UPDATE:  The position has been filled!  Thank you for all your applications.

 

Bedpan for BOTW Mini-MeSure, "Death Cab For Cutie" is a great name for a band, but I think there's something to be said for "Bedpan for BOTW" (pronounced Botwah).  Why the bedpan?  Well, I have about four 2 hour conference calls scheduled for next week to discuss various projects we have going on.  :)  Seriously though, there's no bedpan involved.  We will take bathroom breaks.  I mention these calls to highlight the fact that, yes, we are up to our necks in projects, so much so that I've been given the green light to find a mini-me; that's right -- hard working and talented .NET developers take note: I want you to mold in my image.  You can read through my blog and see if I'm the sort of person you think you could get along with.   Yes?  Great!  No?  That's fine.  Some say I'm an acquired taste.  No hard feelings, and thanks for visiting.

Still here?  Great!  So here's what I need.    I need a problem solver who knows ASP.NET.  I work primarily in VB.net, but if you have experience in any other language (c# for example), then that's fine.   If you have no experience, then you'd really need to prove to me why I should hire you :) 

Still here?  Great!  So here's what we do.  Officially you'd be hired by Hotel Hotline; that's the mother ship for all things hotel.  Amongst our works-in-progress, are various hotel booking sites (some pure HTML, some classic ASP, some ASP.NET), an ASP extranet where hotels sign in to manage their rates and information (halfway migrated to .net), and a webservice API for remote management of said rates and information.

The good news is that you could, and probably will, be working on projects for Best of the Web - the human-edited directory that needs no introduction. Amongst the BOTW works-in-progress stands the directory itself, a state-of-the-art administration site, various back-end tools and spiders, and several major niche directories in development.   There's lots of data, lots of maintenance, lots of tasks and lots of challenges.  We're a small company, so you'll be in on the ground floor of some truly great things.  Both the hotel and directory space present no shortage of interesting projects and challenges.

Still here?  Great!  So here's what you get. 

1)  You get to work from home.  That's right. 100% telecommuting.     Work in your bathrobe, and set your own schedule (aside from virtual meetings and the like).  Nobody looking over your shoulder.   Stay in bed all day.  Watch the entire Matrix trilogy on your big screen TV while you work *.  As long as the work gets done.     (* Not that I've, uh, done this)

2)  Interesting work.   Work on products used and seen by thousands upon thousands.

3) A competitive salary and company pays 60% health benefits after 6 months.  Paid vacation and personal time. 

For the one who excels, there is plenty of bonus and perk potential.