Awesome Remote Job

A curated list of awesome remote working resources.

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Table of Contents

• Articles & Posts
• Videos
• Books
• Comics
• Job boards
• Freelance marketplaces
• Housing
• Interviewing
• Events
• Newsletters
• Podcasts
• Companies with "remote DNA"
• Q&A
• Communities
• Conferences
• Tools
  • Communication
  • Project Management
  • Others
• Law & Finance
• Others

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. 4 Little-Known Hacks for Finding Remote Work
5. 5 Tricks to Get More Done While Working Remotely
6. Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
7. Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
8. Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
9. Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
10. Communication for Distributed Teams
11. Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
12. For Some, Home=Office
13. Give people the freedom of where to work
14. Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company
15. How GitHub Works
16. How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
17. How many people really work from home? (research summary)
18. How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
19. How Working at Home Works (For Us)
20. It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise
21. Latest Telecommuting Statistics | Global Workplace Analytics
22. Learning From Distributed Companies
23. Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
24. Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
25. My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
26. My Remote Developer Life
27. One day offices will be a thing of the past
28. Remote worker vs distributed team
29. Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
30. Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
31. Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
32. Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
33. Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
34. Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
35. The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
36. The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
37. To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
38. What is a Distributed Company?
39. Why I work remotely ( hint: it has nothing to do with productivity)
40. Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
41. Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
42. Why moonlighting will change your career
43. Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
44. Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
45. Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
46. 'Working From Home' Without Slacking Off
47. Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
48. Working Remotely for Extroverts
49. Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company
50. Your Commute Is Killing You
51. 21 tools that will help your remote team work better together
52. How to run a team of people who never see each other
53. Who Needs an Office? How to Go 100 Percent Remote.
54. Remote Work: How to work the Precision Nutrition way
55. How to suggest improvements remotely
56. 8 tips that will make you a more active, healthier remote developer
57. The 5 most important things we do as a remote company
58. How to focus when working remotely
59. 3 mistakes to avoid if you want to get hired remotely
60. Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
61. Remote versus Co-located Work
62. Gitlab's Remote Manifesto
63. Datadog Engineering: 9 ways to make working remote work for you
64. The Villains of Remote Work
65. Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
66. How to Make Remote Working Work for You
67. Things To Watch Out For While Working Remotely
68. How to Work Remotely and Still Be the Best
69. The Ultimate Remote Team Culture

Videos

1. Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
2. Fluent 2013: Mike Hostetler, “Remote Working Works!”

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)
4. The Remote Jobseeker’s Handbook
5. Async Remote

Comics

1. Why working from home is both awesome and horrible

Job boards

1. Angel List - Startup Jobs. Search by going to Job Type, and selecting "Remote OK".
2. Authentic Jobs – Full-time and freelance job opportunities for web, design, and creative professionals.
3. Careers Stackoverflow
4. Dribbble Jobs
5. Drupal Jobs
6. Europe Remotely
7. Find Bacon
8. Flexjobs – Telecommuting Jobs & Professional Part-Time Jobs.
9. Front-end Developer Jobs - View as table, then sort by performed
10. FrontHAT - Aggragated and curated collection of 100% remote frontend development and design jobs.
11. Github Jobs - Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
12. Golangprojects filter -> Remote only
13. GoRemote.io
14. Guru - (has MANY different categories outside software)
15. Hasjob – Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
16. HigherEdJobs has remote type filter.
17. HN hiring – Filter REMOTE.
18. Jobbatical
19. JOBBOX.io – Filter -> Remote only.
20. Jobmote – Telecommuting jobs for IT professionals.
21. Jobspresso * High-quality remote positions that are open and legitimate *
22. Landing.jobs filter -> Remote only
23. No Fluff Jobs – Filter -> “remote”
24. Remote.co Jobs
25. RemoteBase - a searchable collection of remote companies and hiring info
26. Remote Coder
27. Remote OK - Scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions.
28. Remote Python - Job board and aggregator specifically for remote Python jobs.
29. remote-jobs - A list of semi to fully remote-friendly companies in tech
30. Remotely Awesome Jobs - Crawls multiple job boards for remote job postings.
31. RemoteWorkHunt
32. Remotive Jobs
33. Skip the Drive
34. Virtual Vocations
35. We Work Remotely
36. WFH.io
37. whoishiring.io
38. Working Nomads
39. Workana Freelance Job Board in Spanish and Portuguese
40. Work Remotely - Crawls and curates many job board feeds for remote positions

Freelance marketplaces

1. Design Inc.

Housing

1. bedndesk - Coworking & coliving space in Mallorca island in Spain
2. Blackbox - Coliving space in Silicon Valley
3. [Common] (https://www.hicommon.com/) - Coliving House in NewYork
4. Coworking in the Sun - Coliving & coworking space in Tenerife island in Spain
5. Etincelle Coworking - Coworking spaces in south of France
6. 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
7. [Hive Arena] (http://hivearena.com/) - Coworking & Coliving Space in Seoul, South Korea
8. HubBOG - Coworking Space + Startup Accelerator. Bogota, Colombia
9. Hus24 - Coliving space in Sweden
10. Nest Copenhagen - Coliving space in Copenhagen, Denmark
11. NoHatDigital - Coliving space in Mexico
12. Nomad House - Global network of nomad housing
13. nomadicHUB - Coliving & coworking spaces in exotic locations
14. Ondas - Coworking space in Medellin, Colombia
15. Roam - Global network of coliving spaces
16. Sende - Coliving & coworking space in northern Spain
17. Sun Desk - Coliving & coworking space in Taghazout, Morocco
18. The Blue House - Startup house & coliving space in Morocco
19. The Surf Office - Coworking & vacation space in Portugal, Canaries and California
20. Work From Curacao - Coliving space in Curacao
21. Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange

Interviewing

1. andreis/interview - Everything you need to kick ass on your coding interview
2. awesome-interviews - A curated awesome list of lists of interview questions
3. interviewing.io - Become awesome at technical interviews
4. remoteinterview.io - Coding tests & pair programming interview tools
5. skillmeter.com - Online skills testing platform for recruiters & companies
6. hackerrank.com - Online platform for code studying and recruiting with job offers also

Events

1. Coworking Camp - Worldwide temporary coworking Spaces
2. deceler8 - 10 days retreat
3. Project Getaway - 30 days retreat

Newsletters

1. Remote Internships
2. Remotive - productive remote workers - A weekly newsletter on Remote Tips & Jobs sent to 10,000+ Remote Workers
3. Working Nomads - Job posts.
4. Yonder Newsletter - Daily remote work tips, links, articles, and the Yonder Podcast.

Podcasts

1. Free People Move Podcast - mostly interviews with founders attacking the location independence / remote work space from different angles
2. Home Work - A weekly advice podcast for people who work from home. (No longer in production but archive still available)
3. Lessons from Distributed Companies
4. Remote Works - The Remote Works podcast publishes every two weeks with host Jonathan Sharp discussing the opportunities, experiences, culture and community surrounding remote work, remote teams, telecommuting and digital nomads.
5. The Yonder Podcast - Bi-weekly podcast: Jeff Robbins interviews people thinking about distributed teams, remote work, and how to support happy, productive, free-range workers.
6. Wide Teams - Each episode a one-on-one interview with a remote worker taking about workflow and practices

Companies with "remote DNA"

1. 10up - 10up makes the web better by finely crafting websites & tools for content creators.
2. Aha! - Aha! is roadmapping software for PMs who want their mojo back.
3. Arkency - Rails and React.js experts, fully remote/async.
4. Articulate - EdTech. Makes software that helps teachers make e-learning courses. Ruby, Node, C#, and .NET for Windows app.
5. AT&T - Nearly 20% of the eligible workforce works remotely.
6. Auth0 - Zero-friction authentication and authorization for developers.
7. Automattic - Makers of WordPress.com and Gravatar
8. 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
9. Axelerant
10. BaseCamp - Project management software.
11. 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.
12. BeBanjo - Software as a service for managing video on-demand. Ruby / Rails, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq.
13. Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
14. Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
15. Bugfender - Bugfender is a remote logger for multiple platforms including iOS and Android. It stores logs created by your application and sends them to our server, creating a remote console where you can see logs in real time. Remote company based in Barcelona.
16. Cadasta - Secure platform for mapping global land & resource rights. 100% remote team; Python, Django, JavaScript, PostgreSQL.
17. Canonical - Ubuntu.
18. Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
19. 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.
20. CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
21. Clevertech - We build incredible, game changing technology.
22. Close.io - Inside sales CRM for startups and SMBs.
23. Codeship - SaaS Continuous Delivery
24. Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
25. Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
26. [Crossover] (https://app.crossover.com/x/marketplace/available-jobs) - Project-based Java, .Net and DevOps positions.
27. 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.
28. DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
29. Deeson - UK-based with European team. Digital agency specialising in Drupal, Symfony and Laravel
30. DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers
31. DNSimple - Small 100% remote and globally distributed team working to make domain management an afterthought.
32. Dotsub - Browser-based platform for subtitling & translating online videos. Java / Spring, JavaScript / React.js
33. Doximity - Largest online medical network of US physicians. Ruby, Rails, Go, JavaScript, MySQL.
34. Drupal Association - Non-profit supporting the Drupal project.
35. DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
36. Elastic - Open source search & analytics
37. Envato - Maker of ThemeForest and other online marketplaces. MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Javascript. Distributed team with HQ in Melbourne, Australia.
38. Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
39. Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
40. Findify - E-commerce search powered by machine learning and big data. Team distributed across Europe.
41. Fire Engine Red - SaaS for higher education. Maker of Fireworks.
42. Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
43. General Assembly - Physical and on-line education for technology, business, and design.
44. Ghost - Publishing platform.
45. Gigster - vetted network of top 5% freelancers worldwide. PM, Dev, Sales positions available.
46. Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
47. GitHub
48. GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
49. [GlueNetworks] (http://gluenetworks.com/) - Network automation company.
50. Hanzo - Web archiving company. Fully Remote. Python, AWS.
51. Harvest - Time tracking software.
52. HashiCorp - Open source tools for automating the modern data center. Go, Ruby, Rails, Ember, JavaScript.
53. HE:labs
54. Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
55. Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
56. Help Scout - A help desk for teams that insist on a delightful customer experience.
57. Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
58. Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
59. Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
60. Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany.
61. Instructure - We make software that makes people smarter.
62. Intellum - We build employee collaboration, performance and learning tools. Ruby, iOS, Android, AWS, GCS.
63. InVision - prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform
64. Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
65. LaterPay - The (micro)payment enabler. Munich, Germany. Python, JavaScript, AWS.
66. Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
67. Linaro - OpenSource Engineering on ARM.
68. Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
69. Litmus - Optimization tools for email professionals. Offices in Boston and London, but nearly 50% of the team works remotely.
70. LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
71. Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
72. Maintainer Mountaineer - Open source community management as a service.
73. Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
74. Mobile Jazz - We are a dedicated team of highly-skilled engineers, designers and marketing experts on a mission to build a more beautiful digital world. We are a remote friendly company with headquarters in Barcelona.
75. Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
76. Mozilla - Firefox has a 'Remote' option under it's location searchbar
77. Netsparker - Web Application Security Scanner.
78. Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
79. NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
80. Onyo - Transforming the eating out experience in pure pleasure.
81. OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project).
82. Parsely - Analytics solutions
83. Particular Software (NServiceBus) - Enterprise Service Bus, Messaging, C#, Open Source
84. Paylocity - HR and payroll solutions
85. [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.
86. Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification.
87. PreviousNext - Australian based Drupal agency.
88. Prezly - SaaS PR platform. PHP, React, JS, Postgres. 100% remote.
89. ProofHQ, a Workfront company - Online proofing solution. PHP, JavaScript, Java, .NET, MySQL, Redis
90. RainforestQA - On demand QA as a service.
91. 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.
92. RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
93. Recurly - recurring billing management for subscription-based businesses
94. Red Hat
95. RightScale
96. Sangoma - Trusted leader in delivering globally scalable Voice-Over-IP telephony systems, both on-site and cloud-based. C, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Linux, FreePBX, VoIP.
97. Scrapinghub
98. Simple
99. ServiceNow - Enterprise cloud computing to improve service levels, energize employees, and change the way your enterprise works. Work at lightspeed.
100. Skyscrapers - Cloud hosting services & management. Working with multiple cloud providers (AWS, Digital Ocean, Linode, ...). 100% remote.
101. SoftwareMill
102. Songspace Helps music creators collaborate, catalog, and share work with their professional team
103. Soostone
104. StackExchange
105. Strongloop
106. StyleSeat - we love high-impact remote engineers, collaboration, creativity, python, angularjs
107. Surevine
108. Surge - 100% remote consulting company working primarily in Node.JS, iOS, .NET, PHP, and Android
109. Sysdig Cloud
110. Teamed.io
111. TeamSnap - TeamSnap is the No. 1 online sports team management software. 80% remote employees
112. TED - Technology team supports ted.com and internal tools. All engineers are remote. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js
113. Teleport
114. Tesera - We disrupt conventional thinking to expand what is possible. We ignite change in the future we share.
115. Thermeon - Car rental software - 100% remote technical team
116. Toggl
117. Toptal - 100% remote development company, solving worldwide talent shortage
118. Trello
119. Twin Technologies
120. Walltime - A Brazilian digital assets exchange and other products & services using Blockchain technology.
121. Wikimedia
122. X-Team - Work on incredible web and mobile projects, with extraordinary developers. Unleash your potential. From anywhere. We are X-Team.
123. Zamphyr - School 2.0 for learning computer science. Remote-first, 100% JavaScript mostly Meteor.
124. Zapier

Q&A

1. Chegg Tutor: Online tutoring jobs starting at $20+/hour
2. Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home
3. Remote.co: Q&A's with 90+ Remote Companies
4. StackExchange - Workplace: telecommute - Freelancing: remote / working from home - Programmers: telecommuting / home

Communities

1. /r/telecommuting - Subreddit.
2. ##remotes - IRC channel (web access)
3. Hacker Paradise - Traveling remote workers.
4. #nomads - Slack community for nomadic working, $100 signup fee.
5. [Remote Year] (http://www.remoteyear.com/) - Traveling techies for 1 year.

Conferences

1. DNX Global - Digital Nomad Conference.
2. Out Of Office - Online remote work event by Human Made
3. Remote Working Conference - Remote conference about remote working
4. Yonder - A round table conference bringing together leaders of distributed companies.
5. 9punto5 - Remote work conference in Latin America.

Tools

Communication

1. Appear.in – Browser-based, plugin-less group video calls.
2. Bluejeans video conferencing app, great for large groups & live streams
3. Codeshare.io – Browser-based multi-user live code sharing with optional video chat.
4. Fleep - Internal chat and collaboration tool for development teams
5. Floobits - Remote pair programming with screen share. Integrates with Sublime, IntelliJ, Atom and others
6. Flowdock – Browser-based group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
7. Hangouts – Chat system, share desktop and video calls.
8. Hipchat – Great internal chat for hackers.
9. IRCCloud – Browser-based IRC client with permanent storage.
10. Mumble Mumble is an open source voice chat software
11. Precursor - Simple prototyping & brainstorming web app with real-time collaboration.
12. PukkaTeam - Real team presence through regular automated selfies and one-click video calling
13. ScreenHero - Real-time, HD screen sharing for collaboration in teams.
14. Skype – Video calls.
15. Slack – Chat system with loads of integration options.
16. Sqwiggle – Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
17. Talky — Truly simple video chat and screen sharing for groups
18. Walky — Instant video chat for remote teams, with telepresence and screensharing.
19. Zoom — High-quality group video and sharing screen, run on linux, record session and support telephone calls.

Project Management

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

Others

1. Coffitivity - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
2. Noisli - Noisli has a list of diferent ambient sounds that can be combined to boost creativity and focus.
3. Qbserve - Time tracking automation: freelance project tracking, timesheets, invoicing & real-time productivity feedback (Mac).
4. Teleport Sundial - Manage the locations and timezones of your distributed team.
5. Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work (especially important when working remotely). Also ensures that no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly (Mac).

Law & Finance

1. 1099 contractors – US based companies can hire remote workers as.

Others

1. awesome-digital-nomads - 🏝 A curated list of awesome resources for Digital Nomads.
2. Hacker Spaces - List of hacker spaces.
3. LiquidSpace - Daily & Hourly Office & Meeting Room Rental.
4. Nomad List - Compare cost and quality of living in different cities.
5. Regus USA - Executive suites, virtual offices & conference room space.
6. Remote Companies on Careers SO
7. Remote Working - A list of remote working resources for Chinese.
8. The Caravanserai - Co-living provider.
9. WorkFrom - Find coffee shops that are good to work from.

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