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PINATA | Senior Frontend and Backend Engineers | New York, NY | ONSITE PINATA We're building a marketplace for field marketing. What's that? Ever notice the people working a booth at Comic Con, or demoing an app at SXSW, or pouring a sample of whisky, and wonder, "what is that job and how did they get it?" That job is "field marketing", and how they got it: craigslist. Almost a third of all marketing dollars go into field marketing, and it's managed with broken spreadsheets and scribbled down phone numbers. We're fixing it. We launched only a few months ago and just signed some major Fortune 500 clients. We push them live in a few weeks, and we've just finished raising our seed round. The runway looks great, and our team has a lot of experience in this field. It's a great time to join! TECHNOLOGY We like Facebook's OSS. It's well grounded in solid computer science fundamentals, and we feel those qualities will allow their frameworks to persist longer than most, so we're happily using React / React Native, GraphQL and Relay. We also like the impact functional programming is having on JavaScript, and very happy to have Facebook's Flow for static type annotations. We're over-the-moon with ES6 (or whatever you want to call it) and looking forward to the new stuff in ES2017. We like functional programming. We also like type systems. We're not quite advocates for Haskell, but we see it becoming more viable with each passing year, and while we wait for its eventual viability we're quite happy with Scala. Our GraphQL API is backed by Scala, and we've bought into the ethos that GraphQL subtly preaches: CQRS/EventSourcing. We've built this largely with the Typelevel stack (cats/fs2/http4s/circe/eff/shapeless/doobie), and it's running on top of AWS Lambda and Kinesis. CULTURE We all attend and run meetups, organize conferences (http://www.nescala.org/) and read lots of papers, so this intellectual churn is constant within our tech community, and we are constantly looking for new people to bring something we haven't seen before. INTERESTED? Send me an email at dustin@gopinata.com