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 [email protected]
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.
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.
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.
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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
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
I've yet to see a more egregious and brazen example of a politician refusing to answer a question than Jeremy Paxman's 1997 Newsnight interview with Michael Howard. [1]
Paxman asked the same question 12 times and 12 times it was dodged and avoided.
Totally agree, beta signups is almost the definition of a vanity metric. That said, at this particular (very early) stage of product development I wanted to solicit as much feedback as possible much of which was gathered from usage data - particularly first time users usage patterns. Having a reserve of signups that I could drip into the app as we released new features was useful in itself.
Will have have a think about whether I can add any value above the noise of the generic blog posts that you mention, thanks for your interest.
Feel free to drop me a line for a private discussion. I'm seriously impressed what you're doing with BitDeli!
Recently named one of London’s hottest startups and backed by some of the most respected investors in the business, Geckoboard creates software that makes it easy for businesses to see all of their key metrics on elegant real-time dashboards.
Our approach has won praise and accolades for setting the standards in the field of data communication design and we're growing fast.
If you're a Ruby on Rails engineer wanting to join a small, dynamic team building software that customers love then we want to hear from you.
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
Ruby on Rails 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
Ruby on Rails 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
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