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Open edX / OpenCraft | Full-time | TRUE REMOTE (async/worldwide) | Senior Open Source Developer on Open edX - React, Python/Django, AWS/Kubernetes Do you care

Open edX / OpenCraft | Full-time | TRUE REMOTE (async/worldwide) | Senior Open Source Developer on Open edX - React, Python/Django, AWS/Kubernetes Do you care about contributing to open-source, and appreciate a good challenge? We do too! :) Open-source We are a team of veteran open-source developers, working on educational and community-based projects in an open-first environment – and we are looking for new members. By joining us, you will work full-time on open-source, pushing your changes to free software projects upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation, or help on public forums. We care deeply about contributing our work upstream. You will see the results of your work reused and recognized across the educational community, increasing access to quality education for everyone, everywhere. Remote-first Unlike companies who reluctantly started to accept remote workers recently, we have embraced it from day 1. For the past 7 years, we have based and refined our way of working around remote-friendly workflows, from the ground up. No day-long video meetings, mandatory work hours, or risk of being forced back into an office one day -- as long as you have a good internet connection, it’s none of our business when or where you work from. :) We are all working remotely, from all continents (except Antarctica, at least so far - applicants welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows based on asynchronous principles and good documentation practices. Online education We are one of the main contributors to the Open edX project, the main open-source MOOC platform created by MIT, Harvard and many other top universities. It powers sites like edX.org, the MIT Open Learning Library, and the national online learning platform for France. We provide development and hosting for institutions like Harvard Medical School, Harvard LabXchange, Cloudera, Autodesk, and several governments. We are not affiliated with edX.org, but we contribute and work with them on various projects. Our handbook, like much of our work, is publicly viewable and you can find it at https://handbook.opencraft.com/ https://handbook.opencraft.com/. Apply for this Position See the full details and apply at https://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/ https://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/ Job description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgA7geR5oAsHzTRnldm6KU7LK9c7pvbMAbSkt0ihNho/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgA7geR5oAsHzTRnldm6KU7L...

ChaitanyaSai 4y ago
Interested in seeing how startups (and large companies) are tackling TRUE REMOTE. Just skimmed your handbook and it looks fantastic! I imagine documentation is crucial. Any other resources on how you have evolved and managed remote work? (I only looked briefly but didnt find a section in the handbook). Thanks!
- antoviaque 4y ago
  Yes, documentation is quite crucial! There are actually lots of elements that we developed over the year to manage the full remote -- and we started as true remote / any timezone from the ground up 10 years ago, so quite a lot went into it over the years. Most of the handbook itself comes from that - and as you have noted it has gotten quite thick ;p But I think if I had to narrow it down to one core element, it's to focus on making all the processes as asynchronous as possible. Ie, limit chat & meetings to the strict minimum, and replaced them with async discussions on tickets, PRs, forums & checklists tools like https://www.listaflow.com/ https://www.listaflow.com/ (we have even gotten rid of the sprint meetings! no more 3am meeting for anyone, even when in the Pacific :) ). Also we come from the free software / open source world, so quite a lot is inspired from it. If you're interested in discussing more, don't hesitate to reply & ask questions here, or email me at xavier AT opencraft DOT com.
  - ChaitanyaSai 4y ago
    Thanks Xavier! Will reach out once I've gone through the handbook.

ChaitanyaSai 4y ago

Interested in seeing how startups (and large companies) are tackling TRUE REMOTE. Just skimmed your handbook and it looks fantastic! I imagine documentation is crucial. Any other resources on how you have evolved and managed remote work? (I only looked briefly but didnt find a section in the handbook). Thanks!

antoviaque 4y ago
Yes, documentation is quite crucial! There are actually lots of elements that we developed over the year to manage the full remote -- and we started as true remote / any timezone from the ground up 10 years ago, so quite a lot went into it over the years. Most of the handbook itself comes from that - and as you have noted it has gotten quite thick ;p But I think if I had to narrow it down to one core element, it's to focus on making all the processes as asynchronous as possible. Ie, limit chat & meetings to the strict minimum, and replaced them with async discussions on tickets, PRs, forums & checklists tools like https://www.listaflow.com/ https://www.listaflow.com/ (we have even gotten rid of the sprint meetings! no more 3am meeting for anyone, even when in the Pacific :) ). Also we come from the free software / open source world, so quite a lot is inspired from it. If you're interested in discussing more, don't hesitate to reply & ask questions here, or email me at xavier AT opencraft DOT com.
- ChaitanyaSai 4y ago
  Thanks Xavier! Will reach out once I've gone through the handbook.