spencermiles

WalmartLabs - Portland, Oregon | Software Engineer, All Levels | Full Stack Node.js / React | Onsite, Full Time or Contract to Hire

Position Description Over 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. Over 140 million people shop in 4500+ Walmart stores every week. As such, no one else is better positioned to deliver the best, most seamless shopping experience, in-store and online, and that's exactly what our team is set up to deliver.

The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is comfortable with a variety of technologies, and is able to ramp up quickly on new ones if needed. We are looking for a strategic thinker, someone who is analytical, detail and results-oriented and has excellent problem-solving skills with a strong work ethic. You’re customer focused, highly motivated, and a self-starter. You’re an excellent communicator, building strong cross functional relationships and excel at working across departments and easily collaborating with Business Partners, Product Owners, User Experience, Project Managers, Research, Engineering and QA teams.

I'm specifically looking for engineers with strong backgrounds in node.js/react OR iOS OR Android.

Reach out to me directly at smiles@walmartlabs.com.

WalmartLabs | Portland, Oregon | iOS Engineer | Onsite - Relocation Expenses Provided | $100k-160k + bonus + stock

I'm an architect at WalmartLabs and am looking for a few good iOS engineers to help us build our iPhone app. If working at scale in a small, startup-like environment gets you out of bed in the morning, you'll probably enjoy this gig - we're one of the most downloaded apps of all time, and we serve tens of millions of users a month.

We have a nice office in the heart of downtown Portland, and serve up the usual Silicon Valley style benefits: flexible hours, four weeks of PTO plus holidays, 401k, health care, free drinks and snacks, etc. Salary is highly competitive with Bay Area salaries, and you'll get to live in Portland, which has considerably lower overhead. If you're a good fit, we'll make it work for you.

Interested?

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/123996/ios-engineer-walmartla... or email me (Spencer Miles) directly at smiles@walmartlabs.com

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Someone want to remind me how this is "Hacker news". Seriously people, we have reddit for this. Don't dilute this community.

Should be great for people hosting their sites on a VPS, with little ram to work with. I'll certainly be trying it out on my site ASAP!

good work stirman!

Couldn't agree more. Rather than spend time posting your link to 1,200 social bookmarking sites and writing press releases, spend your time on SEO. This is the #1 way people will find your site.

Basic SEO is very simple. Choose good titles first and foremost. Make sure your homepage links to all of your most important content. Make sure google can spider all of your content, and create a sitemap.xml to help with this.

Secondly, setup google analytics, and keep an eye on how people are landing on your site from search engines. A high bounce rate is sometimes inevitable, but try to build you pages in a way to entice the user to keep clicking to other pages.

Make signup super simple (I'm sure 90% of people on Hacker News disagree, but OpenID is going to confuse 99% of internet users).

To really get your SEO kicking in, have links to your site from other sites. A good widget strategy can help with this. If someone puts your widget (and you build the links properly) on their blog, and their blog has 2,000 posts, you instantly have 2,000 links to your site. If this blog has high pagerank, great! Some of that pagerank will trickle down to you.

Any way to import my existing bookmarks from del.icio.us (and clean up the tags)? Seems like that's one of your biggest barriers to adoption, at least from people who already use a social bookmarking site.

The app looks great, nice and clean, but I already have hundreds of bookmarks in del.icio.us, and don't want to start from scratch somewhere else.

read the further down, it's mentioned.

As many people have said, exercise is key. Besides just clearing my mind, I find that going for a run or a bike ride actually helps me focus on what I need to be working on when I get home.

My #2 problem after procrastination is prioritizing what I should be working on. Whenever I go for a bike ride for a few hours, I have a lot of time to think about the direction of my project, which really helps me focus and get right to work when I'm home.

Also, a girlfriend helps, or at least set aside time for dating. Balance is key, or you'll burn out quick.

I was thinking about this earlier today actually, when weighing the options between a VPS or dedicated box. The problem is finding a connection with a decent uplink. The two big ISPs in my area, Comcast and AT&T limit you to 768kbps, and I think both also block port 80.

And as far as I know, getting SDSL or a T1 is gonna set you back a few hundred a month, at which point you're better off getting a dedicated box.