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title: No Need to Commute, Ever
date: 2011-06-14T23:15:58Z
modified: 2011-06-14T23:15:58Z
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  - developer relations
timestamp: 2011-06-14T23:15:58Z
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  - developer relations
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![](http://www.myeclipseg.com/images/logo.jpg)
With all the talk of bubbles and Google [offering an engineer $3.5m not to join Facebook](http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-engineer-3-5-million-to-turn-down-facebook-offer/) its easy to think all application development is in the valley.

Uber smart VC Fred Wilson talks to the [War for Talent](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/the-war-for-talent.html).

Silicon Valley life is campus life.

But there are plenty of great jobs that don’t require you to move to California, obviously, and I really liked this tweet for a job at my client Genuitec, which builds Java development tools. If you need a little “cool” in the mix they also now have a dedicated IDE for Google infrastructure.

> @genuitec No need to commute, ever. See more of your family, work with talented people: Genuitec is growing, developers apply today

Funnily enough the web page is a bit [more corporate](http://genuitec.com/about/careers.html), but the tweet says it all.

A role that keeps you close to home, doesn’t need a move, and gives you more time with your family? That’s pretty hard to beat.

You do need a reliable internet connection for the job though 😉

The web should and does allow for distributed development. But PST didn’t get the memo yet. This is a great opportunity for all the other companies out there looking to hire great engineers.