Hello!! I am from Costa Rica. I built a job listing platform that shows remote jobs and/or jobs with the possibility of relocating, for jobseekers in LATAM and distributed companies that want to expand and hire talent from LATAM too. The name of the job listing platform is hiring.lat, and it was born out of a need to have a straightforward platform that shows _real_ job listings available for people in Latin America. Why _real_? Well, it all starts with something that I've noticed since 2022, when I started searching for a software engineering job. I've been working from home since COVID and I was interested in becoming a digital nomad and basically traveling from Costa Rica to different places around the world, but I often found a lot of phishing/spam/misleading job postings advertised in LinkedIn; had no access to Indeed as a tico; was rejected due to timezones from several job openings where I fulfilled the requirements and overall found it a bit more complicated for hispanic engineers (much more talented than me!!) to be hired remotely or for real job opportunities to be available, that didn't involve working as a sub contractor in an outsourcing company for very little compensation (especially relevant after 2023). Also, I was noticing a pattern I was starting to grow less fond of when I saw job advertisements in mainstream/traditional job posting sites; Salary figures for a job posting were constantly being omitted or obfuscated from the few LATAM job postings that were available, while a growing number of non-LATAM job postings were starting to show at least a salary range, along with being more transparent with their benefits and requirements. So, starting this year, while I was learning Clojure, I decided to create hiring.lat, in aims of addressing a few of these previously mentioned points ^. Compared to the alternatives, so far we have a live preview of how your job ad will look (if you are a recruiter), we also encourage transparency by requiring salary ranges for new job postings and encouraging companies to share some of the benefits and skills required for a given job opening. Also, I think the UI is very simple and makes navigation much smoother for users, whereas I sometimes felt very confused when exploring similar sites. I'm most proud of the fact I was able to build a real world product with a Lisp dialect with relative ease: I started learning Clojure in February (with some limited Scheme background) and managed to complete the first MVP by June. I'm also a bit proud that the entire software is ~2000SLOC or less, and that it's not (currently) a nightmare to maintain. Also I'm proud this is our very first product launch at my company TEGRALISS =) Also any feedback or suggestions on how to improve the site are welcome. Right now I have a small bucket list of improvements such as: 1. advertising new job postings in a Whatsapp & Telegram channel, sort of like a newsletter channel 2. having the ability to filter jobs by skills 3. I'm pondering on whether to add the `Anywhere` option into the new job listing form but at the same time I'd like to make it clear preferably that this job opening is for a specific country in LATAM, I'm currently 50/50 on this 4. fixing some minor UI inconsistencies 5. I'm 50/50 on adding accounts due to the need to keep things as simple as possible, but who knows, maybe the need and benefits from adding an account system might end up tipping the balance.

hiring.lat

A job platform for international recruiters and LATAM talent

A job platform for international recruiters and LATAM talent