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Stealth Gaming Startup | Senior Back-end Engineer (PHP) | World | Remote | Full-time, Salary: $180k - $220k, https://goo.gl/eo9kob

Stealth Gaming Startup | Senior Back-end Engineer (NodeJS) | World | Remote | Full-time, Salary: $180k - $220k, https://goo.gl/ardSgY

Stealth Gaming Startup | Senior Front-end Engineer (Angular) | World | Remote | Full-time, Salary: $180k - $220k, https://goo.gl/CXqBrQ

Recently launched Games/Betting (stealth) startup based in the EU is seeking world-class software engineers. We are expanding the company’s initial offer, building new real-time browser games. The company is seeking to grow the team adding outstanding talent (full-time and/or contractors).

If you are up to the challenge, email your CV / GitHub / LinkedIn / StackOverflow, etc… to: gaming.startup.eu+HN@gmail.com with the position you are interested in as Subject.

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No offense intended, but isn't that a huge salary for a startup? Your burn rate must be massive!

Gotta pay for quality, GOOG / FB / etc pay far more than that w/ liquid equity.

True, but GOOG, FB, etc aren't startups with limited funds

We’re one year in the market and already profitable. Believe it or not, many engineers are earning much bigger salaries in financial companies, and our software has similar security and reliability requirements as a financial app.

These are our first hires. We want the best we can afford.

If you've been on the market for a year and are already profitable why are you still in stealth mode?

This guy gets it. Congrats, and best of luck!

- One year in the market and already profitable

- In stealth mode

- Making first hires

How does that add up?

2x normal salary isn't massive. Some startups get 5 mil investment, others get 10 — not a huge deal imo.

I wouldn't even say that's 2x a 'normal' salary. I'd say that's about the right range for senior talent with a proven history to execute. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. These folks want results, and they know the surefire way to get them.

FYI - this guy is an external recruiter, not part of the hiring company, so beware the usual sort of tricks and bait-and-switch.

I'm not a recruiter, I'm an engineer, a regular HNer for 5+ years and 2k+ karma. I'm external to the company, that's correct, because every contractor/freelancer actually is "external". I've been tasked with finding talent on dev forums and GitHub, earning a "finder's fee" for the extra-hours I'm doing. The offer and role has been depicted accurately and redacted with the input of all the team.

Management and lead engineers are available for backing up these claims. So far, he's refused to speak with the lead engineers for clarification.

We do know who this guy is. He's a front-ender that somehow misinterpreted a recommendation for reading about basic SPA security before the interview (XSS, CSRF, input sanitisation, etc) with a bait-and-switch tactic for an AppSec role. The requirements are clear: https://goo.gl/CXqBrQ. We need people building games and features, if you are security minded, it's a huge plus, that's all.

I've worked at companies that have offices in Toronto, Canada (where I currently live) while their main offices are abroad (US and Curaçao).

They seem to have have a lot of problems with us having different laws and regulations than them (eg: healthcare, holidays) and we're only one country. How does that work when everyone is from different countries?

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