Stacker News solves the problems of online communities using economics.
SN is seeking an Everything Engineer to be programming hire #2 (or #3 ... we have someone testing for #2 right now), serve the 25k+ registered stackers, and attract and prepare SN for the next 100k.
You'll contribute to the hard problems we believe the internet needs to solve: non-custodial lightning app spending/receiving, sybil-resistance in the digital commons, social consensus in world where everyone has their own feed and facts, censorship resistance, privacy preserving business models, and using money to determine information quality.
Our goal is to make running online communities profitable for the people doing the hard work of bringing people together. Our dream is for SN to function autonomously through incentives and for its communities to be immortal.
This position is especially well suited to programmers that want autonomy and creative freedom. Programmers that want to work hard, learn a lot, test their limits, and ship non-stop. If you're looking for a chill cushy job this isn't it.
What we mean by everything engineer:
- comfortable building UI/UX and optimizing and scaling backends
- not afraid of designing protocols and algorithms, and writing system software if/when needed
- open to learning whatever is necessary to get the job done
- you don't need to be told what to do
- programming is your calling and you aim to be a master
You should be:
- extraordinarily honest
- extraordinarily curious
- attracted to solving hard problems
You should be experienced or look forward to getting experienced with most of the major components in our stack:
- javascript
- react
- postgres
- lnd
SN is FOSS and you can peep it here: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news
SN's solution scope spans non-technical domains and you should at least be excited to learn about them:
- game theory
- economics
- trust/reputation
- group psychology
- network effects
- information mapping
- design
To apply for a full time position, start by getting paid to contribute to our open source project: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news
Applications will be ignored if you haven't made open source contributions to SN first. We pay bitcoin for contributions and have put a lot of effort into making it easy to contribute.
Once you've complete a few
difficulty:medium-hard or difficulty:hard issues, send a resume to kk@stacker.news.Full time compensation will be based on excellence. We want a small team of full stack engineers that can work in parallel, and will pay above average wages for above average work. We are generous with equity. We hire internationally and are time zone neutral. We can cover medical and dental.