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.
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.
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 jobs@engageuat.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
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.
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 jobs@engageuat.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
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).
If interested please reach us at http://www.20spokes.com/careers/ or email us at jobs@20spokes.com. Include Hacker news in the subject and tell us a little about yourself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because they, as a hosting provider, have several orders of magnitude more clients to please than yourself. The only way to be fair to everyone is that everyone gets treated like shit (obviously embellished).
All you should be doing to CYA is telling your clients exactly why this is happening and that its Heroku, and not you, that holds the blame at this point.
The caveat would be those difficult customers (suits, exec managers, etc) that you have to handle with kid gloves. For these people... I don't think there's a graceful way to present the upcoming issue.
I doubt customers typically know or care whether you use heroku, Amazon or any other provider. What they want is to see their system up and running.
That said, I wonder if with the heroku postgresql setup, this vulnerability could mean that if even one db is compromised, it could allow access to other databases too. Maybe heroku runs several postgresql db's on the same virtual/physical hosts?. If that's the case, then heroku simply can't afford to let even one database stay exposed because it would risk all others.
Whether or not this is the case, I don't know, but it kinda feels like running your app on a shared-hosting account...
> Whether or not this is the case, I don't know, but it kinda feels like running your app on a shared-hosting account...
Remember that you are running your app on a shared hosting account with Heroku.
Now, it has somewhat more isolation than a typical shared hosting account, but less isolation than using physically separate hardware.
Heroku is built on top of AWS, so your machine is running on the same physical hardware, though a different virtual machine, as other AWS customers. Furthermore, Heroku uses LXC to isolate its dynos; so you are running on the same VM as another Heroku customers, albeit separated by a container barrier. And finally, if you're using Postgres, then you're running on a shared database service, which is pretty much exactly like what you'd get with shared hosting.
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.
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