Looking for kotlin developers for a huge upcoming project

[Kulere]

Hello.

I am looking for developers to assist with an upcoming 1.8 and 1.20 PvP server. Due to the server still being very early in development, the name and plans will not be announced publicly.
Due to the projects state, all developers bound to the project are working 100% voluntarily due to us not having a estimated release date and budget. Though all developers are guaranteed to be paid on a monthly basis once the project has been released.

Job Description

• Developing and maintaining plugins used across our upcoming network.
• Collaborate with other developers to write clean and readable code.
• Must be willing to learn.

Requirements:

• Must have experience with Redis and MongoDB (or willingness to learn)
• Must have 1+ year of experience developing in Kotlin
• Able to push code regularly to Git
• Minimum of 4 months of experience with the Bukkit API
• Prior experience with other large minecraft servers is a huge plus
• Willing to communicate via Discord, voice preferred
• Must be 16+ years of age and willing to sign a NDA

Please fill out this form if this interests you.

Side Note: All candidates that gets accepted will of course be let known of our plan and invited to our discord server. Only reason we're not giving any information publicly is to avoid any potential competitors from copying our ideas.

 

[fr3qu3ncy]

I'll never understand this. You have all these requirements, yet you don’t pay the person who’s putting in their time for you? How can you guarantee to pay your devs later, if you can’t guarantee that your project will even succeed? Where will that money come from, if the server dies?

 

[Kulere]

I'll never understand this. You have all these requirements, yet you don’t pay the person who’s putting in their time for you? How can you guarantee to pay your devs later, if you can’t guarantee that your project will even succeed? Where will that money come from, if the server dies?

Good question. If the server doesn't succeed, developers will be paid from my own wallet, therefore all developers are guaranteed a payment.

 

[fr3qu3ncy]

Good question. If the server doesn't succeed, developers will be paid from my own wallet, therefore all developers are guaranteed a payment.

Okay, but then why not just do it like that right away? I’d understand if this was a small project for people who are learning, but you are looking for a real software engineer.

 

[Kulere]

Okay, but then why not just do it like that right away? I’d understand if this was a small project for people who are learning, but you are looking for a real software engineer.

Appreciate the feedback. I don't want to pay any developers yet since everything is being re-invested back into the server. This doesn't mean I don't value their work, just that everything I put into the server is expected to being made back from sales once the server is public. Though I can see where you're coming from and will change the requirements based of the feedback you have provided.

 

[X1XX]

You have an awful big list of requirements and some interesting wording in your application form. This would scare off anyone looking for some money, even if you say payment is guaranteed, lip service is cheap. You might attract more if you change the wording from voluntary to something else. Such as it's a loan, because you guarantee to pay back a loan, and the loans repayment period is when the server releases or when it becomes evident that the server failed by some objective metric, but voluntary work isn't guaranteed to get paid back. For anyone applying to this, read the form carefully where it says "You understand the work is our property and your work is 100% voluntary"... Pay us back lol, this smells like used car salesman from a million miles away. If I were to work for you, I'd require you let me have access to whatever API you're using to collect payments (Stripe, Tebex, CraftingStore) to check how much you're making and require you to put up some collateral lol.

FYI - Budgets are BS because requirements change. It's your Burn Rate that matters. How much money are you spending in a time period and is it being used optimally to reach the goals you want. In your case, it would be the features for the initial release of your server.