Euro Top Tech Jobs - Week 36
5 fully-remote companies paying $100-500k, Hiring picking up for Q1, job board update and analytics, starting YouTube
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Towards the end of today’s article I’m sharing some useful and time-sensitive advice, so make sure to at least skim through ‘till the end in order not to lose it.
Yesterday I published my first YouTube video
I didn’t wake up wanting to start YouTube.
I just wanted to record a video demo of the updated EuroTopTechJobs.com.
Then I thought:
Let me do a video that als explains the site to a stranger
Let’s add an intro on why I built it and why it’s useful
Mmm, this kinda looks like a YT video
Let’s ask gf to shoot a picture to use as thumbnail
Put some text on it with Canva
Hit publish
😅
The video contains:
An intro on how to think about making money as a dev in Europe
A job board demo for a couple of use cases:
Engineer looking for remote roles in Poland
Engineer looking for staff+ roles in Spain
A walkthrough the other area of the site including
The main job board section
The fully-remote jobs section
The private guides section
I’m happier than I thought about the result!
I think I’ll continue posting on YouTube, especially if I receive good feedback (which this first video already kind of has).
A YT channel could:
Offer an audio-first version of my content (people don’t always want to read text on a screen)
Spread the message to a broader audience
Offer a way for me to convey things that are harder in text: personality, humour, anecdotes, maybe even day-in-a-life/vlogs or on-the-ground deep-dives on European tech hubs.
I would appreciate your support there, and I also very much welcome your feedback on the video!
From the next one, I definitely plan to improve:
Camera quality
Microphone
Removing the “ehm” from the talking somehow. Not sure if with better scripting or just improving my speaking skills,
Let me know if you have any recommendations on these aspects (maybe you can recommend some good tools to set-up a home recording studio), or anything else!
If you want to know about the site’s updates in text
Give a look at last week’s Euro Top Tech Jobs update where I shared quite a few improvements.
New Year / Q1 Headcount - Hiring is rising
I think we’re getting there!
4 weeks in a row of increased job postings.
On Jan 3rd, we had 4,565 jobs.
This week: 4,770 jobs.
It’s quite a big improvement (205 more jobs) and it shows that the hypothesis of headcounts being bigger in Q1 is reasonable.
Many people in my coaching program are now getting interviews and offers
Six figure fully remote job landed
Interviews with Meta and Google (Western Europe’s offices) scheduled
Interview with Google Poland scheduled
A word of advice: the time to act for landing top roles in Central Europe is NOW
People are starting to wake up to the fact that Central Europe is the place to be for devs in 2025 and going forward.
I still see people having prejudices about the region, thinking that being in countries with completely eroded purchasing power, at the brink of civil wars, immigration crisis and decaying infrastructure like the UK, Germany, Sweden and so on, is the best for them.
Especially if you’re a dev, it’s most probably not the best.
You can act now, and get the top jobs in Central Europe with very limited competition, or wait till everyone else figures it out, and play it in hard mode, after spending years in overpriced, overtaxed countries with limited purchasing power and contained savings.
Salary sharing with savings rate and family costs data
To see how much devs are making, saving and with which lifestyle in Europe, check out this document.
And please contribute if you haven’t already! It helps us all.
Here’s 5 companies paying $100-600k for fully-remote devs:
Prisma, $100k+, career's page
Sourcegraph, $100-350k, career's page
June, $80-250k, career’s page
subsub, $80-200k, career's page
CloudTalk, $90-250k, career’s page
You can find 90+ more of these at EuroTopTechJobs.com
Data from this week’s onsite/hybrid/country-remote section of eurotoptechjobs.com (!= from the fully-remote high-paying companies’ list):
NOTE: Students! Looks like now is the time to apply for summer internship (180 intern roles open right now!).
Total number of job listings: 4,770
Top 10 Companies (Number of Open Positions)
Datadog - 602
AWS - 581
Oracle - 482
NVIDIA - 363
Microsoft - 346
Amazon - 343
Revolut - 312
Google - 307
Databricks - 103
Elastic - 98
Top 10 Locations
London, UK - 382
Dublin, Ireland - 335
Warsaw, Poland - 198
Paris, France - 177
Madrid, Spain - 176
Tel Aviv, Israel - 168
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 123
United Kingdom - 121
Cracow, Poland - 114
Tel Aviv District, Israel - 99
Positions by Seniority Level
Entry level to mid-level - 2,108
Senior - 1,821 Staff - 326
Entry-level - 190
Intern - 180
Principal - 76
Mid-level - 41
Senior staff - 28
And here are the key changes from last week:
Changes in Total Jobs
Increased from 4,741 to 4,770 (+29 positions)
Company Changes
AWS: -8 positions (589 → 581)
Oracle: +93 positions (389 → 482) [it’s a few weeks in a row of growth!]
NVIDIA: -55 positions (418 → 363)
Microsoft: -34 positions (380 → 346)
Elastic: -7 positions (105 → 98)
Location Changes
London: -10 positions (392 → 382)
Dublin: -18 positions (353 → 335)
Warsaw: +2 positions (196 → 198)
Amsterdam: +10 positions (113 → 123)
United Kingdom: +2 positions (119 → 121)
Bucharest dropped out of top 10
Tel Aviv District returned to top 10 with 99 positions
Seniority Level Changes
Entry level to mid-level: +31 positions (2,077 → 2,108)
Senior: +49 positions (1,772 → 1,821)
Staff: +1 position (325 → 326)
Entry-level: -45 positions (235 → 190)
Intern: -14 positions (194 → 180)
Principal: +2 positions (74 → 76)
Mid-level: +2 positions (39 → 41)
Senior staff: +3 positions (25 → 28)
Whenever you're ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:
Euro Top Tech Jobs: 4000+ top paying tech jobs in Europe in addition to 90+ fully-remote companies paying $100-600k per year and private guides like this one.
Coaching Program: Check it out if you want to work 1:1 with me to boost your career as a dev in Europe or remotely.
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