Hello there 👋,
I quit my job as a back-end engineer after two years on October 26 2026, and now I'm trying to find a new one abroad.
This series is the honest log of that search:
- What I tried,
- What worked,
- What didn't,
- What I'd do differently.
Why write this series?
- Improve my writing skills.
- Give some feedback and advice I got by speaking with more experienced people, HR, ...
- See if it is still possible to find a job.
English isn't my first language, so feel free to correct me when something sounds off.
Where I'm starting from
Experiences
Companies I worked at:
French startups
2 years as a back-end engineer (full-time) — Go (main), Java, Python
2 years as a full-stack developer (part-time, during my Master's in CS) — TypeScript
3-month internship but not relevant here.
The tooling I actually used day-to-day:
- gRPC / protobuf
- Kafka, Kafka Streams
- ClickHouse
- Airflow
- Kubernetes
- VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Sentry
There's more, but if it doesn't come up in this series, I'll leave it out.
Goals
- Finding a job in Asia or Australia
- Like the history, the culture, the food.
- The job market looks reasonably healthy, at least compared to France.
- Lifelong dream of living abroad.
- Report on how I worked and what I used
- Tools
- Automations
- Online Resources
Non-Goals
- Stay unemployed 😂
Knowledge
- LeetCode: never done any.
- That's part of the plan.
- I'll cover my interview-prep approach in a later part.
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System Design: not confident yet.
- Same as LeetCode; will be covered later.
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English:
- Speaking: never practised it in a business/technical environment; needs training.
- Reading/Understanding: comfortable; attended English conferences without difficulties.
- Writing: better than speaking but not as good as Reading/Understanding.
What's next
In Part 1, I'll explain the plan I'm following and the kit I'm using — and, more importantly, why I chose them over the alternatives.
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