Voldex Services - Curating Developers - $15+/h

[FakeNeth]

What We Do​

We're the people behind PrimeMC, Raid Central, Sky Metro and many more large-scale Minecraft servers. We develop the front and back end for these servers, which is a daunting task. In the process, we have gained valuable knowledge and skills that are unmatched.

Here's Our Plan​

As our servers grow so does our workload and infrastructure. One of our biggest challenges is writing an elastic infrastructure that can handle all of our servers at peak load and beyond. We have quite a robust infrastructure which has served use quite well. The problem is most developers have very little experience with large scale operations, thus have not used any enterprise grade infrastructure tools and libraries. Our plan is to walk you through the process and mold you into a developer that has real enterprise level experience.

What We Expect From You​

Before you even think about applying look at the list below and ask yourself if you can deliver on our expectations

• Dedicated (20 hours a week minimum)
• Be able to apply common design patterns effectively (http://www.journaldev.com/1827/java-design-patterns-example-tutorial)
• Willingness to learn and adapt new habits
• Be attentive during meetings and show up on time
• Know Java 8 like the back of your hand
• Have a solid portfolio of code, the code doesn't have to be part of a reputable project, we just want to get a feel for your knowledge base.

What You Will Learn​

If you already have knowledge of any of the below, state that on your application and provide a code snippet to support your claim

Infrastructure

• https://spring.io/ and http://vertx.io/ (Rest framework)
• https://flynn.io/ and https://www.heroku.com/ (PaaS)
• https://github.com/mongodb/morphia (MongoDB)
• https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson and https://github.com/google/gson (JSON)
• and many more

Skills

• Writing pretty and clean code
• Working in an agile environment with scrum meetings
• Design and implement full scale infrastructure implementations
• Learn to take criticism, advice and outside opinion
• Extensive knowledge of modern architectures used by some of the biggest companies (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc)

How You Will Be Payed​

You will be paid by the hour at a fixed hourly rate. Your hourly rate can be discussed upon hiring, we are open to $15 per hour or more depending on your skill set. All your hours will be tracked through https://www.wrike.com, Wrike has all of our active projects and tasks, which you will be assigned during our weekly meetings. You can be paid at anytime through PayPal, you just have to make a request.

How To Apply​

All applications will be sent through spigot private messaging, this is the easiest way to communicate with you as you most likely have an account if you are viewing this post. If you are interested in applying, send the application shown below to the CJP10 on the spigot forums.

The application should be in the following format

Name:
Location:
Timezone:
Education:
Current/Past Occupations:
Code Samples/Past Works:
Resume (optional):
Extra Details:

Spoiler: Example App

Name: Connor Peticca

Location: Ontario, Canada

Timezone: EST

Education: Currently doing Masters in CS at York University

Current/Past Occupations: Currently Work for Voldex Services and recently finished an internship at Salesforce

Code Samples/Past Works:
Micro service I wrote to authenticate a user - https://github.com/Exorath-Cloud/Authentication-Service

Morphia snippet - https://github.com/Exorath-Cloud/Au...ath/cloud/authentication/MongoDBProvider.java

My spigot tutorials, read them for context
https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/axis-aligned-effects.183414
https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/particle-cuboid-util.198217/
https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/instrumentation.177265/
https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/hitboxes-and-ray-tracing.174358/

Resume:

Extra Details:
Programming has been a passion of mine since elementary school. I got a very early start, in turn I have a mature programming style which I try to keep to industry standards. This has brought me great success and enabled me to elevate to he next level of programming. I hope to bring this to Voldex and propel your servers to new heights.

 

[FakeNeth]

Canadian business nice, can I ask where you work out of?

We don't have an office. We have team members working remotely from all around the world in places such as Canada, America, Europe, and Asia.

 

[KingWampy]

Ahh Quebec nice

How do you get Quebec from just Canada?

 

[evoltr]

You guys seem to be looking for devs quite often lol.

 

[FakeNeth]

You guys seem to be looking for devs quite often lol.

We've started up a new project which calls for more developers, and a lot of the developers we hire end up not working out over time.

 

[FakeNeth]

We've changed what we are looking for and have re-opened the thread.