VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas.
Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai.
We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas.
Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai.
We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas. Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai. We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time |
REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas. Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai. We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas. Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai. We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
Static typing lets you build very large rigid structures where types ensure constraints. However, these constraints get in the way of moving quickly. If you change a signature of a function, you have to first change every piece of code that calls the function. You then have to compile, restart your program, rebuild the whole rigid structure, and confirm the change works as expected. This whole process can take many minutes. The claim is that catching these errors at compile time results in more reliable code.
Dynamic typing has no such constraints to help you catch errors at compile time. Dynamic typing allows you to build organic structures that more fluidly change. If you change a function signature, you don't have to change every piece of code that calls the function. You can change the function and test it in a running application without restarting the application. Doing this takes seconds. Dynamic typing allows you to iterate 100x faster. Being able to rapidly iterate often means better tested code and more reliable code.
Both are valuable. Dynamic typing is valuable during development when you need to iterate rapidly and build a prototype when requirements are often changing. Static typing is valuable when code need is more mature, changing less frequently, and code needs to be put in production.
Ideally you have both. More mature parts of the program are statically typed and more fluid parts of the program are dynamically typed.
> Static typing lets you build very large rigid structures where types ensure constraints. However, these constraints get in the way of moving quickly. If you change a signature of a function, you have to first change every piece of code that calls the function.
I strongly disagree that this sort of refactoring is "quicker" with dynamically typed languages, particularly with non-trivial (i.e. large) code bases.
You have zero feedback and no indication of how disruptive such a change is when working with a dynamically typed language. In fact, you have no feedback on whether you've actually finished the change at all.
While with static type checking, you have immediate and valuable feedback guiding you through such a change. Each line of code which requires updating is identified for you and communicated to you.
Spending my time doing work the compiler should have done for me (including tracking down heisenbugs) has wasted far more of my time than I’ve ever gained from the lax enforcement of dynamic typing.
> You then have to compile, restart your program, rebuild the whole rigid structure, and confirm the change works as expected. This whole process can take many minutes.
This is not my experience at all. Virgil is a fully statically-typed language and compiles fast. When working on the Virgil compiler (approximately 50KLOC), my typical workflow is to run the compiler in the interpreter in my debug, edit, run loop. The interpreter can load the entire compiler, typecheck it, and run it with my changes in 90 milliseconds. If we throw a complete optimized compile in the loop, it's 400 milliseconds.
It takes me longer to switch between my two terminal tabs.
It's not static typing versus dynamic typing. It's ridiculously inefficient languages/build systems versus efficient ones.
Inefficient languages/build systems can make the problem worse.
There are many statically typed languages that can compile in under a second. But when you change any function signature, you still have to ensure every caller is fixed. You then have to recompile, restart the application and rebuild all the data structures. Some static languages allow for hot reloading in interpretive mode, but the types of changes allowed are limited.
In dynamic languages like Common Lisp and Smalltalk you can update the program while it is running. The speed of iteration is 100x faster, because you don't have to restart the application and rebuild all the data structures to get to the point where you can test your change.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
Are those the only two categories of engineers you are currently looking for? I consider myself a generalist (10+ years), but I don't want to embarrass myself if you're truly looking for a strong backend Java engineer.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
VDX.tv (http://www.vdx.tv) | Remote Engineers & Developers | Full-time | REMOTE
Established company (20+ years) looking for mature generalists to contribute remotely. You can be anywhere in the world so long as you:
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.
● Are self-motivated and can work independently
● Driven to constantly learn and are always searching for the bigger picture
● Strong in clear thinking and written communication
● Have experience with many languages but can be effective in any language
● Appreciate that all mature software solutions accumulate technical debt and understand how to continually reduce debt and complexity
● Understand how to build highly reliable systems and be responsible for taking code to production
● Understand that code simplicity and readability are more important for long term maintainability
● Want to work on challenging problems and impactful work without being micromanaged
We're hiring across disciplines for engineers who work with Unix and have fluent written and spoken English:
● Backend Servers: Strong in C, Concurrency and Distributed Computing
● Backend Servers: Strong in Java
● Infrastructure: Strong in building infrastructure tooling to program infrastructure.
● Frontend: Strong in Javascript, Typescript, React, and advanced UI and browser applications
● Artificial Intelligence: Strong in Neural Networks, AI Workflows, AI Models.
● Product Design: Ability to spec and build out clean UIs and dashboards.
We value people who are generalists and are interested in learning, developing, and applying expertise across multiple areas.
Although our core business is in digital video advertising, we do research and development in areas such as programming languages, databases, distributed computing, infrastructure, and ai.
We are private, which gives us the freedom to explore many areas without investors and profits being the sole objective.
Full-time only. Remote only. We start out on a full-time trial contract basis for up to 3 months and use this period as an extended work interview for both sides to assess fit for long-term employment.
Please email hn.remote.jobs@vdx.tv if this sounds like the right fit for you.