Comment by fuzzieozzie | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fuzzieozzie | Hacker News Reader

CompilerWorks | San Francisco Bay Area | Full-time, remote | $95k-$225k driven by your productivity.

If you love solving tough programming challenges and avoiding organizational politics this might be the job for you.

http://www.compilerworks.com/job.html

CompilerWorks is a bespoke compiler company, with our core product centered around compiling one dialect of SQL to another - e.g. would you like to run Oracle PL/SQL on a PostgreSQL database? You can with CompilerWorks.

We are driven to solve interesting engineering problems, for this reason we take on challenges where compilers are useful. Our current product focus IS disruptive to the database market.

We are looking for EXPERIENCED developers (our least experienced developer has more than 10 years of experience). Our core development language is Java. We are currently a team of nine in 6 countries.

Let us know if you are interested info {at} compilerworks.com

> driven by your productivity

Curious, how’s it measured?

In reality this is a qualitative metric. If you can produce value as quick as our CTO Shevek then we will have no issue paying you at the top of the range.

As a bootstrapped company (9 employees in 6 countries, no two of us have the same nationality) - we pay a reasonable base and pay a significant year end bonus that is influenced by your work during the year, our profitability and where you live.

No doubt this is not a satisfying answer, but as a small company we have great flexibility to structure packages to meet each team member's requirements.

Honestly, I would worry that the idea of a compensation package based mostly around bonuses just leads to a massive amount of infighting and politicking and other nastiness from people jockeying for an extra 20k. If I get stuck doing some bug fixes and refactoring for a couple months am I going to lose out to the person who launched 2 new features?

Not trying to be a jerk about it, but as a potential applicant that is my concern. d

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