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Mailgun (auto-parsed)

CompanyMailgun
Websitemailgun.com
Typefull-time
Role taxonomyBackend
SpecialtiesBackend
Location
Salary
Apply viaEmailjobs@mailgun.com
Hiring notes
TechPythonPostgreSQL
Posted byold-gregg
PostedMar 1, 2013
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

http://mailgun.com (SOMA, San Francisco) About us: - We're not "yet-another-email sender": we are busy working on "what's next for email". - We love Linux, server clusters, big data, distributed everything, task queues and network protocols. - Our favorite GUI is ssh/bash, preferably served grey on black. - We use Python, Flask, Fabric, Chef, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Nginx and logic. - We have a hot key for everything. - We don't serve ads to eyeballs and we're not in the cloud. - We are 50/50 on vi/emacs and everyone is anxious to get to know you better. :) - We don't know what our code/test ratio is. - We've built a lot of great tech and we need your help to open source it. - Some of us have never dragged or dropped anything. About you (role #1): - You believe the actor-model concurrency is a better idea. - You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker. - Messaging and queueing systems are cooler than ad networks and retargeting. - You want to have an enormous impact on a product developers love. - You know what an architecture astronaut is and you're not one. - On a few occasions you've decided on a hashtable instead of an AVL tree and vice versa. - You have strong opinions about MongoDB, PostgreSQL, threads and build systems. - You love UNIX and hate meetings as much as we do. - You often wish you were smarter, coding in Haskell or LISP full-time. - You want to learn from us and you have something to teach. - You're fine with duck typing but also mastered at least one lower level language: C, C++ or similar. - You've managed your own memory on multiple occasions (successfully). About you (role #2): - You are an intellectually curious US-based hacker. - You can tell a beautiful API design when you see it. - You believe you could design a better REST API than some products you've used. - You can explain the difference between REST and HTTP in polite English. - There is something about programming languages. You've played with most and learned a few. - You want to learn from us and you have something to teach. - You enjoy writing and want to get better at it. - You've spoken publicly, it was scary at first. You loved the experience. - When you go to technology conferences you have a good time. - You're ashamed because you're spending too much time on Hacker News and Stack Overflow and Quora. Talk to us: - jobs@mailgun.com