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SEEKING FREELANCER -- REMOTE OK. Open Source Developer on Open edX (OpenCraft - Remote/worldwide company incorporated in Berlin) Development specialized on the

SEEKING FREELANCER -- REMOTE OK. Open Source Developer on Open edX (OpenCraft - Remote/worldwide company incorporated in Berlin) Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of sixteen developers, all working remotely from Europe, North & South America, Asia & Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but rather contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from anywhere you want, as long as you have a good internet connection. : ) The Open edX platform is a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, MIT, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are very varied, from developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working fullstack, operating our service infrastructure, improving our hosting platform, etc. You won't get bored here. Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing most of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists. Stack: Python/Django, Ansible, AWS/OpenStack, Debian/Ubuntu, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, JS, HTML/CSS. Nice to haves: AWS/OpenStack, Terraform, Vault, Packer, Prometheus, ELK, Docker, Android/iOS. We are building a modern infrastructure and having a strong DevOps presence on top of core software engineering skills is a big plus with us. Interview process: a 30 minutes Hangout with a (simple) coding exercise. To apply, fill this form: http://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/ http://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/

dang 9y ago
You cross posted this to the Who Is Hiring thread and this Freelancer thread. Please don't do that.
- antoviaque 9y ago
  Good to know, thanks for the note. I assumed this was fine because we do get candidates from both audiences - we hire for full time gigs, but a lot of the applicants are freelancers, and keep doing some other smaller gigs on the side. We don't have a clear separation between freelancers and full timers internally, given the remote & flexible schedule approach.

dang 9y ago

You cross posted this to the Who Is Hiring thread and this Freelancer thread. Please don't do that.

antoviaque 9y ago
Good to know, thanks for the note. I assumed this was fine because we do get candidates from both audiences - we hire for full time gigs, but a lot of the applicants are freelancers, and keep doing some other smaller gigs on the side. We don't have a clear separation between freelancers and full timers internally, given the remote & flexible schedule approach.