Stacker News \ Austin or Remote \ 100k boost \ @k00b 22 Feb 2023 jobs
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kk@stacker.news
Stacker News makes economically productive forums for curious people using bitcoin, lightning, webs of trust, and nostr.
SN is seeking an Everything Engineer to be programming hire #2, 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 wallets, user generated economies, censorship resistance, privacy preserving business models, decentralized social media, decentralized trust, using money to determine information quality, and sybil-resistance in the digital commons.
Bitcoin's properties are SN's goal post. Our dream is for SN to function autonomously by virtue of its incentives and the value it brings people.
View our preseed and seed raise announcements.

This position is especially well suited to programmers that want to be founders or are founder-like, 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, nimble team, 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.
I am not qualified for any of this whatsoever, but I absolutely love your approach to hiring. It's almost like stacker news a fiat-less venture or something.
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In another life maybe
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143 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 19 Sep
Deal, so long as I get to work with you on your biz in one of my other lives.
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Ehhhh that’s a tough one. Can’t make any guarantees
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🧐
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I don't feel comfortable giving 6.5 pages of all the details of my life to this. I'd like to remain anonymous. I'm at a cybersecurity meetup right now. I'll try to make a redacted resume specifically for SN. Thanks for boosting.
I also checked the "difficulty:medium-hard" issue. The front page is so full that there is a big need to scale, sort, and filter, and soon.
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Amazing vacancy content. I love the position.
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The unique skills I haven’t learned was postgress. I know about SQL.
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I would love to, but I have only recently started my Bitcoin journey and I still consider myself a beginner.
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It seems that programming is not my expertise, maybe there are other friends who can help who are experts in programming, but my hope is that SN will continue to develop and be known to many people and make a good contribution.
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Was this boosted because you still looking for a dev? Its from feb 2023 thats why i ask... Is this a fullnl time position?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 21 Sep
Yes, still open and full time
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It sounds very interesting... Although so far i was more working on backend side (mostly c , bash, python, go, an so on) However i will need some time as i go on a two weeks trip now and need to look at the issues then (and hopefully submit some code😊)
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I'm actually interested. But I am not a programmer, I'm guessing that's a pre-req
Confused by this.
Once you've complete a few difficulty:medium-hard or difficulty:hard issues, send a resume to kk@stacker.news.
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Fix bugs, write patches, get hired. In that order.
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meow approved.
How to apply ?
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