Awesome Remote Job

A curated list of awesome remote working resources.

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Table of Contents

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

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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 future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
34. The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
35. To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
36. What is a Distributed Company?
37. Why I work remotely ( hint: it has nothing to do with productivity)
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
53. How to suggest improvements remotely
54. 8 tips that will make you a more active, healthier remote developer
55. The 5 most important things we do as a remote company
56. How to focus when working remotely
57. 3 mistakes to avoid if you want to get hired remotely
58. Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
59. Remote versus Co-located Work
60. Gitlab's Remote Manifesto

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)
4. The Remote Jobseeker’s Handbook

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. No Fluff Jobs filter -> "remote"
15. Nomad Jobs
16. Remote Coder
17. Remote OK - scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions
18. Remotive Jobs
19. Skip the Drive
20. Virtual Vocations
21. WFH.io
22. Working Nomads
23. Github Jobs - Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
24. We Work Remotely
25. Offsite Careers
26. whoishiring.io
27. Workana Freelance Job Board in Spanish and Portuguese
28. Remotely Awesome Jobs - Crawls multiple job boards for remote job postings.

Housing

1. Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange
2. Roam - 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.
21. [HubBOG] (http://hubbog.com/) - Coworking Space + Startup Accelerator. Bogota, Colombia

Interviewing

1. remoteinterview.io - Coding tests & pair programming interview tools
2. skillmeter.com - Online skills testing platform for recruiters & companies

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 10,000+ Remote Workers

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.
3. Lessons from Distributed Companies
4. 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. 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.
6. BaseCamp - Project management software.
7. 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.
8. BeBanjo - Software as a service for managing video on-demand. Ruby / Rails, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq.
9. Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
10. Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
11. Canonical - Ubuntu.
12. Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
13. 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.
14. CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
15. Close.io - CRM (python)
16. Codeship - SaaS Continuous Delivery
17. Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
18. Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
19. [Crossover] (https://www.crossover.com/available-jobs) - Project-based Java, .Net and DevOps positions.
20. 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.
21. DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
22. DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers
23. Doximity - Largest online medical network of US physicians. Ruby, Rails, Go, JavaScript, MySQL.
24. DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
25. Envato - Maker of ThemeForest and other online marketplaces. MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Javascript. Distributed team with HQ in Melbourne, Australia.
26. Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
27. Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
28. Fire Engine Red - SaaS for higher education. Maker of Fireworks.
29. Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
30. General Assembly - Physical and on-line education for technology, business, and design.
31. Ghost - Publishing platform.
32. Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
33. GitHub
34. GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
35. [GlueNetworks] (http://gluenetworks.com/) - Network automation company.
36. Harvest - Time tracking software.
37. Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
38. Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
39. Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
40. Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
41. Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
42. Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany
43. Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
44. LaterPay - The (micro)payment enabler. Munich, Germany. Python, JavaScript, AWS.
45. Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
46. Linaro - OpenSource Engineering on ARM.
47. Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
48. LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
49. Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
50. Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
51. Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
52. Mozilla - Firefox.
53. Netsparker - Web Application Security Scanner.
54. Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
55. NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
56. Onyo - Transforming the eating out experience in pure pleasure.
57. OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project)
58. Parsely - Analytics solutions
59. Particular Software (NServiceBus) - Enterprise Service Bus, Messaging, C#, Open Source
60. Paylocity - HR and payroll solutions
61. Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification
62. Railsdog - eCommerce solutions and integrations based on Spree (Ruby on Rails). Most team members are distributed including development, project management, and executive roles.
63. RainforestQA - On demand QA as a service.
64. 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.
65. RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
66. Recurly - recurring billing management for subscription-based businesses
67. Red Hat
68. RightScale
69. Scrapinghub
70. Simple
71. SoftwareMill
72. StackExchange
73. Songspace Helps music creators collaborate, catalog, and share work with their professional team
74. Soostone
75. Sqwiggle
76. Strongloop
77. StyleSeat - we love high-impact remote engineers, collaboration, creativity, python, angularjs
78. Surevine
79. Surge - 100% remote consulting company working primarily in Node.JS, iOS, .NET, PHP, and Android
80. Sysdig Cloud
81. TED - Technology team supports ted.com and internal tools. All engineers are remote. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js
82. Teamed.io
83. Teleport
84. Toggl
85. Toptal
86. Trello
87. Twin Technologies
88. Wikimedia
89. X-Team - Work on incredible web and mobile projects, with extraordinary developers. Unleash your potential. From anywhere. We are X-Team.
90. Zapier

Remote Moonlighting

1. Gittask - Development tasks you can work on remotely

Q&A

• StackExchange
  • Workplace: telecommute
  • Freelancing: remote / working from home
  • Programmers: telecommuting / home
• Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home

Communities

• /r/telecommuting - subreddit
• ##remotes - IRC channel (web access).
• Hacker Paradise - traveling hackers
• #nomads - Slack community for nomadic working, $100 signup fee
• Nomadler - Hacker News for nomads.

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
• 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.
• 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
• Speak - Instant Team Communication: blazing fast audio, video and screen sharing inside your team
• Sqwiggle Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
• Talky — Truly simple video chat and screen sharing for groups.

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
• Teleport Sundial - Manage the locations and timezones of your distributed team
• Noisli - Noisli has a list of diferent ambient sounds that can be combined to boost creativity and focus

Law & Finance

US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.

Others

• 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
• WorkFrom - Find coffee shops that are good to work from
• Hacker Spaces - list of hacker spaces