&gt; I&#x27;m not seeing a great hiring market right now for engineers in the Bay Area, at least as a high demand JS engineer.<p>Can you explain this further? If by &quot;high demand JS engineer&quot; you mean &quot;front end&quot; and not just node (which is not bad or anything btw), and by &quot;high demand&quot; specifically you mean you are:
* you understand JS well, doesn&#x27;t mean we get to grill you on all the weird corner cases - but you understand the language
* want to work with a modern stack (i.e. react, flux&#x2F;redux&#x2F;whatever, backbone, that sort of thing)
* are mature and want to help grow a team, can communicate with PMs and all that effectively<p>we&#x27;d kill to hire you (250-300 person company.) Every friend of mine that has started a company asks me every time they see me if I know a good front end person (that isn&#x27;t busy counting their RSUs at Uber, etc and isn&#x27;t going anywhere.)<p>Our company (in general) and team has more than one designer focused on bringing a good experience to the table, before it even gets to the code level. To translate, that doesn&#x27;t mean our reqs go from sales person to &quot;make it do this now, code monkey&quot;, but rather we want to make good, long lasting products, in a thoughtful manner. And still, finding someone is tough.<p>So I find it hard to believe the hiring market for what you describe isn&#x27;t great.<p>Personally, my experience is all back end. I consider myself a good engineer in general, and feel I could ramp up to being a decent front end engineer in 3-12 months time depending on how much depth we&#x27;re talking, but think that things are specialized enough now that that would be a waste of effort, and plenty of people would still be better than me. However, from what I&#x27;ve seen, being a F.E. eng that understands CSci and what&#x27;s happening under the hood should make you SUPER in demand right now.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to make this a hiring post, but if you&#x27;d like a fun job with a decent company trying to expand its front end capacity on this coast, with a relatively green field project (i.e. you get to build new stuff), and at a place making real money, not just selling to other startups, and not in a moon shot social space, PM me. If not, I&#x27;d still be curious why you think being a &quot;high demand JS engineer&quot; isn&#x27;t a good spot to be in in the current market.