Tell HN: Hug a Startup - Morpheus Startups hiring event in Bangalore on Jun 9th

One piece of advise from someone who was at Delhi event, stay away from words like 'hacker', 'ninja', 'rockstar' and so on.

I am actually looking for a job, But I am in chandigarh and still in college. Location makes all the difference I guess.

If you are looking to join startup , this is perfect opportunity to meet the founders face to face , discuss!

Guys, this is very good opportunity to meet startups and the people behind the scenes.

We are hiring at this event too. Here are more details:

We are looking for a core team member based in Bangalore.

Background:

Gaglers is a scalable real-time chat platform. Currently, we offer live chat with unlimited operators and community chat for support. More at http://gaglers.com/

Our high-level technical challenges are,

     scaling a real-time platform to millions of concurrent users.
     measure all interactions to make data driven decisions

Typical Day at the Job

Here is how a typical day will look like. You start by looking the status of the production dashboard and bugs. With a quick scan you find that that the message counts are not getting updated in the dashboard after the code push last night. You jump on it right way and send a short code-review out, after testing it on your staging setup.

With that out of the way, you get back to the feature that you have been working on. You know exactly why you are building this feature and what impact it will have on the customers. The feature was specced out last week in some intense design discussions. You finished a quick prototype yesterday. You throw it out today and start the code and unit testing for the initial release. The plan is to deploy a basic version this week sometime, gather feedback over a few days and then fine-tune it based on what the customers say.

Just after lunch, while you code, you come across a bug in the queuing sub-system. You decide that it would be simple for you to fix it as well and so you do. While you fixed the bug, you thought about how you can make the queuing system much more scalable. You write a quick note to yourself to talk about it later.

By the end of the day you'll have a good chunk of the new feature implemented. You'll send that queuing system bug fix for code-review tomorrow morning and continue your work of the new feature.

How the role will develop

Initially, the tasks you take on will be smaller and fairly well defined. Longer term, the requirements you get will be more general, and you’ll interpret them to produce great solutions. You’ll also generate tasks on your own initiative as you identify opportunities.

As we grow, we may need to take on more developers. You’ll have the opportunity to be responsible for these folks if you want.

Technical Qualifications

You will be,

     fluent in Django and Python and comfortable using Git
     be happy with HTML and Javascript
     have designed and written applications using Django
     comfortable managing a group of remote linux servers.

You'll have the opportunity to work on all areas of our stack. Our technology stack includes,

     Django, Python, Erlang
     Redis, MySQL
     RabbitMQ, Celery
     MemCache
     Bootstrap, JQuery, Javascript

We are looking for someone who sees their role as bigger than just programming. You'll also get to know our business. You'll also look for opportunities to make things cooler for our customers.

Glad to see this posting didn't advertise "ready to invest long hours", "those for whom work is the only life", "Family.. what's that?", "weekends at home or out of office are a waste of time"

>>Not For those who are happy in their cushy jobs

This can be alarming though!

Why say so? People are always looking for sth better, "cushier". Or are you planning to pull the same trick here - "in compensation we'll give you challenging work and awesome problems to solve, instead of top salary and other benefits and shares are exhausted or we stopped giving that away"?

The last bit was more of a careless rant.. Once burnt fingers....blah blah.

Cool names. Good luck!