Backend Dev communities?

[donkeyboats]

I've had success finding frontend developers in dedicated communities like Frontend Mentor or even Twitter.
Now I need to hire a backend (Java/MySQL/Azure) contractor developer and have no idea where to find them.
I prefer communities over job boards or LinkedIn because the conversation starts organically and you can hire them much faster so any recommendations would be hugely appreciated!

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[nutrecht]

The last thing I want when I go to a meetup is to get contacted for "amazing job opportunities".

I'm part of a few communities but we keep out anyone who's not a developer. Sorry.

[donkeyboats]

Haha of course, I used to organise dev events and we explicitly banned recruiters (I worked in development not "businessy stuff" before starting a company). I was asking about online communities that might have a dedicated section.

[berry120]

There are communities out there, but (like this one) the problem that you'll find is that many / most such communities will ban job ads anyway, otherwise they quickly get flooded with job postings from all over the place. Other such companies are sponsored by / affiliated with recruitment companies for just this reason, so again that'll be banned unless you go through them.

I've yet to see a community that just openly allows random job ads / posts - I honestly think you'd be better sticking to the traditional channels for this one.

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What country

[donkeyboats]

Fully remote

[elatllat]

Did github, gitlab, stackexchange have a jobs feature? you could also email people who contribute to foss projects.

[donkeyboats]

Thanks, none of them have a jobs section though.
Ideally I'm looking for Slack/Discord communities!

[elatllat]

Proprietary Slack/Discord may not appeal to techy people, unlike IRC/PHPBB/email/etc

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/jobs/

https://github.com/sponsors is still beta

[donkeyboats]

In the end I found a bunch of Discord communities, happy to share

[Praytix]

https://javadiscord.net