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Show HN: CommitAsync – $100K+ dev jobs 100% remote only
- Canada 2y agohttps://www.commitasync.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-observability-ingest-services-remote-sweden-grafana-labs-1717048237374/ https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-ob... Well that sounds great position. Salary is a little low though, hopefully we could negotiate!
- lucianh 2y agoI respect your humor. It's a currency glitch that's going to get fixed.
- rho138 2y agoPlease don’t turn into infosec-jobs, Please don’t turn into infosec-jobs, Please don’t turn into infosec-jobs,
- lucianh 2y agoCare to elaborate what you mean? I don't know about them.
- 93po 2y agotypping "django" in the search in firefox on macos only lets me type one letter every second
- kundi 2y agoWhat a useful waste of time. There are already hundreds of websites, boards and aggregators that could be improved with a single input field
- cranberryturkey 2y agois this job board open source? I'd like to run one too.
- elAhmo 2y ago“100% vetted jobs“, but also shows a position from Grafana with salary of $837k - $1004k. Hard to trust the vetting with inaccuracies of this scale.
- lucianh 2y agoVetted as in, the companies are actively recruiting. Regarding the point you're making though, thank you and sorry for the confusion. The inaccuracy exists because it's (by mistake) advertised in dollars instead of the local currency. As I work on this as a new dad after my full-time job, some little bugs are bound to happen while I improve it one commit at a time. Rest assured, every feedback is taken into account.
- unshavedyak 2y agoAlso what does "no estimates" mean? I would have thought it would mean explicit salaries for each post, but i see many ranges, some with ranges starting below 100k (94k, for example). I'm not making a big deal on 94k vs 100k, but the two points combined makes me (a casual observer) a bit confused on what is being vetted here.
- lucianh 2y agoThat's an interesting point you're raising. "no estimates" because in a lot of job boards, when they don't have the salaries for the job posts, they estimate it based on the median salary of the position. I only advertise jobs with salaries, I don't guess them. Do you have a better wording to illustrate this aspect of "no estimates"? Also, would you prefer having less jobs shown, but with a minimum $100k salary if it's a range? Regarding the vetted aspect, it's related to the fact some companies aren't actively recruiting (you can read more in the article linked in the About page of the website).
- unshavedyak 2y agoNo idea on wording, i also don't have much experience in this space so don't take my comment as critique. Rather just an observation from a uninformed user hah. It does seem the wording was my only issue. > Also, would you prefer having less jobs shown, but with a minimum $100k salary if it's a range? I don't think the range matters to be honest, but i do think "breaking" the range erodes confidence and/or increases confusion on the user side. Ie the page explicitly told me no posts less than 100k (iirc), but then showed some less than 100k - so confusion/etc. > Regarding the vetted aspect, it's related to the fact some companies aren't actively recruiting (you can read more in the article linked in the About page of the website). Sounds good! If i'm indicative of the "average user" you may want to make that aspect more prominent? But i could also be well under your target user, in which case ignore my ignorance :D Cool site! I hope to use it one day when i'm looking!
- CoastalCoder 2y agoVery cool. Just a caveat regarding Latitude AI, one of the listed companies. When I applied about 12 months ago, I learned they wouldn't hire residents of some U.S. states. I'm assuming it's because there weren't enough potential employees to justify the cost of handling that state's employer responsibilities.
- lucianh 2y agoAh, good to know. I already have some idea to prevent that in the future. Thanks for the heads up.
- lucianh 2y agoUpdate: it shouldn't happen anymore, only jobs in the US without any state requirement should be posted from now on.
- wrs 2y agoHaving been on the employer end of this, yes, a small company can find it hard to justify the fixed cost of adding another state’s worth of cost/effort overhead to hire one person. It’s a nontrivial barrier to deal with for a fully remote startup. One workaround is to use a “PEO”, or “co-employment” provider, to be the employer of record and handle HR, insurance, payroll, etc. Though it can feel like a rather weird arrangement when employees don’t technically work for the company they think they do.
- belmarca 2y agoAh, good to know. I suspect that might be the case for Canadian or Quebec resident.
- snthd 2y agoCould it be about avoiding some pay transparency laws? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_transparency >California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Washington have passed compensation transparency laws as of 2023. Some US cities also have compensation transparency laws, including New York City.
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- Carrok 2y agoWould love this if I could adjust the bottom of the range. $100k is quite a bit below what I'm looking for at this point in my career.
- lucianh 2y agoGreat suggestion. I'm adding it on my top priorities.
- ramesh31 2y ago>$100k is quite a bit below what I'm looking for at this point in my career. It's a rough pill to swallow, but the rise of remote work is inevitably going to pull things down to a "national median" somewhere in this area. There will always be the coastal tech hubs where top tier folks can go to make real salaries. But for the most part we (in the US) are going to be lumped together and forced to accept something in the range of 2x the average income instead of 3-4x, similar to how things are in Europe. Particularly when you consider the amount of LatAm/Canadian nearshoring going on right now, and the absolute glut of junior/midlevel devs on the market.
- Carrok 2y agoI think you misunderstand what I'm saying. There are _plenty_ of jobs in the range I'm looking for. This site doesn't allow me to find them. That's all.
- CyberDildonics 2y agoSo don't use it. If you already know there are lots of jobs in the range you're looking for, why do you care about this site?
- Carrok 2y agoBecause I would still like another way to look for them. Is this a serious question?
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- afavour 2y agoReaction to the name and not the site: it would be cool to see a listing site for jobs that are truly asynchronous: as long as you get the job done your actual hours don’t matter.
- greenish_shores 2y agoTHIS. Otherwise it's a huge clickbait and absolutely nothing more. We need more "specialized" IT job marketplaces, as most currently existing seem to be fulfilling exactly the same role and not a single one is bringing anything new. For example there was something like "AnonFriendly" posted here on HN some time ago, I really liked this idea.
- duxup 2y agoWould you make exceptions for say "OMG something went wrong need someone to look at this now / all hands on deck!" kinda panic situations? Stuff happens, humans make mistakes, can only be fully async so much IMO. I'm not hiring anyone or anything like that, just curious.
- afavour 2y agoYeah, I think that would be a totally reasonable caveat. It's all a theoretical thought. But I feel like pre-pandemic a lot of companies were wishy-washy with remote: yeah, we do it, some more than others, whatever works... post-pandemic a lot of workplaces have codified in vs out of office days, that kind of thing. Async feels similar. A lot of "hey yeah, it's all cool, as long as you get the work done" sentiments, but then daily video standups at 10am, team meetings multiple times per week, etc. I'm just curious what a codified version of that would look like.
- duxup 2y agoI hear you there. Everything is async until there's a bunch of stuff that isn't and ... wait a minute.
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- mayilian 2y agoThanks!
- ridicter 2y agowe need at least 8236 more job boards
- nsxwolf 2y ago100k isn't what it used to be. I recall the job site "TheLadders.com" opened in 2003 advertising "Only 100k+ jobs, only for 100k+ people". That's like $60,000 today.
- lucianh 2y agoI reckon with inflation this is going to get worse. However, we have 2 options there: a. raise the minimum to $150K but reduce jobs for people outside of the US to basically just a few if any b. keep it at $100K (for now), and let the person adjust with salary ranges filters
- esafak 2y agoAnd the dollar store no longer sells things for 99c. It's a nice round number.
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- nsxwolf 2y agoMy observation is that back then we used the number as an anchor for where "the good life" starts, and we still seem to be doing that, even though it's an amount that's getting you closer to "just scraping by".
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agoI really don't understand the canadian salaries. It doesn't make sense given we can work for the US
- shagie 2y ago(I am speculating here...) Canadian citizens can work for a US based company under a TN visa. You would still need a work visa for the country you work "in" - and the TN would be applicable. Non-citizen Canadian residents are not eligible for a TN visa and would be restricted to only jobs within Canada.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agoBut this are all remote jobs, so the VISA thing is not relevant, at least that's why I brought this up
- shagie 2y agoI am basing this off of https://blog.hireborderless.com/post/working-remotely-for-u-s-companies-a-guide-for-canadians https://blog.hireborderless.com/post/working-remotely-for-u-... > To legally work for a U.S. company, a Canadian citizen must obtain a valid work visa. This is known as a TN Visa. And https://www.uscisguide.com/visa/nonimmigrant-visas/work/u-s-work-visa-and-remote-work/ https://www.uscisguide.com/visa/nonimmigrant-visas/work/u-s-... > 13. Are there any special considerations for remote workers with a U.S. work visa? > Yes, remote workers with a U.S. work visa must comply with the same rules and regulations as their colleagues in the U.S. This includes such things as tax, insurance, and labor laws. Additionally, remote workers must ensure they understand the regulations of the country in which they are based, as they may vary from those of the U.S. Furthermore, remote workers should be aware that they may be subject to different immigration rules and regulations than their colleagues who are physically located in the U.S. Finally, remote workers should ensure that they have a valid work visa in order to remain compliant with U.S. immigration law.
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- bilsbie 2y agoPlease don’t accept 100K
- belmarca 2y agoSo, "please starve so I can get paid more"?
- soulofmischief 2y agoWho is the audience for this comment?
- msftie 2y agoI’m poking around while on an airplane, so the network speed is pretty slow. The site crawls to a stop with each character I type into the search box. As a performance booster, perhaps consider adding a short delay before firing off queries to update the results or decoupling the the search box from the query result?
- lucianh 2y agoAh, unstable connections! It's good that you've noticed me of this performance matter. I'm going to look for improving this issue.
- finack 2y agoCrazy idea: provide a search box, and when the user hits "enter", POST the data to the backend, which queries the database, and then returns the relevant results.
- szundi 2y agoCrazy straightforward
- ryanwaggoner 2y agoRetro.
- 10000truths 2y agoIt's possible to make autosuggest performant on poor Internet connections, it just needs a little more thought put into optimizing for it: 1. Debounce! 2. Use WebSockets to minimize unnecessary round trips 3. Cache previous results and use them when the input is a superstring of a previous input (e.g. results for "Android mobile dev" will always be a subset of the results for "mobile dev")
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- statquontrarian 2y agoI like the About page explaining the motivation and how it's different. If you want to get ahead of the curve, filters for 4 and 3 day work weeks would be very cool.
- lucianh 2y agoI'm glad you did find the About page useful, I've tried my best to tell my story and the whys behind this project. That's a very cool idea to have these filters, that'll help other engineers who want a better work-life balance a lot! I'll have to think on how to approach this.
- bgirard 2y agoI wish job sites would show total compensation. They show a Mozilla job posting which, when I was there, would consistently pay 30%+ bonuses. At other jobs equity comp has been 50%-75%+ of my comp. Comparing jobs looking at base only is useless for me.
- skeeter2020 2y agoIf they showed "total comp" as a single number the next (legit) HN complaint would be "why don't they show base salary? everything else is totally dependent on how and when you value it!"
- khuey 2y agoMozilla at least really did pay straight cash bonuses so there was no equity valuation stuff to worry about.
- clipsy 2y agoIf only we had the technology to show both TC and a breakdown. Alas!
- bgirard 2y agoJust show the breakdown. levels.fyi does this correctly. It shows the information correctly and I can then properly compare how I value salary, performance bonuses and equity/options in each particular company. This should be the golden standard now.
- duxup 2y agoSeems like that could just be variable and honestly kinda deceptive. Yo our startup is awesome, you get some equity like thing that is worth a ton! Yeah about that ...
- bgirard 2y agoOn target earnings is a standard terms. I'd rather have equity be disclosed upfront. You can weight that however you want, even if you value it at zero. Just because it's non trivial, I don't think the answer is to give up. Showing a breakdown is perfectly acceptable.
- el_benhameen 2y agoNitpick, but if the filter options are mutually exclusive then they should use radio buttons or lists. Checkboxes imply that multiple selection is allowed.
- em-bee 2y agobut it would actually be more practical if the choices were not mutually exclusive
- lucianh 2y agoThanks for your feedback. Could you explain why it'd be more useful to you, what do you usually use the filters for?
- el_benhameen 2y agoI’d find it useful to be able to see eg a wider range of salaries or languages. My job search is a fairly flexible, so I want wide filter parameters.
- lucianh 2y agoI've made them not exclusive, it should be more useful to you, from now on.
- lucianh 2y agoThat's true, I'll see if I make the filter options not mutually exclusive instead if that's more useful (see comment below).
- kwanbix 2y agoI want to see jobs that can be done from any country as long as I am on the same time zone. Is it possible?
- lucianh 2y agoWould having timezone filters be useful to you, like EMEA, APAC etc?
- slifin 2y agoLooks great, one small ask - could you add Clojure to the list of technologies?
- lucianh 2y agoThank you, I've added it. It should show once I find new jobs with it.
- vidarh 2y agoOverall like it, so take this as friendly suggestions because I like it and would love it to get better: While I can get using the EU flag, which is also the Council of Europe flag, for Europe, it really makes it unclear whether the jobs listed as "Europe" are EU only (or maybe EEA?), all of Europe, and which countries are included... It'd be good to make that clearer. Somehow. Europe is difficult. E.g. one job marked as Europe lists UK as a location they have staff, while another lists EU specifically in location. Also: Currencies matter. While I'd happily work for a US (or EU) company, and have before, my salary expectations would be much higher if the salary is *actually denominated in USD (which I have done once), because of the currency risk I'd incur... As a shortcut while launching it's fine, but if you're going to grow this outside the US you'll need for people to be able to know what currencies are "on offer". For similar reasons, you'd also want it to be clear to people which country they'd be employed "from". A lot of places it'll complicate things if the entity you're hired by does not have a local company for you to formally sign an employment contract with, so I'd want to know. E.g. if I'm going to sign up with a US company (I'm available; see profile) I'd generally just as well contract via my limited company instead as being hired by one gives me few benefits over just contracting, while conversely being hired by a UK company gives me (eventually, anyway) assorted legal protections that make it preferable to a contract unless the contract rate is much higher than the salary.
- lucianh 2y agoThanks for your feedback! I've just answered a similar comment like yours about the currency, you're definitely right. This needs to be fixed and I've put it down on my todo list. I understand your frustration about the Europe flag, it can be a bit vague. I'll improve it as I've written it down too. I'll have to think about the country of employment. I'm going to look if that's easy to implement, maybe for some jobs that will be harder but in any case, if I can provide this information that can be useful.
- vidarh 2y agoJust having the info in the listings would already be a big improvement, even if you come across ones where it becomes a nuisance to search. I'd suggest doing that first, and then you'll also see from your dataset which search options is likely to add more/less value.
- timelessmanners 2y agoKudos for shipping a product! I like the selling point of "$100K+ remote dev jobs". Arguably a $100K+ is what someone in the US would assume to be the case in the first place, but still it hits the nail on the head being *exactly* what many people outside the US (and maybe a few more countries with similarly high salaries), including me, would want. i.e, from the perspective of someone outside US: 'Now that remote work has put all potential candidates in the pool, let's also put all the salaries in the pool'. The website is simple and has sensible search filters, especially for the location, e.g. "Worldwide". As another person mentioned, "vetted" can feel a bit undermined by postings like this one https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/mid-software-engineerjava-iii-openx-1715586382886/ https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/mid-software-engineerjava-i... and this one https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-observability-ingest-services-remote-sweden-grafana-labs-1715585354288/ https://www.commitasync.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-ob... where actual salaries are much lower than the stated ones, but I have a feeling that whoever posted the job assumed PLN (Polish) and SEK (Swedish) currencies, respectively, which would seem reasonable. Given that you've just launched, if these details are polished out in the near future, I'm sure we could all forgive a little "fake it 'till you make it" being thrown in the mix. All in all, well done.
- lucianh 2y agoThanks for your constructive feedback! I'm a new father and I'm making/improving this product whenever I have free time. I've created it from a pain point I've experienced myself: it's hard to find $100K+ fully remote dev positions when you're outside the US. For the point with the actual salaries being much lower than the stated ones, you're right it's because the job assumed local currencies -> I've put it down on my todo list to fix it! Again, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback I really appreciate it.
- lucianh 2y agoJust to inform you, starting next week (tomorrow), the currency problem shouldn't happen anymore for the new jobs posted.
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- greo 2y agoThere was a Mexican company offering $800k - $1000k. It's still technically $100k+ but wrong currency lol
- nsxwolf 2y agoMexican dev salaries are really creeping up. $1MM MEX is no longer "pennies on the dollar" unless by pennies you mean "most of the pennies". So you want to hire top quality developers for cheap that are the US Central time zone? Well, so does everyone else, and they got there before you did.
- lucianh 2y agoStarting next week (tomorrow), the currency problem shouldn't happen anymore for the new jobs posted.
- welder 2y agoLooks like some jobs are scraped from other sites? Because some referral links are still in the 'Apply' button, for ex: https://rubyonremote.com https://rubyonremote.com in the Reddit job.
- hazelnut 2y agoit seems a good chunk is just coming from other job boards: - sportstechjobs.com - levels.fyi - Khosla Ventures Job Board - SpaceTalent Job Board - Accel Job Board - CrackedDevs.com ...
- lucianh 2y agoI don't know any of the job boards you've mentioned except levels.fyi. And no, I don't scrape them. You can have jobs with apply link URLs containing utm parameters in it. Even if you didn't scrape the website linked. This will be fixed, though.
- AlexDragusin 2y agoPlease consider a slight delay at typing stage to avoid this round trip after each character is being typed, it becomes very sluggish, even on top of the line connections. I don't have opinions in terms of the product itself since I am not the target market, looks good in terms of design, I like that! Best of luck!
- lucianh 2y agoThank you for the feedback! I've added a slight delay, let me know if that works out better for you.
- kethinov 2y agoSites with infinite scroll should not have footers.
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- cbeach 2y agoThank you for creating this! One request - please could you add "Scala" as a tech tag. I noticed at least one of your listed roles is for a Scala developer, but the tag is "Java"
- lucianh 2y agoThanks! I've added it, it should be picked up correctly next time.
- twohaibei 2y agoSome ads have their salary put in local currency, which is a lot less than 100k USD. IE. couple of Polish, Swedish ads. one swedish ad starts at 837k which is comical.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoVery nice work, the number of American flags I see here really has me thinking maybe I should move back home in a few years. (Like, 5 to 7 - I'm not leaving Finland until I become really fluent in Finnish. Call it a self imposed challenge.) Can anyone tell me whether they think $100k+ salaries are more or less common over there compared to 2021? My first job out of college with Epic was around $90k at the finish, but I was coming in fresh from electrical engineering, I wasn't a CS major. I plan to head back with the Georgia Tech master's in comp sci, and I'm pretty sure I could crush any coding interviews that got thrown my way even now given a few weeks to revisit my old Neetcode 150 Anki card deck. The only thing which might hold me back is the languages I like on the job the most are painfully boring (Python, Javascript, good old fashioned SQL, Bash to shore up the organized-electron supply chain).
- CalRobert 2y agoSame, when I left the US in 2013 I was early career and the gap wasn’t as big but now it seems like European pay is just atrocious. I was ok with a 30% pay cut for quality of life, not 60%. Weak euro doesn’t help either.
- ryanwaggoner 2y agoThe public tech companies (and hot private ones) all pay $250-300k and up for senior devs who can pass the interview process.
- fsloth 2y agoIs the quoted range region specific or ”worldwide”?
- twojobsoneboss 2y agoOnly the megacap ones. For the other smaller but still public companies you need to be staff+ to hit that, and even then no guarantees
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- soulofmischief 2y agoGreat work! A small suggestion, filtering by part-time/full-time would be great.
- lucianh 2y agoThanks! I've already started to work on it actually, I'll see to finish it up.
- em-bee 2y agoplease make sure that part time jobs are included as long as they reach a fulltime equivalent of 100k. that means a 20h per week job should pay at least 50k a year and still be considered a 100k job for the site.