Our mission: To interpret the Earth's most threatening data.
-- Senior Python Developer --
About us:
We tell our customers when bad weather is going to disrupt, delay, or damage their business. Our product provides high-level intelligence and low-level analysis on weather risk for supply chain managers, business continuity professionals, commodity traders, and oil/gas operators. Here's President Obama looking at our map: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/u-president-barack-obama-looks-...
We're looking for a couple of developers to join our team. Tools we work with include Python, Celery, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Backbone, nginx, AWS
About you:
* Able to rapidly gain (and enjoy gaining) new expertise in a previously-foreign, non-technical domain (e.g. weather, earthquakes, wildfires, solar flares)
* Derive joy from seeing huge leaps forward in the customer experience
* Mastery in a non-technical discipline (i.e. you are not only a great developer, but also a master at jazz music, mountain climbing, chess, skiing ... something that has taught you how to think beyond a keyboard).
* Ability to collaboratively apply the design principles of Stormpulse to new projects
* Not satisfied with a compromise -- always pursue the possibility that two seemingly contradictory goals can be simultaneously achieved through great feats of design / engineering
* Derives pleasure from the final aesthetic
Requirements:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or college degree with related technical experience required. ("Hackers with Humanities degrees are awesome" says Matt)
- Strong experience with one or more of Python, Ruby or similar object oriented dynamic language required. Additional experience with Javascript, HAXE, HTML, or CSS is highly desirable.
- Experience with GIS (PostGIS, ESRI, Mapbox) is preferred
- Linux experience with knowledge of Linux internals and Distributed Systems preferred.
- Self-motivated and driven to continuously improve personal and professional skills combined with openness to constructive feedback.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
Location:
3925 West Braker Lane
Third Floor
Austin, TX 78759
United States
Heh, just saw this. Brian is my fiance and I run a funded startup here in Austin (see my profile, although we're about to rebrand.) So it's not a fair fight. ;)
Personally, I left college with a couple of years left to go, when I realized I could make just as much money without a degree as with one, and I could teach myself anything I needed to know, anyway.
(I haven't regretted it in 15+ years of professional programming, for what it's worth.)
For flexible private-sector organizations like startups, 'X required' almost always means 'X or equivalent experience required'. Being bold enough to understand that and apply, explaining your equivalent experience, can be a positive signal.
(I imagine there are exceptions among very bureaucratic and regulated agencies or government contractors. But even there, you may reach an individual hiring manager with both the wisdom and discretion to hire anyone with the right skills, regardless of credentials.)
Thanks. Now that we are in a subthread I guess it's no longer off-topic to say that I'd be happy to answer any questions about it. :) (Or email me -- email in HN bio).
Our mission: To interpret the Earth's most threatening data.
-- Senior Python Developer --
About us:
We tell our customers when bad weather is going to disrupt, delay, or damage their business. Our product provides high-level intelligence and low-level analysis on weather risk for supply chain managers, business continuity professionals, commodity traders, and oil/gas operators. Here's President Obama looking at our map: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/u-president-barack-obama-looks-...
We're looking for a couple of developers to join our team. Tools we work with include Python, Celery, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Backbone, nginx, AWS
About you:
* Able to rapidly gain (and enjoy gaining) new expertise in a previously-foreign, non-technical domain (e.g. weather, earthquakes, wildfires, solar flares)
* Derive joy from seeing huge leaps forward in the customer experience
* Mastery in a non-technical discipline (i.e. you are not only a great developer, but also a master at jazz music, mountain climbing, chess, skiing ... something that has taught you how to think beyond a keyboard).
* Ability to collaboratively apply the design principles of Stormpulse to new projects
* Not satisfied with a compromise -- always pursue the possibility that two seemingly contradictory goals can be simultaneously achieved through great feats of design / engineering
* Derives pleasure from the final aesthetic
Requirements:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or college degree with related technical experience required. ("Hackers with Humanities degrees are awesome" says Matt) - Strong experience with one or more of Python, Ruby or similar object oriented dynamic language required. Additional experience with Javascript, HAXE, HTML, or CSS is highly desirable. - Experience with GIS (PostGIS, ESRI, Mapbox) is preferred - Linux experience with knowledge of Linux internals and Distributed Systems preferred. - Self-motivated and driven to continuously improve personal and professional skills combined with openness to constructive feedback. - Strong communication and documentation skills.
Location:
3925 West Braker Lane Third Floor Austin, TX 78759 United States
Contact:
resumes@stormpulse.com