Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

https://www.fractionaljobs.io

51•tbird24•2h ago

I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with.

So I built Fractional Jobs.

The goal is to help more people break out of W2 life and into their own independent careers by helping them find great clients to work with.

We find and vet the clients, and then engineers can request intros to any that seem like a good fit. We'll make the intro assuming the client opts in after seeing your profile.

We have 9 open engineering roles right now: - 2x Fractional CTO - 2x AI engineers - 3x full-stack - 1x staff frontend - 1x mobile

Comments

philip1209•1h ago

That’s cool- I worked on a similar website a few years ago.

Do your jobs tend to be for technical or non-technical customers? What are the characteristics of developers who succeed on your site?

tbird24•1h ago

Thanks! Most of the clients hiring engineers tend to be non-technical, especially those hiring Fractional CTOs of course. But sometimes we'll work with CTOs to hire a contractor for their team too.

I think the devs that have the most success have the following qualities: - They can clearly show their work history (Linkedin, Resume, Github, custom site, etc.) - They have some baseline level of knowledge/experience in relationship management, i.e. they can talk the talk. You do have to do a bit of "selling", especially when looking for contract work.

tbird24•55m ago

I realize I should probably comment links to some of the better engineering roles we're currently featuring right now. BTW I should also note we don't take a % commission like Upwork, Toptal, etc. So if you get hired you'd work with the company directly and get paid by them direct.

Fractional CTO @ A Consumer Healthtech Marketplace 20 - 40 hrs | $175 - $200 / hr | Remote (USA only) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/chief-technology-officer-...

Senior AI Engineer @ A European Insurtech Startup 20 - 40 hrs / week | €85 - €100 / hr | Remote (CET +/- 6hrs) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/senior-ai-engineer-at-a-e...

Senior Full-stack Engineer @ A Consumer Social Startup 20 - 40 hrs / week | $125 - $150 / hr | Remote (EST +/- 5 hrs) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/senior-full-stack-enginee...

Staff Frontend Engineer @ An HR-tech Analytics Platform 20 - 40 hrs / week | $120 - $180 / hr | Remote (USA / Canada only) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/staff-frontend-engineer-a...

AI Engineer @ A Creator-focused AI Startup 10 - 15 hrs / week | $100 - $125 / hr | Remote (USA / Canada / Europe only) https://www.fractionaljobs.io/jobs/ai-engineer-at-a-creator-...

raggi•5m ago

These prices seem very low.

jcims•47m ago

May want to look into finding fractional security roles as well. Lots of smaller companies don’t need full time security staff but *do* need help.

tbird24•9m ago

Totally agree! We've featured a number of Fractional CISO roles.

TexanFeller•47m ago

There’s definitely a need for this! I’ve been thinking hard recently about how I could go part time without leaving the industry. Almost all of the good SWE work situations I’ve heard of require full time. Even the contractors I’ve worked with in my career have been full time.

Gualdrapo•44m ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425473

rubyfan•25m ago

I use an ad-blocker which seems to break the “Function(s)” multi-select drop-down on the sign up form.

tbird24•9m ago

Which ad blocker? I will test this.

eikenberry•20m ago

Any thoughts on a reputation system for talent/clients? A way to streamline hiring for talent and clients who have received good feedback from past work through your service?

tbird24•6m ago

Here's the thing, and I'm open to thoughts here. But I've found that candidate A can be a great fit for company B, but a terrible fit for company C. I think a match is way more subjective than folks tend to give it credit for, and a rating system (like Uber) makes it seem more objective than it actually is. It works for things like Uber, where you can have hundreds of ratings very quickly, and so it converges on a natural truth. But with fractional clients, I think the N is so small that there's might just be too much noise.

Thoughts?

icelancer•13m ago

This is great. I currently work a fractional role on top of being a founder. Wish it was more commonly available.

shooker435•10m ago

How does this compare to https://www.hirefraction.com/about ?

I've noticed they market 'overemployment' as a benefit, is this platform similar?

tbird24•3m ago

I'm personally not a huge fan of the over-employment trend, although I do see some arguments for it. A lot of the companies that are looking to hire on fractional jobs are quite explicit that they don't want folks that have full-time jobs (aka are over-employed) because of the negative connotations and consequences.

I'm familiar with Higher Fraction. I believe that the core difference is just that they're an agency that takes a percent markup on your hourly rate, so typically it's 20%.

I think the best software engineers don't need to do this, though, and they can find clients directly through their network or even through places like Fractional Jobs where we connect you directly with clients, and it's your relationship to own.

giantg2•8m ago

Screw part time. The whole economy is moving towards part time, gig work, etc and it's terrible for most employees who need good wages and benefits.

freecodyx•1m ago

is this a vibecoded website?

Paradagm – cool spreadsheet UX for interacting with LLMs

Natural Language → SQL with Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT)

Cognitive Hygiene: Why You Need to Make Thinking Hard Again [video]

DuckDB in Production

A Python CLI for Verifying Assembly

Building InboxHiive: Event-Driven Podcast Newsletter Processing

Show HN: AtomWorks – new data framework for biomolecular deep learning

Aaron Wallis survived GDPR killing half his revenue

Yuck. Anthropic welcomes dystopia by hinting that AI should have moral status

Why Upgrades Are Delayed: The Real, Human, Practical Reasons

1 in 5 Bolivians spoiled their ballots – a sign of voter dissatisfaction

Solving Humanity's Last Exam Problems

A Fuzzy Escape – A tale of vulnerability research on hypervisors

Nearly 90% of videogame developers use AI agents, Google study shows

What could have been

Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

Microsoft: AI 'Business Agents' Will Kill SaaS by 2030

Agents are search over action space

Show HN: Keystroke-Based Digital Signatures

Bitdrift Turns 2: A Retrospective

Oxlint Introduces Type-Aware Linting Preview

Python has a thing for Spam (and Eggs)

Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved manifolds

From East India Company to Big Tech: Why corporations keep seeking colonies

Comcast Gets Serious About Subscriber Losses – A Long Fight Looms

Ask HN: Why AI companies so limited?

Quasicrystals Spill Secrets of Their Formation

Adet: Traditions and Patterns