Hiring Java (& JavaScript) Developers ($15+/h) [Closed]

[FakeNeth]

Who Are We
I work for a few large Minecraft servers, namely PrimeMC & Raid Central. We’re looking to hire someone to help develop new features for both servers.


Payment
We pay our developers hourly. All hours must be tracked and clocked on the company's hour management platform. Payment will start at $15/hr and increase depending on the applicant’s knowledge & experience. We will agree on a rate before you start work. Payment will be made weekly via PayPal.


Hours
We are looking for someone to be available roughly 20 hours per week or more. When you do these hours is up to you. For all we care, you could do nothing all week then work 20hrs on a Saturday.


What We Want Of You
We expect anyone who is hired to be ready to begin work within 2-3 days of being hired. More information will be given to the chosen candidates once they sign a standard NDA (non-disclosure-agreement).


Requirements

• Extensive Java knowledge.
• Extensive knowledge of the Spigot/Bukkit API.
• Experience with maven & gradle.
• Experience with working in multi-threaded environments.
• Decent understanding of MySQL and how to integrate it into your plugins.
• Ability to produce optimized code.
• Ability to follow our set of code conventions (to be provided upon acceptance)
• Ability to show past projects and work.
• Decent response time.
• Adept understanding of Java 8.
• Ability to speak fluent English.
• Preferred Nashorn interpreted ES6 experience (optional)
• Ability to sign an NDA.
• RELIABLE

Contact
Email [email protected] with your resume and title your email “Developer Application - [YourNameHere]”. Your email should include the following:

• Your Full Name
• Your Minecraft username
• Your Skype username
• Your Location and Time Zone
• Link to your Github Profile (you may add @ FakeNeth to any private repositories. After review, all downloaded files (if any) will be deleted)
• Link to source code of previous projects
• Resume (if applicable)
• What do you think is your greatest programming accomplishment?
• What do you think was your greatest programming obstacle? How did you overcome this obstacle?
• How many hours are you available for every week, & what are any limitations that might prevent you from achieving those hours?
• How much would you like to be paid per hour?

 

[FakeNeth]

Change the colors for the first part, people using the dark theme can't read it.

My apologies, don't use the dark theme so wasn't aware. It this blue better?

 

[Guusz]

Sent an e-mail, I am excited to work with you.

 

[FakeNeth]

Set the color to none. It will automatically change depending on the theme.

Ahh, did not see that option. Should be good now, thanks for your help ^_^

 

[iRice]

Sent an email! I'm looking forward to the opportunity to work with you.

 

[NoReach__]

https://www.minehq.com/pages/jobs Could of at least made your application form unique

 

[Overlord]

https://www.minehq.com/pages/jobs Could of at least made your application form unique

lol. They threw in a bunch of NDA crap. The main reason I wouldn't apply. Any company that blabs on about NDAs is never one that I want to work for.

 

[FakeNeth]

lol. They threw in a bunch of NDA crap. The main reason I wouldn't apply. Any company that blabs on about NDAs is never one that I want to work for.

What is wrong with an NDA? Its for legality purposes in case anyone gets an idea of publicly leaking our property. Any professional company out there, whether it be Google, Apple, etc, has some form of legal binding agreement to protect their property.

 

[Overlord]

What is wrong with an NDA? Its for legality purposes in case anyone gets an idea of publicly leaking our property. Any professional company out there, whether it be Google, Apple, etc, has some form of legal binding agreement to protect their property.

It's expected that I'd sign a contract, an employment contract including a NDA. It's just very strange to have it multiple times in your presentation of the offer. To me, that feels like the concept of NDAs amazes you more than the development itself, which is a bit of an "eh" in my head. I'd want to join a team that puts the passion for development before anything else. Look at the same companies you mentioned, Google, Apple, employees will all sign employment contracts but their recruiting pages don't have any mention of it. That's because it's not what entices people to join. I mean, even if you look at bigger servers like hypixel and hive, they don't mention an NDA.

If you have to mention NDA multiple times to entice people to join, either it's a very boring position, or you find the concept of NDAs as something amazing which tbh only kids do. Businesses only care for them because they help prevent ideas leaking. We don't enjoy contracts.

 

[FakeNeth]

It's expected that I'd sign a contract, an employment contract including a NDA. It's just very strange to have it multiple times in your presentation of the offer. To me, that feels like the concept of NDAs amazes you more than the development itself, which is a bit of an "eh" in my head. I'd want to join a team that puts the passion for development before anything else. Look at the same companies you mentioned, Google, Apple, employees will all sign employment contracts but their recruiting pages don't have any mention of it. That's because it's not what entices people to join. I mean, even if you look at bigger servers like hypixel and hive, they don't mention an NDA.

If you have to mention NDA multiple times to entice people to join, either it's a very boring position, or you find the concept of NDAs as something amazing which tbh only kids do. Businesses only care for them because they help prevent ideas leaking. We don't enjoy contracts.

What are you even talking about? Its literally mentioned twice, one time to inform you that we won't give out all of our information until you legally agree you wont release it, and another to inform you that you may only apply if you can accept that agreement.

If anything we're giving you a heads up for what you are applying for- a legitimate business that cares about the work we pay you to create, not some run of the mill server.

Google & Apple don't mention it because its a given that you will have to obviously sign contract(s) to work for them. So there is no point in mentioning something in their applications that someone who is applying already knows.

If you don't like contracts, I respectfully ask you not to apply since all this "contract" does is legally prevent you from leaking, and if you aren't happy with legally agreeing not to leak, there is no possible way we'd be able to trust you enough to hire you.

 

[Hiry]

NDAs in minecraft are useless. You're not willing to take legal action against someone for disclosing information.

 

[FakeNeth]

NDAs in minecraft are useless. You're not willing to take legal action against someone for disclosing information.

They aren't exactly "useless". If anything it just strengthens the option for proper legal action if such measures need to be taken.

Anyways, please keep this thread on topic. The NDA is honestly a 1 time thing you agree to when you join us, and you will never hear of it again unless you violate it (which no one has managed to do with my time at these servers).

 

[FakeNeth]

Let's be completely honest with one another and the community.

If a virtual character, especially one of whom you don't personally know, agrees to sign a so-called "NDA", and lies about their age (most people do, due to tense security paranoia), your whole "legal NDA" is void.

A) You wouldn't be able to take legal action, even if you were willing to pay the dozens of lawyer fees and state taxes

B) Would you really want to take action against someone you don't personally know, especially if it was just in violation of a preliminary NDA, that was violated from sharing a non-registered companies information

I just said it strengthens the option. Never said we'd utilize that option (not up to me, I do not own the business).

But please, lets keep this thread on topic from now on as like I've said, an NDA is nothing new & its something that will take <5 minutes and really shouldn't change anything about the job if you're actually serious about it. Thank you