Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by hackerm0nkey » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

essentially for backend software engineer (Java, GoLang, Microservices, *nix)

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by courtewing » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

Elastic is technically a European company and is distributed around the world. EU headquarters is in Amsterdam, US headquarters in Mountain View, AP headquarters in Singapore.

https://www.elastic.co/

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by remotework » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 5:00 PM UTC

Hotjar [1] is based in the EU.

You can also have a look at Europe Remotely [2] only remote jobs in Europe, and nodesk [3] is one of the few remote job boards where you can filter by remote location. Because remote doesn't always mean remote ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://hotjar.com/ [2] https://europeremotely.com/ [3] https://nodesk.co/remote-jobs/

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by kidshenlong » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

I've heard Monzo are remote friendly.

https://monzo.com/careers/

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by growlist » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

Funny isn't it, we're always told that employers struggle to recruit in IT but they also apparently stubbornly refuse to offer a perk which could drastically increase interest in the positions they are offering. As remotework said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by alljames » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

Jetstack (Kubernetes development, consulting, support, training) is remote friendly across the UK and Europe and hiring across a variety of roles, including ones that match your specialisations pretty closely:

- Solutions Engineer - Software Engineer - Customer Reliability Engineer - Engineering Manager

https://www.jetstack.io/careers/

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by chrisseaton » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

growlist wrote: post #5

Funny isn't it, we're always told that employers struggle to recruit in IT but they also apparently stubbornly refuse to offer a perk which could drastically increase interest in the positions they are offering. As remotework said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> stubbornly refuse to offer a perk

I think describing remote working as a 'perk' is not a good idea. Really it's more efficient for both parties, and is a sensible way to work. Calling it a 'perk' makes it sound like a silly benefit just for the employee, on the same level as ping pong tables.

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by bouk » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

DigitalOcean is able to hire in the Netherlands and Germany.

Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by ElFitz » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 10:32 PM UTC

Buffer

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Re: Ask HN: What are the UK/EU based remote-only companies or remote friendly?

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Post by hackerm0nkey » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 10:39 PM UTC

growlist wrote: post #5

Funny isn't it, we're always told that employers struggle to recruit in IT but they also apparently stubbornly refuse to offer a perk which could drastically increase interest in the positions they are offering. As remotework said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think there's a high degree of ignorance in this area nowadays. Companies (well old-fashioned managers) think of remote work as a way of slacking off work, hence not encouraging it or even offering it in the first place. It's only the people who do work remotely and know how to do so understand the productivity impact and the freedom it brings from being tied to an office all day every day in this day and age.