For over two years, Olha Budova, a front-end engineer, worked away diligently and with quiet satisfaction at the Irish fintech company Layer Digital Solutions. The Ukrainian worked remotely as a contractor from Poland, playing an important role as one cog in a core global group of front and back-end developers keeping the fintech’s banking platform ticking over for key client banks. Originally from Odessa, a city on the frontline of the Russian invasion of her home country, Budova left Layer in September 2022 to take some time off work. When she announced on LinkedIn that she was available for work…