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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

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Post by arn »

AppShopper.com is looking for a full time PHP/MySQL developer (Remote employees welcome). It will cover both backend/frontend maintenance as well as new features. We are a very popular App Store index and price tracker and are growing in popularity with both the website and our iPhone App. We are trying to take it to the next level, and require additional developer resources. We're bootstrapped and profitable.

AppShopper is part of a small family of websites including MacRumors.com and TouchArcade.com. If you are interested, please contact me at arn@normalkid.com.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#32

Post by olalonde »

kemayo wrote: post #30

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the back burner that we'd like to get started on. We won't be hiring you for any specific project; rather we'll be picking projects from the backlog once we have a sense for your strengths. W…

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#33

Post by spudlyo »

Blue Gecko (a remote DBA services company) is looking for intermediate to expert MySQL or PostgreSQL DBAs. Although our headquarters is in Seattle, many of our DBAs work at home full time, and our corporate culture is configured to accommodate remote workers. Since we operate 24/7 we need folks in every timezone.

Drop me a line if you're interested, my email address is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#34

Post by shareme »

olalonde wrote: post #32
kemayo wrote: post #30

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the back burner that we'd like to get started on. We won't be hiring you for any specific project; rather we'll be picking projects from the backlog once we have a sense for your strengths. W…

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

they do that with every job they advertise..I tend to not to believe them

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#35

Post by bravura »

MetaOptimize hacks large data using machine learning, natural language processing, and visualization. Check out our ML+NLP Q+A forum: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/

I am, in particular, interested in the following three profiles:

* You have a strong background in applied machine learning or statistical analysis.

* or, You have a strong background in data visualization.

* or, You are a fast hacker, and can deliver bug-free Python code very quickly.

If you don't fit one of these three profiles, but you kick ass, feel free to email me anyway.

The main quality I am looking for is that I can give you an underspecified problem, and you can run with it. If you have analysis paralysis and want to email me back and forth many times before you can make a decision, this is the wrong job for you.

Please email me at joseph at metaoptimize dot com.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#36

Post by lfittl »

olalonde wrote: post #32
kemayo wrote: post #30

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the back burner that we'd like to get started on. We won't be hiring you for any specific project; rather we'll be picking projects from the backlog once we have a sense for your strengths. W…

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

Looks like they want to have only the best candidate, but for maintaining a horrible codebase. Obviously a position that's hard to fill.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#37

Post by pdelgallego »

jackowayed wrote: post #23
nickbarnwell wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's often difficult to hire a remote intern as so much of the benefit from both parties comes from working alongside the other. That's hard to replicate remotely, and you often (but not always) end up as nothing more than less expensive labor.

As someone who worked as a remote intern one summer, I'd be interested in hearing why you think that. It helped that the company had a very Campfire-heavy culture, but I don't think the experience would have been too much better for either side if I had been onsite.

I have been also a intern a remote intern and was a complete success, I also participated two times in Google Summer of Code and I learn tons of things.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#38

Post by kemayo »

olalonde wrote: post #32
kemayo wrote: post #30

deviantART! We're looking for senior (team-lead) and regular developers. It's a PHP job, and we exclusively hire remote workers. We have about 16 developers at the moment, but we're expanding because we have a lot of projects on the back burner that we'd like to get started on. We won't be hiring you for any specific project; rather we'll be picking projects from the backlog once we have a sense for your strengths. W…

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

We've hired something like 4 people since we started talking about it here, I think.

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#39

Post by tocomment »

shareme wrote: post #34
olalonde wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

they do that with every job they advertise..I tend to not to believe them

Believe what?

Re: Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

#40

Post by kemayo »

kemayo wrote: post #38
olalonde wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...

We've hired something like 4 people since we started talking about it here, I think.

Heh, yes. Developer team size is up to 23 now according to our about-us page. My estimate in that post was totally off.
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