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I don't have a great feeling about this. They put up the job posting for this last month, and since they're in CO, they have to post a salary range. $90k-$110k. Even in Denver, that's absurdly low. You'd expect $150k at the low end. Feels ripe for something half baked from a new grad who doesn't know better.

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Something tells me they can get away with paying a bit less and still attract experienced candidates who would like to work at a small company with a mission they believe in while working in their preferred language/framework.

I mean, I'm a developer in Denver writing Rust and get paid $265k. $90k-$110k is what the body shops writing Java that won't ever work the way it's supposed to written by fresh bootcamp grads for a new insurance company every six months pay out here.

You seem to be an exception? https://www.builtincolorado.com/salaries/dev-engineer/softwa...

Built in Colorado is sort of a front for the VCs here; I don't trust those numbers, knowing the salary of about 40 or so engineers out here in 20 different companies.

Assuming they are happy with fully remote work, $90-110k is an obscene amount for a developer role in parts of the EU.

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