Octocom | London | ONSITE | Full-time | Full Stack Developer | £50k-90k salary + Substantial Equity
We’re an early stage startup building a solution to streamline the online shopping experience, guiding customers to their ideal product choice using conversational agents. Essentially, our vision is to replicate the experience of in-store expert shopping advisors, but online.
We’ve launched our product and already have paying clients. So far we are growing substantially fast (4x revenue from past quarter) and our biggest bottleneck is product development speed.
We are looking for a generalist that is capable of quickly building web apps, integrations, scrapers, and algorithms. Additionally, interest/experience in LLM applications AND/OR information retrieval systems is preferred, yet not required. We don’t have a strict requirement for experience or education; candidates will be judged on merit (speed, skills, intelligence). Stack: TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL.
Octocom | Remote | Europe | Full-time | Full Stack Developer | $50k-90k salary + Substantial Equity
We’re a well-funded startup building a solution to streamline the online shopping experience, guiding customers to their ideal product choice using conversational agents. Essentially, our vision is to replicate the experience of in-store expert shopping advisors, but online.
We’ve launched our product and already have paying clients. So far we are growing substantially fast (3x revenue from past quarter) and our biggest bottleneck is product development speed.
We are looking for a generalist that is capable of quickly building web apps, integrations, scrapers, and algorithms. Additionally, interest/experience in LLM applications AND/OR information retrieval systems is preferred, yet not required. We don’t have a strict requirement for experience or education; candidates will be judged on merit (speed, skills, intelligence). Stack: TypeScript, React, Serverless, PostgreSQL.
We recently started searching for our startup's first paid programmer, and we thought it would be easy to find a competent candidate, especially when offering attractive compensation. However, we were wrong. At first, we thought we were just bad at recruiting, but after talking with our angel investor, we realized that it is not only difficult (especially for a young startup) but also significantly harder than finding new clients. Does every young startup face the same problem?
Every company faces that problem irrespective of start up.
* Start ups face this problem in a magnified way due to bias and non-commoditization. In software hiring is always plagued by bias and in start ups this tends to be magnified. That is because hiring is higher risk for start ups and nobody can define a standard for competence in writing software.
* Most software developers aren’t that good and when a candidate is potentially stunning they tend to get overlooked for really bad reasons. When you put all the perceptions, bias, and bullshit aside writing software is just another form of technical writing. If a person cannot write in their natural language, such as an essay, they won’t be able to write original application code. The mental challenges are all the same, so just give candidates an essay as their technical filter. Tools, frameworks, and other bullshit cannot compensate for this but most employers, especially start ups, will pretend otherwise at great cost and disappointment.
* So many people value all the wrong things in software that they deserve to fail. The only purpose of software is automation, so automate the shit out of it. If the value returned by a developer is directly proportional to their manual efforts that developer is just costing you money and it’s most likely your fault as the employer for setting horrid expectations. Part of the reason is because people set really low expectations for success, such as struggling to just put text on screen (that is not an elaboration) and then believing that to be an enormous triumph like walking on the moon. Seriously, grow up and set more valid expectations. There are many people in software who fail at this out of fear or cowardice due to emotional, behavioral, or neurological failures despite putting up a tough, deceptive, or narcissistic front.
There is no such thing as ex-FAANG where we are looking for employees. As we are a remote company and ourselves are from Lithuania (Eastern Europe), we primarily look for employees from that region. Senior developers here usually earn between gross €5,000 - €7,000 per month.
Octocom | Remote | Europe | Full-time | Founding Engineer / Web Developer | Competitive Salary + Substantial Equity
We’re a well-funded startup building a solution to streamline the online shopping experience, guiding customers to their ideal product choice using conversational agents. Essentially, our vision is to replicate the experience of in-store expert shopping advisors, but online.
We’ve launched our product and already have paying clients. So far we are growing substantially fast (4x revenue from past quarter) and our biggest bottleneck is product development speed.
We are looking for a generalist that is capable of quickly building web apps, integrations, scrapers, and algorithms. Additionally, interest/experience in LLM applications AND/OR information retrieval systems is preferred, yet not required. We don’t have a strict requirement for experience or education; candidates will be judged on merit (speed, skills, intelligence). Stack: TypeScript, React, Serverless, PostgreSQL.
We’re an early stage startup building a solution to streamline the online shopping experience, guiding customers to their ideal product choice using conversational agents. Essentially, our vision is to replicate the experience of in-store expert shopping advisors, but online.
We’ve launched our product and already have paying clients. So far we are growing substantially fast (4x revenue from past quarter) and our biggest bottleneck is product development speed.
We are looking for a generalist that is capable of quickly building web apps, integrations, scrapers, and algorithms. Additionally, interest/experience in LLM applications AND/OR information retrieval systems is preferred, yet not required. We don’t have a strict requirement for experience or education; candidates will be judged on merit (speed, skills, intelligence). Stack: TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL.
Interested? oliver [at] [octocomai.com](http://octocomai.com/)