Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.
So I put together a centralized job board aggregator that lists the best paying SWE jobs in one place, starting with the U.S. and 14 companies. The way it works is via a cron job that runs daily in the afternoon to pull the latest job postings from each company and updates the website with the new listings.
Some other key features are
1. Quickly see which companies are actively hiring, e.g. Coinbase currently has the most openings
2. Filter by years of experience or companies to find suitable matches
3. Easily see estimated salary and posted date
If you're also on the hunt for the next remote SWE role, I hope this site helps streamline your job search and would appreciate any feedback and suggestions. Thanks!
Home page: https://www.remoteswe.fyi
FAQ page with additional context: https://www.remoteswe.fyi/faq
This role is based out of Reddit's office located in San Francisco.
We will only consider candidates currently located in San Francisco, or currently within close commuting distance to the SF office.
The role requires in-office work 4 days per week.
I don’t know about that. A lot of times companies will already have someone they want but they have to post a job listing for X days before they can fulfill it.
Full time hire process can take a long time and is why contract to hire can get you in the door faster.
4. Where are the salary data sourced from?
Tech companies typically structure salary, often called total compensation, into 3 parts: base salary, equity, and bonus.
Base salary is pulled directly from each job post, thanks to the U.S. Pay Transparency laws (e.g. California SB-1162 in 2011), which require companies to include salary ranges in job listings to help address wage gaps caused by bias or discrimination.
Total compensation is sourced from levels.fyi, a platform that collects leveling and salary info through crowdsourcing.
Unfortunately, current laws in many states, such as Washington RCW 49.58.110 in 2022, only require companies to provide base salary ranges along with a general description of other forms of compensation. This allows companies to omit equity and bonus details. Hopefully, future legislation will help close this gap.
More and more US companies are expanding globally to places like India, Canada and Europe, so there will be more opportunities oversea.
I have sent your aggregator to one SWE friend who has recently gotten a job and always seeks remote work. He said he feels underqualified for all the job postings. So if you can include jobs that don't have such daunting expectations then you can mint a lot of money in India
In the US, some companies (e.g. Pinterest, Dropbox) offer apprentice programs for folks looking to break into tech from non-tech background, not sure if there are equivalents in India. While I can't speak to the situation in India, in the US at least, for folks don't have much SWE job experience, they can also gain experiences via side projects or unpaid internship in smaller company and use it as a stepping stone to build their resume and increase their odds on landing a paid role.
Copyright and terms of sites scraped etc
LinkedIn lost a lawsuit about specifically trying to prevent scraping of their job content. This was a big deal at the time as all the major job sites were scraping jobs either because a customer lacked technical capabilities or to add jobs that were not part of the corpus. It’s a routine part of how the industry works in the same way that not many complain about Google scraping the Internet.
Secondly, and actually more importantly, a lot of the industry exchanges jobs using feeds. This is where CPC job distribution generally exists. These can contain “free” jobs which do not get any CPC credit but would let you build something like this site without any scraping infrastructure. You can ask some major job boards for just the free jobs if you wanted that for some reason. Most job specific scraping services like Aspen and Feedonomics will deliver you scraped jobs in the your preferred feed format.
In practice where I’ve worked we just blocked scraping sites when we get a complaint and respected robots.txt. It was rare for someone to complain since we were good sources of traffic wherever I worked. I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that as long as you’re not otherwise breaking the law by respecting legitimate takedown notices then scraping is fair use.
Murdoch, famously, owns UK politics.
Context: Was a senior SWE in SF for Airbnb until 2020. Now I'm seeing Principle engineer positions with lower base salary than I had 5 years ago.
Cost of living adjusted though, they may be higher.
Aside from the lag, I was hoping folks might appreciate the artistic of the animations where companies are resolving around a remote coding home :)
Kudos to you, I’m sure my 2012 mbp will handle it fine though :-)
You can render tens of thousands of rows at once without lag, something is wrong.
There are probably thousands of people applying and it’s like a lottery ticket whether you will stand out enough for your resume to even be seen unless they are looking for a specialized skillset. No full stack or front end development is not specialized.
- Building job boards
- Building static site generators
- Building todo list apps
- Building "personal knowledge base" type apps
I'm seeing even more of this effect lately among young vibe coders. Not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying:
It's reached the point where it's easier to build your own app than search/decide/choose an existing one.
Love the list btw. What is an example of "personal knowledge base" type app? Like Notion?
There's one on the front page right now, keyword "Obsidian" ;)
I might have built part of a "personal knowledge base" type app by rolling up a custom editor before, so 1.5 boxes check.
At least for a job board, it feels like it is useful, and also ultimately not that complex a piece of software. Which is nice for doing some light coding as opposed to things I usually deal with at work.
What type of job board are you building btw? Does it focus on a niche?
Also the table lags on my iPhone 15 when you select All.
What stack are you using, OP?
The site is built with Next.js, Typescript, React, tailwindcss, and deployed to Vercel. The cron job is a vercel function, which I believe is just a nice wrapper on aws lambda.