eabraham

iCapital Network - fulltime in NYC

iCapital is redefining the alternative investment process with innovative technology for fund managers, institutions, and qualified investors. Our founders and management team are accomplished industry executives who have raised hundreds of billions of dollars of private equity capital and have proven track records for investing in, building, managing, and advising financial software & services companies.

Out tech stack is:

-AngularJS

-Ruby on Rails

-Heroku/Amazon AWS

We are looking for a junior to mid-level developer with the following experience:

- 1+ years developing full-stack Ruby on Rails web applications

- 3+ years developing web-based applications in any web development platform (Rails, Django, PHP, ASP.NET MVC, Java EE/Spring, Node.js, etc.)

- 1+ years working with modern JavaScript libraries/frameworks and related technologies (Ajax, JSON, RESTful web services, jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, Ember or similar, HTML 5, CSS 3)

- Knowledge of Test-Driven Development

Email me eric@icapitalnetwork.com if you are interested.

Motivation is the key factor in becoming a successful freelancer. I freelanced for about 2 years and in that time I learned 2 new languages and countless libraries. My average week would be about 50 hours of which I was billing between 30-35 hours at $100-150/hour (NYC area). The other 15-20 hours was finding clients, writing proposals, dealing with self-employment business issues (taxes, accounting, invoicing). Its definitely not the easiest life but the pay was good and the problems were more interesting than corporate development. Looking back on freelancing I appreciate the many skills I gained (both technical and soft-skills).

Tips:

1. Pick a programming language and complete a comprehensive tutorial. Then start to find clients at $15/hr rate (check elance.com and odesk.com). Your goal should be to fill up 35 hours of your weeks with billable time. Once your weeks are full and your skills increase, creep up your rate by $5/hour until its difficult to keep your week full.

2. Look into local entrepreneurship/business Meetups as a good source of clients and avoid equity-only business people who don't value your time.

I think the high salaries are attracting a lot of the code school grads who lack a lot of the fundamentals of CS. Anecdotally, I see these grads take 25-30% pay cuts for a developer position and employers are happy to take the discount in exchange for "on-the-job" training.

I have spoke with non-developers, they often find their fulfillment in other outside activities. I do get comments like "How do you sit in front of a computer for hours?". They may see it as boring or not interesting but they recognize the value in the skill.

Whenever I read articles like this I am surprised how people without a technical background balance work and fulfillment. I am so happy that I can find a developer position where I can be involved with such creative, fulfilling work and not have to compromise for money. I'm amazed and humbled by pieces like this and acknowledge the difficulty non-developers face when building a career and life.

I run a smaller consultancy, currently 5 people. I'd love to chat too.

SEEKING WORK - NYC/Remote

iOS/Android/Rails/AngularJS

My team and I are experienced at delivering full solutions for businesses of any size. We focus on data heavy apps and caching strategies for iOS(using core data), android or single page JavaScript so you are left with a clean, friendly user experience.

Site: http://ploonky.com

Email: theteam@ploonky.com

Unfortunately, it would be lost on individuals whose labour is worth less than minimum wage.