[ihsw]

Another Ottawa developer here. I went to a few OCLUG meetings a decade ago (when they were still at the Main library branch) but I've been meaning to check it since they moved it to Shopify's offices. I think it might be fun going to OCLUG meetings again. :)

They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindness[1] event.

I've been dabbling in Go lately and Shopify seems like the only place in Ottawa that's using it to support their bottom line.

[1] http://rhok-ottawa.ca/

[xal]

we are hiring Go developers :-)

[ihsw]

My experience with Ruby and RoR is fairly limited, and I have no experience with unit testing (very embarrassing). I'm not sure I'd be a good fit for Shopify. :(

That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a personal project and Go fits the role very perfectly. It's also a very "clean" language to work with, and I distinctly get the impression that doing things "the Go way" leaves very little opportunity to do "dirty" things.

The Go language designers did a very nice job at creating something quite robust without making it excessively verbose.

[gravitronic]

We hire developers who have no ruby or rails experience all the time at Shopify.

[3pt14159]

I love how the CEO of Shopify is on HN getting talent the day he closes the $100m round. Thanks for Active Merchant, btw, it is awesome. Liquid is cool too.