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

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

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

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?

$1600 for an Angular dashboard is fine money if you live in many places outside the US.

"$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"?

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.

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?

Ok, so if you can accomplish this task in two days, it may be cutting on the edge of worth it.

It looks to me like it would take more than a week. That looks more like a slave wage than fair pay for remote work.

When freelancing the general rule is assume that will be spending 1/3 of your time with no billable work, and you need to build that into your rate. That leaves you with $83,000/year, and you still have to pay for healthcare and vacation time.

This rule especially applies to short, 2 day jobs like this. How likely is that you will be able to roll through a string of ~20 hour jobs with no downtime?

> It's not an appropriate payment for two days work.

At 8 hours a day, that's $100/hr. Even for NYC, that's considered decent for a front-end developer.

Not sure what standard you're judging this against that $100/hr is ridiculous.

"It's not an appropriate payment for two days work."

This is based on an assumption that there's only one (high) standard of work.

For a kid trying to get one of his classmates to do his homework assignment for him, that doesn't sound too far out of line for "my first web project" level of quality.

You pay chickenfeed you get chickens. Sometimes for sound business reasons or real world issues you want chickens, not a soaring eagle.

The business world is ending a cycle of outsourcing where the mantra was "who cares about code quality, as long as its cheap".

Is this the same site that was involved in the brouhaha a month or two ago because projects were opted in by default and had a hard time opting out?

You may be thinking of tip4commit[1][2]

[1] https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969

Yes, that was it. Thanks.

I hope a similar issue doesn't arise here.

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

Welcome!

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

Will do!

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

great resource too!

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

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.

Good tip. I'll add it.

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...

Thanks!

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=...

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?

I was trying to add "The Global Computer Employer Index" at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

My remote list is at 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.

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/

ah, thanks, I was confusing "push" and "pull".

I usually use subversion.

You can just click Edit Button (pencil) https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/blob/mast...

it will fork it for you and let you edit in browser.

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/made-on-earth

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

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?

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"

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.

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

Thx.

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

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.

http://hnhiring.me/ does that, it's listed as number 5 in the job boards list.

Do you know how often that site is updated? Is it once a month or continuous throughout the month?

I think is very often.

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

OK.

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

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.

I can do iOS dev. Would you like to submit a joint resume? I think we can tackle this together.

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.

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

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.

Github is highly remote-able.

Thx.

Np. :)

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