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Glowforge | Full Time | Seattle

We're building a low-cost CNC laser cutter/engraver can create beautiful products in wood, leather, paper, food, and more. We are a fifth the cost of comparable products because we've offloaded much of the functionality to software. Our cloud backend that does motion planning and machine vision to make it dead simple to use. Push a button, out come flat-pack wallets, lamps, board games, and anything else you can dream up.

We're up in Seattle, just closed $9M from Brad Feld and True Ventures, and have 12 employees.

The three founders have manufactured hardware, sold companies, graduated YC, and built profitable businesses. Check out this article about us: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/20/glowforge-series-a/

Our greatest need right now is software engineers, but we're interested in passionate creators of all stripes. To learn more, check us out at glowforge.com/careers!

PS: We'd love to talk to anyone, and especially want to encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply.



This looks really cool. Just sent you an email. Would love to see if our Makerspace can help in any way!


Hi !

Are you open to French engineer ? (able to sponsor Visa)

--Martin


Hello!

What's your current tech stack like?

-antmachine


Hi, I'm Dean, the first software engineer at Glowforge. Our software deals with a fair amount of Rails, but we also have Node and Python micro services for certain processes. The UI is very Javascript heavy. We're also writing our own firmware in C. The cloud software is managed with a set of Docker containers.


Bam! And I thought I had no work here after reading the first line. This is great. One email. On it's way sir!


We do a little bit of everything! I tried to pick the best tool for each purpose as I was building the early prototypes, and we've segmented the system to make that easy to develop on. We are looking for people comfortable moving around as much of the system as possible.




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