Off-topic: We’re looking for a front-end developer

I just finished a training session on Google Web Toolkit that I’d put together for my colleagues at Systinet. By chance our HR manager asked me if I knew any capable Java developers.

So we’re looking for someone to develop the front end of our flagship product. We need someone who knows J2SE well and has more than a little experience developing web applications on the Java platform, someone who can tell a tag library from EL. We’re after a well-rounded developer with more than a passing acquaintance with Java. Don’t sell yourself short, though.

I’ll quote my colleague Pavel Kolesnikov (jablok.cz), who described a few perks of working at Systinet in the first person.

It’s Friday morning, and I’m writing this at home in bed. I’m neither calling in sick nor on vacation. It’s normal to arrange to work from home now and then, though usually no more than once a week.

Of course I don’t need to set up an office in my bedroom to enjoy the luxury of working from bed. I just have a company laptop with Wi-Fi on my lap. It’s powerful enough to debug several Java applications launched from Eclipse at once.

As the attentive reader has probably guessed, I don’t have to spoil this comfortable setup by paying for my home internet connection out of my own pocket either.

On Monday I’ll go into the office. I don’t know when yet. The workday starts somewhere between eight and ten. Exceptions are possible, though I rarely need them. I live on the edge of Prague, but our offices are a minute’s walk from the metro, so the trip doesn’t take much time.

As I said, our company makes a point of keeping its salary range private, but it should be clear that it doesn’t skimp on its people. I should mention that the working conditions above aren’t a special perk for me. They’re part of our internal policies. Still, I hope I’m not giving too much away by saying I feel well paid enough to sleep without worrying about the potential value of my employee stock options.

If you were expecting the usual lines about working in a young, dynamic team or any of that empty talk, you were mistaken. If you’re interested, send me your CV at pichlik zavináč seznam tečka cz. I’ll sound you out by email first (don’t worry) and answer any questions. If you seem suitably qualified, I’ll pass you on to someone higher up, who’ll decide whether to invite you for an in-person interview.

And if you join us, we’ll all be employees of Hewlett-Packard in 2007. See Hewlett-Packard acquires Systinet, or rather Mercury.