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A curated list of awesome remote jobs and resources. Inspired by https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

Awesome Remote Job Awesome

A curated list of awesome remote working resources.

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Table of Contents

Articles & Posts

  1. 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic
  2. 10 Secrets to Becoming a Great Remote Developer
  3. 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker
  4. 5 Tricks to Get More Done While Working Remotely
  5. Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
  6. Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
  7. Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
  8. Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
  9. Communication for Distributed Teams
  10. Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
  11. For Some, Home=Office
  12. Give people the freedom of where to work
  13. Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company
  14. How GitHub Works
  15. How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
  16. How many people really work from home? (research summary)
  17. How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
  18. How Working at Home Works (For Us)
  19. It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise
  20. Latest Telecommuting Statistics | Global Workplace Analytics
  21. Learning From Distributed Companies
  22. Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
  23. Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
  24. My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
  25. One day offices will be a thing of the past
  26. Remote worker vs distributed team
  27. Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
  28. Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
  29. Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
  30. Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
  31. Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
  32. Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
  33. The Complete Remote Work Toolset For Distributed Teams
  34. The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
  35. The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
  36. To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
  37. What is a Distributed Company?
  38. Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
  39. Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
  40. Why moonlighting will change your career
  41. Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
  42. Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
  43. Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
  44. 'Working From Home' Without Slacking Off
  45. Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
  46. Working Remotely for Extroverts
  47. Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company
  48. Your Commute Is Killing You
  49. [21 tools that will help your remote team work better together] (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/06/tools-remote-teams/)
  50. How to run a team of people who never see each other
  51. Who Needs an Office? How to Go 100 Percent Remote.
  52. Remote Work: How to work the Precision Nutrition way

Videos

  1. Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

Books

  1. Remote. Office Not Required. (bibliography)
  2. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
  3. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (bibliography)

Job boards

  1. Angel List Job Type -> Remote OK
  2. Authentic Jobs
  3. Careers Stackoverflow
  4. Dribbble Jobs
  5. Flexjobs
  6. Front-end Developer Jobs View as table, then sort by performed
  7. Golangprojects filter -> Remote only
  8. Guru - (has MANY different categories outside software)
  9. Hasjob Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
  10. HN hiring filter REMOTE
  11. Landing.jobs filter -> Remote only
  12. Jobmote
  13. Jobspresso * High-quality remote positions that are open and legitimate *
  14. Jobs Remotely Jobs + Resumes
  15. No Fluff Jobs filter -> "remote"
  16. Nomad Jobs
  17. Remote Coder
  18. Remote OK - scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions
  19. [RemoteWorkHunt] (http://www.remoteworkhunt.com/)
  20. Remotive Jobs
  21. Virtual Vocations
  22. WFH.io
  23. Working Nomads
  24. Github Jobs - Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
  25. We Work Remotely
  26. Offsite Careers

Housing

  1. Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange
  2. Caravanserai - Global network of coliving spaces
  3. Nomad House - Global network of nomad housing
  4. The Blue House - Startup house & coliving space in Morocco
  5. Work From Bali - Coliving space in Bali
  6. Coworking in the Sun - Coliving & coworking space in Tenerife island in Spain
  7. bedndesk - Coworking & coliving space in Mallorca island in Spain
  8. Coworkation - Coworking & vacation in Colombia
  9. Nomad Pad - Global network of coliving spaces
  10. Working Retreat - Coliving space in Thailand
  11. NoHatDigital - Coliving space in Mexico
  12. Sun Desk - Coliving & coworking space in Taghazout, Morocco.
  13. Campus - Network of coliving spaces (Currently US only)
  14. Blackbox - Coliving space in Silicon Valley
  15. Hus24 - Coliving space in Sweden
  16. Nest Copenhagen - Coliving space in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  17. The Surf Office - Coworking & vacation space in Portugal, Canaries and California.
  18. 47RONIN - Coliving space in Kyoto, Japan.
  19. nomadicHUB - Coliving & coworking spaces in exotic locations.
  20. Sende - Coliving & coworking space in northern Spain.

Events

  1. Remote Year - Travel & work with interesting people for a year.
  2. deceler8 - 10 days retreat
  3. Coworking Camp - Worldwide temporary coworking Spaces.
  4. Project Getaway - 30 days retreat

Newsletters

  1. Working Nomads - job posts
  2. Remote Digest - job posts
  3. Remote Internships
  4. Remotive - productive remote workers - A weekly newsletter on Remote Tips & Jobs sent to 3,000+ Remote Workers

Podcasts

  1. Lessons from Distributed Companies
  2. Wide Teams - Each episode a one-on-one interview with a remote worker taking about workflow and practices

Companies with "remote DNA"

  1. Arkency - Rails and React.js experts, fully remote/async
  2. Articulate - EdTech. Makes software that helps teachers make e-learning courses. Ruby, Node, C#, and .NET for Windows app.
  3. Auth0 - Identity for developers
  4. Automattic - Makers of WordPress.com and Gravatar.
  5. BaseCamp - Project management software.
  6. 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.
  7. BeBanjo - Software as a service for managing video on-demand. Ruby / Rails, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq.
  8. Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
  9. Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
  10. Canonical - Ubuntu.
  11. Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
  12. 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.
  13. CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
  14. Codeship - SaaS Continuous Delivery
  15. Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
  16. Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
  17. DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
  18. DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers
  19. DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
  20. Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
  21. Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
  22. Fire Engine Red - SaaS for higher education. Maker of Fireworks.
  23. Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
  24. Ghost - Publishing platform.
  25. Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
  26. GitHub
  27. GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
  28. [GlueNetworks] (http://www.gluenetworks.com) - Network automation company.
  29. Harvest - Time tracking software.
  30. Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
  31. Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
  32. Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
  33. Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
  34. Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
  35. Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany
  36. Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
  37. LaterPay - The (micro)payment enabler. Munich, Germany. Python, JavaScript, AWS.
  38. Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
  39. Linaro - OpenSource Engineering on ARM.
  40. Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
  41. LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
  42. Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
  43. Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
  44. Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
  45. Mozilla - Firefox.
  46. Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
  47. NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
  48. OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project)
  49. Parsely - Analytics solutions
  50. Paylocity - HR and payroll solutions
  51. Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification
  52. Railsdog - eCommerce solutions and integrations based on Spree (Ruby on Rails). Most team members are distributed including development, project management, and executive roles.
  53. RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
  54. Recurly - recurring billing management for subscription-based businesses
  55. Red Hat
  56. RightScale
  57. Scrapinghub
  58. Simple
  59. SoftwareMill
  60. StackExchange
  61. Soostone
  62. Sqwiggle
  63. Strongloop
  64. Surevine
  65. Surge - 100% remote consulting company working primarily in Node.JS, iOS, .NET, PHP, and Android
  66. Sysdig Cloud
  67. TED - Technology team supports ted.com and internal tools. All engineers are remote. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js
  68. Teamed.io
  69. Teleport
  70. Toggl
  71. Toptal
  72. Trello
  73. Twin Technologies
  74. Wikimedia
  75. X-Team
  76. Zapier

Remote Moonlighting

  1. Gittask - Development tasks you can work on remotely

Q&A

Communities

Conferences

  1. DNX Global - Digital Nomad Conference.
  2. Yonder - A round table conference bringing together leaders of distributed companies.

Tools

Communication

  • Appear.in browser-based, pluginless group video calls
  • Bluejeans video conferencing app, great for large groups & live streams
  • Codeshare.io browser-based mult-user live code sharing with optional video chat
  • Flowdock browser-based group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
  • Hangout chat system, share desktop and video calls.
  • Hipchat great internal chat for hackers.
  • IRCCloud browser-based IRC client with permanent storage
  • Precursor - Simple prototyping & brainstorming web app with real-time collaboration.
  • 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.
  • Fleep - Internal chat and collaboration tool for development teams

Project Managment

  • Trello - lean project boards.
  • Asana - Project management good for distributed teams
  • Pinitto.me - Lightweight realtime infinite virtual corkboard application (open source)

Others

  • Coffitivity - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.

Law & Finance

US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.

Others