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Show HN: A curated list of remote jobs

218 points by lukasm 12y ago

lukasm 12y ago
I'm making a list of remote jobs. Companies and job boards. I welcome any PRs.
- lukasm 12y ago
  I posted it 3am and went to sleep. I haven't anticipated that I will land the front page. Thanks for PRs!
dj0 12y ago
As someone who can only work remotely due to medical reasons this is a HUGE help. Thanks again!
- lukasm 12y ago
  Welcome!
cbgb 12y ago
A quick look at two of the companies' hiring pages for various positions reveals no use of the word 'remote' (Khan Academy and Automattic). May I ask that some evidence be presented in your companies list that testifies to the veracity of your claim that they allow remote employees?
- crm416 12y ago
  I can testify that there are plenty of remote folk at Khan Academy--can think of six full-time remote devs off the top of my head (in a sub-40 person dev team). It's a very remote-friendly culture.
- josephscott 12y ago
  Everyone at Automattic is remote, from the hiring page linked to in the list: "Everyone works from their own home or office, and we’re spread out all over the world"
hugovie 12y ago
This https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork would add more information for yours.
- elxavit0 12y ago
  great resource too!
xasos 12y ago
Has anyone tried scraping the Who is Hiring thread? I know it would probably have some errors due to formatting, but it would be interesting to see how well it could be automated.
- xelfer 12y ago
  http://hnhiring.me/ http://hnhiring.me/ does that, it's listed as number 5 in the job boards list.
  - burger_moon 12y ago
    Do you know how often that site is updated? Is it once a month or continuous throughout the month?
    - lukasm 12y ago
      I think is very often.
kjhughes 12y ago
It'd be cool if you accepted pull requests for individual remote jobs in addition to remote job boards and remote friendly companies.
- lukasm 12y ago
  OK.
lakesta 12y ago
https://jobsremotely.com/ https://jobsremotely.com/ - another job board http://www.datastax.com/ http://www.datastax.com/ - another company that is all remote
- lukasm 12y ago
  Thx.
codezero 12y ago
Can you add some guidelines for contributors? Is it OK for me to share my own company? If so, what are the base requirements, does the whole team need to be remote? Just curious :) Heap is hiring engineers, and we have two remote engineers on our team now.
- lukasm 12y ago
  Good tip. I'll add it.
- lukasm 12y ago
  https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...
  - codezero 12y ago
    Thanks!
scrollaway 12y ago
Good list! Red Hat should probably be in here too, since Canonical is there.
- lukasm 12y ago
  Will do!
matthewmueller 12y ago
Take a look at https://gittask.com/developer https://gittask.com/developer – work remotely on coding tasks using your favorite libraries and languages while supporting open source.
- jamra 12y ago
  I like the idea, but it looks like there are tons of tasks offering $60 for some simple feature. Someone asked for an Angular.js dashboard for $1600. After taxes, that would be less than $1000. That's not an appropriate payment for a week's work. It's not an appropriate payment for two days work. Have you been successful with this?
  - nl 12y ago
    $1600 for an Angular dashboard is fine money if you live in many places outside the US.
  - PostOnce 12y ago
    "$1000 after tax is not appropriate for two days work" Assuming you work 250 days a year ... $125,000/year after tax is never acceptable for web dev? Even in the USA that's flying pretty damned high everywhere outside NY/SF. ... And you can live anywhere, it's remote work! What, pray tell, is an acceptable wage? What sort talent and experience level makes that pay "appropriate"?
    - thirdtruck 12y ago
      125k/year seems like a lot for _full-time employment_, but a freelancer may still have to pay full costs for health insurance and the like. Even then, such a task would realistically take at least several days. So, the _actual_ annual income would be closer to 30k.
      - PostOnce 12y ago
        I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two days work is totally unacceptable that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX. Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work. I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?
fubarred 12y ago
Github is highly remote-able.
- lukasm 12y ago
  Thx.
  - fubarred 12y ago
    Np. :)
zongitsrinzler 12y ago
Toggl is always looking for remote workers http://jobs.toggl.com/ http://jobs.toggl.com/
- desdiv 12y ago
  When companies say they're looking for an "Android/iOS developer", are they looking for someone who's proficient in both platforms? I'm an Android developer but know nothing about iOS. I'm not sure whether I should be applying to these positions or not.
  - jamra 12y ago
    I can do iOS dev. Would you like to submit a joint resume? I think we can tackle this together.
  - Veratyr 12y ago
    At my previous employer we were looking for mobile devs and while we'd prefer someone who was good at both, we accepted that it was unlikely to happen so we were interviewing people who were great at one platform. I'd say apply but this is entirely anecdotal.
andyjdavis 12y ago
Not sure if this is relevant but Moodle (open source course management software) has a job board for Moodle related stuff. Its mostly in person jobs but there are some remote gigs. https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=54&mode=list&perpage=10&search=&sort=0&order=DESC&advanced=0&filter=1&advanced=1&f_251=&f_253=remote https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=54&mode=list&perpage=...
elxavit0 12y ago
Authentic Jobs has a remote option too http://www.authenticjobs.com/#category=2&onlyremote=1 http://www.authenticjobs.com/#category=2&onlyremote=1
JeffMerlet 12y ago
You could add Datastax.com too as the engineering team is often hiring remote people; see the current open positions on their jobs page: http://www.datastax.com/company/careers http://www.datastax.com/company/careers
artjumble 12y ago
http://www.twintechs.com/ http://www.twintechs.com/ is almost 100% remote. List of current openings: https://www.twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/ https://www.twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/
zmoazeni 12y ago
75% of Harvest is remote and we're almost always looking for more great folks. Nearly all of our development team is remote. https://www.getharvest.com/careers https://www.getharvest.com/careers https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth
jcuslw 12y ago
It would be cool if there was a list of remote part-time jobs for developers looking to supplement their income.
- lukasm 12y ago
  I though about it, but the problem is the single job postings are getting obsolete pretty quickly. Job board for part-time gigs is better place.
MichaelCrawford 12y ago
I did a "git clone" of you repository, added my link to README.md, then did a "git push", only to get: remote: Permission to lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git denied to CyberneticEntomologist. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 I did the "git clone" on my own box. Do I need to do it from github?
- MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  I was trying to add "The Global Computer Employer Index" at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ My remote list is at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ Feel free to jack my list if you like. I'm not trying to make money with this, what I aim to accomplish is to dispel the notion that there is a shortage of tech workers.
- stevekemp 12y ago
  You don't own the repository so you have no permission to push to it. What you have to do in this situation is create a fork on the github site, make your changes there, which you'll have permission to do. If you make your changes on a branch you can then send a "pull request" to the original author to get your changes. This might be a helpful read: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/ https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/
  - MichaelCrawford 12y ago
    ah, thanks, I was confusing "push" and "pull". I usually use subversion.
- lukasm 12y ago
  You can just click Edit Button (pencil) https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast... it will fork it for you and let you edit in browser.

218 points by lukasm 12y ago

lukasm 12y ago

I'm making a list of remote jobs. Companies and job boards. I welcome any PRs.

lukasm 12y ago
I posted it 3am and went to sleep. I haven't anticipated that I will land the front page. Thanks for PRs!

dj0 12y ago

As someone who can only work remotely due to medical reasons this is a HUGE help. Thanks again!

lukasm 12y ago
Welcome!

cbgb 12y ago

A quick look at two of the companies' hiring pages for various positions reveals no use of the word 'remote' (Khan Academy and Automattic). May I ask that some evidence be presented in your companies list that testifies to the veracity of your claim that they allow remote employees?

crm416 12y ago
I can testify that there are plenty of remote folk at Khan Academy--can think of six full-time remote devs off the top of my head (in a sub-40 person dev team). It's a very remote-friendly culture.
josephscott 12y ago
Everyone at Automattic is remote, from the hiring page linked to in the list: "Everyone works from their own home or office, and we’re spread out all over the world"

hugovie 12y ago

This https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork would add more information for yours.

elxavit0 12y ago
great resource too!

xasos 12y ago

Has anyone tried scraping the Who is Hiring thread? I know it would probably have some errors due to formatting, but it would be interesting to see how well it could be automated.

xelfer 12y ago
http://hnhiring.me/ http://hnhiring.me/ does that, it's listed as number 5 in the job boards list.
- burger_moon 12y ago
  Do you know how often that site is updated? Is it once a month or continuous throughout the month?
  - lukasm 12y ago
    I think is very often.

kjhughes 12y ago

It'd be cool if you accepted pull requests for individual remote jobs in addition to remote job boards and remote friendly companies.

lukasm 12y ago
OK.

lakesta 12y ago

https://jobsremotely.com/ https://jobsremotely.com/ - another job board http://www.datastax.com/ http://www.datastax.com/ - another company that is all remote

lukasm 12y ago
Thx.

codezero 12y ago

Can you add some guidelines for contributors? Is it OK for me to share my own company? If so, what are the base requirements, does the whole team need to be remote? Just curious :) Heap is hiring engineers, and we have two remote engineers on our team now.

lukasm 12y ago
Good tip. I'll add it.
lukasm 12y ago
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...
- codezero 12y ago
  Thanks!

scrollaway 12y ago

Good list! Red Hat should probably be in here too, since Canonical is there.

lukasm 12y ago
Will do!

matthewmueller 12y ago

Take a look at https://gittask.com/developer https://gittask.com/developer – work remotely on coding tasks using your favorite libraries and languages while supporting open source.

jamra 12y ago
I like the idea, but it looks like there are tons of tasks offering $60 for some simple feature. Someone asked for an Angular.js dashboard for $1600. After taxes, that would be less than $1000. That's not an appropriate payment for a week's work. It's not an appropriate payment for two days work. Have you been successful with this?
- nl 12y ago
  $1600 for an Angular dashboard is fine money if you live in many places outside the US.
- PostOnce 12y ago
  "$1000 after tax is not appropriate for two days work" Assuming you work 250 days a year ... $125,000/year after tax is never acceptable for web dev? Even in the USA that's flying pretty damned high everywhere outside NY/SF. ... And you can live anywhere, it's remote work! What, pray tell, is an acceptable wage? What sort talent and experience level makes that pay "appropriate"?
  - thirdtruck 12y ago
    125k/year seems like a lot for _full-time employment_, but a freelancer may still have to pay full costs for health insurance and the like. Even then, such a task would realistically take at least several days. So, the _actual_ annual income would be closer to 30k.
    - PostOnce 12y ago
      I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two days work is totally unacceptable that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX. Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work. I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?

fubarred 12y ago

Github is highly remote-able.

lukasm 12y ago
Thx.
- fubarred 12y ago
  Np. :)

zongitsrinzler 12y ago

Toggl is always looking for remote workers http://jobs.toggl.com/ http://jobs.toggl.com/

desdiv 12y ago
When companies say they're looking for an "Android/iOS developer", are they looking for someone who's proficient in both platforms? I'm an Android developer but know nothing about iOS. I'm not sure whether I should be applying to these positions or not.
- jamra 12y ago
  I can do iOS dev. Would you like to submit a joint resume? I think we can tackle this together.
- Veratyr 12y ago
  At my previous employer we were looking for mobile devs and while we'd prefer someone who was good at both, we accepted that it was unlikely to happen so we were interviewing people who were great at one platform. I'd say apply but this is entirely anecdotal.

andyjdavis 12y ago

Not sure if this is relevant but Moodle (open source course management software) has a job board for Moodle related stuff. Its mostly in person jobs but there are some remote gigs. https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=54&mode=list&perpage=10&search=&sort=0&order=DESC&advanced=0&filter=1&advanced=1&f_251=&f_253=remote https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=54&mode=list&perpage=...

elxavit0 12y ago

Authentic Jobs has a remote option too http://www.authenticjobs.com/#category=2&onlyremote=1 http://www.authenticjobs.com/#category=2&onlyremote=1

JeffMerlet 12y ago

You could add Datastax.com too as the engineering team is often hiring remote people; see the current open positions on their jobs page: http://www.datastax.com/company/careers http://www.datastax.com/company/careers

artjumble 12y ago

http://www.twintechs.com/ http://www.twintechs.com/ is almost 100% remote. List of current openings: https://www.twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/ https://www.twintechs.com/about-us/contact-us/careers/

zmoazeni 12y ago

75% of Harvest is remote and we're almost always looking for more great folks. Nearly all of our development team is remote. https://www.getharvest.com/careers https://www.getharvest.com/careers https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth https://www.getharvest.com/made-on-earth

jcuslw 12y ago

It would be cool if there was a list of remote part-time jobs for developers looking to supplement their income.

lukasm 12y ago
I though about it, but the problem is the single job postings are getting obsolete pretty quickly. Job board for part-time gigs is better place.

MichaelCrawford 12y ago

I did a "git clone" of you repository, added my link to README.md, then did a "git push", only to get: remote: Permission to lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git denied to CyberneticEntomologist. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 I did the "git clone" on my own box. Do I need to do it from github?

MichaelCrawford 12y ago
I was trying to add "The Global Computer Employer Index" at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ My remote list is at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/ Feel free to jack my list if you like. I'm not trying to make money with this, what I aim to accomplish is to dispel the notion that there is a shortage of tech workers.
stevekemp 12y ago
You don't own the repository so you have no permission to push to it. What you have to do in this situation is create a fork on the github site, make your changes there, which you'll have permission to do. If you make your changes on a branch you can then send a "pull request" to the original author to get your changes. This might be a helpful read: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/ https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/
- MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  ah, thanks, I was confusing "push" and "pull". I usually use subversion.
lukasm 12y ago
You can just click Edit Button (pencil) https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast... it will fork it for you and let you edit in browser.