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Can I ask how are you dealing with taxes, working for a US company in Spain? Are you contracting your SWE services and billing them? Or are you an employee of the US company?

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Check remote.com or similar solutions. They have a few competitors, but for 200$ you become a full employee in your country of residence.

In some countries working as full time employee via remote.com etc. gets you less money than having a company and dealing with the taxes.

Yes, that's common for sure, but you also don't have to deal with the amount of BS that comes with being a contractor in some countries. It's the case of Spain, where the Tax Agency and Social Security are very aggressive and gives lot of headaches depending on what you do.

Some employees even have premiums for putting their hand in your pocket. So yea, it may be more expensive but the peace of mind that gives you for offloading all of that to someone else is priceless.

I'm an employee of the Spanish office, but the company itself is a US one.

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