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Howdy folks, I look after a team responsible for R&D and AI within a much larger, financially successful / bootstrapped SaaS company. In the new year I'll be hi
by ghuntley 8y ago
Howdy folks, I look after a team responsible for R&D and AI within a much larger, financially successful / bootstrapped SaaS company. In the new year I'll be hiring and/or building more Haskellers.
# hypothesis
there is a huge pool of people out there wanting to do Haskell as their day job and use it build real products that make money. This is a way companies can solve their talent acquisition problems.
# timebox & decision
I'm not currently hiring at the moment but please leave your digits at https://ghuntley.com/im-hiring https://ghuntley.com/im-hiring and when I am you'll be on the shortlist of people to catch up with before publicly advertising any positions.
# implementation
- stimulating work at a SaaS product company w/competitive renumeration and perks (inc flexible working)
- existing knowledge of functional programming not required as new faces bring new perspectives and ideas.
- building an inclusive (gender, sexuality, neuro, kids/no-kids) aka diverse team that teaches and shares knowledge freely
- usage of functional programming in the industry to build products that make money
- optimising for approachable codebases that are easy understand and work with
- regular deployments into production (min once a day) with appropriate telemetry
- building local and international brand awareness by:
- contributing back to open-source projects (financially & labour contributions)
- teaching people who attend the https://www.meetup.com/SydneyHaskell/ study group
- authoring technical content on medium
- attracting and building public speakers by supporting them via T&E
# goal & success metric
build a short-list of people who:
- are currently doing functional programming OR are interested in switching to Haskell / functional programming
- live in Sydney, Australia or Chicago, Illinois and/or would consider a relocation to Sydney, Australia or Chicago, Illinois.
hiring candidates from this short-list or through word of mouth recommendations based upon activities our team does in the community