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Position: Senior Backend Developer (7 years of professional experience)

Pay: $140 USD/hour (before taxes)

Working for a US company. I'm based in Romania.

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Do you have any advice on how to get that sort of position? I'm a Romanian guy who just graduated (Automatica si Calculatoare), I've done several internships at big companies (Microsoft, Google) and I'm sure I can get full time offers at top tech companies in the US or London. Still, I tried to apply for remote positions and nobody even looks at me. Any tips?

I got here because I spent several years doing non-paid work on a very popular open-source project (writing code, but also spending a lot of time answering questions on the mailing list, on the support forums and on StackOverflow). Eventually I got a reputation as a good dev and I started getting job offers, some of which were remote. *

I guess my point is that you have to give them a reason to look at you, even if it's just "Hey, I remember that guy/girl from that blog/mailing list/conference. They seem decent."

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* Most of that activity was driven by enthusiasm. I'm not sure I'd have the determination to invest that much time into an activity just as a career move.

That's... amazing. Congratulations.

Out of curiosity, what legal entity are you using?

SRL? PFA?

PFA. I looked into switching to SRL, but it seems like the taxes will be higher for SRLs, come 2017.

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