A startup company is looking for junior/intermediate frontend developers to join its existing team.
Basic requirements
Proven work experience as a Front-end developer
Hands on experience with markup languages
Experience with JavaScript, CSS, Angular or Jquery
Coding valid XHTML and CSS mark-up
Developing cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions
Salary
80-100k
If you are interested, please shoot at samuel.abiodun{at}multistreamtechnologies{DoT}{CoM} with your resume
I’m sorry, but I doubt that most good devs who have this
Proven work experience as a front end developer
would settle for this
80-100k
While one could say, arguably, it’s not about the money 
, the fact is that a worker should be paid his worth (not to mention the economy). I fear you may end up getting poor devs, leading to equally poor code-bases.
I beg to differ with you…
It is true that 80-100k is quite low, but how many companies are actually hiring front end developers on a full time basis in Nigeria ? No matter how you look at it, unemployment is still high in Nigeria, even in the tech space.
Now, you highlighted the section about proven work experience. The truth is experience varies by quality and number of years. The OP may not be able to get a high end one… but he may find a decent one with 1 - 2 years of experience…
So… basically they’re doing whoever gets the job a favor?
No brother, it’s just a case of demand and supply… low demand for front end developers but relatively high supply…
I bet you know what dat means… prices go down…then desperation for work drives the price even lower. It’s just the way the world works
I don’t understand why people complain about remuneration in tech jobs. Search radar and you’ll see a post that painted a picture of salaries in the tech space in Nigeria and you’ll be able to appraise any offer realistically.
The only thing you should worry about in any job is the effective working hours. The labor law in almost every country says 40 hours/week for a full time job. And that means 8 hours a day (usually 8am to 4pm, Mondays to Fridays). You have the rest of your time to do your side jobs and make your millions, (that’s if you’ll find the jobs anyway).
So here, this job is offering 100K a month, that’s about 4k a day. Let’s say an average freelance job can be completed in 3 weeks. So effectively, this job is paying 60k every 3 weeks. if you were a freelancer, would you turn down a front-end job that can fetch you 60K to be done in 3 weeks? I don’t think so.
Let me still make it clearer, how much does it cost to build an average website and for how long? Do the math and you’ll realize that it boils down to the same thing. Now again, would you turn down a job that will fetch you 300K to build a full website in 3 months? I still don’t think so.
Employee benefits go beyond the salary. I’m sure an employee complaining about this job will still put it in his/her CV under past experiences and you don’t think that’s a benefit? “Work to learn, don’t work for money.” So a good businessman and investor once taught me.
I don’t intend to hijack the post, so that’s it.
You, sir, have just drastically reduced your chances of hiring a good developer, freelance or full-time. Thanks for exposing the fact that you don’t believe a developer is worth his wages.
Besides the people that collect investors millions of dollars. How much does a company make enough to be paying developers big money?
How much profit do you make. Do you make: 1M, 2M, 3M, 5M, 10M?..
What about rent? What about fuel? What about capital expenditure? ( or you’ll use your teeth to type? will you buy celeron 100k laptop. How many employees will use rubbish celeron and not complain? or 200k core i5? your graphics designers nko? core i7 dedicated? your server nko? your switch? your wireless nko? will you sit on the floor? what sort of chair? your ac nko? what about the products you actually do? What about other employees? your accounting ( because if you make that much that means your turnover cannot be managed by yourself)? what about your sales? your marketing? what about your marketing budget? What about you? you should open your mouth for ategun ( air abi), and so on and so forth. Your operational employees nko? Internet cost? PHCN nko? Water… hanging out ? what about your management employees? your HR? what about savings? or your generator will break down and you’ll wait for next month to fix it.
THe wages need to be realistic. What most small business need to learn is how to work with inexperienced employees, that they will continue to groom, not all these people that’ll make them worry at the end of the month!
And you know what. all this crappy rubbish big time developers usually give more headaches. The job will never get completed, always delaying… and also collecting the little left over!.. and using your internet to look for more jobs…always making you feel like they are doing you a favour. what crap.
To put it plainly not just for developers. In technology . There’s no difference between a school cert. , a ond or a bsc for most task. if the system is carefully developed. bsc is usually pompous with high expectations that cannot be satisfied. learn to groom and pay your ond and ssce well. They’ll do everything better on the short and long run than some stupid high end, because in reality, no one man can do your magic. it’s a collective effort. But you’ll need to be smarter. to be stronger. more focused… and to deploy…standardization… quantification… must be your watch word all the way. I know because this is what I practice!..
This thread went off really bad. Really really bad.
Come on… Please speak for yourself. Freelance gig, 3 weeks, 60k. No thank you.
@OP Goodluck with your search.
The war between devs and employers continue in Naija.
To be fair, a company says it can offer x amount of naira, that is what it can afford at that stage ( Starting out, Growing, Advanced) it is left for tech person to negotiate pay raise dependent on performance half a year or yearly to 2x, 3x or 4x value or take Equity even, again looking at the biz and prospect would it grow to a point where pay grade is above 200-300k monthly or there is really no future so u just play ball till you say bye, the work itself can you hack it from home remotely? nothing stops you taking on side jobs to complement pay, truth is if a startup is boot strapping and not fuelled by investor money they may not afford to hire but they need tech devpt to scale that is the tricky dicey waters most do find themselves in. Even those who have investor money are on some tight conditions that they need to meet ROI quick or dont get follow on investment, their mind wont be on tech development but rather sales.
This is not a business vs development thing its likely personal opinion, the truth is the big guys shelling out 300k are seriously downsizing to keep cost low, so a 100k per month basic starting out is fair not Ideal but then it depends on the developer, can he hack it without a need to step into the office while he works freelance on other teams? if its too small then he can look out for other paying jobs but like one of the contributors said, Supply of high paying tech jobs is drastically small and demand of experienced hands are high, there will and needs to be a balance somewhere.
So i seriously dont see the point of the arguments here, if its too small and not worth your time, you can move on but if you want to consider apply.
But Startups also need to know a Senior Experienced Fullstack developer is worth 4 junior developers combined and hence if its a gamble i suggest you pay to scale as they say.
PS: I dont have any affliation with this, just stating opinion biko.
@Damola I feel your pain. I really do.
But you see your point proves why I think employers kill themselves.
Have you seen the average job posting on radar? Not this one, this is a bit realistic. But go check the average job posting here and see the demands employers make, majority of which you don’t need for the job.
Now tell me when you say you’re looking for a mobile developer who must know
Android - java
iOS - swift
Apache Cordova / phonegap
Xamarin
Some will even add NativeScript join.
AngularJS or ReactJs
Webpack
Gulp
Git
And don’t forget the all so common line: A little knowledge in (insert back end language and database type) will be helpful.
After all that you’ll still want to pay 100k. Haba.
Like you said a lot these coys will be better off training young people who will get the job done and eventually master their craft. But they won’t.
Hmmmm…me I just jejely did the dollar equivalent to see where this goes…$263/month = #100k/month. End of story.
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