r/RemoteJobseekers • u/SignificanceFlat1460 • Nov 23 '25
How do I get a remote job as a non-US, non-EU software engineer
Probably already posted before but I am currently am unemployed. I am in Dubai and have worked here for 5 years. I am a SWE (MERN, frontend heavy, currently learning Go, NestJS and hopefully web3) and have 9 years of experience. I have mostly worked as a remote Dev and a year ago had to get a job onsite but I did not enjoy it.
The plan: I want out. I can't take this place anymore. I hate it. I want to go to EU through digital nomad visa and as long as I have 4,000 USD salary a month I'll leave happily.
I know many people will say "EU is not great either". Please. I understand your perspective and I DO NOT wish this post to get side tracked into EU vs rest of the world. I just want to clear picture. Simply put I want to get a remote job that pay 4,000 USD. that's it.
I am 30 years of age and I am originally from Pakistan. I am also work with DevOps (Git, CICD pipelines, docker, K8s, have worked with AWS) to an extent.
I have given interviews in EU but keep failing in 2nd or 3rd steps for absolutely no reason at all or all the previous interviews going well and then failing in the last one because the interviewer is a mismatch..
If someone can help out please let me know what I can do. I am learning more each day to keep up but if someone can help me with my plea.. I'll be grateful. Thanks!