December 2015 - change - Mailing Lists

Senior Software Engineer positions at BabaJob
by Aditya Vashistha 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Babajob, a start-up in India, is looking for Senior Software Engineers to expand their technology and operations. Babajob is a great place to work and has smart people working in the heart of Bangalore. Please contact Bharani Setlur (bharani(a)babajob.com) and Jyothika Lobo ( jyothika.lobo(a)babajob.com) for any questions. Best, Aditya Job Description: Senior Software Engineer At Babajob we are building a company that helps people at the bottom of the pyramid find a better job. We operate in the hardest job verticals that serve the bottom billion and have brought together 4 million jobseekers with over 100,000 employers across India. Through innovative technology, Babajob is making job information accessible to anyone with a mobile phone and transforming the way employers find candidates and hire talent in these sectors. We are looking for talented and passionate senior software engineers to join us. As a Senior Software Engineer your mission is to improve Babajob experience for all our customers. Use the power of your code to change the way aspiring jobs seekers find better jobs. We’re looking for software engineers passionate about software and scale. Write to us at iwanttobeaseniorengineer(a)babajob.com Key Responsibilities: - Take the lead to architect new features - Write code of the highest quality with proper object-oriented design and unit tests - Mentor other developers in your team Desirable: - Experience with multiple programming paradigms like OOP, Functional Programming. - Experience with Design Patterns - Experience in TDD - Good communicator and writer. Write a blog, takes sessions at conferences/internally. - Contribute to opensource projects. Can encourage us to open source our code. - Fit into our culture. Our Culture: - We question everything and everybody. If someone doesn’t respect this culture we don’t want them at Babajob no matter how senior they might be. - We have deep empathy for our coworkers and users. - We hold you accountable for results - E.g. increase the number of job seekers that appear for interviews. - We believe in leaving the code better than we found it. Technologies that we use: - C#, IIS, ASP.NET MVC, Protobuf, JSON - SQL Server, Petapoco - Redis, ElasticSearch - Javascript, jQuery, React Perks: - We will give you free AWS credits if you want to experiment something - We will buy you technical books - All the machine you need to kick ass at your job.  Spacious, well-ventilated office with an amazing view of Cubbon Park located in the heart of the city  Complimentary meals and a kitchen stacked with goodies all the time

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Last Change of the Quarter Tomorrow
by Trevor Perrier 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hello All, The Change seminar WILL meet tomorrow at 12:00 in CSE 203. As a quarter wrap up we will have a brief summary of the recent DEV conference <http://acmdev.org/program.php> followed by a group activity. See you there, - Trevor

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Fwd: DIL Mobile Data Collection Webinar: Tuesday, December 7 10am
by Matt Podolsky 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah White <sarahwhite(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject: DIL Mobile Data Collection Webinar: Tuesday, December 7 10am To: Dear Colleagues, We invite you to join us for DIL's first webinar in a series focused on mobile data collection platforms and tools this *Tuesday, December 7 *from* 10am to 11am PT*. This webinar is co-hosted by the Development Impact Lab (DIL) and Engineering for Change <http://www.engineeringforchange.org/>. Details can be found below. Please share widely with your networks and make sure to RSVP. We hope you will join us! Kind regards, *Sarah White *| * Senior **P**rogram Associate* | *DIL <http://dil.berkeley.edu/>* Center for Effective Global Action <http://cega.berkeley.edu/> | 510.642.4361 UC Berkeley | 207 Giannini Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720 e-bulletin <http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001qV_LMxK9XFVxXA4XvF…> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CenterforEffectiveGlobalAction> | @CEGA_UC <https://twitter.com/CEGA_UC> | *@DevImpactLab <http://twitter.com/DevImpactLab>* * <http://cega.berkeley.edu/> * DIL-Engineering for Change Webinar*Mobile Data Collection: A New Frontier of Tech4Dev Research* *Tuesday, December 8* *10:00am PST - 11:00am PST* RSVP HERE <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…> The wide-spread availability of phone-based communications, and the increasing availability of smartphones and tablets offers researchers, practitioners, and students working in international development an array of new tools and techniques for collecting field data. As adoption of ICTs by development researchers and organizations becomes more widespread, many uses have emerged - from data collection for monitoring, visualization, and analysis. Join the Development Impact Lab (DIL <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…>) and Engineering for Change (E4C <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…>) and hear from leading organizations on the challenges of data collection in field research, how data collection has been leverage, and where the data collection field is headed.

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