Max

About the Author

I'm Max, the solo creator and operator of RemoteFirstJobs.com. With 10+ years of software engineering experience building backend systems at global companies—including 4 years leading engineering teams—I understand the hiring process from every angle: as a candidate, a hiring manager, and a team lead.

I know firsthand how competitive the market is. In the first weeks, companies receive hundreds of applications for a single role, making it incredibly hard for talented people to stand out. That's exactly why I built RemoteFirstJobs: to help job seekers cut through the noise and connect with quality remote opportunities.

Building at Scale

Today, RemoteFirstJobs operates worldwide, serving 10,000 monthly active users and reaching over 100,000 unique users in the last year alone. My algorithms scan 21,000+ company pages directly, analyzing over 100,000 job postings monthly to identify remote-first opportunities and publish them the moment recruiters post them. The platform is built on my deep understanding of what makes a great remote job posting—helping people find meaningful work in an increasingly competitive market.

After seeing hundreds of applications flood in for single positions, I realized the job market is broken for candidates. I built RemoteFirstJobs to fix that. My goal is simple: help people worldwide find the best remote opportunities—completely free, with no registration needed.

The Data Behind the Articles

Running RemoteFirstJobs means operating the postings corpus behind it: a system that has processed over 1 million remote job postings since 2023, scanning 21,000+ company career pages every few hours. The analysis published on this blog is grounded in that corpus — when an article quotes a number, it is computed from the postings data as described in the methodology, and I review and approve every article before it goes live, per the editorial policy.