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Browze | Multiple Roles | Remote (Canada) - Will sponsor relocation | Full-Time | https://Browze.com

Browze is an eCommerce Marketplace bringing trust, brand loyalty and a stronger supply chain in connecting consumers directly to factories overseas. Our goal is to deliver the highest quality goods at the most affordable prices.

We have already raised our Series A and growing far faster than we had planned. Looking to hire our core group of engineers (only 10 engineers at the moment and well into the 8 figures in revenue) to set the foundations of immense growth in the next few years.

Looking to hire engineers interested in eCommerce / B2C products serving millions of customers / consumer focused marketplaces.

Our tech stack includes modern React frontend (Typescript, Next.js, TailwindCSS) / Python/Django + Lambda backend, AWS services / Terraform & Ansible for infrastructure as code. Experience with API driven & event-driven architectures will be hugely valuable.

Currently hiring for: - Frontend & Full Stack Engineers (React / Typescript / Next.js / Tailwind )

If you are interested in relocating to anywhere in Canada, we will actively help with sponsoring and relocating you!

https://www.browze.com/careers

Browze | Multiple Roles | Remote (Canada) - Will sponsor relocation | Full-Time | https://Browze.com

Browze is an eCommerce Marketplace bringing trust, brand loyalty and a stronger supply chain in connecting consumers directly to factories overseas for the highest quality goods at the most affordable prices.

We have already raised our Series A and growing far faster than we had planned. Looking to hire our core group of engineers (only 9 engineers at the moment and well into the 8 figures in revenue) to set the foundations of immense growth in the next few years.

Looking to hire engineers interested in eCommerce / B2C products serving millions of customers / consumer focused marketplaces.

Our tech stack includes modern React frontend (Typescript, Next.js, TailwindCSS) / Python/Django backend, AWS services / Terraform & Ansible for infrastructure as code. Experience with API driven & event-driven architectures will be hugely valuable.

Currently hiring for: - Frontend Engineers (React / Typescript / Next.js / Tailwind )

If you are interested in relocating to anywhere Canada, we will actively help with sponsoring and relocating you!

https://www.browze.com/careers

Browze | Multiple Roles | Remote (Canada) - Will sponsor relocation | Full-Time | https://Browze.com

Browze is an eCommerce Marketplace bringing trust, brand loyalty and a stronger supply chain in connecting consumers directly to factories overseas for the highest quality goods at the most affordable prices.

We have already raised our Series A in 2020 and growing far faster than we had planned. Looking to hire our core group of engineers (only 4 engineers at the moment and well into the 8 figures in revenue) to set the foundations of immense growth in the next few years.

Looking to hire engineers interested in eCommerce / B2C products serving millions of customers / consumer focused marketplaces.

Our tech stack includes modern React frontend / Python/Django backend, AWS services / Terraform & Ansible for infrastructure as code. Experience with API driven & event-driven architectures will be hugely valuable.

- Frontend Engineer (React PWA)

- Software Engineer (Python / Django) Senior/Team Lead and Intermediate levels

- Growth Engineer (React + Segment / Optimizely / SEO)

https://jobs.lever.co/browze/

EventMobi | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | Onsite | Python/Javascript

What Are We Hiring For? Full Stack engineers, Passionate Javascript Developers, team leads and individual contributors who want autonomy in their work to push the bar and create amazing products.

Who/What is EventMobi? EventMobi is changing how attendees experience events through mobile & seamlessly connected experiences, as well as changing the way event planners create, market and manage their events. Thousands of events, conferences and tradeshows around the world use our platform. For a quick reference, TechCrunch, LinkedIn, IEEE, Intel and Nestle have used EventMobi to enhance the attendee experience at their events.

Want to quickly figure out what EventMobi is all about? Then watch this fun 3min video here: http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video Wondering how our technology is affecting the world and the meeting industry in general? Well here is an awesome infographic that summarizes what we have achieved this past and why we are super excited for 2016: http://www.eventmobi.com/about/company/2015/ And here's a good sense of our engineering culture: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ep4c6oe1lb

Our Tech We develop using micro-services exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our AngularJS & React based applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / gamification / mapping services and tons more.

In the past year we’ve more than tripled our growth & our software now services 10,000+ events and millions of users worldwide. We’re expecting that growth to continue again (while still being bootstrapped company of almost 90 staff with no funding) and if you are interested in helping us scale, and meet the next set of challenges, let’s chat! Hopefully you also have some familiarity with our tech stack - Python, AngularJS, React, Redux, React Native, Cordova, NodeJS, Express, MySQL, Redis, AWS as our main tools day to day.

Check Us Out! http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/

EventMobi | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | Onsite | Python/Javascript

What Are We Hiring For? Full Stack engineers, Passionate Javascript Developers, team leads and individual contributors who want autonomy in their work to push the bar and create amazing products.

Who/What is EventMobi? EventMobi is changing how attendees experience events through mobile & seamlessly connected experiences, as well as changing the way event planners create, market and manage their events. Thousands of events, conferences and tradeshows around the world use our platform. For a quick reference, TechCrunch, LinkedIn, IEEE, Intel and Nestle have used EventMobi to enhance the attendee experience at their events.

Want to quickly figure out what EventMobi is all about? Then watch this fun 3min video here: http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video Wondering how our technology is affecting the world and the meeting industry in general? Well here is an awesome infographic that summarizes what we have achieved this past and why we are super excited for 2016: http://www.eventmobi.com/about/company/2015/ And here's a good sense of our engineering culture: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ep4c6oe1lb

Our Tech We develop using micro-services exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our AngularJS & React based applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / gamification / mapping services and tons more.

In the past year we’ve more than tripled our growth & our software now services 10,000+ events and millions of users worldwide. We’re expecting that growth to continue again (while still being bootstrapped company of almost 90 staff with no funding) and if you are interested in helping us scale, and meet the next set of challenges, let’s chat! Hopefully you also have some familiarity with our tech stack - Python, AngularJS, React, Redux, React Native, Cordova, NodeJS, Express, MySQL, Redis, AWS as our main tools day to day.

Check Us Out! http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/

EventMobi | Toronto, Canada | Full Time | Onsite | Python/Javascript

What Are We Hiring For? Full Stack engineers, Passionate Javascript Developers, team leads and individual contributors who want autonomy in their work to push the bar and create amazing products.

Who/What is EventMobi?

EventMobi is changing how attendees experience events through mobile & seamlessly connected experiences, as well as changing the way event planners create, market and manage their events. Thousands of events, conferences and tradeshows around the world use our platform. For a quick reference, TechCrunch, LinkedIn, IEEE, Intel and Nestle have used EventMobi to enhance the attendee experience at their events.

Want to quickly figure out what EventMobi is all about? Then watch this fun 3min video here: http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video

Wondering how our technology is affecting the world and the meeting industry in general? Well here is an awesome infographic that summarizes what we have achieved this past and why we are super excited for 2016: http://www.eventmobi.com/about/company/2015/

And here's a good sense of our engineering culture: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ep4c6oe1lb

Our Tech

We develop using micro-services exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our Node, AngularJS & React based applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / gamification / mapping services and tons more.

In the past year we’ve more than tripled our growth & our software now services 10,000+ events and millions of users worldwide. We’re expecting that growth to continue again (while still being bootstrapped with no funding) and if you are interested in helping us scale, and meet the next set of challenges, let’s chat! Hopefully you also have some familiarity with our tech stack - Python, AngularJS, React, Redux, React Native, Cordova, NodeJS, Express, MySQL, Redis, AWS as our main tools day to day.

Check Us Out! http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/

EventMobi | Toronto, Canada | Full-time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineers, Managers, Director of Engineering Operations

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http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video

Wondering how our technology is affecting the world and the meeting industry in general? Well here is an awesome infographic that summarizes what we have achieved this past and why we are super excited for 2015: http://www.eventmobi.com/about/company/2014/

We develop using micro-services exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our Node & AngularJS applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / gamification / mapping services and tons more.

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Senior Software Engineers looking to work with Python & Javascript, Team Leads / Engineering Managers looking to lead small cross-functional teams, and a Director of Engineering Operations to help us build out our DevOps and Operations talent and processes internally as we continue to scale.

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada (Full time, no-remote)

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Looking to hire Web & Mobile (Mobile Web / Cordova) Software Engineers, QA Managers, Engineering Team Leads. Email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

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We at EventMobi develop an event technology platform to help events & conferences create their own mobile apps, event registration, live polling, gamification, and more to manage their events more easily.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded with a team of ~55 in Toronto and Berlin and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the LinkedIn using us for their event app needs.

We use a distributed SOA architecture exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our Node & AngularJS applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / mapping services and tons more.

In the past year we’ve more than tripled our growth & our software now services 5000+ events and millions of users worldwide. We’re expecting that growth to continue again (while still being bootstrapped with no funding) and if you are interested in helping us scale, and meet the next set of challenges, let’s chat!

We're a very fast-paced company, and we need energetic, creative individuals looking for an opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty, and provide your insight in all aspects of cloud services, mobile and web development, and help with every aspect of a startups’ technology infrastructure. Hopefully you also have some familiarity with our tech stack - Python, AngularJS, NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, WebSockets, RSpec, Docker, Ansible as our main tools.

You can get to know us better through our video http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video or you can email me to chat more in detail! bijan at eventmobi com

I guess that depends on the culture on your team and something to assess for yourself if it would be appropriate. I wouldn't give it a second thought with the people on our team!

It definitely does help that we have a younger demographic. That being said our oldest colleague is in his 50's with kids, and we had 3 new fathers in their 30s as well so it's definitely doable.

We also structured the days pretty well so although everyone on the team has different hours normally, they were willing to put up with a strict schedule we put together for the them during that week.

Had a look but couldn't quickly see if this supports Gettext? As you build out an increasingly large app and i8n is important to you, using a standardized i8n process makes your life significantly easier than managing lists of strings.

We've been using angular-gettext[1] along with Transifex and it's made a significant impact our development and translation management.

[1] http://angular-gettext.rocketeer.be/

EventMobi - Toronto, ON (Full Time, Intern) - http://www.eventmobi.com/careers

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We at EventMobi develop a suite of platforms to help events & conferences create their own mobile apps, event registration, and more to manage their events more easily.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded with a team of 35 in Toronto and Berlin and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Internation Olympics Committe using us for their mobile event app needs.

We use a distributed SOA architecture exposed through a (Python) RESTful API to feed our Node & AngularJS applications – from our mobile apps, to the app-building services, real-time chat / mapping services and tons more.

In the past year we’ve more than tripled our growth & our software now services 3000+ events and millions of users worldwide. We’re expecting that growth to continue again (while still being bootstrapped with no funding) and if you are interested in helping us scale, and meet the next set of challenges, let’s chat!

We're a very fast-paced company, and we need energetic, creative individuals looking for an opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty, and provide your insight in all aspects of cloud services, mobile and web development, and help with every aspect of a startups’ technology infrastructure. Hopefully you also have some familiarity with our tech stack - Python, AngularJS, NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, RSpec, Jenkins, Ansible as our main tools.

You can get to know us better through our video http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/#video or you can email me to chat more in detail! bijan at eventmobi com

Adding to this list is EventMobi[1]. We help over 4000+ events & conferences in 25+ countries create cross-platform apps for their attendees.

We've grown our team to about 35 people across our Toronto (HQ), Berlin and Virginia offices and are planning to grow to about 60 people by years end.

We just hit our 4th birthday a week ago, and are now expanding to providing the complete toolset for event planners to help make planning, running, and gather data about events easier.

[1]http://www.eventmobi.com

Taking dumps of analytics logs and pulling out relevant info for our customers on app usage

Just an FYI that Dashing - http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ (Open Source) and http://www.geckoboard.com/ (Paid) already have tons of modules available if you're looking to get going right away.

I also have a Raspberry Pi powering our dashboards but it really struggles to render some javascript, especially if we switch between tabs every 30 seconds. Any ideas for the cheapest possible way to power the TVs other than a Raspberry Pi?

Edit: Also https://ducksboard.com/ exists as well as a paid option

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Sr. Infrastructure & Scalability Engineers / Full-Stack Engineers - http://www.eventmobi.com/careers/

To get a feel for our culture and office checkout our fun video: http://bit.ly/18jDnuI

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EventMobi is an app building platform that allows event planners to create engaging mobile apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. We’re based in Toronto and are committed to using the mobile revolution to completely transform the events industry.

Our apps allow event planners to distribute content to their attendees, keep them engaged with the event, and help them learn and network with other attendees. EventMobi apps have been used at over 2500 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 15 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely bootstrapped/self-funded yet we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

We embraced HTML5, cloud architecture and cross-platform mobile web apps before any of them were fancy buzz words! Come and join Toronto’s fastest growing self-funded tech start-up and be part of something amazing.

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We're looking for a a senior Infrastructure / Scalability Engineer (DevOps) and Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team and help build out the platform we need to innovate this space. This is a very fast-paced role, and we need energetic individuals that can build large-scale SaaS systems, be part of and lead the growth of engineering team.

This is a great career opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty in all aspect of cloud services, mobile and web development and help with every aspect of a startups technology infrastructure.

Our stack looks like something like this: - Heavy use of Javascript (we use Angular for our apps, NodeJS for other services) - Python / Flask - MySQL / Redis / MongoDB - Dozens of nodes on AWS automated by Chef - Jenkins for CI, Cucumber/RSpec/Karma for test automation

If you would like to chat further about the details feel free to email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-Stack / Infrastructure & Operations Engineers - http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

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EventMobi is an app building platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. We’re based in Toronto and are committed to using the mobile revolution to completely transform the events industry.

Our apps allow event planners to distribute content to their attendees, keep them engaged with the event, and help them learn and network with other attendees. EventMobi apps have been used at over 1500 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 15 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

We embraced HTML5, cloud architecture and cross-platform mobile web apps before any of them were fancy buzz words! Come and join Toronto’s fastest growing self-funded tech start-up and be part of something amazing.

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We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer and an Operations (DevOps) Engineer to join our team and help build out the platform we need to innovate this space. This is a very fast-paced role, and we need energetic individuals that can build large-scale SaaS systems, be part of and lead the growth of engineering team. This is a great career opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty in all aspect of cloud services, mobile and web development and help with every aspect of a startups technology infrastructure. Our stack looks like something like this:

- Heavy use of Javascript (we use Angular and Backbone)

- Python / Flask

- MySQL / Redis / MongoDB

- Dozens of nodes on AWS automated by Chef

- Jenkins for CI, Cucumber/RSpec/Karma for test automation

If you would like to chat further about the details feel free to email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-Stack / DevOps Engineers - http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

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EventMobi is an app building platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. We’re based in Toronto and are committed to using the mobile revolution to completely transform the events industry.

Our apps allow event planners to distribute content to their attendees, keep them engaged with the event, and help them learn and network with other attendees. EventMobi apps have been used at over 1500 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 15 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

We embraced HTML5, cloud architecture and cross-platform mobile web apps before any of them were fancy buzz words! Come and join Toronto’s fastest growing self-funded tech start-up and be part of something amazing.

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We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer and a DevOps Engineer to join our team and help build out the platform we need to innovate this space. This is a very fast-paced role, and we need energetic individuals that can build large-scale SaaS systems, as well as care about UX and be involved with the end consumer facing product. This is a great career opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty in all aspect of cloud services, mobile and web development and help with every aspect of a startups technology infrastructure.

Experience with the following would be helpful: - JS frameworks (we use Angular and Backbone) - Python / Flask - MySQL / Redis / MongoDB

If you would like to chat further about the details feel free to email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

I was about to post the same thing. I think Slant is exactly the platform we're talking about here and it's already good to go!

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-Stack Software Engineers - http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

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EventMobi is an app building platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. We’re based in Toronto and are committed to using the mobile revolution to completely transform the events industry.

Our apps allow event planners to distribute content to their attendees, keep them engaged with the event, and help them learn and network with other attendees. EventMobi apps have been used at over 1500 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 15 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

We embraced HTML5, cloud architecture and cross-platform mobile web apps before any of them were fancy buzz words! Come and join Toronto’s fastest growing self-funded tech start-up and be part of something amazing.

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We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team and help build out the platform we need to innovate this space. This is a very fast-paced role, and we need energetic individuals that can build large-scale SaaS systems, as well as care about UX and be involved with the end consumer facing product. This is a great career opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty in all aspect of cloud services, mobile and web development and help with every aspect of a startups technology infrastructure.

Experience with the following would be helpful: - JS frameworks (we use Angular and Backbone) - Python / Flask - MySQL / Redis / MongoDB

If you would like to chat further about the details feel free to email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-Stack Software Engineers

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EventMobi is an app building platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. We’re based in Toronto and are committed to using the mobile revolution to completely transform the events industry.

Our apps allow event planners to distribute content to their attendees, keep them engaged with the event, and help them learn and network with other attendees. EventMobi apps have been used at over 1500 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 15 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

We embraced HTML5, cloud architecture and cross-platform mobile web apps before any of them were fancy buzz words! Come and join Toronto’s fastest growing self-funded tech start-up and be part of something amazing.

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We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team and help build out the platform we need to innovate this space. This is a very fast-paced role, and we need energetic individuals that can build large-scale SaaS systems, as well as care about UX and be involved with the end consumer facing product. This is a great career opportunity to grow with a young startup, get your hands dirty in all aspect of cloud services, mobile and web development and help with every aspect of a startups technology infrastructure.

Experience with the following would be helpful: - JS frameworks (we use Angular and Backbone) - Python / Flask - MySQL / Redis / MongoDB

If you would like to chat further about the details feel free to email me at bijan@eventmobi.com

There's a difference between the type of tech job as well (cushy 9-5'er with few responsibilities or YC 100+ hour job). I don't think he's being very unreasonable for the work hours and dedication involved with getting a startup off the ground actually!

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-time Devs

EventMobi (http://www.eventmobi.com) is the leading mobile web platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. Our mobile event guides, real-time interactivity features and the first ever social / gaming layer customized for conferences and tradeshows have been used by over 1000 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 8 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded team of 17 and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

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We're to grow our engineering team as our platform expands and we're looking for start-up minded software engineers who want to build extremely fast and see their code in production and in use by millions of people right away! We use a lot of new tech (Node.js,Backbone.js, Redis) in production and we're trying to innovate what is possible one the mobile web.

We're looking for devs who are comfortable with Javascript and are excited to build HTML5 products on the mobile web, give us a shout!

We're also looking for more experienced engineers to help us build our core platform as we add on other features and services. This means helping architect our multi-tiered API, our data consistency solutions syncing data between multiple devices and global nodes, architecting our scaling solutions, etc.

To have a better look, check out our careers page! http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Fulltime

EventMobi (http://www.eventmobi.com) is the leading mobile web platform that allows event planners to create engaging apps for their event or conference in only a few minutes. Our mobile event guides, real-time interactivity features and the first ever social / gaming layer customized for conferences and tradeshows have been used by over 1000 events, 2 Million users, and are served for events in 8 languages across 5 continents.

We’re not your typical startup, we’re completely self-funded team of 16 and yet with no outside capital we’re massively profitable and on an incredible growth path with companies like Intel, Disney and the Olympics IOC using us for their mobile event app needs.

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We're to grow our engineering team as our platform expands and we're looking for start-up minded software engineers who want to build extremely fast and see their code in production and in use by millions of people right away! We use a lot of new tech (Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Redis) in production and we're trying to innovate what is possible one the mobile web.

We're also looking for more experienced engineers to help us build our core platform as we add on other features and services. This means helping architect our multi-tiered API, our data consistency solutions syncing data between multiple devices and global nodes, architecting our scaling solutions, etc.

To have a better look, check out our careers page! http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

We built our own and ended up building something somewhat similar to a basic version of KISSMetrics simply because KISSMetrics, and also Google Analytics real-time, doesn't let you pull out data out in real-time (or even poll their API in short bursts - <5 seconds).

Also we needed to mix in our own data to segment the analytics on a deeper level, and due to our privacy policy, we don't share user data with 3rd party services so it needs to be in-house.

And just to name a few aside from us (EventMobi), within just Toronto (and surrounding area) there's Wattpad, Shopify, Freshbooks, 500px, Chango, Idee, Upverter, Vidyard, Uken Games, Wave Accounting, etc, etc

Quite true, and your compensation will drop to match, and then some.

The question is can you afford to purchase any property in Manhattan, even with the salary most may get? There are quite a few companies in Toronto (startups as well) paying over $120K for well versed engineers. I can't say it's the norm but it's not impossible to find.

But having lived in SF myself, I can tell you it all balances out if you're thinking of settling down in an area. The cost of housing, healthcare (if you're part of a startup that doesn't have full insurance coverage - only my partner who worked at one of those big companies you dislike was offered full coverage comparable to what you'd get in Canada, well slightly better really), etc all add up while that's adjusted for up here.

Depends on how you measure it?

You're right and I don't expect everyone to flock here. It makes sense for certain people, but I always like throwing out stats like these: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ec... as BS as they may be.

In the US my "backup" plan is working with more talented, well-funded people on some other thing. In Canada my "backup" plan involves drop ceilings and fluorescent lighting.

I would have agreed with you 2 years ago but more and more I see amazing companies take off here. And again I've lived in SF as well so I know very well what you're talking about and it's the main reason I suggest a lot of new grads to hang out down there for a few years before coming back up. It is a huge reason to still live down the states but there are a ton of cool well funded companies here as well.

Also when there's 300,000 Canadians living in San Francisco, most of that talent you're talking about is Canadian anyways!

As a Canadian who as also lived in the US I can say that thanks, it was my attempt at sattire :)

For starters, Canada has a neo-con government. Yes, they're somewhat to the left of the Republicans, but they've only just gotten a majority, so give them time.

As cperciva mentioned, I think you're also reading the headline news, our 'conservative' party is still more left than the Democratic party in the US.

Second, that page shows a picture of a beer from Unibroue. I've found that there are beers from that same brewery that you can't find in Canada (at least not easily) that are available in the US. And the selection of american craft beers make Canada's look like a joke. Plus beer is cheaper here.

You got me there, but I love Dieu De Ciel, and the number of microbrews coming up every few months in Toronto and other major cities is amazing. The scene is definitely evolving here.

Finally, and most importantly for people here, Canada's VC industry is non-existent. And the current government isn't really a fan of entrepreneurship unless it involves taking something out of the ground.

If you're building something interesting you're guaranteed to be able to pull financing from the same US based investors. Just look at Wattpad, Shopify et al. With the eased restrictions on foreign investment, this will only get better with time.

Plus the high today in sunny Silicon valley is expected to be in the 80s.

I was really hoping nobody pulled this out of the bag! Yeah we're already in the freezing this week :(

Toronto, Canada - Full-time Senior Role EventMobi - http://eventmobi.com

We're a self-funded team of 16 (5 engineers) and building a SaaS based tool for anyone running an event to create an app for their attendees. Our features allow planners to take their events from a static setting to a much more interactive level!

We're currently looking for more senior / experience engineers (architects) to help build out new architecture and features, help manage / scale our infrastructure and innovate our mobile experience. We take testing, well architected code very seriously and are always looking at ways to incorporate new tech into our platform (we're using backbone to build offline capable mobile web apps, node and socket.io to enable real-time communication between attendees / push notifications, Redis based caching for a few features, etc) Check out http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/ for the positions we're looking for and more detail!

In more detail EventMobi is the leading mobile platform for shows and conferences, having been used by over 1000 events, nearly 2 Million users, and are served in 7 languages across 5 continents. Clients like Disney, Intel, Motorola amongst others have used EventMobi to disrupt and enhance the attendee experience at their events.

I think enough photographers have moved over to 500px (http://500px.com) to make Flickr a garbage dump of whatever you export from your digicam. And even still I feel people are preferring to do that through Dropbox now.

I'm not really sure what Flickr could even potentially have going for it anymore to 'become awesome again'.