Geckoboard | Golang, QA roles | ONSITE | London, UK | Full Time with flexible working
Geckoboard is used by thousands of businesses to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by taking the complexity out of connecting their data and understanding it at a glance. We're doing some incredibly interesting work to make that even easier for them and are looking for curious problem solvers to help us!
We have recently completely rebuilt the way we bring data into Geckoboard with a new integrations platform written entirely in Go. We have some ambitious plans and interesting projects to work on, so we're looking for some Go Engineers to join our team:
We're also looking for a Go Developer on a three month contract basis from the beginning of January. If you'd like to find out more, please email Monique at people@geckoboard.com
In terms of our stack, the Geckoboard application is structured as a collection of Ruby and Go microservices on the back-end, and a rich client-side JavaScript application on the front-end. All our services run on AWS.
> Even rubber surfacing doesn’t seem to have made much of a difference in the real world. David Ball, a professor of risk management at Middlesex University, analyzed U.K. injury statistics and found that as in the U.S., there was no clear trend over time. “The advent of all these special surfaces for playgrounds has contributed very little, if anything at all, to the safety of children,” he told me. Ball has found some evidence that long-bone injuries, which are far more common than head injuries, are actually increasing.
>Ball has found some evidence that long-bone injuries, which are far more common than head injuries, are actually increasing.
My assumption is that has nothing to do with rubber playgrounds, but the fact more kids are obese than ever. The less you weigh, the less you splat when you fall.
Prism is a tool that allows you to collect and analyze profiling data from your go applications. It is not meant to be used as a replacement for tools like pprof but rather as an alternative for cases when you:
+ want to collect profile data per go-routine,
+ do not want to manually modify your project's source to include the profiler instrumentation code,
+ want to quickly compare the performance of code between a set of git commits
Geckoboard co-founder here. Yes, it's an official app designed and coded by the Geckoboard team here in London and regularly updated. I use it every day as do hundreds of our customers.
That said, we're looking to beef up the mobile side so any input you have would be greatly appreciated. You can shoot me a mail, my email address is in my profile.
I consider David Skok's article on SaaS metrics[1] to be the best articulated and actionable source on this topic. It contains definitions of metrics, why they're important and even an Excel template that I've adapted to run my own SaaS business on. His article on the impact of churn on SaaS businesses[2] is also a must read even if you think you have a handle on it.
Another great source is Christoph Janz's blog, in particular his KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups[3].
To be absolutely clear dashboards are not on Google unless customers decide to put the URL in a blog post or somewhere else on the public internet, this is a non-story.
I.e. no dashboards have been exposed or otherwise leaked by Geckoboard. In order for these dashboards to appear in Google:
1. Customer switches on sharing for a given dashboard in Geckoboard
2. Then publishes the sharing URL on the publicly accessible web
3. Google then indexes that link
In addition to locking down dashboards behind a user/pass or restricting access to only certain IP address customers can, at any time, generate a new sharing URL which denies access to the previous URL.
In a related development we've been advised that this story is being touted around by a PR agency - we're still trying to trace who has employed them but we have a reasonable idea.
>To be absolutely clear dashboards are not on Google unless customers decide to put the URL in a blog post or somewhere else on the public internet, this is a non-story.
No. Jut because Google doesn't index a URL doesn't make it private in any way. Public URLs are public. Relying on obscurity is a bad idea. People are continually amazed at how Google is able to find URLs they thought they had not linked publicly anywhere. Send the link to a gmail user? Google knows it now.
I wouldn't worry too much though; any company prepared to trust vital business data to a SaaS web startup obviously doesn't care about data security very much. People put off by this were never going to use your product anyway.
The discount applies even when you upgrade - it's a pretty generous offer and could save you substantially more than $294 depending on the plan you choose.
Ruby engineer needed to help architect, build, test and improve a young, fast moving and market defining web application with all the challenges that come with that.
You’ll be:
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- Shipping code, solving interesting problems and making a difference
- Working with an innovative web application and platform helping thousands of businesses around the world
- Working in a small fast moving team to shape the future development of the application with input on key technical decisions
- An ambitious and tenacious individual with a passion for hacking
- Eager to join a fast growing, well funded startup on an upward trajectory
- 1+ years’ experience with Rails (or similar advanced web framework).
- 2+ years’ experience with a dynamically-typed, object-oriented language (preferably Ruby or Python).
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with at least one NoSQL datastore
- Test driven development experience
- Familiarity with DVCS (we use git).
- Able to work in London full-time
Nice to have:
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- Open source contributions
- Backbone.js experience
- Event driven programming experience
- Keen on the startup world
Perks
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- Competitive Salary with equity options
- Flexible working hours
- Choose the equipment that’s right for you – desk, chair, computer… whatever you need to do your job
- Free drinks and snacks and team lunch every Friday
- Take the holiday you need, we don’t count days
Application Process
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To find out more send us your C.V./Github or Stack Overflow portfolio and a short description on why you’re perfect for the role to jobs@geckoboard.com
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