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tngl commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
evaneykelen · a year ago
Return | https://return.energy | Data platform engineer (EU only)

We are hiring a data platform engineer who will work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activities are building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems and solar plants. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain.

You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy.

The tech team members have co-founded several companies and/or have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).

If you call yourself an SRE, DevOps engineer, or a backend engineer, you are also more than welcome to apply!

More info at https://jobs.polymer.co/return

tngl · a year ago
Is the UK okay? It meets the "five hours overlap with Amsterdam" requirement even though it is not EU
tngl commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
shubb · 2 years ago
It's easy to talk in generalities without data. The data is - immigration to the UK is up by a lot, including tech workers.

However, those people are mostly going to work outside the startup bubble. The startup scene that a lot of us work in here is not doing so great. Funding is much harder to find, pickier, and more interested in revenue now than a story about the future. Frothy startups are imploding.

The result of this is that, if you look at the indeed jobs data, while the overall jobs market is pretty good, the tech jobs market is about 60% of what it was in 2019.

I imagine a lot of people who got into tech during the pandemic hiring bubble (go on furlough, do an online javascript bootcamp, get a 70K salary) are going back to what ever they got furloughed from.

So it is harder to get a job for everyone, but the relatively easy visas for tech workers and english working language mean that the flow of labour into the market continues to increase.

We can expect this to result in continued divergence between UK and US salaries. UK tech salaries remain about 2-4x Indian tech salaries for equivalent workers for instance, so the UK remains an attractive destination for earning money and building a nest egg back home.

tngl · 2 years ago
Where are the relatively easy visas for tech workers? In my experience it’s still very difficult to find an employer that will sponsor you.

u/tngl

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