New Jobs – Women in Tech, Connecting Low-Income People with Jobs, and CollegeHumor!

Lovely is an app that lets renters search for apartments visually on a map, with trustworthy real-time data, while providing tools along the way to help them land the place they want. They are searching for a lead iOS developer.

CoachUp, a website helping kids change the trajectory of their lives through sports by connecting athletes with private coaches, need a senior Ruby on Rails engineer.

CollegeHumor, a place where I have wasted/enriched many hours, has an opening for a frontend developer with HTML5 experience.

Sneakpeeq, a company that has hired multiple people through Whitetruffle, is searching for a fullstack application engineer who is expert in JavaScript.

Delphi Solutions is developing user-friendly, intelligent software to improve government transparency, efficiency, and performance. They are relatively skills agnostic – so if you really know your Ruby or Python you might be a fit.

GGGrit, the Match.com of professional networking – focused on helping women advance their careers, needs a .NET savant to lead their engineering efforts.

Persistent Systems, a growing business that develops Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) wireless radio systems for US Government and commercial applications, is hunting for an Android software engineer.

ApplyKit, a very early stage company in Boston building tools to improve the college selection process, is searching for a technical co-founder.

Samasource, a social enterprise that connects people living in poverty to work via the Internet, needs a Ruby engineer. A great opportunity for people who want to make a positive social impact!

What is the Most Popular Programming Language?

How do we determine the most popular programming languages? Is the the languages we use the most? Is it based on what companies are asking for? Or should we base it on what most developers prefer to work in?

Our partner, CodeEval – a platform used by developers to showcase their skills, also allows companies to set coding challenges to test the skills of developers they are interested in. Based on the languages most companies created coding challenges for, they came to the conclusion that the most popular language was Python. More details below:

Very interesting data – but it begs the question: Are companies creating coding challenges in Python because that is what they use the most, or is it because they feel that Python coding challenges will be more attractive to top talent?

RedMonk wanted to determine language popularity as well. They pulled data from GitHub and StackOverflow to analyse which were most in use by developers using the sites. They concluded that Python came 4th – after JavaScript, Java, and PHP.

More details on the chart and their conclusions here.

It would be interesting to see if the difference in numbers is due to developer preference, employer preference, or something else entirely. We’re currently running our data to see what we can add to the discussion.