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by penetrarthur 682 days ago
As a software developer myself and judging by the description, this sounds like a perfect job offer so many mature software developers.

You are pretty much ticking all the boxes:

- real life application that has a big impact on an existing real industry, not another web3 crypto project or AI startup of potential intergalactical importance(AirBnb for hamsters). - existing business with predictable income flow means that the project is not going to be scraped within 3 months, which is again going to attract experienced devs who are willing to plan their life, vacations and work-life balance. - software is going to be built after a third-party product which makes it easier to build the actual thing because there is an existing reference product. - software is going to be build from ground up, chosing the proper technologies, not the newest flashiest JS framework or PHP version from mid 2000s - internal products tend to have softer deadlines and, therefore, technical debt does not accumulate so quickly, which is again something experienced devs enjoy. - in order to help with the project, several existing employees of the company will gladly transition into something new(its basically a raise for them)

You will be surprised how easy and cheap(in Europe) it is to hire experienced developers to build something like that. I would strongly suggest hiring the actual team instead of using some outsourcing company, because they will build unnecessary complicated processes all based around billing more hours.