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Happy Dogs NYC (happydogsnyc.com) | Django web app developer | PART-TIME 10-20 hours/week | REMOTE OK

Love Django, web development, and dogs?

Happy Dogs NYC, a thriving multi-location dog daycare business in New York City founded by two MIT alums, is looking for a Django developer for new feature development, general code maintenance, and bug-fixing for a Django web app which is the backbone of our operations, including internal workflow, customer relationship management, social media integration, and payment processing. The app has more than 50k lines of code.

You will under the supervision of the original programmer of the website, who is an MIT computer science graduate who was previously a product director at Google, and you will receive a thorough handover on the project from the current programmer (who also happens to be an MIT grad). There will be regular code reviews for code style and quality.

Requirements: -- Several years of hands-on experience with Django -- A love of Python -- Class-based views, multiple inheritance, monkeypatching? -- no problem -- Skill with Javascript -- Good taste in programming -- Postgres and MongoDB experience (including PyMongo) -- Strong software development practices -- Experience with unit testing -- Unix sysops/devops knowledge a plus -- Experience with celery and Redis a plus -- Great verbal and written communicator -- Strong independent problem-solving skills -- A knack for understanding business requirements -- Excellent attitude -- enjoyable to work with

Hours are flexible -- likely to around 10 to 20 hours a week. This will be an open-ended gig -- with the intention of working together for at least a year.

The position is suitable for both a seasoned Django programmer and for a more junior programmer looking to build on their existing skills and learn from code reviews. Pay will be commensurate with skill level and experience.

To apply, please email ien@happydogsnyc.com and include a CV and some recent code samples (ideally from a Django project) that demonstrate how you think and write in code, as well as your hourly rate.


Playful People | New York, NY | Remote | Onsite

New New York-based Indie game studio at alpha stage of mobile music game looking for part-time (possibly to full-time) junior Unity3D C# developer to help get us through to the release.

You either have decent Unity3D experience and are looking to improve your C# code quality or are have C# .NET experience and are looking to improve your Unity3D-specific skills -- while working on a cool paid project.

Also looking for summer interns.

The studio is led by former Google PM director whose previous project has been exhibited at IndieCade EAST. We care about great gameplay and great code quality.

If interested, email ien@alum.mit.edu.


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Unity C# game programmer for 1-month contract | New York City or REMOTE

Indie gamemaker looking for help finishing initial version of mobile music game.

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You:

* Pragmatic and productive

* Cares about code quality

* Has great "taste" in code style and architecture

* Clear thinker and communicator

* Deep experience with Unity3D including for mobile

* Works with not against the "zen" of Unity

* Uses git (and writes git commit messages) properly

* Enjoys detailed code reviews and feedback

* Shader experience helpful

* Thinks questions like "OOP versus functional" are fun to discuss

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This is a 1-month paid contract, with the possibility for extension.

Remote is ok, but if you are in New York also, I'm part of a programmer collective in Brooklyn and you are welcome to sit with us for the project.

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To apply, please email me at ien@alum.mit.edu and include:

* Your resume and/or open-source profile and/or StackOverflow profile and/or personal website

* Ideally, a sample Unity project that demonstrates how you organize projects and code architecture in relation to the Unity editor.

* If you can't include a sample project, please include a few meaty C# code examples that help me see how you think and write in code.

* A 1-phrase or sentence response to each of the bullet points about "You" above. Your contract rate for 1 month of full-time work.


New York (or remote)

Unique opportunity to create a niche SaaS startup based on a fully functioning market-leading product.

A thriving New York-based multi-location dog daycare/boarding company is seeking the right person (or team of two people) to spin-off its internal webapp system into a startup SaaS business and lead and build the resulting venture.

There is an attractive opportunity to productize and sell this webapp service to other daycare/boarding companies nationwide (and beyond?) for a monthly subscription.

The webapp was built by former a Google/MIT guy (who co-owns the dog daycare business) with some collaborators along the way. It's a reasonably-sized Python/Django/Javascript app and has been in daily use and continuing improvement for over two years.

We created this webapp because available services for dog daycare/boarding companies were clunky and limited, as typical for software for niche industries. We're confident that whoever takes on this challenge will be able to hit the ground running with a market-leading service.

The right person (or pair) should have exceptional technical skills, a combination of product development and customer discovery skills, and the hunger to create and run a thriving niche SaaS business. And a true love for dogs!

If interested, get in touch with Ien at ien@alum.mit.edu.


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