Comment by samroberton | Hacker News Reader

Comment by samroberton | Hacker News Reader

ROKT | www.rokt.com | Sydney, Australia | ONSITE

Software Engineers (Clojure/ClojureScript)

ROKT is hiring thoughtful, talented functional programmers, at all levels, to expand our Clojure team in Sydney.

ROKT is a successful startup (~100 employees) with a transaction marketing platform used by some of the world's largest ecommerce sites. Our Sydney-based engineering team supports a business that is growing rapidly around the world. Our Clojure team is responsible for a variety of sites and services written in Clojure and ClojureScript.

If you have professional Clojure experience, great. What we're really looking for, though, is developers comfortable with a simple, functional style of writing code -- we'll happily bring you up to speed on Clojure if you're not there already.

Due to Australian visa requirements, unfortunately we're only able to consider candidates who already have the legal right to work in Australia, please.

Contact Claudio at claudio@rokt.com

Are the Australian visa requirements that bad? With the current nastiness of trump, isn't this a great opportunity for Australia to steal some talent.

Also didn't Trump tell Turnbull that he is an idiot for asking him to take 2000 refugees when he just signed the anti-muslim order?

Australia has an H1-B equivalent called a 457 Visa with similar requirements.

Sponsoring engineers to come to Australia is definitely possible -- and in fact we've done it in the past for certain roles. But, as in some other countries, it does come with the caveat that you need to be able to justify the sponsorship with evidence that it's not possible to find anyone who could do the role and who already has the right to work in Australia.

We're pretty open about what sort of candidates we'd consider: we're looking for good engineers to join the team, and are willing to accept that that means that we might have to spend some time and effort training them up in the technologies we use, etc. I think that's a great attitude for us to have. But it does make it pretty difficult for us to turn around and tell the government "we have to bring this specific individual from overseas because no Australian has the exact skillset we need for this role".

I'm a contractor at ROKT on the Clojure team, it's been a blast working with Sam and the rest of the folks at ROKT.

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