[BangPypers] [JOB] Lead Developer for a real-time chat startup in Bangalore

[Augustus Franklin]

Hi Pypers,

 We are looking for a core-team member for our startup in Bangalore, India.
We offer good chunk of equity for the right person. Feel free to contact me
directly as well. Here are more details,

*Background*

Gaglers is a scalable real-time chat platform. Currently, we offer live
chat with unlimited operators and community chat for support.

Our high-level technical challenges are,

    scaling a real-time platform to millions of concurrent users.
    measure all interactions to make data driven decisions

This is a full-time position based in Bangalore, India.

*Typical Day at the Job*

You'll work directly with the Founder. You'll be working to implement new
features of the product.

Here is how a typical day will look like. You start by looking the status
of the production dashboard and bugs. With a quick scan you find that that
the message counts are not getting updated in the dashboard after the code
push last night. You jump on it right way and send a short code-review out,
after testing it on your staging setup.

With that out of the way, you get back to the feature that you have been
working on. You know exactly why you are building this feature and what
impact it will have on the customers. The feature was specced out last week
in some intense design discussions. You finished a quick prototype
yesterday. You throw it out today and start the code and unit testing for
the initial release. The plan is to deploy a basic version this week
sometime, gather feedback over a few days and then fine-tune it based on
what the customers say.

Just after lunch, while you code, you come across a bug in the queuing
sub-system. You decide that it would be simple for you to fix it as well
and so you do. While you fixed the bug, you thought about how you can make
the queuing system much more scalable. You write a quick note to yourself
to talk about it later.

By the end of the day you'll have a good chunk of the new feature
implemented. You'll send that queuing system bug fix for code-review
tomorrow morning and continue your work of the new feature.

*How the role will develop*

Initially, the tasks you take on will be smaller and fairly well defined.
Longer term, the requirements you get will be more general, and you’ll
interpret them to produce great solutions. You’ll also generate tasks on
your own initiative as you identify opportunities.

As we grow, we may need to take on more developers. You’ll have the
opportunity to be responsible for these folks if you want.
*
Technical Qualifications*

You will be,

    fluent in Django and Python and comfortable using Git
    be happy with HTML and Javascript
    have designed and written applications using Django
    comfortable managing a group of remote linux servers.

You'll have the opportunity to work on all areas of our stack. Our
technology stack includes,

    Django, Python, Erlang
    Redis, MySQL
    RabbitMQ, Celery
    MemCache
    Bootstrap, JQuery, Javascript

We are looking for someone who sees their role as bigger than just
programming. You'll also get to know our business. You'll also look for
opportunities to make things cooler for our customers.

*Your Challenge*

We want to see demonstrable ability to code in Python. You could either
send us the code for the challenge below, or a pointer to any other code
that you have personally written

Write a simple web application, in Python, that does the following and send
the Github link to founders.

Implement a webpage that will take a line of text as input. If the input
contains a URL, fetch the first image from the URL and display it below the
text box. Make the necessary assumptions and defaults required to complete
the task.
Example:

If the given text is

"Hey, check this out,
http://gaglers.com/blog/2013/03/29/live-chat-software-unlimited-agents/ I
love it."

The webpage must display the line of text and the image of the sun from the
blog entry


-- 
Augustus Franklin
Co-founder, gaglers.com