I am looking for a freelancing Kotlin Backend Engi...

# hiring

[benjamin-olx]

I am looking for a freelancing Kotlin Backend Engineer who could support us further enhancing our global payment service on-site in our office in Berlin for about 6 months. Hourly rate negotiable.

Here is some more info about what we are building exactly: https://tech.olx.com/olx-payments-powered-by-kotlin-95eb77bafacb

Feel free to message me with any questions you might have!

[nfrankel]

Feel free to message me with any questions you might have!

did you read the channel policy?
it’s easy:
it’s in the description

[nfrankel]

but just because it’s you:
CHANNEL POLICY - Job ads need to have a specific description of what is expected, location, remote/on-site, and salary range - postings without the above information will be deleted

[nfrankel]

seems like your job ad doesn’t comply

[gmariotti]

@nfrankel can you please write what the ad is missing? Except for the hourly rate (that, I believe, is conceptually different from salary range) everything seems fine to me

[nfrankel]

that’s the point:
can you can please define the hourly rate you’re willing to pay?

[gmariotti]

but should you do it for a freelancing position? My understanding, but I have no experience in this field, is that it’s you, as a freelancer, that decide how much your experience and time is worth. So putting there just a number, seems to me nothing more than noise

[nfrankel]

it’s also true that an employee decides how much he’s worth
the policy is made so that developers don’t lose their time
since the company already knows the range

[nfrankel]

so they they only apply if there’s a potential match
whether as a regular employee or a freelancer

[gmariotti]

I don’t personally agree on this, I do believe that the salary range should be part of the initial discussion, giving a company the possibility to understand if the problem in a job offer is the salary range or not

[gmariotti]

I do believe that a job description well done is much more important and this channel should help connecting kotlin engineers all over the world, like it did for me

[gmariotti]

but again, I don’t make the rules here, so 🤷‍♂️

[neworldlt]

Maybe companies aren’t telling salary or hourly ranges to get cheaper developers.

[benjamin-olx]

Not the case here, thing is that hourly rates for freelancers fluctuate quite a bit and I simply did not have a good average to name I deemed accurate. But if you insist on it so much then I can tell you that we paid between 70-90 EUR before taxes in the past.

[nfrankel]

no imagine the time that we all would have gained if you had just told that upfront 🙂

[pivovarit]

@benjamin-olx looks like a good offer - I think we’ll gladly keep it here, thanks for sharing 🙂 keep in mind that some companies come here, and offer 12$/h, and put “free weekends” in the benefits section