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Stream.io - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - https://getstream.io [ONSITE]

We're currently expanding and looking for

  * Backend Developer (Golang/Python)
  * DevOps Engineer
Our stack

  * AWS / Softlayer / DO (on multiple datacenters and regions)
  * Python/Django/Celery/RabbitMQ
  * Cassandra/Postgresql/Redis/Memcached
  * Some services in NodeJS / Ruby
  * Alpha services in Erlang and Golang
  * Puppet/CloudInit/Terraform/Cloudformation
Skills and requirements

  * Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or prior engineering experience 
  * Experience building complex high performance software 
  * You are fluent with Python and Go 
  * Comfortable with Django
  * In-depth experience with SQL database
  * Memcached/Redis
What we offer

  * Chance to work on nice-to-have problems
  * Competitive salary based on your skills and experience  
  * Equity
About Stream

Stream is an API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. The technology relies heavily on Cassandra and machine learning. Stream powers the feeds for over 50 million end users and handles billion feed updates every day. Our customers include small startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Building a scalable, highly available, secure and performant feed infrastructure is a hard problem.

About us

Stream was founded in The Netherlands and joined the prestigious Techstars accelerator in NYC. After Techstars Stream raised $1.75m and now has offices in both Amsterdam and Boulder, Colorado.

More details: https://angel.co/stream/jobs or email tommaso@getstream.io



Also, we like to support open source, both our own projects as well as some of the libraries we use:

https://github.com/tschellenbach/stream-framework

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/


Hi! Just in few words. What's your interview process like?


Little tidbit:

Degree in CS is totally useless nowadays, surely you know this already? I work for a tech/telco company in London and all the seniors agree that CS degrees now are totally useless and don't make you any better at CS. Consider the portfolio rather than the credentials, and require a STEM degree in general, always.


My experience as a holder of a degree in STEM (not CS) is that if you have experience even people who say "degree in CS" don't actually care. I display my degree prominently on my resume but no one ever brings up the fact that it isn't CS (except rarely when it might be relevant to the subject matter of the company, then it's a bonus.) I wouldn't worry so much about the language on the req.


Well if all the seniors at your text/telco company agree with that it must be true!


They are the people hiring us all, so, uh, kind of?


I work for a tech/telco company in London and all the seniors agree that CS degrees now are totally useless and don't make you any better at CS.

You might want to consider forming a perspective on this topic with some basis other "what the senior developers at my company say".


Since it's seniors who hire, i'de say it's pretty important whether they value it or not. And a lot don't, especially for networking since CS has almost no networking in it (by the 2nd year most undergrads still have difficulty working with binary, i.e. netmasks, cidr's, wildcards, etc.).




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