Backstop makes a CRM tool that Alternative Investment (e.g. hedge fund, pension fund, endowment) managers use. Sounds boring? Hell yeah it is! Backstop makes it interesting though, by relentlessly pursuing new and interesting technologies. I've been there for two years, and it's an absolute blast.
We have major projects in Java, Clojure, Scala, C#, and Ruby, and minor projects in just about every language that's gotten any traction in the last two decades.
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Join a growing team of passionate, self-motivated, talented, and creative people with big ideas about the future of software for the investment industry. Backstop is a Chicago based company that makes web-based software applications for hedge funds and the people who invest in them. Over the last few years, we have grown considerably, won several awards, and built a lot of great software. Backstoppers take our customers and our service very seriously, but pride ourselves on not taking ourselves too seriously in the process.
We're looking for excellent, experienced software developers. Our technology stacks are heavy on the server side, Java and Rails-oriented, but that doesn't stop us from using the right language or tool to solve a particular problem. We love using Ruby to drive the browser and API tests of our Java applications, building Fitnesse suites to organize our Scala-based integration tests, scripting data loaders in Python, and even hacking at, and in, Perl5 when we're feeling retro.
What's up, fellow Georgia Tech dropout! I "dropped out" in 2009, and was then readmitted part time. If you did want to finish your degree, that might be the best way. As a part time student, you only have a few things to keep track of at once, and you can work at the same time.
I've actually been thinking about doing that. And yeah, 2009 was my year to leave as well. It was mostly a combination of personal factors (parents divorce etc...)
I'd like to go back, but feel daunted, and lack the capitol to do it without debt.
I don't think a week-long project means a 40 hour project, as the author suggests. In my experience, a week-long audition project has been typically a 5-8 hour project, something I can knock out in a few evenings.
Additionally, it's always been a toy example, typically in the vein of "read some input from a file and do something with it". It can almost always be knocked out with the standard libraries for any given language.
