WalmartLabs - Portland, Oregon | Software Engineer, All Levels | Full Stack Node.js / React | Onsite, Full Time or Contract to Hire
Position Description
Over 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. Over 140 million people shop in 4500+ Walmart stores every week. As such, no one else is better positioned to deliver the best, most seamless shopping experience, in-store and online, and that's exactly what our team is set up to deliver.
The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is comfortable with a variety of technologies, and is able to ramp up quickly on new ones if needed. We are looking for a strategic thinker, someone who is analytical, detail and results-oriented and has excellent problem-solving skills with a strong work ethic. You’re customer focused, highly motivated, and a self-starter. You’re an excellent communicator, building strong cross functional relationships and excel at working across departments and easily collaborating with Business Partners, Product Owners, User Experience, Project Managers, Research, Engineering and QA teams.
I'm specifically looking for engineers with strong backgrounds in node.js/react OR iOS OR Android.
Reach out to me directly at smiles@walmartlabs.com.
I'm an architect at WalmartLabs and am looking for a few good iOS engineers to help us build our iPhone app. If working at scale in a small, startup-like environment gets you out of bed in the morning, you'll probably enjoy this gig - we're one of the most downloaded apps of all time, and we serve tens of millions of users a month.
We have a nice office in the heart of downtown Portland, and serve up the usual Silicon Valley style benefits: flexible hours, four weeks of PTO plus holidays, 401k, health care, free drinks and snacks, etc. Salary is highly competitive with Bay Area salaries, and you'll get to live in Portland, which has considerably lower overhead. If you're a good fit, we'll make it work for you.
Small, start-up like environment. At Wal-Mart, a Fortune-1 company. Think about it. (Also, having worked there ... um ... no. The place is worse than Oracle.)
Sorry you had a bad experience. I work in the Portland office and that hasn't been my experience at all. We have maybe 20-30 people and wide latitude over the projects we work on. Prior to this I had only worked in startups of 15 people or less. This experience has not been all that different for me, except that we're not constrained by resources. Our managers are former startup guys. It's honestly been great for me, to my initial surprise.
See gojomo's comment. The cops' techniques for "hacking" the judicial system are low-tech, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to think that hacker minds can solve problems beyond social web apps -- or in this case, a web app for sharing information might be the right way to look at the problem.
Plenty of sites exist that deal with urban crime outside the judicial system:
- ChicagoCrime.org (now EveryBlock.com)
- Map mashups using data from Megan's Law registries
- Some county traffic courts allow looking up offenses by
the offender's name
- Some courts also publish names and even mug shots of prostitution offenders
I haven't seen this discussed in mainstream news beyond some worried mutterings about civil rights, and I think it's an interesting problem, so there you go. Now, hopefully, the discussion will focus on smart solutions instead of devolving into a collective rant about police.
Couldn't agree more. Rather than spend time posting your link to 1,200 social bookmarking sites and writing press releases, spend your time on SEO. This is the #1 way people will find your site.
Basic SEO is very simple. Choose good titles first and foremost. Make sure your homepage links to all of your most important content. Make sure google can spider all of your content, and create a sitemap.xml to help with this.
Secondly, setup google analytics, and keep an eye on how people are landing on your site from search engines. A high bounce rate is sometimes inevitable, but try to build you pages in a way to entice the user to keep clicking to other pages.
Make signup super simple (I'm sure 90% of people on Hacker News disagree, but OpenID is going to confuse 99% of internet users).
To really get your SEO kicking in, have links to your site from other sites. A good widget strategy can help with this. If someone puts your widget (and you build the links properly) on their blog, and their blog has 2,000 posts, you instantly have 2,000 links to your site. If this blog has high pagerank, great! Some of that pagerank will trickle down to you.
Any way to import my existing bookmarks from del.icio.us (and clean up the tags)? Seems like that's one of your biggest barriers to adoption, at least from people who already use a social bookmarking site.
The app looks great, nice and clean, but I already have hundreds of bookmarks in del.icio.us, and don't want to start from scratch somewhere else.
As many people have said, exercise is key. Besides just clearing my mind, I find that going for a run or a bike ride actually helps me focus on what I need to be working on when I get home.
My #2 problem after procrastination is prioritizing what I should be working on. Whenever I go for a bike ride for a few hours, I have a lot of time to think about the direction of my project, which really helps me focus and get right to work when I'm home.
Also, a girlfriend helps, or at least set aside time for dating. Balance is key, or you'll burn out quick.
Position Description Over 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. Over 140 million people shop in 4500+ Walmart stores every week. As such, no one else is better positioned to deliver the best, most seamless shopping experience, in-store and online, and that's exactly what our team is set up to deliver.
The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is comfortable with a variety of technologies, and is able to ramp up quickly on new ones if needed. We are looking for a strategic thinker, someone who is analytical, detail and results-oriented and has excellent problem-solving skills with a strong work ethic. You’re customer focused, highly motivated, and a self-starter. You’re an excellent communicator, building strong cross functional relationships and excel at working across departments and easily collaborating with Business Partners, Product Owners, User Experience, Project Managers, Research, Engineering and QA teams.
I'm specifically looking for engineers with strong backgrounds in node.js/react OR iOS OR Android.
Reach out to me directly at smiles@walmartlabs.com.