| As a remote Java developer of 5 years (10 years experience total) the remote market seems hottest for exactly your skillset,as others have suggested you'd be best levelling up your current skills. If I wanted to get a remote job now the best combination of skills/techs in my opinion would be any combination of the following: - React/Vue.js/Angular - Node.js/PHP/Ruby To stand out in the crowd I would do two things: 1. Blog about the techs you use, it's a great way to get noticed when you apply for jobs. Posts can be as simple as you want around new things you are learning and is a positive chance to show off your writing and communication skills. 2. Whatever tech stack you choose or are comfortable with you should have a demo application in Github/Bitbucket be it a React widget that pulls in data about the weather/stocks etc or if you are fully backend then a rest API or library to solve a particular tech problem. Focus on good commit messages, clean code and concise,descriptive and useful tests. If you do get the chance to interview for a remote position then over communicate, remote work can be spread across countries and timezones and it's crucial to make sure information is available for everyone and understood to avoid blockers. So if someone reaches out and suggests a time then I'd recommend messaging back with 'Great, I'm looking forward to meeting you. Just to confirm I'll be online at 4pm EST and my skype is XXX. Any problems feel free to reach out to me on email X or phone Y.' Last but not least, you're not going to become an AI/network specialist in a year, you'd a competent developer (let's drop 'fairly'). Look at what you can improve in your current sphere: - Is your code clean and understandable? - Can you effectively explain technical concepts to folks that are not programmers? - Are your tests useful and effective? Best of luck! |
I am a bit confused. What is the point of combining PHP with Ruby ? Isn't that an overlap ?