Awesome Remote Job
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Table of Contents
- Articles & Posts
- Videos
- Books
- Job boards
- Housing
- Interviewing
- Events
- Newsletters
- Podcasts
- Companies with "remote DNA"
- Q&A
- Communities
- Conferences
- Tools
- Law & Finance
- Others
Articles & Posts
- 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic
- 10 Secrets to Becoming a Great Remote Developer
- 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker
- 4 Little-Known Hacks for Finding Remote Work
- 5 Tricks to Get More Done While Working Remotely
- Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
- Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
- Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
- Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
- Communication for Distributed Teams
- Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
- For Some, Home=Office
- Give people the freedom of where to work
- Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company
- How GitHub Works
- How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
- How many people really work from home? (research summary)
- How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
- How Working at Home Works (For Us)
- It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise
- Latest Telecommuting Statistics | Global Workplace Analytics
- Learning From Distributed Companies
- Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
- Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
- My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
- My Remote Developer Life
- One day offices will be a thing of the past
- Remote worker vs distributed team
- Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
- Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
- Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
- Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
- Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
- Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
- The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
- The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
- To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
- What is a Distributed Company?
- Why I work remotely ( hint: it has nothing to do with productivity)
- Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
- Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
- Why moonlighting will change your career
- Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
- Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
- Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
- 'Working From Home' Without Slacking Off
- Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
- Working Remotely for Extroverts
- Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company
- Your Commute Is Killing You
- 21 tools that will help your remote team work better together
- How to run a team of people who never see each other
- Who Needs an Office? How to Go 100 Percent Remote.
- Remote Work: How to work the Precision Nutrition way
- How to suggest improvements remotely
- 8 tips that will make you a more active, healthier remote developer
- The 5 most important things we do as a remote company
- How to focus when working remotely
- 3 mistakes to avoid if you want to get hired remotely
- Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
- Remote versus Co-located Work
- Gitlab's Remote Manifesto
- Datadog Engineering: 9 ways to make working remote work for you
- The Villains of Remote Work
- Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
- How to Make Remote Working Work for You
- Things To Watch Out For While Working Remotely
- How to Work Remotely and Still Be the Best
- The Ultimate Remote Team Culture
Videos
Books
- Remote. Office Not Required. (bibliography)
- The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
- The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (bibliography)
- The Remote Jobseeker’s Handbook
- Async Remote
Job boards
- Angel List - Startup Jobs. Search by going to Job Type, and selecting "Remote OK".
- Authentic Jobs – Full-time and freelance job opportunities for web, design, and creative professionals.
- Careers Stackoverflow
- Dribbble Jobs
- Drupal Jobs
- Find Bacon
- Flexjobs – Telecommuting Jobs & Professional Part-Time Jobs.
- Front-end Developer Jobs - View as table, then sort by
performed
- Github Jobs - Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
- Golangprojects filter -> Remote only
- GoRemote.io
- Guru - (has MANY different categories outside software)
- Hasjob – Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
- HigherEdJobs has remote type filter.
- HN hiring – Filter REMOTE.
- Jobbatical
- JOBBOX.io – Filter -> Remote only.
- Jobmote – Telecommuting jobs for IT professionals.
- Jobspresso * High-quality remote positions that are open and legitimate *
- Jobs Remotely – Jobs and Resumes.
- Landing.jobs filter -> Remote only
- No Fluff Jobs – Filter -> “remote”
- Remote.co Jobs
- RemoteBase - a searchable collection of remote companies and hiring info
- Remote Coder
- Remote OK - Scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions.
- remote-jobs - A list of semi to fully remote-friendly companies in tech
- Remotely Awesome Jobs - Crawls multiple job boards for remote job postings.
- RemoteWorkHunt
- Remotive Jobs
- Skip the Drive
- Virtual Vocations
- We Work Remotely
- WFH.io
- whoishiring.io
- Working Nomads
- Workana Freelance Job Board in Spanish and Portuguese
- Work Remotely - Crawls and curates many job board feeds for remote positions
Housing
- bedndesk - Coworking & coliving space in Mallorca island in Spain
- Blackbox - Coliving space in Silicon Valley
- Casa98 - Coworking space. Medellin, Colombia
- [Common] (https://www.hicommon.com/) - Coliving House in NewYork
- Coworking in the Sun - Coliving & coworking space in Tenerife island in Spain
- Etincelle Coworking - Coworking spaces in south of France
- Embassy Network - Global Network of community houses in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Costa Rica, Haiti, Nepal, Estonia and soon-to-be-more locations. Mix of remote workers, entrepreneurs, artists, ... <3
- [Hive Arena] (http://hivearena.com/) - Coworking & Coliving Space in Seoul, South Korea
- HubBOG - Coworking Space + Startup Accelerator. Bogota, Colombia
- Hus24 - Coliving space in Sweden
- Nest Copenhagen - Coliving space in Copenhagen, Denmark
- NoHatDigital - Coliving space in Mexico
- Nomad House - Global network of nomad housing
- Nomad Pad - Global network of coliving spaces
- nomadicHUB - Coliving & coworking spaces in exotic locations
- Ondas - Coworking space in Medellin, Colombia
- Roam - Global network of coliving spaces
- Sende - Coliving & coworking space in northern Spain
- Sun Desk - Coliving & coworking space in Taghazout, Morocco
- The Blue House - Startup house & coliving space in Morocco
- The Surf Office - Coworking & vacation space in Portugal, Canaries and California
- Work From Curacao - Coliving space in Curacao
- Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange
Interviewing
- andreis/interview - Everything you need to kick ass on your coding interview
- awesome-interviews - A curated awesome list of lists of interview questions
- interviewing.io - Become awesome at technical interviews
- remoteinterview.io - Coding tests & pair programming interview tools
- skillmeter.com - Online skills testing platform for recruiters & companies
- hackerrank.com - Online platform for code studying and recruiting with job offers also
Events
- Coworking Camp - Worldwide temporary coworking Spaces
- deceler8 - 10 days retreat
- Project Getaway - 30 days retreat
Newsletters
- Remote Digest - Job posts.
- Remote Internships
- Remotive - productive remote workers - A weekly newsletter on Remote Tips & Jobs sent to 10,000+ Remote Workers
- Working Nomads - Job posts.
Podcasts
- Free People Move Podcast - mostly interviews with founders attacking the location independence / remote work space from different angles
- Home Work - A weekly advice podcast for people who work from home.
- Lessons from Distributed Companies
- Wide Teams - Each episode a one-on-one interview with a remote worker taking about workflow and practices
Companies with "remote DNA"
- Aha! - Aha! is roadmapping software for PMs who want their mojo back.
- Arkency - Rails and React.js experts, fully remote/async.
- Articulate - EdTech. Makes software that helps teachers make e-learning courses. Ruby, Node, C#, and .NET for Windows app.
- AT&T - Nearly 20% of the eligible workforce works remotely.
- Auth0 - Zero-friction authentication and authorization for developers.
- Automattic - Makers of WordPress.com and Gravatar
- Avallain - Education Technology and Digital Publishing. We have the tools and processes to achieve the positive impact on human potential that technology enhanced education can provide
- Axelerant
- BaseCamp - Project management software.
- Basho - Creators of Riak, an open source platform and k/v database. We code in Erlang and hang out on clouds. Everyone works remote and gets together a few times a year at HQ in Seattle.
- BeBanjo - Software as a service for managing video on-demand. Ruby / Rails, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq.
- Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
- Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
- Cadasta - Secure platform for mapping global land & resource rights. 100% remote team; Python, Django, JavaScript, PostgreSQL.
- Canonical - Ubuntu.
- Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
- Chef - We are all about IT automation for speed and awesomeness. Ruby, JavaScript & shell scripting. HQ in Seattle but we have employees all around US.
- CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
- Clevertech - We build incredible, game changing technology.
- Close.io - Inside sales CRM for startups and SMBs.
- Codeship - SaaS Continuous Delivery
- Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
- Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
- [Crossover] (https://app.crossover.com/x/marketplace/available-jobs) - Project-based Java, .Net and DevOps positions.
- Datadog - Easy to use and scalable monitoring systems for modern and dynamic infrastructure. Distributed team with offices in New York, Boston and Paris. Engineers based all around the world.
- DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
- [Deeson] (https://www.deeson.co.uk/careers) - UK-based w/European team. Digital agency specialising in Drupal, Symfony and Laravel
- DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers
- DNSimple - Small 100% remote and globally distributed team working to make domain management an afterthought.
- Dotsub - Browser-based platform for subtitling & translating online videos. Java / Spring, JavaScript / React.js
- Doximity - Largest online medical network of US physicians. Ruby, Rails, Go, JavaScript, MySQL.
- Drupal Association - Non-profit supporting the Drupal project.
- DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
- Elastic - Open source search & analytics
- Envato - Maker of ThemeForest and other online marketplaces. MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Javascript. Distributed team with HQ in Melbourne, Australia.
- Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
- Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
- Findify - E-commerce search powered by machine learning and big data. Team distributed across Europe.
- Fire Engine Red - SaaS for higher education. Maker of Fireworks.
- Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
- General Assembly - Physical and on-line education for technology, business, and design.
- Ghost - Publishing platform.
- Gigster - vetted network of top 5% freelancers worldwide. PM, Dev, Sales positions available.
- Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
- GitHub
- GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
- [GlueNetworks] (http://gluenetworks.com/) - Network automation company.
- Harvest - Time tracking software.
- HashiCorp - Open source tools for automating the modern data center. Go, Ruby, Rails, Ember, JavaScript.
- HE:labs
- Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
- Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
- Help Scout - A help desk for teams that insist on a delightful customer experience.
- Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
- Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
- Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
- Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany.
- Instructure - We make software that makes people smarter.
- Intellum - We build employee collaboration, performance and learning tools. Ruby, iOS, Android, AWS, GCS.
- InVision - prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform
- Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
- LaterPay - The (micro)payment enabler. Munich, Germany. Python, JavaScript, AWS.
- Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
- Linaro - OpenSource Engineering on ARM.
- Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
- Litmus - Optimization tools for email professionals. Offices in Boston and London, but nearly 50% of the team works remotely.
- LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
- Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
- Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
- Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
- Mozilla - Firefox has a 'Remote' option under it's location searchbar
- Netsparker - Web Application Security Scanner.
- Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
- NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
- Onyo - Transforming the eating out experience in pure pleasure.
- OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project).
- Parsely - Analytics solutions
- Particular Software (NServiceBus) - Enterprise Service Bus, Messaging, C#, Open Source
- Paylocity - HR and payroll solutions
- [Pilot] (https://pilot.co) - Pilot is a software platform that removes all the pain from contract work. We find work, negotiate contracts, send invoices and chase payments for hundreds of forward-looking engineers and designers around the world.
- Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification.
- Prezly - SaaS PR platform. PHP, React, JS, Postgres. 100% remote.
- ProofHQ, a Workfront company - Online proofing solution. PHP, JavaScript, Java, .NET, MySQL, Redis
- RainforestQA - On demand QA as a service.
- Real HQ - Maker of Agent Pronto, software designed to help make home buying and selling a better experience. We've been remote since the start, now 50+ spread across the globe. Ruby, Rails, React.js, iOS/Android.
- RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
- Recurly - recurring billing management for subscription-based businesses
- Red Hat
- RightScale
- Scrapinghub
- Simple
- SoftwareMill
- Songspace Helps music creators collaborate, catalog, and share work with their professional team
- Soostone
- StackExchange
- Strongloop
- StyleSeat - we love high-impact remote engineers, collaboration, creativity, python, angularjs
- Surevine
- Surge - 100% remote consulting company working primarily in Node.JS, iOS, .NET, PHP, and Android
- Sysdig Cloud
- Teamed.io
- TeamSnap - TeamSnap is the No. 1 online sports team management software. 80% remote employees
- TED - Technology team supports ted.com and internal tools. All engineers are remote. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js
- Teleport
- Tesera - We disrupt conventional thinking to expand what is possible. We ignite change in the future we share.
- Thermeon - Car rental software - 100% remote technical team
- Toggl
- Toptal - 100% remote development company, solving worldwide talent shortage
- Trello
- Twin Technologies
- Wikimedia
- X-Team - Work on incredible web and mobile projects, with extraordinary developers. Unleash your potential. From anywhere. We are X-Team.
- Zamphyr - School 2.0 for learning computer science. Remote-first, 100% JavaScript mostly Meteor.
- Zapier
Q&A
- Chegg Tutor: Online tutoring jobs starting at $20+/hour
- Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home
- Remote.co: Q&A's with 90+ Remote Companies
- StackExchange - Workplace: telecommute - Freelancing: remote / working from home - Programmers: telecommuting / home
Communities
- /r/telecommuting - Subreddit.
- ##remotes - IRC channel (web access)
- Hacker Paradise - Traveling remote workers.
- #nomads - Slack community for nomadic working, $100 signup fee.
- Nomadler - Hacker News for nomads.
- [Remote Year] (http://www.remoteyear.com/) - Traveling techies for 1 year.
Conferences
- DNX Global - Digital Nomad Conference.
- Out Of Office - Online remote work event by Human Made
- Remote Working Conference - Remote conference about remote working
- Yonder - A round table conference bringing together leaders of distributed companies.
Tools
Communication
- Appear.in – Browser-based, plugin-less group video calls.
- Bluejeans video conferencing app, great for large groups & live streams
- Codeshare.io – Browser-based multi-user live code sharing with optional video chat.
- Fleep - Internal chat and collaboration tool for development teams
- Floobits remote pair programming with screen share. Integrates with Sublime, IntelliJ, Atom and others
- Flowdock – Browser-based group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
- Hangouts – Chat system, share desktop and video calls.
- Hipchat – Great internal chat for hackers.
- IRCCloud – Browser-based IRC client with permanent storage.
- Mumble Mumble is an open source voice chat software
- Precursor - Simple prototyping & brainstorming web app with real-time collaboration.
- PukkaTeam - Real team presence through regular automated selfies and one-click video calling
- ScreenHero - Real-time, HD screen sharing for collaboration in teams.
- Skype – Video calls.
- Slack – Chat system with loads of integration options.
- Sqwiggle – Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
- Talky — Truly simple video chat and screen sharing for groups
- Zoom — High-quality group video and sharing screen, run on linux, record session and support telephone calls.
Project Management
- Asana - Project management good for distributed teams.
- Pinitto.me - Lightweight realtime infinite virtual corkboard application (open source).
- Trello - lean project boards.
Others
- Coffitivity - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
- Noisli - Noisli has a list of diferent ambient sounds that can be combined to boost creativity and focus.
- Teleport Sundial - Manage the locations and timezones of your distributed team.
Law & Finance
- 1099 contractors – US based companies can hire remote workers as.
Others
- Hacker Spaces - List of hacker spaces.
- LiquidSpace - Daily & Hourly Office & Meeting Room Rental.
- Nomad List - Compare cost and quality of living in different cities.
- Regus USA - Executive suites, virtual offices & conference room space.
- Remote Companies on Careers SO
- The Caravanserai - Co-living provider.
- WorkFrom - Find coffee shops that are good to work from.
License
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