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Ask HN: Who is hiring independently of candidate location? (February 2022)

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Getting ghosted or rejected only because of our current location and timezone is kinda frustrating. So we've decided to create this post to lookup for location agnostic, truly distributed companies. Which also can benefit digital nomads out there.

Please only post if you are not rejecting candidates based on timezone where they are currently at. Remote positions only.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

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SadaPay [Fintech] - Engineering Roles of All Seniority [Fully Remote]

SadaPay is a fintech that is building a ‘digital-first’ bank in Pakistan. Our aim is to make money so simple that any other way becomes unthinkable. Leveraging modern tech, we’re creating products that will eliminate complexity in banking and elevate the financial lives of Pakistanis :rocket: We recently raised Pakistan’s largest-ever seed funding round of $7.2 Million dollars and will be looking to aggressively grow our team in the next few months. We’re a remote-first company with colleagues working from different countries around the world and currently have offices in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, and Dubai.

We offer unlimited vacations, continuous learning support, and complete flexibility to all our employees. There are no hierarchies and everyone has an equal opportunity to create a massive impact :muscle: We strive to offer our people exponential growth trajectories in their careers through regular feedback loops and mentoring by the C-suite. We have a long exciting journey ahead of us and we’d love to have you on the rocketship!

Apply on our careers page: https://sadapay.pk/careers/?source=hn

Julia Computing - Systems Programmer (Remote)

We are looking for somebody to help develop the Julia language runtime, libraries, and system interface. This work will have a direct impact on our goal of allowing users to write simple, high-level code and deploy their programs under a range of requirements. Possible areas of focus include performance engineering, I/O subsystem design, and tooling for building and modifying dynamic libraries. You will get to publish most of your work as open source, and many of the projects are already present in the julia code repository on GitHub.

Skils:

- Expert-level C programming is essential, and some C++ knowledge is a plus

- Knowledge of Linux internals

- Windows and macOS knowledge is a plus but not required

Ideally will have experience with topics such as:

- kernel development

- language runtime development

- debugging program faults

- benchmarking and performance analysis

- threading systems, particularly scheduling and synchronizing

- IO and networking theories (e.g. queueing and back-pressure)

- libc specifics and their quirks

- dynamic linkers and their quirks

- build systems

For more details and to apply, please see: https://jobs.juliacomputing.com/jobs/UeCcBYF-k4fp/systems-pr...

In case freelancing counts, let me give a shoutout to Tribe.AI. I no longer work there but my buddy is a cofounder and I hold them in high regard. Essentially, it's a collective for top ML/Data focused people to get together to collaborate on projects, remote by default and people all over the world (but they also do events both online and in person which is nice if you're looking for a community to be a part of). If you're also looking for an alternative to hanging out your own shingle as a consultant this is a way to get projects.

Hey, I was checking out what tribe is doing and it looks quite neat, would like to get in touch w/ em. Could you hook me up? My email is on my profile. Thanks.

Lead Engineer with phd is looking for work visa sponsorship in Canada (see below)

Technologies: javascript/typescript, react, nodejs, high load, ruby, microservices, jvm, flutter

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/37RvQap

Email: mbutlitsky at gmail

----- Hands-on software engineer with diverse 20+ years background both in technical and management side of the business (~50/50). PhD. Relocating to Canada, job offers from Canadian companies only.

Do you know about remoteok.io? Many similar resources available already. Maybe easier to look at job boards employers already use than hope to get leads here.

Many postings have limitations on location/timezone, which why idea of that post was born. It is much easier for anyone in same situation to lookup for location agnostic job here, at least it looks like so to me. Also there are postings, which does not say anything about location limitations, until final steps in recruitment process - which is not only time consuming, but in general frustrating.

I have worked remotely for over a decade, including from overseas, mostly as a freelancer. Except for some obvious exceptions and some backwards companies, my experience is that every job is remote for the right person. First you sell yourself. Where and when you do the work from is a discussion you have after they want to hire you, not a filter you stop at when looking for work. Admittedly this is a bit easier for freelancers.

When employers/customers have raised the location/timezone objection — which would happen after they decided they want to hire me — I tell them let’s try it and see if it’s a real problem. I commit to responding to emails (or Slack) within 12 hours, making myself available at any time with some advance notice, and giving them a phone number I will answer 24/7 in case of emergency. No one has ever fired me or canceled a contract because I was in Greece or Vietnam.

In sales lingo this is called overcoming objections. You overcome objections one at a time, as the customer/employer raises them. You should have a plan to overcome the likely objections. You don’t filter yourself out from the beginning. Simply getting interviewed and hired is the biggest thing to get past.

I’m not a loner oddball. I participate in and even manage teams and projects, do system admin and maintain infrastructure, and write code, all remotely. Several of my nomadic friends had full-time jobs somewhere and just went traveling and continued doing their jobs, no one even asked where they were.

Pieter Levels is populating RemoteOK from other job boards and Nomadlist.com (which he also runs). That’s just one of many remote-specific job boards. Reddit has a digital nomad sub that gets quite a bit of activity.

You were a great contributor on that subreddit. Did you move to new account there perhaps?

No, I quit Reddit along with all other social media. This is the only place I post or comment anymore.

You might get more responses if you got more specific about what kind of work you’re looking for, and what you bring to the table. Your question is so vague that even though I know companies that hire remote people I have no idea if there’s a match so I’m not going to just post a long list of companies I know about.

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