[socal-piggies] AOL's Userplane team is hiring a front-end web developer in Santa Monica!

[Takey McTaker]

Hello fellow PIGgies,

    I definitely can't claim the same contribution level that Jathan
has earned here, nor beg for a similar exception rule, so I just want
to echo his statement below about job openings in general.

    If I ever comment on any known job opening to this list, or
in-person during Python related events, it's because I need your help
teaching an employer about the benefits of Python. We've already hired
at least one PIGgy here (I'll avoid names here and let them announce
it themselves if they want to). Even though nothing about their job
description has anything Python-specific about it (yet), I hope they
do teach our co-workers about the benefits and trade-offs of Python
tools and libraries early and often. My current employer is in a
transitional phase right now, where we are openly evaluating
alternative tools and languages to what we've used in the past (Read:
The time is right for some Pythonistas to infiltrate!). I'm here to
help open the door for you when I can.

Thanks all,

Jared Hardy

Product Manager at Oversee.net

> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 23:24:44 -0700
> From: Jathan McCollum <jathan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] AOL's Userplane team is hiring a
>        front-end web   developer in Santa Monica!
> To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
>
> Hey all-
>
> My apologies for any confusion. I should have disclaimed from the get-go. I
> beat the Python bat pretty heavily on the Userplane team and should have
> stated that as well.
>
> Lesson learned!
>
> The fact is this role presents an opportunity for drastic influence on the
> future of the architecture of their development platform and back-end
> technologies. The role is a "front-end engineer" but as many of you
> probably know, you can't have one without the other. Their legacy
> infrastructure is mostly comprised of Java and FlashCom, and is something
> they desparately want to move away from.
>
> Quite frankly the door is wide open for what is going to drive the scale
> and innovation of their next-gen platform. To me this is a ripe opportunity
> to say, "well how about Python?"
>
> I was thinking that with the breadth of expertise both in web programming
> and server-side architecture of our community, that this presents a pretty
> cool opening for change.
>
> I am appreciative of the respect I have earned amongst you all, and thank
> you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. This is only job posting I've
> ever made here, and I will certainly make a better effort on highlighting
> why I thought it was relevant in the first place the next time!
>
> Much respect,
>
> jathan.