The real jobYou'll build the platform that handles everything from candidate dashboards to enterprise client portals. This isn't CRUD apps - this is real-time systems handling video streams, ML model integration, and somehow making it all feel smooth on a 3G connection in rural India.

Daily reality includes:

• Building React interfaces that don't make users want to punch their screen

• Writing Node/Python backends that handle video uploads without timing out

• Integrating with ML models without understanding exactly how they work

• Making WebRTC work reliably (good luck with that)

• Building real-time dashboards that actually update in real-time

• Creating APIs that other developers won't curse you for

• Debugging why something works perfectly locally but breaks in production

• Fighting with webpack configs at 3 AM

You probably have:

• Built and scaled products to thousands of users

• Experience with modern React (hooks, not classes)

• Node.js/Python backend experience (Django, FastAPI, Express)

• PostgreSQL knowledge beyond SELECT * FROM users

• Redis/caching because you've learned the hard way

• DevOps skills because who else is going to deploy your code?

• Strong opinions about state management

• Git history that shows you actually commit regularly

Epic work we love:

• Your side project is on ProductHunt's front page

• You've contributed to React/Vue/Angular core

• Your npm package has millions of weekly downloads

• You built and scaled a product solo to significant revenue

• Your technical blog posts hit HackerNews front page

• You've given talks at conferences about actual things you built

Why people fail:They can't debug without console.log. Or they think ORMs solve all database problems. Or they've never dealt with real users breaking their "perfect" code.