unsolicited mail by farming my OSS publications. douchebags.

johnny-morrice commented Jul 8, 2016

Source{d} eat their own dogfood! Funnily enough, I have previously worked in recruitment software development. It's kind of ironic because you could not learn that fact by looking at my open source contributions; but you might learn it if you had a subscription to a CV database. Exactly the type of activity Sourced are trying to disrupt. ;)

Anyone else receive something spooky?

Hi Johnny,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Data Retrieval Engineer with our team at source{d} (http://sourced.tech/).

source{d} is a recruitment product built by developers for developers. We analyze over 1.2B code contributions in the open source community to match developers with the best opportunities and contact them only with relevant offers.

We're rapidly growing and in need to expand the team. At the moment, the engineering team consists of four different teams: Data Retrieval, Tools, Data Science and DevOps. Our stack includes Go, Python and C++ in the core, React for all our web tools and also, MongoDB and ElasticSearch for storage. Finally, we are using Docker, CoreOS and Google Cloud as infrastructure.

As part of our Data Retrieval team, you will be dealing with issues related with our data analysis and retrieval which is what makes source{d} a great product. Good knowledge of distributed computing, parallel processing and NoSQL databases is important. You will be expected to have strong backend coding skills with one, or more, languages like Go, Python, PHP or Ruby.

At the moment, we're 20+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from the center of Madrid. Despite working hard and being very demanding, we believe in continuously giving everyone the chance to learn and develop professionally and in building a cohesive team that welcomes every new person - we have monthly get togethers, annual hackathon retreats and regularly attend conferences all over Europe (dotGo, FOSDEM, ReactEurope, etc.).

The salary is 32,000€ for the junior engineers, 42,000€ for the senior ones and we are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed. We are used to help our team members relocate to Madrid and offer support throughout the entire process to you and your family, if applicable.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and our engineering team.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Anna Tsolakou, Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

vasco2ramos commented Jul 13, 2016

Hey Johnny, I work at source{d} as well. I must apologize for the spooky email.

However, unlike most of the other people in this thread, we actually managed to get your experience and profile right, just from you OS contributions. Since our contacts are entirely based on the code you have published. That means a step in the right direction for us and our matching.

In any case, there are real people on our end answering emails, if you feel something is wrong or don't want to be contacted, just shoot them an email. They are nice people and will try to explain why and how we contacted you the best way possible.

antilogos commented Aug 24, 2016

I just receive one of this mail.
The think that bother me is that it was send to my company email, which should not be visible from anywhere.
Care to explain this @eiso or @vasco2ramos?

DGAcode commented Aug 30, 2016 •

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Same for me, glad I found this gist. Now here's my contribution.

Hi Daniel,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Frontend Engineer at 123Makler (https://www.123makler.de/).

123Makler is Berlin startup that is providing a way of finding the best real estate agents within Germany, bringing transparency to customers and aim to understand which realtor fetches the highest price for one’s property.

The skeleton of their platform is built with Python and Django split into several different modules, using Postgres for the data layer, Redis instances for both data processes and caching, and third party services, like sentry and cloudinary, for crash tracking and CDN, using Heroku to deploy. As for the frontend, they are using Angular and jQuery along with Jade and Sass. In the future, they plan to move it to a typescript based application.

With that in mind, they are looking for a senior frontend developer that has been involved in Angular based applications with complex client-side logic, to improve their current application, as well as, give some guidance to their junior developer. When joining 123Makler you will work on a scrum based environment with daily meetings and weekly sprints using JIRA and Github as repository in a team of 4 developers where 2 work on the backend and 2 on the frontend.

The salary ranges between €30.000 and €50.000 and they will provide logistic, as well as, financial support to cover your relocation (VISA, temporary housing, travel arrangements, etc.).

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and 123Makler.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Petros Koklas, Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

BronzeCrab commented Sep 1, 2016 •

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I've received such email from sourced:

Hi Alexey,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Data Retrieval Engineer with our team at source{d} (http://sourced.tech/).

source{d} is a recruitment product built by developers for developers. We analyze over 1.2B code contributions in the open source community to match developers with the best opportunities and contact them only with relevant offers.

We have just raised a $6M round and are rapidly growing our team. At the moment, the engineering team consists of four different teams: Data Retrieval, Tools, Data Science and DevOps. Our stack includes Go, Scala, Python and C++ in the core, React for all our web tools and also, MongoDB and ElasticSearch for storage. Finally, we are using Docker, CoreOS and Google Cloud as infrastructure.

As part of our Data Retrieval team, you will be dealing with issues related with our data analysis and retrieval which is what makes source{d} a great product. Good knowledge of distributed computing, parallel processing and NoSQL databases is important. You will be expected to have strong backend coding skills with one, or more, languages like Go, Scala, Python, PHP or Ruby.

At the moment, we're 20+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from the center of Madrid. Despite working hard and being very demanding, we believe in continuously giving everyone the chance to learn and develop professionally and in building a cohesive team that welcomes every new person - we have monthly get togethers, annual hackathon retreats and regularly attend conferences all over Europe (dotGo, FOSDEM, ReactEurope, etc.).

The salary ranges between 44,000€ and 48,000€ and we are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed. We are used to help our team members relocate to Madrid and offer support throughout the entire process to you and your family, if applicable.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and our engineering team.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Francesco Rizzo, Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

They want to hire me. I'am python junior currently have 700$ per month. But they want to give me 44,000€ - 48,000€ per year, cause they analyzed my incredibble code on github, lol. Omg, I think I'm very lucky, guys, I always wanted to live in Europe and have a lot of money, It's very pity that they don't answer back to my reply :((. Yeah, I want to be a spamer, so what? Money has no smell. Maybe I want to improve their algorithms using my outstanding knowledge of bubble sorting and help them make it better not to bother poor juniors like me. Looking forward to work with you, @eiso. Make no mistake about it, I'm the best fit for this vacancy!

elphara77 commented Sep 2, 2016

My recent experience :

Yes sir, but you should have told me all at first, I think it's more respectful and more efficient!

I think I will not go further with your services with such an attitude ...

thanks for your understanding

RL

Le 2/09/16 à 10:17, Petros Koklas a écrit :
Hey RL,

Thank you for your reply.

We contacted you based on your GitHub repositiories. In your case, we noticed that you have been contributing a log with Java, which was the reason that we contacted you. The next step is the conversation with me, in order to asess the good fit.

Again, I apologize for reaching out with a non interesting position. If you would like could you tell me more about your preferences? What kind of roles would you be interested in? Which technologies would you like to work with? Any preferred location?
That way we will be able to reach out with interesting offers.

All the best,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:00 AM UTC, RL wrote:
Hello,

I'm surprised it's not clearly what you expected of my skills at your first contact, right?

Could you be more specific earlier in the future please?

Thank you

RL

Le 2/09/16 à 09:48, Petros Koklas a écrit :

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:48 AM UTC, Petros Koklas [email protected] wrote:
Hi RL,

Thank you for your response.

For this position you would mainly work on algorithms in order to help Quantcast to extract information out of Big Data. That by itself requires Data Scientist experience of at least 5 years, meaning that you should have previously worked on a similar position. The main tools for developing those algorithms are Python and R, which will serve as the scripting languages to write the mathematical algorithms.
Could you briefly tell me about your experience on that before scheduling an interview call?

Best,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:18 PM UTC, RLwrote:
Hi Sir,

(I send again my msg to be sure that was not blocked by any rools on unkown address filtering, sorry for that I you already got it :)

I cannot hide you my great interest to discover your company especially and mainly for the technical challenge that you explain to me.

But I have a family here in Belgium and a work also...
Nevertheless, I believe that I could do at least a little good things with you I hope so!

I'm not very good in English (it's not my birth language : french) but I think I can already speak, understand, read and write English in a correct way.

My knowledge about computing and development is poor too because I had no occasion and time to work on different interesting things unfortunatly due to my working days on some little projects.
Anyway, I have a solid background, I guess, with my college studies in Sciences and Mathematics and further with my industrial engineering studies in electricity.

I am also a passionate autodidact since my 12 years.

So I wonder my self after this whether I still interest your company and then what you could propose to me?

I am available for your convenience for any interview.

My mobile is +32xxxxxxx and my skype "xxxxxxxx"

Best Regards,

RL
Le 1 sept. 2016 à 07:12, Petros Koklas <[email protected]> a écrit :

Hi RL,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that that you could be a good fit for the position as Senior Engineer Modelling at Quantcast (https://www.quantcast.com/).

Quantcast provides an intuitive ad campaign platform that works through Big Data modelling. This has spawned products (Advertise, Measure and Audience Grid), that use statistical machine learning approaches to target the right users and the right time for advertising campaigns that surpass marketer objectives for influencing audiences and increasing conversions. The organization consists of 800 people, distributed across different offices across the globe, with their engineering hubs located in London, San Francisco and Singapore.

The team you would join in London consists of a mix between Senior Modelling engineers and Software Engineers. They are using Java for the core of the platform and Scala for some internal tools.

They are looking for a senior engineer with a strong background in Java who is willing to work on the backend and improve the core of the platform, that is used by Data Scientists for running tests, including both online and offline components. Apart from developing experience, you would need to have deep understanding of infrastructures, as your actions would affect the whole platform. Apart from the technical challenge, you will also be working with the rest of your team and, together, will have a major impact on the company's growth. Finally, their management methodology of choice is scrum with 2 week sprints.

In addition, if needed, visa sponsorship will be granted.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Quantcast.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn't match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won't contact you again.

Best Regards,

---

Petros Koklas, Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Claudio Coello 16, 2º Izq.
28001 Madrid, Spain

DoubleShift commented Sep 13, 2016

I got a similar email from source{d}. They offer me a job in German as a senior full-stack engineer.
Sooooooooooo happy !

o(∩_∩)o

xnx commented Oct 1, 2016

I got one of these emails the other day. I'm sure the company exists and I'm sure they really think they are "transforming the world of recruitment" or whatever, but I doubt they have any actual jobs to offer – this smells like a harvesting scheme: I think they're building a database of responsive developers to mine, sell on, etc.

So it's definitely going in the spam folder.

chucklqsun commented Oct 3, 2016

I got the similar email and ask them which contribution they had analyzed. Lol

Hi chuck,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Data Retrieval Engineer with our team at source{d} (http://sourced.tech/).

source{d} is a recruitment product built by developers for developers. We analyze over 1.2B code contributions in the open source community to match developers with the best opportunities and contact them only with relevant offers.

We have just raised a $6M round and are rapidly growing our team. At the moment, the engineering team consists of four different teams: Data Retrieval, Tools, Data Science and DevOps. Our stack includes Go, Scala, Python and C++ in the core, React for all our web tools and also, MongoDB and ElasticSearch for storage. Finally, we are using Docker, CoreOS and Google Cloud as infrastructure.

As part of our Data Retrieval team, you will be dealing with issues related with our data analysis and retrieval which is what makes source{d} a great product. Good knowledge of distributed computing, parallel processing and NoSQL databases is important. You will be expected to have strong backend coding skills with one, or more, languages like Go, Scala, Python, PHP or Ruby.

At the moment, we're 20+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from the center of Madrid. Despite working hard and being very demanding, we believe in continuously giving everyone the chance to learn and develop professionally and in building a cohesive team that welcomes every new person - we have monthly get togethers, annual hackathon retreats and regularly attend conferences all over Europe (dotGo, FOSDEM, ReactEurope, etc.).

The salary ranges between 44.000€ and 48.000€ and we are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed. We are used to help our team members relocate to Madrid and offer support throughout the entire process to you and your family, if applicable.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and our engineering team.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Francesco Rizzo, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.tech

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

fhuertas commented Oct 18, 2016

Hi received a similar mail

Hi Francisco,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Data Engineer at Zenly (https://zen.ly/). Since we are actively helping them search for the right engineer to tackle their specific challenge, I thought I’d reach out.

Zenly is developing a location sharing app which is built on top of a powerful, precise and extremely battery-efficient continuous location technology. Although they are very discreet, they have already generated several million downloads, and their active user base is growing by 7% each week since more than a year. They reached a million users twice as fast as Twitter and are on a long-term mission to reach a billion. Their HQ is located in Paris, and they also have offices in SF. They have recently raised €22M with the first investors of Twitter, Uber and Snapchat. TechCrunch news here: https://t.co/PLVXxHOmOW

Their backend relies heavily on Apache Kafka as the central message bus and Google Protobuf as the data format. It is written entirely in Go using a microservices architecture and communication with clients and internal standalone services is done using gRPC (RPC layer on top of HTTP/2 and Protobuf). The production datastores currently include Cassandra and Redis.

For the data pipeline, they built a custom dynamic processing messaging system on top of Kafka and Protobuf (basically rebuilding some parts of the Confluent platform on top of Go and Protobuf instead of Java and Avro) which they plan to open-source. All real time processing and ETL is done in Go as well.

Long-term data is stored in Hadoop and post processing is currently using Spark (Exploration in Python, Production code in Scala).

Deployment-wise, everything runs on Docker in Kubernetes (managed by Google Container Engine). A CI builds and publish the docker images into a registry for further deployments which allows them to deploy/rollback multiple times a day without constraints.

The main mobile applications are native and they are migrating their iOS app to Swift planning to finish it before the end of this year. Moreover, amongst their plans is releasing a web version of the application that will be written in JavaScript with React.

They are a team of 40 people, 35 of which are part of the engineering team. The latter is divided into different groups, Backend, Data Engineering, Data Science, Android, iOS, and QA. They follow a personalized agile methodology and take good care of following good practices to deploy reliable and reusable code - fully automated testing is an obsession for them.

They are looking for a Data Engineer with strong experience with the Hadoop stack and distributed systems in general. Depending on your preferences, you would work on:

Data Warehousing: Managing all long term data for further processing (sql engine, big data processing) by building the necessary platform to give access to data to other teams as well as ensuring data health and schema evolution.

Data Processing: Working on a wide range of data processing internal product such as the core data consumption platform for others team to use and deploy on, or ad-hoc components like Data Enrichment, Real-time analytics / Schema management and many more.

Nevertheless, the projects you have built as well as the challenges you have had to overcome are more important than grasping a particular language or framework.

You will be joining a team of engineers who have worked on MacOS, and Android OS for several years, and a Data Science team with multiple PhDs in Paris, France. Besides, the only person who left them in over a year was poached by Facebook's iOS team.

The salary ranges between 60.000€ and 80.000€ but they are flexible depending on your background and experience. They are also willing to sponsor Visa and help with the moving costs and the accommodation.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Zenly.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Georgina Giannoukou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

mpeer3 commented Nov 3, 2016

Hi,

Today I also received a mail from Georgina: "I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as JavaScript Engineer at a startup based in Hamburg."

Best regards,
Michael

xadhoom commented Nov 7, 2016

Same here.

Their scanner does not work very well, I've not written anything in Go or Scala :) nor contributed anything to any DevOps project.

Hi Matteo,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Senior DevOps Engineer at source{d} (http://sourced.tech/).

source{d} is a recruitment product built by developers for developers. We analyze over 1.2B code contributions in the open source community to match developers with the best opportunities and contact them only with relevant offers.

We have just raised a $6M round and are rapidly growing our team. At the moment, the engineering team consists of four different teams: Data Retrieval, Tools, Data Science and Infrastructure. Our stack includes Go and Scala in the core and we are using Docker, CoreOS and Google Cloud as infrastructure.

As part of our Infrastructure team, you will be responsible to lead and define the systems and deployment environments for the whole platform. This platform runs the core, downloads and processes large amounts of data and saves it in the respectives databases and distributed file systems. Besides what was already mentioned, we are using Docker, Docker Swarm, CoreOS, Terraform, Rancher amongst others, so any experience with any of these will be valuable.

At the moment, we are 20+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from the center of Madrid. Despite working hard and being very demanding, we believe in continuously giving everyone the chance to learn and develop professionally and in building a cohesive team that welcomes every new person - we have monthly get togethers, annual hackathon retreats and regularly attend conferences all over Europe (dotGo, FOSDEM, ReactEurope, Curry-on etc.).

The salary is 44.000-48.000€ for the senior role and 48.000-52.000€ for the Lead. We are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed and used to help our team members relocate to Madrid - we offer support throughout the entire process to you and your family, if applicable.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and our engineering team.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

jakeekaj commented Nov 14, 2016

Just got this today:

Hi Jake,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Backend Engineer at Runtastic (https://www.runtastic.com/).

Founded in 2009 and recently acquired by adidas, Runtastic is an Austrian mobile fitness company that develops an always evolving ecosystem of apps, hardware, and online services to track fitness and health data. Their digital platforms focus on activity tracking, online training logs, detailed data analysis, community sharing and other features that help users improve their overall fitness.

Runtastic’s team is composed of over 180 people, of which one third are engineers. They are split into fullstack teams that focus on developing new products and features from start to delivery stage. From a technical point of view, their platform is based on a Ruby microservices ecosystem on top of MongoDB and MySQL for storage and Cassandra clusters. They use Redis and Memcache for caching. On the client side, they have a web application, which is being migrated to EmberJS, and different native iOS and Android applications that are continuously being updated. The platform is hosted on their own local servers in Vienna.

As a member of their backend team, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the current platform, as well as the implementation of new features, working from the data layer to the connection with the client side. They are looking for a skilled developer with experience creating solutions to complex problems, as well as, developing projects throughout their full lifecycle. Knowledge of Ruby would be a plus, but extensive experience working with the data layer is more relevant. Your main challenge would be scaling the backend and infrastructure to meet the requirements of their growing user base.

You would join a fullstack team of engineers based in Linz, Austria, who follow an Agile methodology. Lastly, they are strongly test-oriented, focused on TDD and only deliver fully tested features.

The salary ranges between 40.000€ and 60.000€, and they are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed and provide financial and logistic relocation support. In any case, if successful, you will have the chance to meet the team, and offices, in the last stage of their process.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and Runtastic.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Anna Tsolakou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

supasheva commented Nov 15, 2016

My friend also got an email like this.

Seems like these guys underestimated us. LOL

Ex-Ark commented Nov 15, 2016

Same email

Hi Alexis,
I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Frontend Engineer at Zenly (https://zen.ly/). Since we are actively helping them search for the right engineer to tackle their specific challenge, I thought I’d reach out.
Zenly is developing a location sharing app which is built on top of a powerful, precise and extremely battery-efficient continuous location technology. Although they are very discreet, they have already generated several million downloads, and their active user base is growing by 7% each week since more than a year. They reached a million users twice as fast as Twitter and are on a long-term mission to reach a billion. Their HQ is located in Paris, and they also have offices in SF. They have recently raised €22M with the first investors of Twitter, Uber and Snapchat. TechCrunch news here: https://t.co/PLVXxHOmOW
Even though Zenly's main product is a mobile app, a lot of Web components have been developed and many others are in the making. Their frontend stack is based on React (w/ Redux when necessary) written in ES6 bundled by Webpack using Babel for transpilation, Flow for static typing and ESlint for linting.
Their backend relies heavily on Apache Kafka as the central message bus and Google Protobuf as the data format. It is written entirely in Go using a microservices architecture and communication with clients and internal standalone services is done using gRPC (RPC layer on top of HTTP/2 and Protobuf). The production datastores currently include Cassandra and Redis.
For the data pipeline, they built a custom dynamic processing messaging system on top of Kafka and Protobuf (basically rebuilding some parts of the Confluent platform on top of Go and Protobuf instead of Java and Avro) which they plan to open-source. All real time processing and ETL is done in Go as well.
Long-term data is stored in Hadoop and post processing is currently using Spark (Exploration in Python, Production code in Scala).
Deployment-wise, everything runs on Docker in Kubernetes (managed by Google Container Engine). A CI builds and publish the docker images into a registry for further deployments which allows them to deploy/rollback multiple times a day without constraints.
The main mobile applications are native and they are migrating their iOS app to Swift planning to finish it before the end of this year. Moreover, amongst their plans is releasing a web version of the application that will be written in JavaScript with React.
They are a team of 40 people, 35 of which are part of the engineering team. The latter is divided in different groups, Backend, Data Engineering, Data Science, Android, iOS and QA. They follow a personalized agile methodology and take good care of following good practices to deploy reliable and reusable code - fully automated testing is an obsession for them.
They are looking for an experienced Frontend Developer with a great knowledge of JavaScript to work on both internal and external frontend products:

Internal products include frontend interfaces to team-wide available tools including analytics/debug/dataviz and future products they have in mind.
External products include a WEB version of the Zenly app as well as multiple custom viewers for Facebook/Twitter etc.
Although existing frontend apps are made using React, it is not an absolute requirement as common frontend principles are more important. In addition, any data visualization appeal/experience would be a plus (most of the dataviz involves a combination of D3 and Mapbox).
You will be joining a team of engineers who have worked on MacOS, and Android OS for several years, and a Data Science team with multiple PhDs in Paris, France. Besides, the only person who left them in over a year was poached by Facebook's iOS team.
The salary ranges between 40.000€ and 60.000€ but they are flexible depending on your background and experience. They are also willing to sponsor Visa and help with the moving costs and the accommodation.
Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Zenly.
Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.
Best regards,

Anna Tsolakou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai
Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

MrGoatsy commented Nov 16, 2016

I Just got the same email.

rkaravia commented Nov 18, 2016

I can confirm that the sender address of these spams is legit, because somebody actually replied to me, and was even proudly explaining to me what we all suspected. Plus he had the guts to suggest that I participate in a survey.

This is cleary against GitHub's Privacy Statement:

If you would like to compile GitHub data, you may only use any public-facing Personal Information you gather for the purpose for which our user has authorized it. For example, where a GitHub user has made an email address public-facing for the purpose of identification and attribution, do not use that email address for commercial advertising. We expect you to reasonably secure any Personal Information you have gathered from GitHub, and to respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from GitHub or GitHub users.

I encourage everybody who is affected to report this to [email protected].

Email response I got:

Hello Roman,

Thank you for your reply.

I'm sorry our way of reaching out offended you and we will not bother you in the future, but I thought I should explain to you a little as to how we came to have your email.

We have extracted your email from your commits, as we work directly with the Git repositories (rather than with the Github API). So, even if your email address is not published in your Github profile, it is published on your Github commits. However, if you are really concerned about your privacy, and don't want your email address to be published, I would suggest taking a look at https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-private/

Also, while we will respect your choice to not be contacted in the future, we would still like to know where we may not have met your expectations so we can improve the experience for other developers. We’d really appreciate if you could fill this 2 minute survey: http://sourced.review/-petros

All the best,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai
{#HS:279152272-78892#}
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:54 AM UTC, Rzoller <-redacted-> wrote:

Hi,

People set their email addresses to "private" for a reason. Please do
not send me any more messages. I have reported you to GitHub support.

-Roman

Quoting Petros Koklas [email protected]:

Hi Roman,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on
improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source
contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for
the position as Lead Frontend Engineer at Simplinic
(http://www.simplinic.de/).

Based in Munich, Simplinic provides a SaaS for hospitals. Their
software offers services ranging from asset tracking & indoor
navigation applications to staff & patient flow optimization, via
algorithmic steering. With their industry-focused products, they are
targeting a global problem of increasing healthcare costs.

Simplinic's has a Linux-based cloud-hosted stack. On the frontend,
they are using ECMAScript 6 with React (MochaJS-based QA) for their
mapping tool and Leaflet for data visualization, while the backend is
running on a mixture of Rails, Java and Elixir services. They use
PostgreSQL/Redis/S3 for data storage and MQTT/AMQP for their data
processing engine. Their BLE-based hardware devices are running on
Python & C++.

They are looking for an engineer to join their Munich office as a
frontend lead within their growing team. Ideally, you would have a
strong background in both coding and styling/UX, use latest HTML, CSS
& JavaScript techniques to drive user experience. In addition, any
previous experience with data visualization libraries would be
considered a plus, since you would deal with that on a daily basis.
You are willing to work, and lead at times, in order to help
Simplinic overcome all tech challenges.

Apart from the technical challenge, you will also be working with the
rest of your team, including founders, and, together, will have a
major impact on the company’s growth. Finally, they follow scrum
with weekly meetings, have flat hierarchies and are located in the
heart of Munich (Schwabing).

The salary ranges between €50.000 and €65.000 indexed to
experience and knowledge and, if needed, relocation support will be
granted.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and
we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and
Simplinic.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this
position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my
apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to
discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If
you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t
contact you again.

Best regards,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub
repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs
(http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

islam95 commented Nov 22, 2016

Same here. For a moment I thought I am flying to Spain :))

On 22 Nov 2016, at 17:04, Anna Tsolakou [email protected] wrote:

Hello Islam,

Thank you for your response. No, it's not a spam and we are currently hiring at source{d}.

It's great to learn that we've reached you with an opportunity that is of interest to you. Let me update you a bit more on what we looking for.

For this position, we are looking for devOps engineers to join our office in Madrid in order to configure and improve the build and release environment. For this task, a strong focus in automation and efficiency is required.

You would be working close to the engineering team, and help them with the deployment and testing of their applications, using automation tools and continuous integration. We are using technologies like Docker, Terraform, Rancher and Drone.

Could you share any experience you might have in automating the lifecycle of a product and what tools you used in each step?

Cheers,

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 11:14 AM UTC:

Hi Anna.

Is it spam? If not, I am interested in your job offer. But I need more information about the position and so on.

Best regards,
Islam

Anna Tsolakou [email protected] wrote:

Hi Islam,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Senior DevOps Engineer at source{d} (http://sourced.tech/).

source{d} is a recruitment product built by developers for developers. We analyze over 1.2B code contributions in the open source community to match developers with the best opportunities and contact them only with relevant offers.

We have just raised a $6M round and are rapidly growing our team. At the moment, the engineering team consists of four different teams: Data Retrieval, Tools, Data Science and Infrastructure. Our stack includes Go and Scala in the core and we are using Docker, CoreOS and Google Cloud as infrastructure.

As part of our Infrastructure team, you will be responsible to lead and define the systems and deployment environments for the whole platform. This platform runs the core, downloads and processes large amounts of data and saves it in the respectives databases and distributed file systems. Besides what was already mentioned, we are using Docker, Docker Swarm, CoreOS, Terraform, Rancher amongst others, so any experience with any of these will be valuable.

At the moment, we are 20+ people from 10 different countries working closely together from the center of Madrid. Despite working hard and being very demanding, we believe in continuously giving everyone the chance to learn and develop professionally and in building a cohesive team that welcomes every new person - we have monthly get togethers, annual hackathon retreats and regularly attend conferences all over Europe (dotGo, FOSDEM, ReactEurope, Curry-on etc.).

The salary is 44.000-48.000€ for the senior role and 48.000-52.000€ for the Lead. We are willing to sponsor your Visa if needed and used to help our team members relocate to Madrid - we offer support throughout the entire process to you and your family, if applicable.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and our engineering team.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn't match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won't contact you again.

Best regards,

Anna Tsolakou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

antwal commented Nov 22, 2016

same email here, 2h ago

Francesco Rizzo, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.tech

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

lawkaita commented Nov 22, 2016

I got this today. It seems they might get emails from other sources than github aswell. The count of my contributions as of today on github is a perfect zero. Also in githubs settings ive put "Don't show my email address".

fizzy81 commented Nov 22, 2016

Same email

Hi Fizzy,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Frontend Engineer at Skip App (http://skipapp.com/).

Based in Berlin, Skip App is a social network that allows you to share photos with friends locally, immediately and very simply. The product facilitates distributing photos to friends and reimagines the core idea of taking and sending a photo, by including an effective geolocation sharing range. In addition, they plan to expand the concept to large venues and events, so subscribers can get pictures from unique moments, shared by their favorite artists and celebrities.

Skip App's stack is microservices based. On the frontend, they are using React-native for the mobile application, while the backend is running on Javascript with NodeJS and Go modules. As they are still an early stage startup, methods of deployment and preferred databases have not been defined yet, which gives you increased freedom when joining.

They are looking for a frontend engineer to join their Berlin office and work in a small team of 2 engineers. Ideally, you would have a strong background in Javascript using React-native and should have experience with responsive design. Any experience with REST APIs in Node.js or Go would be highly appreciated.

Apart from the technical challenge, you will also be working with the rest of your team and, together, will have a major impact on the company’s growth. Finally, they follow Scrum to organize their work.

The salary ranges between €40.0000 and €60.000 indexed to experience and knowledge. If needed, relocation support will be granted or a partly remote option (with visits to Berlin every 6 weeks) might be considered.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Skip App.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

mwmg commented Nov 24, 2016

I got one as well.

Hi Miguel,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Lead Developer at Weissmaler (http://www.weissmaler.de/).

Founded in Berlin, Weissmaler is Germany’s market leader in offering painting services for both B2B and B2C. Users can easily get a quote online and, if accepted, they send a painter to the user’s home/office/etc. The products they want to develop can be divided in client-oriented - these are the website, the landing page and the lead generation portal - and internal tools, such as the operations support tool - useful to calculate pricing, manage painters, automatically order materials and communicate effectively with painters and customers.

From a technical point of view, everything is being built from scratch - they are open to introducing new technologies and change processes if it is more convenient. The stack of the company is mainly composed by JavaScript; they are using NodeJS and ExpressJS for the backend - more relevant for the internal tools - and ReactJS with Redux for the frontend - fundamental for the client-oriented products. Moreover, they are thinking about implementing a microservices architecture, any previous experience is welcome.

As a lead developer, you will be responsible for both the development and the management of the new platforms as well as the tools they are building. As a leader, you will be the most senior developer in the team, and you will have to take important decisions about the product, together with the founders. You will also have to decide which new technologies to introduce and to train the new members in the team.

At Weissmaler, the development is not driven by any methodology at the moment, but they are willing to implement agile/scrum and tools like trello or jira. Their team currenlty consists of a senior and a junior developer and their goal is to add another four developers before the end of the year.

The salary ranges between 40.000€ and 70.000€ and the option to get a significant equity package based on your performance.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and Weissmaler.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Francesco Rizzo, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.tech

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

ghost commented Nov 30, 2016

I got one too...

Hi Mathieu,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that that you could be a good fit for the position as Frontend Developer at Heetch (https://heetch.com/).

Based in Paris, Heetch helps young people enjoy their nights out without worrying about their rides home. The service matches drivers with passengers who request rides between 8pm and 6am and focuses on offering an alternative to cabs that is affordable, convenient and also fun. They currently have both an Android and an iOS app and will be launching a web one soon.

At the moment they have a team of 30 people, of which 11 engineers. Their engineering team follows Spotify’s agile methodology and their 4 backend, 4 mobile and 2 infrastructure developers are currently split into two squads. They currently have part of the team working remotely and are using Slack, a transparent email policy (one inbox for the entire team as to keep everyone in the loop) and lots of conference calls.

They are looking for a Javascript developer, able to lead the frontend activities and work on Heetch's single page web application. Heetch's team does not have a dedicated frontend developer yet, so you would be the first to join and guide them during development. Apart from the main challenge, any backend related knowledge in Ruby or Go will be considered a plus, since you will be able to get a holistic understanding of the application.

The salary ranges between €40,000 and €50,000 and, although based in Paris, they are open to remote work.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Heetch.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best Regards,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

voidloop commented Nov 30, 2016

LOL

Hi Marco,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Senior Backend Engineer at Countify (http://countify.com/).

Countify is a set of innovative, cloud-based, data modelling solutions that combine the benefit of using simple excel-style data manipulation with the power and scalability of the cloud. Specifically, countify takes data modeling to the next level through an easy integration of external data, a powerful computation engine for the most complex calculations as well as the ability to collaborate, and share models with others.

At the moment, the overall architecture of Countify is comprised of three main elements: a server-side C++ core that acts as a computation engine, a C++/C# Microsoft Excel plugin, and finally, a frontend built with JavaScript and AngularJS, and a backend with Node.js. The database of choice is MongoDB and all elements communicate with each other through a high performance Redis bus.

They are in the process of improving the product, as well as building new powerful features on top of it. For that reason, they are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer that will be working directly with the server side core C++ code, as well as the plugin itself. A strong background in C++ and a good understanding of Microsoft Excel would be welcome. Nevertheless, the projects you have built as well as the challenges you had to overcome, regardless of the language or framework in use, would be highly considered. You will have the opportunity to contribute greatly to the product and have the freedom to do so. Moreover, mentoring and guiding junior members of the team will be amongst your tasks.

You will be joining a newly structured team in Berlin that will grow to 6 engineers by the end of the year.

The salary would range between 40,000€ and 70,000€ depending on your skills and experience, stock option are a possibility and Visa can be provided.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Countify.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Georgina Giannoukou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

rubenbarreiro commented Dec 1, 2016

This is getting popular. thanks for the heads up

Hi Ruben,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Frontend Engineer at lastminute.com group (https://www.lastminute.com/).

lastminute.com group is the European market leader in the online travel and leisure industry. The company consists of well-known brands like lastminute.com, Bravofly, Volagratis, Jetcost and Rumbo which is the team you would be joining. Based in Madrid, Rumbo, part of lastminute.com group, provides an easy to use platform for booking trips. Through their application, the user is able to select from a variety of trips and holiday packages and choose what is best for his own interests.

lastminute.com group engineers are split between different stacks. On the frontend, they are using Javascript, currently with Backbone, while their backend is built with Java and Spring stack, and the application is built with a hexagonal architecture.

They are looking for a frontend engineer with a strong background in Javascript who is willing to work with Backbone and Marionette and be part of a 10 people team. In addition, mastery of HTML and CSS and experience with similar frontend frameworks is required, as well as Javascript fluency and deep understanding of the language principles are required. Apart from the technical challenge, you will also be working with the rest of your team and, together, will have a major impact on the company’s growth. Finally, they follow an Agile methodology in order to organize the team and complete their goals.

The salary ranges between €30.000 and €40.000 indexed to experience and knowledge and another €1.500 will be granted for personal development (like attending conferences, signing up to courses etc.).

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and lastminute.com group.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,

Petros Koklas, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)

eddiefisher commented Dec 6, 2016

Hi Eddie,