I'm not interested in the job but just wanted to say this is one of the best job postings I've ever read.
On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 10:54:22 AM UTC-4, Nate Finch wrote: > > Mattel (yes the toy company) is hiring full time Go devs to work on its > IoT & identity server platform. Remote is OK if you're within the US. > Both I and my manager (who would be your manager) are remote. I'm in > Massachusetts, manager is in Ohio. Another dev in SF. Office is in San > Francisco. > > We're a small team inside Mattel that is having a huge impact. We are > currently proving our chops with an API and IoT data processing for one > product (the Sproutling baby monitor), but we're already working on > expanding our service to be used by divisions across all of Mattel, > including Hot Wheels, Barbie, and Fisher Price. > > Sproutling is a startup that was bought by Mattel last year. We've been > working on a REST API using gin, and backend that stores data in postgres > (currently migrating from GORM to database/sql boilerplate generated by > github.com/knq/xo). We run on AWS using nomad, docker, and terraform, > but we're investigating other deployment tools (including kubernetes, but > we're not sure it fits our needs / timeline). We use lots of interesting > tech, like MQTT, kafka, cassandra, postgres, traefik, logstash, flink, and > prometheus. Oh yeah, and we write our own go services too, of course :) > > We use github for all our code, code review everything, slack for > communication, google apps for email, jira for bug tracking and sprint > planning - we do a very lightweight kanban/scrum style with two week > iterations. All meetings are done in google hangouts. We meet in person > approximately every 6 months. > > We're fast paced but low stress. Flexible hours, good home/work balance > (and I say this as a parent of three kids ages 6 and under). Many of our > devs have kids (including the manager of our team), so we totally > understand about school plays, doctors appointments, etc. > > It's extremely rare to work late nights or weekends (I've worked exactly > one weekend in the last 6 months). Pay is competitive for San Francisco. > Benefits are great - health insurance is low co-pay, low premium (Anthem > Blue Cross if you're remote, not sure if you're in California, I'd have to > ask). 401k with match, 4-10% based on age. 1/2 day Fridays. 40% off > Mattel toys (including American Girl, Power Wheels, Barbie, Fisher Price, > Megabloks etc. A million other small benefits that come with working for > the largest toy company in the world (life insurance, discount services, > FSA, etc etc etc) > > Looking for experienced backend devs, preferably with a year or more > writing Go for backend services, but please don't filter yourself out if > you're interested, that's our job :) > > Respond here with any questions, or contact me on twitter > https://twitter.com/natethefinch. Email me resumes at > na...@sproutling.com <javascript:>. > > -Nate > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
