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80legs is looking for interns or contract workers

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11 pointsjdrock8 comments

What is "remote intern / contract work" ? Anything you hire a contractor to do is typically going to be inappropriate work for an intern.

This smells like one of those gigs where they hope to pay slave wages for work in their primary line-of-business, and call it an "internship" to excuse their behaviour.

Anyone we hire will be compensated properly.

The descriptions on the pages are fairly specific about the difference in responsibility for local vs remote.

The remote work is admittedly more straightforward, cut-and-dry programming. It's suitable for a student or freelancer looking for some entry-level experience or extra work.

Anyone that works locally will be exposed to some of the more complicated tasks we have and take on more responsibility.

We would really prefer to have someone local, but we have to be realistic about our potential candidate pool in Houston.

I noticed that proficiency in Java is required. Is there a technical reason or unique feature that makes Java the best choice for 80legs, as opposed to some other language?

Most of the app's they allow you to run on the scraped content are built on java

Java is the only language we can use on the JVMs that run on the nodes in our grid computing system.

Other languages (Jython, JRuby) require techniques that break the security sandbox used by the JVMs.

I get it. Thanks for responding!

full time or part time contract work? I've got a good amount of experience working on web crawlers/ data aggregation for SaaS based architectures.

A local intern would be full time.

Remote work would depend on the ability of the programmer. We have a few dozen 80apps that need to be produced for various crawl packages right now (more coming). I expect each one would take 1-3 days of programming.

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