Job Offer: Python Ninja or Pirate!

[James Matthews]

Please post on the job forum!

On Dec 10, 2007 9:14 AM, jay at etsy.com <onceuponapriori at gmail.com> wrote:

> Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling all things
> handmade: clothing, music, furniture,
> software, jewelry, robots. We launched on June 18, 2005, and ever
> since then have been empowering our
> users to make a living doing what they love most.
>
> Just a few months ago, we found a few amazingly talented ninjas and
> even a few swarthy pirates. The team is doing wonderfully, and we're
> hoping to add a few more adventure-loving souls to our ranks. You'll
> be using python, javascript and other technologies to whip up
> innovative web applications in many challenging and interesting
> domains: social and community, ecommerce, search, and even software
> development.
>
> We're also in the process of redesigning and developing our web stack
> to allow us to scale into outer space
> while still providing a fun and productive programming environment.
> You'll likely end up working on our: in-house orm, customized cherrypy
> environment, jinja templates, django-like form processing library,
> lucene integration, twisted-based communications protocol, or kick-ass
> high-performance memcached library.
>
> Required:
>  * 5+ years of web development experience
>  * 3+ years of writing production-level code with a dynamic language
> (python, ruby, lisp, smalltalk,
>
> OO javascript, etc)
>  * Strong OOP skills
>  * Understanding of dynamic language idioms and patterns
>  * Ability and willingness to pick up other languages and technologies
>
> Desired:
>  * Ability to write python code idiomatically
>  * Lives in New York City
>  * Experience with javascript
>  * Experience with java, postgresql and/or php
>
> Neat:
>  * Plays guitar hero
>
>
> Challenge:
> A valid response will be either a solution to the problem below, or a
> link to some code of which you
> are particularly proud.
>
> Problem: In the dynamic language of your choice, write a short program
> that will:
>  1. define a list of the following user ids 42346, 77290, 729 (you can
> hardcode these, but it should
> still work with more or less ids)
>  2. retrieve an xml document related to each user at this url "http://
> api.etsy.com/feeds/xml_user_details.php?id="
>  3. retrieve the data contained in the city element from each xml
> document
>  4. keep a running total of how many users are found in each city
>  5. display the total count of users living in each city
>
> You can assume user ids are valid and that the url is available. The
> output should look something
> like:
>
> Charlotte: 1
> New York: 2
>
> You can find out more about etsy at http://www.etsy.com or
> http://blog.etsy.com/jobs/index.html
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