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An experienced backend engineer with a proven track record of shipping products and navigating ambiguity. You have a passion for engineering practices and consistently improve your craft with like-minded teammates.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and execute on our product roadmap
• Discover and evaluate web3 technologies and know when to build using 3rd party APIs or in-house solutions
• Build products on top of our GraphQL API alongside frontend engineers
• Architect backend services that are well-monitored and well-tested
• Improve infrastructure and monitoring consistently

Requirements

• 4+ years writing production software (bonus points for web3 experience)
• BS/BA degree in computer science
• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• Are a self-starter in proposing and carrying out technical solutions to ambiguous business problems
• A passion for continuously improving dev-ops for yourself and fellow engineers
• Have worked with

As covered back in March (you read it here! -- r²), our Gov Whitmer signed off on two bills banning the sale of…

[…]any device specifically designed for inhaling nitrous oxide from canisters for recreational purposes, with stiffer penalties for selling the devices to minors.

That's great and would have solved the problem there and then…but unfortunately we're dealing with humans. The problem with idiot-proof solutions is that they're always inventing a better idiot. Take me, for example: I'm most likely a better idiot than you are.

From today's Detroit News article, "'Whippets' cannisters causing big problems in Michigan as lawmakers crack down"…

Many community leaders are hoping a new statewide ban, starting June 10, will make a difference. The two-bill package adds nitrous oxide or whippets to the list of drug paraphernalia under the Public Health Code that can't be knowingly sold to minors for the pur

Happy [WORLDWIDE] Wednesday everybody!

I'm making an update to [WORLDWIDE] Wednesdays. Currently it is every Wednesday, every week. Realistically, that is a lot and we aren't seeing a ton of participation. We don't have a ton of regular posters, so maybe I was a little ambitious with it.

From here on out [WORLDWIDE] Wednesday will be the first Wednesday of every month. I still like the idea and I personally still listen to a lot of German Hip Hop that I probably wouldn't share under normal circumstances, so I don't want to scrap it entirely.

Of course, anybody can share anything pretty much any day, so if you have something from outside the US or Canada you want to share, live your dream. We are just going to only have the one Wednesday a month where I try to really encourage it. I'm hoping that will result in more posts on that specific day, as opposed to the posts being spread out on random Wednesday.

That said, I'm probably going to start doing different stuff on other Wednesday

M.I Abaga feat Nas and Olamide