Vorto | https://vorto.ai
Roles: Senior Engineering Managers | Mobile, Backend, & AI Engineers | SRE & Cloud Infra Engineers
Locations: Denver and Los Angeles for IC Roles, any major city with a tech hub for Senior Eng Mgr. roles (you will be building & leading the satellite office!)
We are building software products to enable businesses to be more economically and environmentally sustainable by digitally transforming the supply chain. At Vorto you will help us define the frontier of logistics optimization, supply prediction, and demand prediction. Our customers love our product.
* Ensure America's blue collar workers get compensated fairly for their labor
* Reduce the carbon impact of our supply chains
* Disrupt the archaic supply chain management process
* Work with and learn from the highest performing team I have ever met (honestly)
* Have the freedom to be more than an engineer -- we allow and encourage our team to act as entrepreneurs, not coders
* Earn meaningful equity on top of a competitive salary in a rapidly growing business
Reasons we may not be a good fit:
* We're driven, motivated, and most of us willingly put in hours that go beyond a traditional 9-to-5
* You'd prefer a larger company with more mature discovery and structured agile dev processes
* You'd prefer to focus on delivering quality software over focusing on the value delivered to the customer (nothing wrong with that! -- but we don't have the big company scale to support the organizational infrastructure needed to abstract away business context from our engineers)
* You find start-ups as too chaotic of an environment to work in
If interested, please send me your resume/linkedin, as well as a couple of sentences around why you're excited to join us at monty (at) vorto (dot) ai
I hold a citizenship in an EU country (Lithuania) and would love to spend some time working in Europe closer to family. Swiss/EU bilateral agreements would allow me to work there easily, but every time I do some research it seems the (lack of) bureaucracy, compensation, and culture of innovation just pales in comparison to US tech hubs.
Here in the US, I can spin up an LLC by clicking a few buttons on one of the dozen or so online incorporation services for under $100. Cheaper if I wanted to do it myself. I can spin up little side-projects left and right. My day job is pretty run-of-the-mill for US tech standards, but pays more than I could ever dream of in anywhere in Europe (even if I take into account the value of better social services).
At this rate, I don't see any sufficiently impactful changes happening in Europe to make it meaningfully competitive, but I really hope it does.
I've started corporate entities in several countries, and Switzerland wasn't exactly hard.
People seem to confuse the cost of doing it with the initial capital required. In Switzerland, as in Germany, there's a little version and a big version, GmbH and AG.
Speaking for Switzerland, you need CHF20K to do the GmbH and 100K for the AG. But you actually only need 50K cash for the AG because it doesn't all have to be paid up.
In terms of legal difference, there isn't really any, according to a couple of my Swiss accountants. It's more that if you risk 100K (it's still at risk even though it's not paid up) your business partners might see you differently. Having said that Google went for the little one.
Now if you are starting a business, chances are you are going to need 20K in some bank account anyway. Even a very small business needs some funds. The cost is simply the notarizing cost, ie the cost of making it official, and whatever your legal guy charges. Not much, and it gets done pretty fast. More than 100USD though, for sure.
The UK was super easy as well. Here you just pay the accountant and he does the Companies House stuff for you. You can probably DIY it to save a couple hundred quid, plus the capital requirement is £1 or some trivial amount.
Other European countries don't make it a whole lot harder. I think the difference is greater in how easy it is to establish your new business as a viable entity. Customers, suppliers need to be open to doing business with you, and that varies a lot across locations and industries.
The ease of starting a Limited company in Lithuania is really interesting.
I used to start UK Ltd companies really easily, but with them exiting the EU, the best alternative I've found so far is Ireland or Estonia, but both are somewhat expensive. Although not compared to starting a GmbH in Austria or Germany.
I learned through bitter experience that Malta has some yearly auditing requirements, which make everything more expensive than they first appear.
Can you provide some links or info about going the Lithuanian route?
At least in Switzerland you can somewhere go around with ~20‘000/year in earnings without much bureaucracy at all (not much insurance, easy taxes, ...) and even after that, there‘s no need to register a company. You can work as single-person company longer than you say it‘s a side business. For sure you have to care about insurabce and taxes, but I don‘t see anything wrong with that.
It might be that it‘s different in other countries but from my experience, Switzerland makes it quite easy „for the little man“.
Locations: Denver and Los Angeles for IC Roles, any major city with a tech hub for Senior Eng Mgr. roles (you will be building & leading the satellite office!)
We are building software products to enable businesses to be more economically and environmentally sustainable by digitally transforming the supply chain. At Vorto you will help us define the frontier of logistics optimization, supply prediction, and demand prediction. Our customers love our product.
We use: GCP, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Swift, Kotlin, Postgres, ELK stack, Tensorflow, etc...
You'll get to:
* Ensure America's blue collar workers get compensated fairly for their labor
* Reduce the carbon impact of our supply chains
* Disrupt the archaic supply chain management process
* Work with and learn from the highest performing team I have ever met (honestly)
* Have the freedom to be more than an engineer -- we allow and encourage our team to act as entrepreneurs, not coders
* Earn meaningful equity on top of a competitive salary in a rapidly growing business
Reasons we may not be a good fit:
* We're driven, motivated, and most of us willingly put in hours that go beyond a traditional 9-to-5
* You'd prefer a larger company with more mature discovery and structured agile dev processes
* You'd prefer to focus on delivering quality software over focusing on the value delivered to the customer (nothing wrong with that! -- but we don't have the big company scale to support the organizational infrastructure needed to abstract away business context from our engineers)
* You find start-ups as too chaotic of an environment to work in
If interested, please send me your resume/linkedin, as well as a couple of sentences around why you're excited to join us at monty (at) vorto (dot) ai