Euro Top Tech Jobs - Week 23
10 fully-remote $100-500k companies, Databricks new grad roles, Trump, Germany, Europe and more.
Gifts
First things first, here’s 10 fully-remote companies paying $100-500k for tech folks:
Cinder, $100-350k, https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cinder
Maze, $100-350k, https://maze.co/careers/
Keelvar, $100k+, https://www.keelvar.com/careers#open-roles
Metabase, $100k+, https://www.metabase.com/jobs
DuckDuckGo, $100-300k, https://duckduckgo.recruitee.com/
Magic School AI, $150-500k, https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/magicschool
Postscript, $100-300k, https://boards.greenhouse.io/postscript/
Runway ML, $150-500k, https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/runwayml
CodeSignal, $100-350k, https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/codesignal
Supermove, $150-500k, https://jobs.lever.co/supermove
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Trump
Trump winning the US elections poses challenges for Europe.
I’m not an expert, but from my understanding he’s gonna push for a more closed and independent economy for the US than it has been in the past.
The related impacts I see for Europe are:
Military: We can expect a lighter involvement in terms of financial aid and military equipment by the US in the Euro-Russia war.
Commercial: Trump’s tariffs policies will challenge Europe’s exports. Given the size of the US market, for some multinational European companies it might start to make sense to reduce their operation in Europe and open them in the US.
Lack of leadership at Euro-level: necessary to make strong and necessary changes.
It is a complex topic, and I’m not fully qualified to discuss it - also, it might require an entire article.
But, to expand a bit more without having to go too much into details:
Europe right now is facing a lot of challenges.
From uncontrolled immigration on a continent-wide level, to economic stagnation and growth challenges, to political instability and security concerns.
Russia’s current direct involvement in Ukraine, and its more subtle proxy wars with Europe, only contributes to make things worse.
Putin’s currently aiming to destabilise European countries from the inside by sponsoring polarised fringes, financing criminalised illegal immigration and creating division (easier to negotiate with small, divided countries than with a strong and cohesive “United States of Europe”).
Moreover, Europe’s dependence on Russian energy poses major challenges to an already stagnating economy.
Europe needs to take part in the faster growing US economy, and European companies need to be selling to the confident American consumers.
If under Trump they would have to move their operations to the US, to continue doing so, they’ll do it. Volkswagen is already closing some of its German plants for the first time in history.
If you combine these two things - higher military costs to build a European army after the US distances itself + less economic activity in the continent (due to existing stagnation and potentially a “business drain” risk) - you can see how this could become problematic, possibly in ways that will increase taxes and reduce quality of public services.
Good things about Europe
On the other hand, cost of living and cost of labour are still much lower than in the US, which will make it appealing for American software companies to continue expanding in the old continent, creating jobs.
So we, as devs, shouldn’t suffer too much.
Moreover, Europe’s reduced cost of living, higher quality of life, and potentially low taxes (in the right countries, with the right setup), can make it a very appealing place to be based in for a high-earning fully-remote professional.
Germany, Poland and Switzerland’ current outlook
Another topic that will require further discussion and potentially separate articles, but:
Germany is going down quite fast: current government just collapsed, economy is among the most stagnant in Europe and it is among the EU countries with the most problems related to immigration and political instability and tensions.
Poland is doing amazing on the economic front, is optimally positioned to become the EU leader and the trend is upward. Yet, its success is somewhat fragile, and it will be one of the most affected countries with regards to the “Russian problem” and the possibility of the US pulling funds from NATO - which, while being a problem, is also one of the factors that will contribute to its “rise to power” in Europe.
Switzerland isn’t growing all that much - which is somewhat expected when you’re the richest country in the world - and it has similar economic stagnation challenges of other European countries. High local salaries with high cost of living. Reduced amount of local high-paying companies - due to offshoring - with some exceptions. But, its stability in the current unstable European scenario makes it gain quite a few points IMO. Even in case of high-paying remote jobs (which is the “new FAANG”), one could still consider having a Swiss base while spending a good amount of time outside of the country thus not suffering too much from the high cost of living, while keeping taxation low.
Hope you liked this brain dump, let me know if you want me to expand on this in future articles.
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