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$100,000USD/year -> $120,000USD/year
3 people in tech 
1 woman in tech WonderProxy is a small self-funded company that helps people test their website from around the world.
JOB DESCRIPTION
About us
WonderProxy Inc. was founded in 2009 to help people test their websites from around the world. We’re currently six people, a mix of full and part time. Thanks
to the wonders of the Internet, those folks live in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway. We have no offices (apart from ones in people’s homes), but we have provided co-working spaces in the past.
It’s probably better to think of us as a “company” rather than a “start-up”.
We’ve never taken external funding, and we don’t work unreasonable
hours fueled by free Red Bull and followed by intense beer pong championships. Instead, we work regular business hours, and then we go home. (We have worked extended hours in the past, but only to manage external emergencies like a broken server, not manufactured emergencies like an executive suddenly dislikes the logo.) We’re whole people, with hobbies and families and pets (two dogs, two cats, and a snake!). WonderProxy is not our life, and we don’t expect it to be yours.
We don’t want to make the internet worse. We don’t help people who want to
do spammy or scammy things on the internet. We’re not using AI to send
hundreds of “outbound sales” emails per day, and we don’t hijack
unsecured IoT devices in the name of growth. One of our co-founder’s threads on enshittification may resonate with you.
Our Stack
We mostly run stuff on our own dedicated hardware, rather than shipping things off to a third-party cloud:
- All our servers run Debian Linux.
- We use Apache, PHP, NodeJS, Go, Docker, and AWS to power our websites and internal tools.
- Our application and customer data lives in MySQL 5, Mongo 5, and Memcached.
- We use Datadog, Nagios, and Sentry for observability and monitoring.
- Applications are deployed by GitHub Actions to environments controlled by Puppet.
Compensation
Salary
Ontario, Canada:
Salaried, $130,000CAD/year -> $155,000CAD/year, health benefits, 3 weeks vacation per year.
Other, Remote:
Contractor, $100,000USD/year -> $120,000USD/year, 3 weeks vacation per year.
Note:
we have a slight preference for hiring candidates in Ontario, Canada.
We’re registered here, we understand employment law, and we think that
having “employees” (and all the protections they’re given) rather than
“contractors” is better for both of us. Candidates in other parts of the
world would need to be contractors for WonderProxy, and have at least 6
hours overlap with business hours (9am to 5pm) in the Toronto time zone
(UTC-4/5).
Benefits
- Laptop (Mac or Linux), monitor, keyboard, mouse, chair, and whatever other office equipment you need to be productive.
- Stipend for a co-working space, if that’s your jam (and we can agree on specifics)
- 15 paid vacation days, in addition to national holidays in your country of residence.
- We’ll work with you on sick and bereavement days, because we know those are the worst days and the last thing you want to do is get documentation
for your boss. - Paid parental leave (4 months, either parent).
- In Canada, standard employment and health benefits apply.
Please note you will need your own internet connection. (Local tax laws may
allow you to write it off, but consult a tax professional.)
INTERVIEW PROCESS
Our interview workflow:
You send us your resume. Hurray! We’ll let you know we received it.
We’ll review your resume. If we think you might be a good fit, we’ll invite you to schedule a first interview.
If you don’t hear from us after three weeks, we’re not moving forward with your application. That might be because we don’t think you’re the right fit, but it’s probably because we’re swamped with other candidates and we can’t handle any more.
If you schedule the interview, you’ll meet one of us in a half-hour video call. We’ll want to get to know you a bit, and help you get to know us, so it will be informal and conversational, not technical. After the call, we’ll get back to you within a week.
If you progress to the next stage, we’ll invite you to complete our technical (but code-optional!) take-home assignment. We’ll give you a case study and at least one week to prepare materials, then set up a discussion to review everything together. (We don’t think the assignment will take you a week; we just think you’re probably busy.) After the discussion, we’ll get back to you within a week.
If you progress to the next stage, we’ll invite you to set up a final interview with the co-founders (Will and Paul). They’ll try to get a sense of how you work and how you think about work, and help you understand the same about us. After the interview, we’ll get back to you within a week.
If you progress after the final interview, we’ll make you an offer!
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
It’s challenging to answer this as a tiny company. We don’t have the committees/alliances/affinity groups that you’d see at larger organizations.
We are a small company that cares about each other. We have sick leave, parental leave, etc. We’re a team that works together, rather than in competition with each other. We expect everyone to consider the impact of their actions and words, use the correct names and pronouns of their colleagues, and promote inclusive practices in the workplace.
Building a company that represents a diverse group of people is important to me (as co-founder & president). We work hard to recruit broadly, test our job descriptions to avoid biased / masculine-skewed language, and regularly discuss unconscious bias when interviewing candidates. We want everyone to feel welcome at WonderProxy regardless of their gender, sexuality, abledness, race, religion, or origins. Folks who don’t align with that philosophy will not fit in here.