what do you think about this? am I missing something?
We're not looking for engineers that purely do work for their employer and then turn it off when they head home. Since this will be our ~8th employee, they need to be ready to really dive into the work, and those people tend to have a portfolio. Of course, I'm open to people without one - there needs to be a stronger pitch than just a resume.
Hopefully that makes sense!
In my case I worked on several side projects, i.e: https://itkdb.com and https://github.com/pedrohidalgo/pleasure
But the quality of my open source and side projects can't be compared to the quality of my daily job because of time and resources issues. So I still think that my portfolio as a backend developer won't be good enough because the awesome work is closed source and webapps are not accessible to the outside world.
When you say: "there is usually something they've done at work they can discuss" then you're not talking about portfolio.
Thanks again!
Flip is the easiest way to sublet or get out of your lease. We're growing quickly, just raised new funding from Union Square Ventures and are hiring a small team (5-7) of talented product engineers.
We care a lot about how our product looks and feels. We're looking for people that love to work on consumer facing products and care a lot about the details. We're a team of 90% engineers, so you'll have a lot of freedom to execute and flexibility in hours. We pride ourselves on few meetings.
We're focused on creating an amazing experience for renting any space, and we're building out every tool core to that experience.
We're hiring for:
* Backend data engineer (we use microservices, so we're open to many languages but Node experience is necessary for working with our API)
Apply here:
https://angel.co/flipyourlease or reach out directly to [email protected] with a portfolio (we don't care about resumes as much as pure output).
Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe and Airbnb, so if you like and respect those companies give us a shout :)
Some of our current team:
https://dribbble.com/BurakAslan
https://dribbble.com/jon-hargreaves
https://dribbble.com/owensbla (Our head of API eng!)
and me!
https://dribbble.com/RDGthree