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Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by throw31337 »

I work as a dev in UK for 6 years now, mostly JVM (Scala, Java), SQL, Javascript, some Python and Rust. I am now very interested in starting working remotely, so I'm curious what stacks are popular in remote jobs? What should I concentrate my attention towards from purely realistic and practical perspective?

Obviously if I could choose I'd prefer something like Scala/Big Data or Rust/Real time, but something tells me Ruby/Rails and Python/Django or something with Javascript will be way more popular?

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Post by FuNe »

You can see the current trends by looking at job listings. E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&allowsremote=true

Another good source of info is: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

I think it has more to do with the company itself and less with the tech stack though. There are companies that get remote working (not necessarily new or startups) and others that they don't.

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Post by pimterry »

From what I've seen, Rails and Node tend to be the big contenders, with quite a few people starting to move things to Go now. That's just anecdotal though, hard to get much concrete numbers on this sort of thing.

https://remoteok.io aggregates remote jobs, and has lots of them tagged by language, which might be a route to try and get more substantial answers to this.

Let me know if you/anybody has a go at this actually, I might have a go myself next week, if nobody else has in the meantime.

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Post by anc84 »

Is this question some cynic attempt to see what keywords are going to be upvoted?

What does "remote" even mean here? A ukranian remotely working for a US company? A brit remotely working for a chinese one?

Why would there be a difference in stack just because someone is not working in-office but from somewhere else? The stack much rather depends on the field of work, the technology involved and maybe the location of the parent company (at which you might also be able to work non-remotely). ;)

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Post by upbeatlinux »

I don't think you should look at it from the standpoint of what's popular as it really depends. Instead take a look at the company, team experience, road map, learning opportunities, size and stage of company, etc.

If you enjoy learning and exploring parts of the stack in some depth ensure that vision matches up with the role and it's responsibilities.

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Post by throw31337 »

anc84 wrote: post #5

Is this question some cynic attempt to see what keywords are going to be upvoted? What does "remote" even mean here? A ukranian remotely working for a US company? A brit remotely working for a chinese one? Why would there be a difference in stack just because someone is not working in-office but from somewhere else? The stack much rather depends on the field of work, the technology involved and maybe the location of…

No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knocking down salaries, etc. Just trying to be realistic.

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Post by gregjor »

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site.

If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ever needs 2,000 more lines of Ruby or Javascript in the next month. What they need are people who can solve business problems. If you can do that, where you happen to do it from becomes irrelevant.

I have been freelancing remotely for almost ten years. I concentrate on fixing business problems. The "stack" rarely matters. Technologies come and go, and over-specialized programmers go with them.

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