calebelston

Delighted (https://delighted.com) - Software Engineer - Palo Alto, CA

https://delighted.com/jobs

We are a design driven team of three founders, focused on impeccable customer experience. We value simplicity, quality, and care. We believe in a collaborative, feedback-rich design process. We feel that great experiences can only come from teams who care deeply. We are building the company we’ve always wanted to exist. We share what this all means to us on our blog.

The list of important and interesting projects we want to tackle is ever-increasing. Because the range of projects is diverse, we need a full-stack Rails engineer with experience working on a wide variety of projects.

You’ll work on projects like: improving our natural language date range search, implementing integrations with 3rd party services, or working to improve the responsiveness and reliability of our API. You’ll also work with the entire team in creating new customer-facing features, from idea, through prototype, to release and maintenance.

* Our backend runs on Rails with MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch on AWS. You should have experience building scalable and maintainable services with Rails.

* Our front-end is built with CoffeeScript, SASS and HAML. You should have a deep understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript.

* The glue between our front-end and back-end is HTTP, so you should have a thorough understanding of this part of the stack including: cookies, caching, AJAX, cross-domain sharing, security issues, etc.

* We write automated tests for all of our code. You should be passionate about testing since you know it’s the only way to deliver high quality software.

We are looking for someone who can spend about 10 hours per week contracting with us, so we can both get a sense of what it’s like working together. We’d love for you to be in the Pacific timezone, but we’re open to the right person, anywhere.

While this is a contracting opportunity to start, we are always looking for the right person to join the team full-time. We believe working together on a contract basis initially is critically important before bringing someone on as a full-time member of the team.

If you’re interested, please send a link to your Github account and any projects you’ve worked on recently that you are particularly proud of. We prefer great work over resumes.

Email: jobs {at} delighted.com

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These guys are solid.

Yobongo makes it easier to make new connections with people around you. We connect you with a small group of interesting authentic people nearby and you can talk about what you are thinking, what you are doing and the news of the day. You really have to try it to 'get' it.

We use Node at Yobongo, and love it. Fantastic for our realtime communication infrastructure.

A must read.

Caleb of JTV here. This is a very intriguing idea. We think location will be a big part of live broadcast discovery. Nothing to announce yet.

yes

This line? "KickPost is new tech news aggregator that uses a predictive algorithm based on historically popular stories to predict which stories will be popular in realtime"

Thanks! Will be playing with the design more tonight.

Cool. Will think through ways to update the times in a less bothersome way.

I liked that post too!

It def is more interesting when news is breaking :). Thanks for the kind words about the simplicity. We are focusing on that.

The page automatically refreshes when new posts come in! One of my favorite features.

Glad you like the look of it! We are using Bayes inspired algos at this point.

Do you like the mix of stories? Do you think you will use it tomorrow?

Awesome feedback. Glad you like the auto-loading, it does fade in a bit to keep it feeling 'gentle'.

Interesting that you find the time unnecessary. May consider removing.

Will play with the timebox on the left a bit. It is a bit strong, but its something we think emphasizes the speed and realtime nature of the app, so don't want it to fade back too much.

What do you think of the mix of stories?

Totally agree. We will add that.

That's an interesting idea. Will try mocking that up. Thanks!

Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words. I do care about typography, so it is great when others notice :)

Hi

KickPost is new tech news aggregator that uses a predictive algorithm based on historically popular stories to predict which stories will be popular in realtime. We are about 20min faster at predicting hot stories than Techmeme.

What do you think?

Really really really want instapaper.

Yes, mobile payments are certainly not new to the world, but have not yet taken off in the U.S. I really want them in the U.S. too and for online commerce.

-Caleb Elston

Caleb (the author) here. That is a weak sentence for sure. My point here was that there are many sources of data, and not all are massive and easily understood by machines. But for those sources that are, algorithms provide the opportunity to make meaning out of the massive data.

Pretty cool!

Nice concept. Giving people easy to understand ways of navigating complex electronics is smart.

We have actually made our own review of the Acer Aspire One here. We target people who care about what technology can do for them not the other way round.

http://www.kallow.com/computing/mini-laptop

A presentation made at a local refresh meetup about Kallow a new way to buy electronics

thanks, we think that most electronics sites have gotten out of control in terms of clutter and bloat. We focus on keeping the site blazing fast and simple to navigate.

So it is great to hear you like it!

No, this is a new project we are starting. We hope it can help people cut through the clutter and annoyances of buying electronics.