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Engineering krke? No other way  
 Plus yes have strong theoretical knowledge

I've been a backend developer for past 3 years, want to openup a sideincome for my expensive expenses, like 2040K per month, how do someone start freelance, in backend engineering?

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I've been a backend developer for past 3 years, want to open-up a side-income for my expensive expenses, like 20-40K per month, how do someone start freelance, in backend engineering?

How do I start Freelance/Consultancy as Backend Engineer?

How do I start Freelance/Consultancy as Backend Engineer?- Grapevine

As Software Engineers, it might be bit difficult starting out with first freelance gig or contract job.

I was able to secure one in college with about 50k/month for about 4months working as a back end engineer for an Indian SaaS company and international client.

Great learning and great pay for a newbie.

Also if you have a full time job and freelance gig. how do you juggle between both? Keeping in mind you also need to take personal time and time for fitness.

First freelance or contract gig?

Any tips on how to get started. I along with two of my friends are looking to get into freelancing. And we are a perfect mix of engineers. I am a Backend dev with 2+ years of experience and one of my friends is a lead AI engineer, the other is a fronted engineer with extensive experience in react. 
Any help/lead would be much appreciated.

Freelance?

Backend Engineer

Hey folks,
I want to dip my hand in freelancing.
My job is quite laid back and i have a lot of free time.

I have been grinding leetcode in my free time but I'm bored of it. So, I decided why not use this to expand my real working knowledge and earn some side income too.

Any experienced freelance person, please guide on how to start and where to. I know it takes a serious hustle to break the first client. But starting itself seems daunting to me.

Thanks for your time

Start freelancing

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I'm currently working as a Frontend Engineer at leading FinTech in India. I'm doing great in my current role(IMO). I also contribute to open source libraries on weekends.
Maybe it is FOMO or my learning curve being relatively flat, recently I'm feeling I don't want to type cast myself as a frontend engineer and explore backend as well. I might get promoted to senior role this appraisal cycle. My current org (specifically my managers) don't want me to contribute in backend services as there are already plenty devs in backend.

How to go about this? I can't switch since, no company would hire a folk as a senior backend developer with 0 backend experience.

How to switch to a Senior Backend Engineering role?

Hey folks, wanted to understand a couple of things from experienced folks here -

1. What does freelance consulting look like?
2. How to start working in freelance consulting(shadowing/independent projects for free/volunteering etc.)?
3. Are there any hard barriers to entry(YoE, MBA, T1 grad for example)?
4. What platforms should one use to obtain projects that pay decently well - 2-3 hours daily leading to ~30k earnings monthly? If this is an unrealistic expectation, how does the payscale build over time?
5. Any other insights/comments that would affect the decision to work on freelance consulting.

Thanks in advance!

Path to working freelance(consulting) sustainably

Analyst

Planning to spend some extra time doing freelancing as a backend developer.
What would be the best platform to start ? 
Something that has quality jobs.
Also if anyone can share their own experience.... Is it easy money ?

Best freelancing sites for backend developers ?

Software Developer

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Hi all

I'm a working professional as a software developer. 
My places are java spring boot, sql, liquibase, gradle and more. 
Looking for freelance/part time job (convenience timing only - expectations will be completed within by)

Let me know, thanks yall

Looking for backend freelance job

So I am working on frontend for past 1 year, and work has become monotonous and I always wanted to be in backend, my team only works in frontend.

What should I do because I don’t want to be stuck in frontend forever, people around me are saying if I stay here for a year more, I will be stuck in frontend and it will be very hard for me to switch to backend.

Please advise, Thank you!

Concerned about future roles

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I am a graduate from a tier-1 engineering college and will be starting out with a job in a few months at a financial services MnC in an analyst role. I am looking to build some income streams apart from my salary over the next few years and wanted to gain some freelancing skills to build an online business but am confused about where and how to start. I've seen people working on software projects and stuff like digital marketing but can't really picture myself in similar roles. I'm not a techie, my interest lies mainly in finance and business but I'm fine with exploring and venturing into something new as well. Would be great if someone who has done it in the past can please guide as to what can be some promising skills to gain and how to go about it.

How to go about building additional income streams?

Business Analyst

Hey folks,
I am a senior software engineer at Swiggy working in as a mobile engineer for the past 5 years.
I have worked on few backend & infra stack in past companies (node js, go-lang, kubernetes, s3, etc) just for exploring and expanding my horizon.
I am thinking of seriously perusing this now.

What are my options here? I am open to learning via online course / my own side projects.

Also how to approach for hiring given it won’t be my expertise but I am willing to be hired at a lower package for the long term benefits.

Reason to consider a transition is boredom with working in a single domain.

How to transition to a backend engineer role from frontend

I joined industry as a front-end engineer back in April, 2022 and now i am feeling like expanding my horizon of skills and start doing backend. Also, I am hearing it from people that there is not much growth in FE in terms of compensation. So, curious to know the views of people here and would be great if someone can guide through. 
Thanks in advance

Transition from Front-end to Back-end role

I was recently impacted by layoff and having 20yrs of exp into application support and service management with last 10yrs grown into a middle management role(limited tech hands-on and no dev experience nor CS background)

While I am financially ok atm and can manage staying at home for next 12-24 months, I am not financially independent yet. its getting too boring and I want to get back into some sort of work routine as I am keen on retirement yet.

Challenges I am seeing with finding a new opportunity:

- The job market seems to be quite restricted for senior roles with that experience
- Few that came across were at a substantial low salary.  
- Some others required significant hands-on experience 

Thought process::

- While salary is not a major concern, I am not sure if I makes sense to take a pay cut.
- Given the speed of tech changes, not sure what kind of learning/certification would be helpful
- Even if I do tech self-learning, lack of practical hands-on seems to be a drawback
- At 40+ while I am open to work hard and learn, i view is to find a job and learn into it , rather than other wat round

Any guidance/pointers would be appreciated. As would any leads/introductions on suitable opportunities you know of.

What next at 40+

Start a hotel of your own or a small CCD why work in boring mncs

Coders on grapevine, need your advice. I want to start part time job or freelancing to earn extra money. I have 7 yoe in JavaScript (reactjs, react native). 
Where should i start my search?
What should I expect in terms of client expectations?

If any of you are doing freelancing, I would love to hear about your journey.

Freelancing

Have more than 5 years of experience working for a consulting MNC, a SaaS startup and a medium-sized consulting company.

Over the years have gotten the opportunity to work as a frontend engineer(angular, react), a fullstack engineer(java, javascript/typescript, python) and currently a data engineer(pyspark/databricks, azure, gcp).

Projecting my self as a fullstack/backend engineer only. 

What should be my fair salary ask in series A/B/C startups & other product companies?

I believe many of people in here will be in the same boat as me, so please put down your thoughts…!

What should be my fair salary ask?

Consultant

I am a SDE(expertise: Angular  + .net core ) with 3 yoe , thinking to start freelancing on weekends .
best portal I should checkout?

Freelancing advice

How can we do side projects with any consultancy? And what about payment should we take it in different bank account than yours. 
Just to be safe from permanent job company.

Consultancy side hustle

Tech Lead

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hello Everyone,

I am a software engineer(backend mainly)with 5 YOE working with Python, working at a US based IT company. For most of my career i have worked remotely (just one month of going to office)  

During COVID, I started working with a client as a freelancer where developed a tool (home page picture attached) for him to do Cryptography trading at websites like Paxful and Noones. Initially we faced a lot of challenges with banks, but now we have steady the ship and doing on average $258,000 monthly since Apr 2023. I am getting a royalty of 0.5% on total revenue done montly for setting up the business and for maintenance. Any other work I do with him i charge $25 per hour. 

Now, my main question is how do I value this business??

How to value your side business

I am seeing lots of 22 years old who have opened their digital marketing agency and earning really good money by working with freelance clients who pay in dollars. 

I am starting up and I want a source of income. Don't really want to go to corporate job. 

Haven't had much success with freelancing. Cold mailing hardly works and gig websites like Upwork etc have lots of competition at some really cheap rate. 

What are the best way to getting freelance work with international clients? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Getting freelance clients

Product Marketing Manager

How would you go about being a product consultant or a freelancer and getting clients?

How would you price it?

What insights would you offer?

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