Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find high quality contract/freelance/outsourcing based work from the US that would be open to hiring international US workers or an international team lead by one?
Some background for myself:
I'm an experienced (8 years) full stack software engineer focused around Ruby on Rails from the US living in Japan. But the salaries over here are pretty abysmal compared to the US despite very high work standards. I've been considering some options on finding/taking remote contracts, and maybe even building a team of Japanese engineers to take advantage of the discrepency in wages.
A few more details, I strongly prefer to work with Ruby on Rails. I specialize in system design, end to end feature development. I worked with various front end frameworks (React, Vue.js, Stimulus, vanilla js, Lit), service containerization (docker and such). I have experience with the big three cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and with monolith, modular monlith, multi-, and micro service architectures.