Amplo | Front End Engineer | Seattle | ON-SITE

Amplo is a fast growing startup that uses software and best practices to help universities and non-profits do fundraising and engage their donors in a meaningful way. We are looking for a superstar javascript dev to come in and help out with the front end team. we use React and Redux along with Ruby on rails for the backend.

we have a lot of fun, right in the heart of the city with an amazing view looking over Lake Union.

If this sounds up your alley let reach out to me (Kory Tegman) at kory@amploadvance.com with a resume/ linkedIn / github and mention you heard about it here in the title.

I think the american voter has started to lose it's way, or at least feel hopeless to change what is put in place. but I dont care if the nominee is a republican or democrat, we need to pass laws that keep the government at bay and stop letting them push us around. the media and politics pit us, the people, against each other in order to swayed us and get laws passed that control us. I am tired of it. most people on one side of an issue or another could come together and be friends. but the media pushes hate and fear till both sides are so defensive they think the other is the enemy instead of the guy saying "he said she said" and throwing the knife in the middle.

if OP open sourced the code I would feel more comfortable about it. its weird that the first thought of hesitation was "that's weird they didn't do any customization to bootstrap" then this: http://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fcheckr.io%2f

I dont see any backend language or framework. what does this mean?

It simply means there's no obvious fingerprint that builtwith.com was able to detect.

For example, the default Express app contains `X-Powered-By: Express` in the response header. Ruby on Rails is usually sniffed by its predictable cookie signature.

You gain nothing from broadcasting your back-end stack to the world.

bultwith.com just scans web pages and guesses front-end libraries. We use Ruby/Sinatra/MySQL/MongoDB/IronMQ for the back-end.

you helped by clarifying :)

i know this doesnt help everyone out. but if you have verizon, you can pay $5 a month for mobile streaming most of (if not all) the games. plus if you have an appleTV you can airplay them over to your actual TV. this works well enough for me.

I still can't get them on my 65" TV though- and I would pay for it. I just don't want to have to get satellite.

thanks a ton for posting this! as a semi new developer sometimes I run into questions like in my head like"is it ok for me to feel this way? should i just be coding faster?". Though it may be true in some scenarios, developing is one of the toughest problem solving skills to to learn. you are always facing something you have never done before.

I would encourage you to pitch, It was a bit nervy for me, but pushing through those fears are what makes a good startup (not saying that you have those fears just that i did). Plus I had a great time. and who knows? maybe your idea will be one that wins!

i found this article very encouraging. first i started developing on a windows 7 machine, before "railsinstaller.exe" was around. It was a pain to setup. soon after i was able to get my hands on a mac. still being pretty new to rails it was a whole new world of learning; git, ssh, .bash_profile, unix commands, figuring out gemsets on rvm, why one rails app would install rmagick, but another would error out, what the hell is GCC?

working through these things was a huge help and eye opening experience for me. being new to OOP and web app development it seems like there is a never ending list of things to learn, and everyone out there with their computer science degree has the knowledge already that i am missing. so i guess it is encouraging to see a list of things that this "engineyard training provider" is struggling with, and i worked through it all and have a pretty good grasp on now.