I am looking for 5 PHP / AJAX experts for few well financed projects. Projects are planned and budgeted until June 2008. I'm financing all the projects so the money does not depend on a pipeline or external financing. You would join an existing virtual team of 12 developers. You will be working from home and everything will be managed online. Your skills should include both, PHP and AJAX as well as some MySQL, CSS and related. I am flexible about the time commitment. If you are an expert but can work only 10 hours per week, I would still like to hear from you. Hours are not strictly controlled but your output is. Your results will be monitored and compared to other developers. First projects are already in alpha testing and are scheduled to go live in September 07. You will need to debug PHP code and add some UI candy. First project would be best described as a reverse auction site with some AJAX features. It will serve a niche market which is currently under-served and is growing rapidly. We already have significant online presence in that market. Income per transaction is of an order of magnitude higher than for usual reverse auction sites. Your compensation is >$2000 per full time month (depending on skills) + bonuses (on major milestones) + rewards for significant effort + shares. - Bonuses are paid out on each major milestone. Approximately every 3 months. They can reach 10% of the salary paid out in the previous 3 months since the last milestone. It means that on $2500 salary you can make extra $750 every 3 months. - Significant effort is defined as something that you did above the call of duty which helped us reach time or quality milestones. For example, if you worked few nights to reach the deadline. Or in your free time rewrote some parts to significantly improve existing code. So far I paid out rewards of up to $1000 to some of developers. - Selected developers will have a chance to review the business plan and receive shares in the project. Please send me your details to phpajax.jobs (at) gmail.com Please send me: Few lines about you Links to sites you worked on and a short description of your role on each of the projects. Amount of time you would be able to commit to. If you are sending me a PM, please include your email address. It will be used ONLY for communication about this project. Please don't send me: Requests for more information. Request to chat on IM. Sites that you haven't worked on. I will check the references for selected developers. Thanks
I have sent you an email delineating all my experience as well as past projects. Hope to hear from you soon
Let me answer few questions that were asked: Is it $2000 per developer or for all of them together? It's per developer. How many hours I would have to work for $2000? $2000 - $2700 is the base salary (depending on experience) for regular full-time work (40h/week). Bonuses and rewards are on top of that. Ok, but that seems a bit too much. What’s the trick? I am looking for experienced developers that are capable of developing a whole site from scratch (although you will always work only on parts of a site). They need to have both, PHP and AJAX expertise. And some MySQL, HTML, CSS, etc. knowledge. They also need to have some commercial experience. I am not looking for a newbie whose highlight of PHP skills was to change a header on a Wordpress site. (I actually received such an application) Hmm, I think you are up to no good. Can I get paid every month in advance? No, you can’t. I understand your concerns and I am very flexible about payment arrangements. I can post projects on RAC or use any other escrow service. I can pay you daily or weekly until we establish trust. Or I’m open to any other suggestions except paying whole month in advance. How will you be paying? Any way you prefer. Wire, PayPal, Xoom, WU, Cheque… If I work 16 hours per day can I get paid $4000? No. I don’t believe you can be efficient 16 hours per day, every day. However, I know that sometimes you can get into a mood and code for 20 hours straight and forget about the world around you. I personally did some of my best work that way. If you are so inclined and you really deliver something useful in your free time, you will be rewarded. That’s why I have this concept of rewards I mentioned before. What do you mean that you are financing it? Who are you? I can’t tell you more about me or my company at this stage. All you need to know is that the money for the projects is already earmarked and that I’m very flexible about payment arrangements so your risks are minimal. Would I need to do the design as well? No. Designs will be provided by a designer. However, you will have to be able to tweak CSS and HTML, add AJAX and so on. Hope this helps. And yes, there are still open positions. I’ll be accepting applications for a few days (7?) before making the final selection.