What's the tech scene like in Boston?

Optum / Eng
Stampeder

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 Stampeder
Jul 14, 2017 34 Comments

We see a bunch of posts about Silicon Valley, Seattle, and NY, but are there any big companies or up-and-coming startups operating out of Boston? Is there a strong dev community? As a long-time fan of the city I'd love to find some good opportunities here.

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  • MathWorks / Eng
    mathtwerkr

    Go to company page MathWorks Eng

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    I work at MathWorks doing MATLAB stuff.
     mathtwerkr
    Boston is awesome. Cambridge has a ton of startups and a lot of engineering and software in general exist around Boston. Super clean city too. Tons of smart people (like 1000 universities in the area) and you have MIT and Harvard and BU, Northeastern etc
    Jul 14, 2017 3
    • MathWorks / Eng
      mathtwerkr

      Go to company page MathWorks Eng

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      I work at MathWorks doing MATLAB stuff.
       mathtwerkr
      They've been in Natick since the 80s when they moved out of startup stage. Close enough to Boston if you wanna live there (I do, my commute is 12 miles/25 min from Brighton where I have T access), or if you wanna save some cash you can live outside of the city
      Jul 15, 2017
    • Natick isn’t 40 miles from the city not even close. Google maps walking navigation from the Natick Center train stop to the prudential center is 15 miles.
      Dec 31, 2017
  • ezCater / Eng
    AdVy22

    Go to company page ezCater Eng

     AdVy22
    ezCater is a sleeper. Super solid business & big growth.
    Aug 10, 2017 4
    • TripAdvisor / Eng
      mSqu16

      Go to company page TripAdvisor Eng

       mSqu16
      Can you list a few examples of the distributed system projects? I'm interested in Ezcater
      Aug 30, 2017
    • ezCater / Eng
      helpful

      Go to company page ezCater Eng

       helpful
      We're looking for a Senior/Lead SRE at ezCater. Situation is a solid two person SRE team who launched an AWS data center last year (chef, terraform) and is looking to do even more this year. Great infrastructure to build on and a mix of project and operations work.

      Distributed systems work in terms of service/app extraction, data warehousing/analytics, other web application backend work. For example, we built an analytics event ETL type pipeline with Fluentd/Kinesis/Lambda for stateless transforms and processing.
      Sep 2, 2017
  • Wayfair
    PpDx73

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    PpDx73
    Wayfair is the biggest Boston based tech giant. I think hubspot is #2
    Jul 14, 2017 1
  • Optum / Eng
    Chet

    Go to company page Optum Eng

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    BlackBerry, LexisNexis
     Chet
    Route 128 has been high tech for generations. As others said lots going on in East Cambridge, and a lot of new companies especially biotechnology in South Boston. Lots of military R&D.
    Jul 14, 2017 1
  • Amazon / Eng
    dasizzle

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    Amazon
     dasizzle
    I just started at Amazon in Cambridge and they are growing immensely in Boston. Hmu
    Jul 14, 2017 0