We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our NYC-based team. Plyfe works with Fortune 500 brands to help them reach their audiences across web, social and mobile. You will be joining the company as a core team member and as a lead developer with great growth opportunities. This is a full-time position based in our office on the lower east side.
We are building a platform to facilitate the creation and deployment of interactive media ad units. Our widgets are embedded across a brand’s digital properties (corporate sites, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The widgets support interactive content including mini-games, social media actions, polls, and more. User interaction data powers analytics and reporting.
Role:
Your role is to work with the CTO and engineering team to help build our core technologies and expand our platform’s product offerings and reporting capabilities. An ideal candidate will contribute to all aspects of the development process: analysis, design, full-stack implementation, QA, and DevOps.
Requirements:
Our core technology stack is a Rails-backed API with a suite of Ember.js applications and some legacy Backbone.js, all continuously deployed to AWS-infrastructure (EC2, MySQL-RDS, Elasticache, ELB, OpsWorks). A collaborative, test-driven, agile development process facilitated by GitHub and Asana is central to our workflow, with frequent code-reviews and pairing sessions.
You should be extremely comfortable working with both Rails and Javascript frontend frameworks. A solid understanding of the various ‘fundamentals’ of web applications (databases, relational design, remote server administration, command-line scripting) is a must. Our preference is for candidates that are comfortable with learning, experimenting, and collaborating with new technology.
Some experience with social media APIs (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) and/or AWS services would be good, but not necessary.
If you can show us code samples and talk us through what you’ve worked on (feel free to bring a laptop), we’d be happy to have you over. Remote candidates are also welcome to apply provided they can commit to availability during our office hours (10am-6pm EST). An overarching focus on robust, testable, quality code is our top priority.
Compensation and Perks:
Salary commensurate with experience + benefits (medical, dental, vision) + equity. We are offering a stress-free, friendly work environment with great work/life balance. Perks include open vacation policy, flexibility to work from home, equipment budget, office food & beverages, and more.
It sometimes helps to study the history of whatever subject you are working towards in school. For example, the history of mathematics can provide a lot of inspiration for what can be done with the knowledge. Focus on the outcomes you want and see the schooling as a means to an end.
Some context might be important here. The high schools mentioned in the article are primarily science high schools (the test is the SHSAT: Specialized High School Admissions Test), not general purpose super high schools. Other specialized high schools in the city focus on humanities, or performing arts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_high_schools_in_New...
I went to Stuyvesant and knew people in Bronx and Brooklyn Tech, humanities are not given nearly as much weight as math and science. That being said, the way the test is scored favors lopsided performance in one section: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A1FFC385A...
Grad school is a popular choice, and many would favor candidates with 3-5 years of work/project experience. The application process also helps you reflect on what your goals are, why you did what you previously did, and so forth. Taking an exam like the GRE/GMAT/LSAT/etc can also be good mental exercise and give you something mindless to do in between introspection for essays/apps.
Alternatively, it can also be cathartic to do some volunteer work. It certainly would put a smile on someone's face and perhaps provide some different perspective on life.
Diversity does have concrete benefits that stem from a solid theoretical underpinning (comparative advantage). If everyone in programming has the same utility curve, then certain tasks or areas will always be "expensive". By introducing more diversity (gender being a large source of this), the production possibilities curve expands since more trade can occur and thus enable more specialization. Usability and design are areas where gender diversity could play a big role; there is no doubt in my mind that men and women perceive things differently when it comes to interaction logic and visuals.
It may not be the case that services are the end game, but rather that there is a trade-off due to organizational structure and capital investments needed to sustain a product-focused company vs. a service one. As revenues from one type of model dry up (e.g., majority of people have your product), the investments needed to sustain that type of company structure have less marginal value or may even be a drain. Simply put, there are always diminishing returns to any strategy and there may exist a middle ground that maximizes revenue.
Related to topic, Professor Cusumano at MIT wrote a good paper covering this exact topic back in 2008 which covers additional historical cases dating back to the 90's. A lot of what is happening now follows logically from that analysis.
Universities teach in such a way as to encourage academic pursuit of knowledge, but the majority of students will be seeking field experience post-graduation. This mismatch happens regardless of whether a school is top-tier.
The psych is covered in the 3rd set of slides (Pricing Under Consumer Uncertainty). As someone who took the course, it was excellent and the outlines actually do cover the majority of what is offered in the class. I would highly recommend reading through them, though they are a bit dense and lack the color and charm of her slides (not on OCW).
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our NYC-based team. Plyfe works with Fortune 500 brands to help them reach their audiences across web, social and mobile. You will be joining the company as a core team member and as a lead developer with great growth opportunities. This is a full-time position based in our office on the lower east side.
We are building a platform to facilitate the creation and deployment of interactive media ad units. Our widgets are embedded across a brand’s digital properties (corporate sites, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The widgets support interactive content including mini-games, social media actions, polls, and more. User interaction data powers analytics and reporting.
Role: Your role is to work with the CTO and engineering team to help build our core technologies and expand our platform’s product offerings and reporting capabilities. An ideal candidate will contribute to all aspects of the development process: analysis, design, full-stack implementation, QA, and DevOps.
Requirements: Our core technology stack is a Rails-backed API with a suite of Ember.js applications and some legacy Backbone.js, all continuously deployed to AWS-infrastructure (EC2, MySQL-RDS, Elasticache, ELB, OpsWorks). A collaborative, test-driven, agile development process facilitated by GitHub and Asana is central to our workflow, with frequent code-reviews and pairing sessions.
You should be extremely comfortable working with both Rails and Javascript frontend frameworks. A solid understanding of the various ‘fundamentals’ of web applications (databases, relational design, remote server administration, command-line scripting) is a must. Our preference is for candidates that are comfortable with learning, experimenting, and collaborating with new technology.
Some experience with social media APIs (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) and/or AWS services would be good, but not necessary.
If you can show us code samples and talk us through what you’ve worked on (feel free to bring a laptop), we’d be happy to have you over. Remote candidates are also welcome to apply provided they can commit to availability during our office hours (10am-6pm EST). An overarching focus on robust, testable, quality code is our top priority.
Compensation and Perks: Salary commensurate with experience + benefits (medical, dental, vision) + equity. We are offering a stress-free, friendly work environment with great work/life balance. Perks include open vacation policy, flexibility to work from home, equipment budget, office food & beverages, and more.