The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has begun a search for a programmer to help with infrastructure updates and software development.

The AAVSO is an international non-profit organization of variable star observers whose mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to participate in scientific discovery through variable star astronomy. Its mission is accomplished through the observation and analysis of variable stars, through maintaining a database of variable star observations for access by the astronomical community, through forging strong relations between amateur and professional astronomers, and by promoting scientific research, education and public outreach using variable star data. The AAVSO’s online tools enable its observers to upload/download photometric data, analyze light curves, and plan their observations according to their capabilities. The AAVSO also curates an active database of more than 37 million data points collected by its international community. Therefore, the programmer’s function will be essential for the maintenance and long-term sustainability of our core infrastructure, ensuring a smooth function of our applications.

Examples of specific duties are:
- Maintain AAVSO Django apps and improvements when needed
- Design and develop new Django and Python web applications for AAVSO users and staff

- Assist in configuring and administrating AAVSO databases

Specific skills and experience required:
- Knowledge of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP)

- Experience with PHP and Python 2 & 3 programming
- Good working knowledge of Django web programming framework
- Front-end web development experience: HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Strong communication skills

Desired skills include:
- Experience with Drupal web

The starting date for the position is negotiable. The contract postion is for one year, with the possibility of renewals contingent upon satisfactory performance and availability of funding.

A flexible work schedule and a 35-hour work week are included in the position.

To apply, please send a cover letter, resume/CV and salary requirements consolidated in one .pdf file to our email address and please include the words “AAVSO Programmer” in the subject line. Review of applications will begin on Jan 31, 2019 and will continue until the position is filled. No phone calls please. The AAVSO is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Full-Stack Developer 

Is your happy place working on Python, HTML, CSS, Databases, JavaScript and Continuous Integration all in one day? Integrating with a half-dozen vendor APIs to quickly build end-to-end solutions? Learning the business so well you can answer questions almost as well as the business people? 

Then we’d love to talk to you about developing new sites to help people invest their hard-earned cash more effectively and profitably. 

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With an online presence reaching way back into the early days of America Online in the nineties, we live and breathe online, and we are always trying to up our website game. We are looking for people with solid hands-on work experience building beautiful, fast, and functional websites. We are a motley crew, and each of us chooses ‘motley’ phrase that describes the unique perspective we bring to the Fool. We love people with opinions formed from broad experience that have the talent to remix them with others in awesome ways. 

Although The Motley Fool is a well-established company, we regularly form small startup teams to build new products independently from the ground up. These teams get lots of love and resources from the mothership, but the freedom to build like mad. 

We’d love to work with you if:

• You solve problems: You spot issues and inefficiencies from a mile away and aren’t afraid to suggest solutions and then dive in to implement them. You know when to go looking for input from others and are constantly looking for ways to improve our code, processes, and people.

• You pay attention to detail: Missed details erode accountability, and that hurts when customers are trusting us to manage and invest their hard-earned savings. You actively pull in other team members to review your code and understand the value of testing when necessary.

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Requirements:

• Extensive experience developing and deploying websites with Python/Django (we use Wagtail on top of that)
• Strong ability to debug at all levels of the stack
• Strong command-line skills
• Track record of building relationships and consensus with business partners
• Availability for production support

Additional nice to haves:

• Finance, investing or FinTech work experience
• Media or publishing work experience
• Wagtail
• C#
• Postgres
• Redis
• WCAG AA 2.0
• CSS pre-processors (SASS, Less, etc.)

Sounds like you? Awesome! We might have a bright future together – so go ahead and apply now!

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NYC-based digital agency seeks a seasoned Django/Python Developer to join our team. We're looking for a full-time on-site 6 month contract that could transition to a permanent position.

We are a 20 person team working on a variety of web applications large and small. Our stack is typically Django/Python/PostgreSQL/Ubuntu on AWS, with various combinations of ansible, docker, front-end frameworks such as React/Redux, and the usual suite of productivity tools from Slack to basecamp.

A seasoned developer in our book has at least 5 years experience coding in Django, can point us to their portfolio and various contributions to the developer community in a git repo, has code we can review and projects they can point to where they were the lead developer.

We are looking for a Python/Django back-end developer
Full time - based in Lausanne, Switzerland

You will lead the enhancement of our back-end (Python/Django) in close collaboration with our front-end app (Flutter) and website (Angular 5), as well as our business & dev teams in Mexico. You will contribute to building more open and inclusive technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Take over, improve and collaborate on an existing Python/Django codebase
• Perform major and minor day-to-day development tasks as needed
• Participate in code reviews and practice test-driven software development
• Build a back-end that matches business expectation, scales well and empowers our data science work. Tens of thousands small businesses count on you!

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in Python/Django back-end development
• 3+ years of experience using relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Deep understanding of REST architecture and proven experience with Django Rest Framework (DRF)
• Practice in unit and integration tests
• Knowledge in CI (Jenkins)
• Swagger knowledge for Swagger first approach
• DevOps, architecture, NodeJs, data science experiences, a plus
• Fluent in English. Spanish would make your job easier and French your life better

Offer

Join a young and agile Swiss fintech startup whose mission is to make technology work for millions of small businesses in emerging markets. 

This job is for you? jobs@kiwi-bop.com

We're Potato, a cutting edge Digital Product Design business with a pretty unique culture. Due to growth, we are looking for a Senior Django Developer to join us in our Studio in central London.

We love developing digital products, websites, tools and apps for huge audiences. Our clients include Google, YouTube, Tate to name a few. We are also proud to be a part of the AKQA network.

This position will see you take a leading role in our large Developer team. You’ll need to be able to make sound architectural decisions while building complex and highly-scalable web applications. You’ll also mentor and lead developers in your wider product team.

Working alongside Designers, Coaches and Product Leads, you’ll be responsible for delivering the technical side of products by ensuring you and your team produce excellent simple, reliable, maintainable software, meeting user and client needs and timelines.

We’re looking for someone who writes great code, but also enjoys working directly with clients whilst taking a high-level strategic view of the product. We love to hire people who are keen to contribute to Potato’s unique culture and help us to develop our ways of working.

We like to see proven abilities in...

• Building websites in Python & Django
• Using Git (or any DVCS) to manage development in teams
• Use of Google App Engine or a similar Paa
• Engineering for both relational and non-relational databases
• Designing scalable data structures
• Understanding security vulnerabilities and how to prevent them

We also want to talk to people who enjoy...

• Meeting and working directly with clients
• Mentoring and supporting fellow developers
• Working across the full web stack
• Producing high-quality software
• Finding opportunities to optimise and simplify software
• Writing secure and well-designed APIs
• Finding creative solutions to technical problems and user needs

About Potato

At Potato, we think that technology should improve our lives. That’s why best-in-class software development and human-centred design are at the heart of everything we do. We’re a talented bunch of problem solvers who are committed to finding a better way; delivering smarter products that provide more satisfying experiences and more valuable outcomes for our clients and their users.

Having launched some of the smartest, most scalable and secure digital products on the planet, it’s no wonder we’re trusted by our clients to provide them with the highest standards of delivery in the industry. Our team of experts (we call them Potatoes) collaborate across London, Bristol and San Francisco, to produce work for our rather impressive list of clients, including: Google, Natural History Museum, Tate and the BBC.

Potato perks

• Competitive salary
• Unlimited holiday
• Free lunch every day, drinks and snacks
• A fun and supportive working environment
• Nice laptop and phone
• Pick your own flexible working hours
• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity / paternity scheme Gym membership
• Annual team Away Days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare Vouchers

Learn more about life at Potato

This project is part time remote work on a pre-launch django-cms codebase.  It has tests and most models, but needs some finishing work before launch.

Looking for someone who has some experience with django in production.  

Some aws / devops experience, and/or some frontend experience with webpack is a plus. 

Platform is ubuntu / django-cms / postgres / jquery / bootstrap / github / slack

Thanks for your time!