Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Tech Lead - looking for a remote opportunity
I'm a product-minded Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience across full-stack web, mobile, and product growth. My main stack is TypeScript, React, Node.js, with additional experience in Swift and React Native. I've led engineering teams and enjoy owning problems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment and growth experiments.
From 2021–2024, I was a Lead Growth Engineer at Community Phone (https://communityphone.org), where I led a cross-functional engineering team and helped drive a 6x increase in conversion rates and a 50% reduction in customer churn through product experimentation and analytics.
I'm currently building AminoStudio (https://aminostudio.online), a B2B product I designed and implemented from scratch for analyzing laboratory amino-acid profiles of protein raw materials. I also maintain 60+ open-source repositories and have built and launched multiple products independently.
I'm looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer or Tech Lead role, preferably remote, at a product company where engineers have substantial ownership.
I'm a former lead software engineer, currently looking for a job for more than two years. What I have learned is that resumes don't work anymore. It only matters who you know personally and who knows you. That's the thing recruiters will never tell you.
There are only several hundred tech companies in SoCal, plus another several hundred entertainment, aerospace, biotech, and defense companies...
Right now, entertainment in SoCal is hurting pretty bad but the other 4 industries have hundreds of open job positions for engineering positions. The caveat is that you have to be an "engineer" and not just a "coder."
I know, but most of those industries treat software as a cost center, and are the first to offshore where possible.
It's like me complaining about not finding good biotech employment in Chicago or lack of Aerospace work in the Bay.
And traditional DefenseTech and Biotech has been conducting heavy layoffs the past few years (the former due to contract renegotiations with DoD/DoW and the latter due to the post-COVID funding crunch).
There are dozens of tech job posts here per week, according to indeed anyway. Further, am willing to move for even a mediocre job. No offers to even consider, much less turn down.
I'd try getting an offer yourself. Bet you wouldn't find it easy to even get a reply. My location has not come up in the current year, because there have been no replies.
It’s not about needing to, rather learning how the job market actually is before making judgments. The situation is, even an interview is worthless because there’s no chance at passing it if you’re old or make any kind of mistake.
One company dropped me when they learned I had java 18 experience and not 20 something, really.
I only use Indeed as a news feed, and it is useful at that.
Also, I’ve not asked for relocation expenses because it doesn’t get that far.
> I'm based in Russia and looking for a remote job worldwide
No employer or freelancer hirer is going to risk sanctions to hire a freelancer located in Russia. Any method to pay you would require breaking dollar and euro sanctions.
Your only option as a freelancer is to immigrate to Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkiye, Azerbaijan, etc like others in your shoes.
I sympathize with the OP as I have roots in the former USSR, but this is unfortunately true. My previous workplace in the US straight out rejected any resumes that smelled Russian.
In California and haven’t worked either. Interviews are not enough, as they’ll look for any reason to not hire, even with referral. They’re easy to find as no one is perfect.
You're delusional and/or lying. I graduated from the top university for CS in my country and perhaps Europe, haven't checked in a while. My grades were not great but decent. Still I was struggling to get interviews. I thought I was doing something wrong so I consulted the career department of my uni but it still took me a year to find a well paying but kinda shitty legacy software job
I don't believe this. My latest job hunt was about 6 months ago, I had to stop applying for jobs I got so many callbacks. My CV is decent but hardly outstanding, good experience but no name-brand companies.
I saw another comment where you said you are in Russia, my guess is that is the reason. Not like there's much consumer tech investment flowing there at the moment.
So, that was basically the lesson that my mom taught me in 1984. Right after I graduated high school and entered university. At the time, she had already been employed by the university HR department for a number of years, and she was now the official job placement expert on campus. She ran their entire Job Location Program. I even designed a JLP logo for her, while I was in high school.
The rule then was, 90% of all placements come from personal networks — people you know, or people that they can put you in touch with. Of the remainder, 90% came from headhunters that were sent out to do a specific job of finding a specific person for a specific role. That left just 1% of the total to be covered by things like listings in newspapers, job placement programs, etc…. Yes, she understood intensely how small her role was in this process. Which is what made her the expert she was.
She taught me that you always have to have your résumé ready and polished, which is hard for people who are in college and don’t have any real job experience. But you’re going to have to knock on a lot of doors, and meet a lot of people, before you’re likely to be hired.
So far as I have been able to determine, those rules haven’t really changed since. If anything, they’ve gotten worse. Especially with spam, junk listings, and AI slop.
Yes, I have a LinkedIn Profile which I have tried to polish up as best I can, but I know it needs more work. And I’m going to have to go knock on a lot of doors and meet a lot of people, before I can reasonably hope to be hired for my next job. And in the meanwhile, I’m going to be getting some official career counseling and advice.
But personal networking is key. Get yourself out there at local meetups. Get yourself out there in online groups that are doing interesting things. Get your name out there as THE expert in the things you care about. Make them knock down your door, headhunting you for their job they desperately need to fill.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but I'd rather see that than a defeatist: "Oh my, a corporation did something bad, whelllp I guess that's the end of the story! Nothing to be done here, artificial persons will be artificial persons, those cheeky scamps."
I’ll be honest, most piracy is only legally bad and not morally bad. I’d also prefer AI companies pirate already scanned content than destroy potentially rare books and hoard the scans, which fails to benefit the wider intellectual community.
In a world where 95 years of copyright is the minimum, and works like Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone likely won’t enter the public domain until approximately 2120AD, I fail to see a moral argument be made for any book published pre-2011.
As it stands, we are caught between allowing AI companies unfettered access to copyrighted material or allowing the corpus of human creativity to be squandered by rights holders. It is an unfortunate position to be in, but I would far prefer a copyright minimalist world than what we currently suffer through, even if that means AI companies are vacuuming up the intellectual works of humanity.
If all else is the same except I wrote a famous novel equivalent to Harry Potter, or if I was in fact J. K. Rowling? If I was Rowling, then obviously I would have the same opinions as Rowling does, making the thought experiment uninteresting.
However, it’s also uninteresting from the alternative perspective: if I made a famous novel series. In which case, I still believe what I currently believe, except now I am very rich, so thank you. I could—and would—submit the works into the public domain 20 years after their release and then live comfortably for the rest of my life.
Let me inform you of something: from 1997 to 2007, the HP series sold approximately 350 million copies. Between 2007 to 2018 it sold approximately 150 million additional copies. That rate will continue to go down, and Rowling would still profit off of the books because of what they’re already doing: expensive limited edition official releases, which makes superfans and other collectors go crazy and have high profit margins. Even if Rowling gave up the copyright in 2017 for the first book, she has the other books which would be in their own 20yr copyright term, and the trademarks which would be uniquely hers and desirable by consumers.
I would be very well off and nothing would really change, except now people can sell their own sequels/rewrites and make money too. Isn’t more artists having a chance to make a living a good thing? Or only specific artists? If someone rewrote the series but if Malfoy was a girl and in love with Harry (à la the recent Malfoid memes) shouldn’t they be rewarded for their work if the market deems it high quality?
Let's see how the evidence plays out. If there's internal comms with approvals and knowingly committing crimes then people should be brought to justice.
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Tech Lead - looking for a remote opportunity
I'm a product-minded Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience across full-stack web, mobile, and product growth. My main stack is TypeScript, React, Node.js, with additional experience in Swift and React Native. I've led engineering teams and enjoy owning problems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment and growth experiments.
From 2021–2024, I was a Lead Growth Engineer at Community Phone (https://communityphone.org), where I led a cross-functional engineering team and helped drive a 6x increase in conversion rates and a 50% reduction in customer churn through product experimentation and analytics.
I'm currently building AminoStudio (https://aminostudio.online), a B2B product I designed and implemented from scratch for analyzing laboratory amino-acid profiles of protein raw materials. I also maintain 60+ open-source repositories and have built and launched multiple products independently.
I'm looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer or Tech Lead role, preferably remote, at a product company where engineers have substantial ownership.
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