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Just launched last week--we're a dev shop that builds apps for other companies, but this is the first SaaS product we've grown in house to release in the wild.

Stack is Vue.js over Django deployed on Kubernetes. We built it to scratch our own itch to manage our standard procedures that got too big to handle with spreadsheets as our company grew.

Working on Delegate (https://www.delegatehq.com/), a process management app for founders and managers. Django / DRF backend with Vue.js in front running on Kubernetes--awesome stack.

Tell you what, call up a local law enforcement officer and ask for $10,000. When they say no, tell them you know where they live. See if that is considered a threat by the courts.

Lofty Labs | Senior Software Engineer, Consultant | Northwest Arkansas | Full Time | Onsite preferred

If you’re interested in a full-time and permanent position with Lofty Labs covering all or any of the area listed below, please get in touch with Addam Hardy, Director of Engineering at [email protected].

Lofty has work in all of these areas of web based engineering: web app development (Python, Ruby, JS), REST API development (Python, Ruby), Devops/SRE (ansible, AWS, Lofty Labs is a certified AWS partner and pays for AWS certifications for engineers), Docker (Lofty Labs is a Docker core contributor), command line tools built in Go, ETL pipelines managing large amounts of retail data or social data, applying machine learning/augmented intelligence/data science/graph theory to existing business processes, in addition to a few other areas that we explore and change regularly.

Come have fun with us.

SEEKING WORK - Northwest Arkansas + Remote

10 years web application development experience. I specialize in full stack application development with Python and Django. DjangoCon 2013 speaker.

Clients include large media companies, most recently Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbslearningmedia.com)

Now accepting clients for projects of all sizes. casey [at] hirelofty.com

Haha +1 to this. By that logic my ass is machine readable if I take a digital photo of it.

You could check out heapsortjobs.com and create a profile there--don't know about your specific background, but it's exclusively for developers with frontend/backend + design and/or infrastructure experience.

PHP, Python, Ruby, and JS have the most job openings there.

Yeah, we'll put a better example of the profile on the homepage--probably link to a live one.

You can see an example of my profile: http://www.heapsortjobs.com/casey

The reality is that "Full Stack" means different things to different people, as evidenced by some of the threads here.

That said, "people who can fill multiple roles" isn't exactly a marketable title for a demographic. And while "full stack" may have a variable degree of definitions, there is a commonality between them, and it resonates with our target audience.

You're right, different gradients will emerge and we'll facilitate that--we'll be the ones grading them, in fact, and make it easy for you to find the jobs that align with your skill set.

I'd say quite a few things. We're focused on developers, not companies. This is not a place to showcase a startup or court VC money; this is a place where developers can build a new type of interactive resume and leverage it to find solid jobs.

Exactly. On my teams the idea is much less "we need you to work on everything" and much more "we need you to be able to work on ANY ONE THING when the need arises."

The filter is not there yet, but it will be soon.

We've got a proprietary algorithm in development that identifies the scope of both a candidates skills and the skills required by a position.

Without divulging too much secret sauce, we'll be filtering out positions that do not meet our definition of "full stack" and we'll also be conveying to candidates just how "full stack" each position is with a rating system.

Good points.

First off, thanks for checking out the site. You are absolutely correct that full-stack engineers are _not_ needed at organizations of every size and structure. They are, in my experience, in the highest demand in any organization that has a small to medium size technical team. The reality is that many teams of this size exist--there are far more small teams than their are large ones in the workforce. I come from a background in news media, specifically newspapers. Let me tell you that EVERY news organization, even at the local level, needs full stack developers. Almost none of them need, for example, an Angular.js specialist.

Larger organizations, especially proper software companies, can afford to diversify their workforce into highly focused and manageable skillets. But, that does not mean there is no place for the full stack engineer in these companies. Positions like Operations Managers, Data Architects, Heads of Technology, Directors of Application Development and even some Project Managers are filled very well by candidates with full stack engineering backgrounds.

So its important to note that these positions do exist in organizations of all sizes and in many cases, they are a fast moving career path into management. I do recommend this path post grad--I've been working as a full stack developer for nearly a decade, and the biggest struggle I've had is having to turn down work. That's exactly why I started this project, because I have more jobs coming across my desk than I can apply for.

In my personal experience recently as Head of Technology for a startup company, conveyance of skills really was a big challenge for us. We needed highly capable engineers, and headhunters were throwing us lots of unqualified talent. That's a tough pill to swallow when you are paying many thousands of dollars just to _search_ for talent on a startup's budget. I felt that had I been given some very quality insight into the skills of the talent pool, I could have done a much better job of vetting the candidates myself for our specific needs--another concept that pushed me to start this project!

-Casey

Hi Guys--I'm a co-founder at HeapSort. We just launched our MVP this week and we're looking for constructive feedback from the developer and startup communities.

In the coming weeks we'll be launching a series of powerful resume building tools specifically for full stack engineers. It's not just another job board--we're going to totally change the way developers convey their skills to employers.

We welcome any thoughts, comments, or suggestions.

-Casey