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Tech Interview: CouponBird’s Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Now more about you and your career path, what inspired you to become a Software Engineer?

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. The tech job landscape across Canada has continued to grow.

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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Tech Startup Will Succeed in 2018

Up and Running

Reputation will be as important as ever in 2018—only now, it’s more about your brand identity spread through digital channels. Thomas is a software engineer at an app development agency and a fan of everything IT, mobile and tech-related. Build a solid online image.

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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. That same day back in June 2016, I decided I was going to be a software engineer.

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics.

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Why Startups Must Liberate From Hiring Platforms

YoungUpstarts

In the filing, Fiverr revealed it had lost more than $38 million in 2018. Rick has over 15 years of experience in software engineering, is the author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “, and has engineered a library of popular software algorithms (HackFastAlgos).

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

We started developing SkyWeaver in January 2018. We founded Horizon Blockchain Games in January 2018. Our CTO, Ian Ha, has worked as a senior software engineer at various startups in the gaming, interactive media, financial services and gig-economy spaces. What are your goals for SkyWeaver in 2019? He has an Erd?s