MYOB | Melbourne, Australia | Full-time | Onsite | Visa | https://www.myob.com/ | DevOps, Full-Stack, Back-End + Front-End Engineers

Company: MYOB provides tax, accounting, payment and other business services software to over a million small and medium businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The company is hiring lots of engineers this year. (Hence this post)

Tech We Use: Java, C#, Scala, Node, Kotlin, React, AWS, Kubernetes, Go, plus many others I can't think of right now... See our GitHub for some of our public repos: https://github.com/MYOB-Technology

I work on Scala + Node systems. I had a Java OO background so MYOB gave me lots of opportunity to learn functional programming, AWS systems and 2 programming languages!

Benefits: * Pay is competitive (Check Glassdoor for an idea as there is a lot of roles that will be opened) * 25 days off a year * Visa sponsorship * Up to 2 days working remotely * Personal learning budget * Mentors * Culture of learning and sharing what you know * Regular board game and other social nights

Jobs / Roles: I'm based in Melbourne but if Melbourne isn't for you, MYOB is in other locations such as Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. Check out the MYOB jobs page: https://www.myob.com/au/careers

If you would like to know more about any role, the hiring process, etc., please email me at: paul.oflaherty[at]myob.com

I developed a game solely as a Telegram bot: https://storebot.me/bot/mrw_bot

I think that this is a better platform than mobile as it supports multiple devices, user accounts are already setup, it's easy to test and it has built in notifications.

One thing I did have an issue with, is showcasing what it's features were. One option is to create a lot of videos and screenshots which would take a lot of time. As further improvements were made, I would have to reshoot the videos.

Instead, I created a React component to simulate interactions with a bot. The React component is here: http://sevenleaps.github.io/chat-template/

The website for the bot is: http://www.mrwgame.com/

Nice! Yeah I think it has potential for specific kinds of applications. Text-based games are a definite yes. I couldn't agree more with your point about user education. I know a lot of friends who don't even know all the amazing things Google Now can do just because there is not interface to explain all the features. Siri has a "what can you do?" feature but even then, it's very limited. It will be interesting to see what developers and UX professionals do to improve the state of bots.

Does anybody know if games created using the Telegram Bot API are included for this grant?

I created a GIF sharing game bot with a few friends and we are going to apply and it'd be great to get this!

We'd love some feedback - http://mrwgame.com/