Applications closed on Monday, 26 January.
The Pragmatic Engineer is one of the most popular tech publications, with more than 1 million readers – most of them software engineers/AI engineers and engineering leaders. We are not a typical publication – and so this is not your average opening either.
I (Gergely) am hiring for a tech industry analyst to work closely with me and help create future deepdives that can go even deeper than we have done so until today.
What you’d do:
- Research timely, relevant and interesting tech industry trends across startups, Big Tech and at some of the most fascinating tech companies of today
- Hop on calls with engineers and engineering leaders at innovative tech companies to learn more about how they build software, engineering challenges they have and solve, and other interesting details.
- Produce in-depth reports based on details learned via research and these conversations – reports that will be available to our paid subscribers. Here is one such report example.
- Contribute to deepdives that are published in The Pragmatic Engineer. Example deepdives include that on Cursor, Claude Code, Stripe and many others.
- Keep things interesting. We don’t like things that are repetitive or boring.
What you’d need:
- Experience working in the tech industry at either a startup or Big Tech, and having built software / written code in the past. The people we talk to are either software engineers themselves or have been, and a technical background helps us go deeper than most other publications are able to.
- Enjoy both researching interesting engineering topics, and talking with people working in tech
- Affinity to write clearly and in a structured way. We need to turn a lot of interesting information into formats that are both in-depth but digestible to our readers.
- Put together summaries and reports on what you’ve learned – which might serve as the basis for some deepdives
- Willingness and interest to stay close to what is cutting-edge across startups and Big Tech
What you’d get:
- Full-remote, flexible and async work.
- Part-time work to start (~10-20 hours per week), with the option to extend to a relaxed fulltime setup if there’s a match (~20-30 hours per week)
- Competitive compensation: €150+/hour ($175+/hour)
Applications close on Monday, 26 January 2026.