Anyone know how I can get a backend developer job as a 15 year old?

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Your own startup

@Username987654 if I do that, what's the best way to get customers

What's your Lang/framework

@J-2FA help with getting a job or a startup?

@Stellar76 PHP, and I guess I could learn a framework. I know some node.js

I'd say 15 might be hard unless you can coop or intern somewhere after school. Show that you can write clean and concise code and your golden.

@Stellar76 I have a motorcycle, so transportation isn't an issue, also I learn stuff fast and I can write clean code.

Do you know any php frameworks? Like Laravel, phalcon, cake...

You can try out Upwork. It's a platform for freelancers.

@github I'd rather have a part time job than freelance

I started when I was 15. it was a very small, amateuristic company where not a lot of people knew what they were doing. and it payed less than working in a supermarket.

basically, ask around locally. don't look to work with nice companies, but be satisfied with the shitty jobs.

also, don't underestimate the valuable life lessons you can learn from working in a supermarket (or whatever despicable job you can think of). I've learnt at least as much from my time in the supermarket as I did at that dev company. and, I should add: the things I learnt at that webdev company I could've learned myself or from a school as well. the things I learnt at that supermarket were way beyond that and much more valuable to me.

@balte thanks for the advice

When you crack that mystery let this 30 year old wannabe developer know as well...

@Stellar76 I don't know any PHP frameworks

@cyberlord64 will do.

@J-2FA i emailed you about 4 hours ago.

Where do you come from? About 4 months ago there was a 13 year old boy that came into the office who had made a small facebook clone with Nodejs and MongoDB. We gave him some pointers and he is always welcome to come by and ask things. And we want to hire him after his school.

@Codex404 well I have a bunch of unfinished projects that I just lose interest in like https://config.al1l.com but I am working on a project right now that I do a little work on every week, https://blox.al1l.com/

And I'm fairly good with Java, I made a tic tac toe app that is unbeatable in about 4 hours.

If I'm to be honest, I would focus on filling my portfolio and github page with projects, rather than getting myself hired.

While I understand having pocket money and brag-rights is cool, consider the fact you won't be able to be as creative under someone's rules.

There will be no space for experimenting, learning more, trying out or doing stuff just because it's cool.. and there's something about work that, if you do it every day at workplace, you don't do it as much at home.. because it just feels like more work rather than relaxing.

Not to mention whole web dev scene, you'll have to literally do what your customers say and in 99% of cases it'll be trivial stuff.

@HelloUglyWorld this is not true, a goof boss gives you time to expand your knowledge. I learn what I want to learn when I want.

@Codex404 Obviously it's a subjective, I thought that much is obvious.

What I found tho is, rarely anyone who looks for interns is a goof.

@HelloUglyWorld oops made a typo, meant good boss.

@Codex404 Hahaha, that clears it up - in that case I agree.

Altho good bosses are even more rare.

@HelloUglyWorld true.

Our whole company is run with scrum/agile, not only devs but also the backoffice (sales, hr, communication). The big boss is a guy I barely see. But as long as things are good for the company in the long run a lot is okay. The underboss, is a techlead and she has 25 years experience. She understands that letting people grow by doing what they want the company can earn money from that knowledge in the long run.

And when we learn something new which we think is useful for more people to know we can organize a presentation about that subject. Since we have an open culture people interact during the presentations and sometimes another dev steps up to explain something which the original dev didnt go into. Sharing knowledge is an important factor at our company.

I honestly never got a good clear answer.

@github Upwork didn't accept me.

@AL1L didn't except means no one accepted your requests?

@github to sign up as a freelancer you have to submit an application, and they didn't accept it.