We’re an online retail/games startup based in Cambridge, MA looking for someone to fill a full-time position as a Lead Developer of web applications.
We compensate very well, paying market rates or above for real talent. You may choose to substitute some equity for salary, but that is not mandatory. A remote working option is available at the start, though in the long term the job is at Cambridge, MA.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has experience building complex web apps (think Facebook).
- Has experience / enjoys the challenge of optimizing complex, time sensitive, applications.
- Has some familiarity with PHP in LAMP (though PHP doesn't need to be your favorite language; I'm looking at you Python/RoR evangelists!)
- System / Database administration familiarity is a plus, since this will be helpful for optimization.
A little about us: we are a small startup that is highly profitable. We bootstrapped our way to profitability by using minimum money and time (8 months). We are expanding to take on larger challenges and need a great programmer to work with us.
Cambridge, MA, USA (On Site Encouraged, but Remote Possible)
We’re a Very Profitable online retail/games startup based looking for someone to fill a full-time position as a Lead Developer of web applications.
We compensate very well, paying market rates or above for real talent. You may choose to substitute some equity for salary, but that is not mandatory.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has experience building complex web apps (think Facebook) and in PHP*
- Has experience with AJAX/HTML
- Is somewhat familiar with the LAMP stack ("full stack") and doing web app deployment to live servers.
*Though PHP doesn't need to be your favorite language; I’m looking at you Python/RoR evangelists!
A little about us: we are a small startup that is highly profitable. We bootstrapped our way to profitability by using minimum money and time (8 months). We are expanding to take on larger challenges and need a great programmer to work with us.
I started out 6-8 months ago by reading through HN and being introduced to the entire idea of bootstrapping. We had an idea that was partly technical, but mostly good marketing (e.g. closer to the idea of the parrot book: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215)
In fact, there are sites that sell wholesale kits for the technical part of the company.
We didn't buy a kit though and took the high road of building all our software in house using hired talent. Most of the work was done through freelancers at under a $3000 budget. (We would not do this again, the code quality on first run was incredibly low and hiring better is definitely worth it).
Getting the marketing working took another few thousands, but all said and done, we got it running with under $10k investment.
What was especially hard for bootstrapping for me was that I'm not a very technical guy. Most bootstrapping ideas here require you to be the engineer, but I didn't have the privilege of that position. I had to pull off a Derek Siver (http://sivers.org/how2hire) to get the idea to work.
Now that it is running though, it's doing great. We're pulling in over $100k of profits on an annualized basis, enough to cover living costs and more for sure.
As an aside, the roadblock we're running into now is that user demands are outstripping my current system of hiring freelancers. I've posted another thread asking for hiring help if anyone has experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932131
Anyway, it's been a really fun ride, and I want to tell everyone that it really can be done. Your idea needs to be creative, and you need to be in a space where bootstrapping is possible (e.g. NOT biotech). The biggest lesson is to have good judgment. While investors are often a burden, they add a lot of experience for real, and with bootstrapping, sometimes you're left completely on your own.
Yeah we actually just posted on that. The problem with stack overflow is that it seems to be overwhelmed by the HR department of ginormous firms (Adobe, Facebook, etc).
The "ambiance" of the place is more like a formal recruiting board versus a place to get talented hackers. Read through the other posts and then look at ours, it really seems out of place: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/9293/
(Note: just want to show a point, if i'm not supposed to post specific info please tell me).
Actually, come to speak of it, the authentic jobs post by zaveri (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932313) seems a lot more promising. Maybe I made a mistake with stack overflow -- the costs of authenticjobs seems lower too.
Unfortunately we're way on the other coast in Cambridge, MA. If you've had good experiences with firms that also work here I'd like to hear about it though!
That's interesting -- have you used this group in the past and thinks have turned out well? I've heard that some recruiters really can be great but often can only be found through recommendations.
Any other recruiter recommendations would be great too. I'm just afraid to go off of a random recruiter from Google Adwords (or even the organic search, given SEO's effectiveness these days).
I have worked with everyone involved, when they were on staff as our recruiting team. They were an awesome in-house team, and considering they are the same team, just as an agency, I am willing to bet they are still awesome.
We’re an online retail/games startup based in Cambridge, MA looking for someone to fill a full-time position as a Lead Developer of web applications.
We compensate very well, paying market rates or above for real talent. You may choose to substitute some equity for salary, but that is not mandatory. A remote working option is available at the start, though in the long term the job is at Cambridge, MA.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has experience building complex web apps (think Facebook).
- Has experience / enjoys the challenge of optimizing complex, time sensitive, applications.
- Has some familiarity with PHP in LAMP (though PHP doesn't need to be your favorite language; I'm looking at you Python/RoR evangelists!)
- System / Database administration familiarity is a plus, since this will be helpful for optimization.
A little about us: we are a small startup that is highly profitable. We bootstrapped our way to profitability by using minimum money and time (8 months). We are expanding to take on larger challenges and need a great programmer to work with us.
Contact me at ao.hiring@gmail.com for more info, or check out our posting here: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/9293/profitable-startu...