Ephemera (xmtp) | Senior or Staff Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote, USA timezones preferred | https://xmtp.org
We're looking for cryptographically-minded, privacy-conscious engineers to join us.
Staff Software Engineer, React Native — This is a killer mobile app dev that has deep understanding of RN, has built consumer apps.
Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems — This person has worked on large distributed systems and will join the decentralization team to build resilient, scalable infrastructure for messaging. Languages: Go, Rust
Staff Software Engineer, Protocol (Multiple open seats here!) — These hires will work alongside the protocol team in continuing to improve and harden XMTP. Languages: Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Javascript
Staff Software Engineer, Partner Enablement — This is a highly technical, product minded engineer that has a passion for supporting integrators and key partners building with XMTP
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Rails usage is certainly dropping off a bit. The competition is improving.
I personally got tired of the monkey patching, ActiveRecord's proclivity towards n+1 queries, and complete lack of types / static analysis, among other things. Having to keep a mental model of the types of the entire project, and having to write tests around types takes up a significant amount of my headspace, energy, and time. The older a project gets, the more of a headache these things become. There is an element of "just write better code" to avoid these pitfalls, and that works to an extent, but the older I get the more I realize that the tooling does play a large role in the outcome.
What are you talking about? C++ powers trillions of dollars of market value. Rust is in the billions and growing. All of those apps start with dudes that have a vision to create a solid technical foundation for making bank.
In 2020 I wanted to leverage the new apple silicon in my Rust app, so I needed to do some work in Swift, and maybe i was looking in the wrong spots - but the Swift community felt incredibly dead. Swift documentation is horrible, I asked for help in a few places online and got none. I eventually solved the problem by guessing to fill in the gaps of documentation. A very different experience than the rust community, which was extremely eager to help with every problem I had.