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Apsis Labs | Multiple Positions | Seattle, WA | REMOTE, http://www.apsis.io/jobs

We are a small design & development company working as a fully distributed team. We offer retirement and health benefits, a competitive salary, an unlimited vacation and parental leave policy, and a 20-hour work week.

We are hiring:

1. A full-stack software developer, with interest and experience in user interface design

2. A project/business manager, to help with various non- or semi-technical aspects of our business

We are committed to building a diverse, welcoming, and respectful workplace, and we encourage applications from all genders, races, ages, and backgrounds.

More details and application forms are at http://www.apsis.io/jobs.

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UPDATE: We will be closing applications for both positions at the end of this week. If you would like to apply, please do it soon!

Everyone who has submitted an application through our website will receive a response (even if it is just a "no, thank you"). We're a small company and have received nearly a thousand applications so far, so please be patient as we work through them and set up initial interviews.

Hi there,

I represent software development station located in beautiful city of Krakow, Poland. Our company is called Railwaymen - https://railwaymen.org/

If you are in need of mobile & web app experts, don't hesitate to contact me at weronika.nowak(at)railwaymen.org . We are always ready to help startups grow!

All the best, Weronika

> 20-hour work week

Wowza, that's amazing. I'd love to grab a coffee sometime and pick your brain on how it's working and any pitfalls you've found - I'd love to be able to implement something like that in my next startup.

Below it says 20h of remote work, so that might just be that.

Technically it says 20 hours of billable work. I'm no consultant, but sometimes 20 hours of billable work is much more than 20.

Oh yeah... Noah's old blog post mentions billable time, but our stance has since evolved that a work week is just 20 hours, billable or not. If we're doing internal work for the company, we still track and time it to make sure we aren't going over our limit.

20 hours of remote work, but that's all the work we expect. The job is 100% remote.

We really believe that the 40 hour work-week is antiquated when it comes to the tech space and that having people sitting in a chair 9-5 doesn't do anything to help us be more productive.

That is awesome!

Totally agree with this. I always did 40 hour work-week, but recently had a child and reduced to 20 to manage his first months. I produce almost the same, but now my rss feed and youtube queue is full. Just lost my time doing nothing.

Sure, if you're in Seattle I'd be happy to meet up. We also get to the bay area fairly frequently.

Yep, I live in Ballard and work downtown - adrian at adrianpike.com!

I'd love to take you up on this offer as well... sdm350 at gmail

Hello,

I've seen this posting at "We Work Remotely" and was curious if I could get in touch and ask some questions? I'm eager to learn more about the opportunity!

I live in Seattle so meeting could be fairly easy - thanks!

-Nikko

Hey Nikko!

Feel free to reach out to me (noah at apsis dot io) and we can setup a coffee or a call or something.

Cheers!

Awesome, thanks!

anybody i should email personally? you guys sound really chill and maybe i can help you in some of your HR(diversity) goals you mention on your site. Peace!

You can email me (niall@apsis.io) if you've got any questions! Please use the link at the bottom of the job page to actually apply though.

Love the 20h work week!

This sounds way cool! Is there a physical HQ to work from in Seattle, or do Seattle employees all work from home/find their own workspaces?

There's a physical office in Seattle. It's small but there should be room for at least one more ;)

Of course you can also work remotely whenever you want, even if you live in Seattle.

Did a bit of research. You're in Toronto! What are the timelines? Maybe I could get a coffee with you to chat about the position?

Sure, email me: niall@apsis.io

cool model! is the salary half of a normal job or less than that?

I can't tell if this is sarcastic?

We consider this a full-time job, and our benefits and salary are that of a full-time job. We don't try to compete with e.g. Amazon or Facebook on salary but we are probably at or above the median salary of software developers as a whole.

I personally make about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job.

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