I am guessing but I bet there are less than 5 worldwide. "Pay well" to me means $200k+ for mid level.
What is your definition of “pays well”?
Why don't you ask the parent of the parent?
He said at least $200K. Which companies pay software developers over $200K and don’t require DS&A interviews? I doubt there are “thousands”
I live in the Bay Area, I'm looking above $200 base. There's at least ten, because that's what I started my search with. I'm down to three.
$200K and living in the Bay Area would not come near peaking my interest. I would have been better off staying at my enterprise CRUD job in a medium cost of living area with my big house in the burbs making in the mid $100s.
I’m making in the $200s now. But I found a job at $BigTech that was permanently remote.