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Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA) Developing software appeals to those who love to solve puzzles and apply their brain power -- and also to those, in our exp
by grayfox 11y ago
Compose (IBM) | REMOTE (US, UK, CA)
Developing software appeals to those who love to solve puzzles and apply their brain power -- and also to those, in our experience, who like working from home in their pyjamas. If you're looking to join a forward-thinking industry with a stable outlook (databases-as-a-service), we have a tremendous challenge for you and a terrific team willing and able to support you through it.
Here are a few things that's great about our team:
* Work from anywhere! As long as you're legally able to work in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
* Self-managing, open culture. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.
* Ruby/Go.
* Fantastic salary and benefits - MacBook Pro.
* Join a thriving, respectful and family-like international team.
* Fair and objective hiring. Participate in 'blind-hiring'.
Our hiring process is nifty. We request a work-sample upfront that closely resembles the work you'd be doing within your role. Once you submit, your answers are anonymized then graded by 3 different people following pre-defined criteria.
We want to know, objectively, who is going to both enjoy and crush the work. We have three positions open for candidates:
* Platform Engineer (More back-end)
* Application Developer (More front-end)
* Technical Content Creator ('Developer Advocacy' type of role)
For the full postings checkout https://compose.io/jobs https://compose.io/jobs or email jobs+hn@compose.io with a quick tale about a database you loved, or didn't love and which role intrigues you.
If you have any questions, we'll gladly answer whatever you'd like. Everyone gets a personal response and a fair, respectful 'go' at the process.
- zerr 11y ago> Work from anywhere! > As long as you're legally able to work in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. You know, that's far from "anywhere"... :) What's wrong with working from mainland Europe assuming one can work within UK hours? (and send invoices at the end of months..., aka long-term contracting)
- mrkurt 11y agoYou can _work_ from anywhere, but we can only employ people who are legally able to work in the US, Canada and the UK. We don't like this restriction, but it's a side effect of being part of a very large organization with processes for hiring in every country already in effect.
- zerr 11y agoThanks for the clarification. Big companies are usually able to hire contractors - i.e. not a regular employee within some country, but just an independent service provider. Companies just pay invoices. No [health] insurance, no [paid] vacations, no work-permit sponsorship needed, etc... It would be great if this is possible for Compose "department" as well.
- mrkurt 11y agoTrust me, we haven't missed an easy workaround for this. Big companies also have processes for getting contractors in place, and in many cases it's harder than hiring someone on full time.
- nathanb 11y agoSo what if I were, say, a US citizen living abroad? I am legally able to work in the US and in my home country, but of course since I'm not actually living in the US some companies might find that problematic. Do you?
- saspiesas 11y agoI mean, I could be a UK citizen working from a beach in Thailand but I'd still be a UK citizen...
- lgieron 11y ago> What's wrong with working from mainland Europe assuming one can work within UK hours? People from mainland Europe (EU) are legally able to work in UK.
- toddkazakov 11y agoThey are but it's rather difficult to get national insurance number and open a bank account if you don't live there (and have proof for it, of course).
- hobolord 11y agogreat hiring process and response from the team, even though I didn't get the job I enjoyed my application process