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Levels.fyi | Backend Engineer | Remote (India, Open to other countries) | Full-time | https://www.levels.fyi | $30-50k USD

Levels.fyi's mission is to help every professional build a better career through the most accurate insights and services. We're building the future of compensation & hiring by centering ourselves around professionals.

You'll be joining a close-knit team of 2 engineers to work across our product verticals. You'll have the opportunity to lead and own new projects / initiatives from idea to production end-to-end (architecture to deployment). We move fast and have come an incredibly long way on a tiny team. We're looking for a self-starter and resourceful engineer with strong communication skills and experience building things from scratch.

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I’d have expected Levels.fyi to pay competitive market rates based on all the content around high salaries, surprised to see remote $30k!


This is an India based junior eng role. We pay top tier in India.


I don’t know, California-based co-founders trying to pump rates in the US by making people have info on better salaries (we can raise your salary by $XX,XXx!) while simultaneously outsourcing work to low salary positions in India just has a bad taste in my opinion.

But good for business I’m sure!


We don't 'pump rates', we make pay transparent which is exactly what we're providing and sharing here.

We have US based employees and several contractors as well. We've created several jobs here directly and probably helped thousands in theirs.


Sure, to increase the rates people can negotiate for. Which is cool, I like more money too!

I just find it ironic you’ve had to go offshore to be able to afford talent. Which is what many companies are doing due to the high US rates. With a very small part to play by levels.fyi, because people see the shiny numbers and aim for the same.

This isn’t conjecture (but could be an anecdote), I know a founder who offshored because people wouldn’t take a high five figure rate due to salaries shown in the area on levels (this was mentioned in negotiating a couple times). I’ve heard similar stories from others!


The irony in levels.fyi offshoring




They want access to US consumers, but don't want to pay US wages or taxes. Just another death by 1000 paper cuts for the American middle class.


Hey, I'm looking for better opportunities , Are there any java-based roles for your product?




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