website, I have little faith that I would understand the product if using it.
Comment · 13 years ago
20spokes - Chicago, IL
Ruby on Rails Developers
We are hiring all levels of Ruby on Rails developers. We are a Chicago development agency that works with an assortment of projects. We are always exploring the best and right technology for jobs. It was started to focus on providing the best value for clients. We are also focused on several of our own products that are growing.
We are a small team with a focus on work/life balance. Developers at 20spokes are given a lot of responsibility of their projects and gain a lot of experience.
Check us out!
Comment · 13 years ago
I understand they have more clients to please than myself. Even a smaller window of time would be helpful or to know it is going to be done in off hours. There's no reason I should be fine with this as a paying customer.
Comment · 13 years ago
This is rather disconcerting. They are given us a window of 48 hours where our site will be down for 60 seconds. On top of that we cannot schedule the time with them.
60 seconds may seem like a small inconvenience but it is one still the same. I host a few clients on their servers and I need to relay this information. I sound like a jackass being that I can't give more specifics on the timing of the server being down to my clients. How does Heroku not feel the same?
I am appreciative of the update but that is also what I pay them to do.
Comment · 13 years ago
Isn't all of this just blown out of proportion? Why not focus on how to help improve ember.js than one person's response? Even if that person contributes to the documentation and to the project. Get over it already.
Comment · 13 years ago
That's one of the reasons they are complaining because it is ridiculous there isn't anything set up. Now it might not just be one rogue star rating but maybe a collection of others. But there is no room for error when you can get fired by having a 4.6 and not 4.7 star rating.
Comment · 13 years ago
Working of course which I am guessing you realized?
I am not debating that Uber is a huge help for getting business. I just feel that their employee conditions are not what many others expect in their daily jobs. I don't feel that is wrong.
Comment · 13 years ago
It's not as simple as you state. Uber gets a lot of the business so the drivers won't have work without them. That 4.7 is out of 5 also and it is true about the terminations. I have witnessed the mass firings and how they are handled.
Drivers also can't dispute their ratings so it takes one person to give them a one star which could lead to being fired. And can you truly say all customers are fair in their ratings?
The best thing that could happen for these drivers is having another company open up to compete against uber. Then they wouldn't be a commodity.
If they were not "taxi drivers" than everyone would be furious at how they are treated.
U.S. only - remote available depending on experience)
20spokes - Chicago,IL
Who we are
20spokes is a small and growing web development agency in Chicago. We work with a large variety of clients, from launching a new web app to expanding an existing business with a new mobile app. We're looking for #4 to join our team and help us to continue to grow!
Who we want to hire
A talented full stack Ruby developer who wants to help us build great projects.
- 2-5 years of experience as a mid to senior level engineer. - Ability to develop a feature from a concept - Understanding and experience with other web technologies such as Sass, Javascript, Rails, Postgres, React, Backbone - Team player who is respectful and looking to contribute - Pragmatic in making decisions - Passionate about learning and enthusiastic to share with the rest of the team
Why should you work with us There's a ton of great places for developers but we stand out as the little shop with great ideas. You'll have the opportunity to directly impact 20spokes. We're small with you joining as #4. Fridays are open days to contribute to our own products that are in use now, work on open source, write a blog, and more. We invest in the people who join us. Your time is also very important to us. We don't want our team to be in the office late at night but out enjoying their lives.
http://www.20spokes.com/jobs