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Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world
Hi folks. Remote Rocketship is my side project that searches the internet for remote jobs.
A dev friend of mine in South Africa was recently searching for a remote job and was complaining how most companies will only hire you if you're based in certain countries. So I ended up putting together this list of companies that I found that don't care where you're based.
I hope it's useful!
- niel 4y ago> I hope it's useful! It is, thanks! Are you taking submissions? Sourcegraph hires anywhere. All-remote: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/company-info-and-process/remote/ https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/company-info-and-process/re... Team bios with locations: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/team/ https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/team/
- Lior539 4y agoGood to know! I had a look and actually my job board already has Sourcegraph jobs (I scrape jobs from all over the internet) - https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/sourcegraph https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/sourcegraph However, they were all classified as hiring in the US only. The reason is that the location is listed as "Remote". I used to classify "Remote" as "Anywhere in the world", however I found that many US companies tend to list the location as "Remote" but are only hiring for people based in the US (Companies in other countries will always include the country in the location field e.g. "Remote - UK"). Hence now I only classify the hiring location as "Worldwide" if the location field includes phrases such as "Worldwide" or "Anywhere in the world" etc.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoThank you. This is the way. US recruiters: please use "Remote - US" if you mean "anywhere in the US", and only use "Remote" if you mean "anywhere in the world"
- saasxyz 4y agothis should be addressed. It's a serious pain.
- heywire 4y agoJust a heads up, on my iPhone, when I scroll to the All Remote heading and stop (on your first link), I get a wild flicker as the page tries to scroll back and forth rapidly. Just thought I’d let you know.
- niel 4y agoThanks! I'm not directly affiliated. I see someone at Sourcegraph has been tracking this issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/issues/3666 https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/issues/3666
- sqs 4y agoSorry for the glitchy scrolling issue on our handbook, thank you both for re-raising this, and thank you @niel for the PR (https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/pull/6080 https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/pull/6080). I confirmed that the PR fixed it, and I just merged the PR.
- Existenceblinks 4y agoYeah the current "remote" really really sucks and sounds like snake-oil. It also give wrong stat when reading online comments. Many people that said it's easy for them often came from people live in the same city and country as those companies. "Remote" by default gives an impression that's it's global.
- surge 4y agoIt's not snake oil, there's literally tax issues and legal problems with having employees located overseas. If you hire employees in another country, you have to pay taxes or comply with a slew of different regulations your company is not familiar with or equipped to handle.
- k__ 4y agoWhy should remote mean global?
- oleg_antonyan 4y agoThe same reason why some companies consider "US-only" to be remote
- officialchicken 4y ago"Know your customer" ... these are jobs on the internet, building the internet, for users on the internet. And because the internet is global.
- capableweb 4y ago> And because the internet is global Unfortunately, getting less and less true by the day. When I first used internet, it was truly global, anything someone else could access, I could as well. Nowadays, I'm finding more and more geoblocks everywhere. Sometimes I cannot access a website because apparently "a lot of internet criminals are also from the country you are accessing our website from, so you're collateral damage".
- jleyank 4y agoDo they hire you as employees or as contractors? I would assume the latter as unless they already have a nexus in your country there’s a whole lotta hassle for a single employee. Or is it, say, eu hiring within the eu, etc?
- jkukul 4y agoMany of them hire you as a contractor, of course. However, I noticed that more and more companies use an "HR as a service" (e.g. deel.com) to act as an intermediary who has an official branch in most countries and takes care of all the formalities for you.
- sarchertech 4y agoIn that case you’re working for deel and deel is contracting you out to the hiring company. Companies can fire you/lay you off without even any of the mediocre protections you get under US law. I’m not sure how deel handles this situation with employees in countries with stricter worker protections. Do they require the company to pay severance, do they include that in their fees? I suspect that they are operating in a gray area because no one is really looking.
- Existenceblinks 4y agoIt's pretty close to working with a local software house receiving works (customers) from the U.S. and operate team as "project base". Except you can't rotate into projects across companies and get paid about +30-40% of local market rates.
- CSMastermind 4y ago> I’m not sure how deel handles this situation with employees in countries with stricter worker protections. Do they require the company to pay severance, do they include that in their fees? We hired engineers in Mexico through Deel and were required to provide the mandatory severance up front (I forgot the exact amount but I think it was like 3 months salary?). That money sat in an escrow account until we let go of the employees at which point we still had to follow all of the local labor laws which I believe also meant that every severance needed to be individually negotiated. Deel handled all the mechanics but we still had to follow the process (meaning that the time between deciding to lay people off and actually being able to do it was a month if I recall correctly). For what it's worth the experience convinced me to stick to traditional contracting companies for my remote engineers. Deel is probably a better fit for a company looking to transition to having a full time headquarters and business set up in that country rather than one that wants to just leverage the global pool of engineers.
- wojcikstefan 4y agoThe YC company I work at (and have been happy working at for the last 11 years) is hiring remotely, anywhere in the time zones of Americas, Europe, and Africa: https://jobs.close.com https://jobs.close.com
- marcus_holmes 4y agocries in Australian
- dielll 4y agoHey, do you have an employee referral program? If so, can you refer me? Would love to apply, however I know employee referrals gets one a foot in the interview door quickly.
- phaer 4y agoWhenever a company has got a "Python" tag, there's a "Pyth" tag right before that, I assume that's a typo?
- a3w 4y agoThe language exists, but yes, I was astounded as well to see it this frequent.
- a3w 4y agoHow does "payment in USD" work, if I am not from the US? If the exchange value drops, I cannot pay rent? Everyone should probably get the employer to offer a currency-hedged payment, the fee is not that high.
- orangepurple 4y agoYou open up a US dollar denominated bank account in Switzerland and keep dollars as dollars.
- missedthecue 4y agoI don't live in the US, I'm paid in dollars. My landlord gave me a discount because I was able to pay in dollars. Having a dollar is better than having my country's funny money. Maybe this is only an issue if you live in the EU or UK where dollars aren't as highly sought.
- layer8 4y agoMight be too much hassle for the employer, many employees will happily take USD.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThat's the risk of getting paid in a foreign currency. It's for you to decide if it is worth it, and usually you do it because the pay is significantly higher than your local market.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoI've done a lot of remote work, mostly "in" EU/USA, and it's totally up to what you are agree upon. Normally, at least for longer contracts, it's normal to get paid in the employer's currency, upon pay day that value is transferred to your bank account, and some place on the way it's converted to your currency based on the current exchange rate. But you can also invoice the company you are working for, and then do the same in reverse, except it's usually you who do the conversion on the day you invoice them. For long contracts, more than 6 months, I would definitely take into account the exchange rate. For shorter contracts, I wouldn't care. I'm from Norway, and none of the currencies I have worked "with" changes dramatically.
- l1am0 4y agoJustWatch (company I work at) also hires basically from everywhere: https://talent.justwatch.com https://talent.justwatch.com My team is split over Germany, Sweden, Croatia, India. We are all fully remote.
- jedberg 4y agoOut of curiosity, how do you get paid, if you don't mind sharing? As the owner of a company, I can barely figure out how to legally pay people just in the USA, and every new state is a new headache. I can't even imagine trying to pay people across the world. And I'm already using 3rd party (Gusto) to manage it. But they don't do all the details like setting up your corporate entity in each place. Does your paycheck come from a 3rd party service?
- agnivade 4y agoNot OP, but I also work in a remote company. Our company uses deel.com. You only need to set up a corporate entity when the number of employees exceed a certain limit IIRC. When that happens, yes it's a bit of a hassle.
- elkos 4y agoGreek here, we (a non-profit with 20+ employees and several contractors) are able to pay local people. Sometimes we hire contractors (people or companies) fron other European Union countries (mostly Germany and Spain). We would love to figure ways to pay people but it seems very complicated to do it ourselves.
- FeistySkink 4y agoAren't there multiple companies (I don't want to promote any) doing just that: being intermediaries with corporate entities everywhere to enable other companies to hire locally?
- ravishi 4y agoThank you for sharing. Just applied from Brazil.
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- quadcore 4y agoA candle in the darkness thank you. A suggestion: I would randomize the list in order to not bloat the top n inbox.
- john-radio 4y agoYeah, currently the top companies are 10Up, Academia.edu, and Aragorn; so it is alphabetically sorted, in other words, arbitrarily.
- signaru 4y agoAnother suggestion is to use the "tech"/skills or programming languages as a filter. Really helpful, and also understandable that majority of jobs would require the popular programming languages/tools.
- qwdqwodkqwdo 4y agoThis is the list that I've been using as a reference: https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote
- itake 4y agoIt would be great if they could publish their salary bands. If you are advertising jobs to Washington State residents, by law, need to publish salary bands. This seems to be not compliant with our law.
- andrewmutz 4y agoIn theory the website is advertising jobs to people in every labor market on earth. Since there is a huge variety of labor laws out there, I'm guessing the website violates many many laws.
- ransom1538 4y agoExactly. This site shouldn't follow Cameroonian or Peruvian labor laws either.
- 0xfaded 4y agowheres the line between a job board and an aggregator? As far as I can tell this just links through to the actual job postings, which may or may not be compliant. It will be an interesting transition period. I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine.
- boring_twenties 4y ago> I remember job ads telling Colorado residents they need not apply, but if you emailed them I bet it would have been fine. Dunno about that. I am currently employed in a remote role at a huge company. I can move anywhere I want in the USA, except Colorado.
- itake 4y agoWhat specifically about Colorado is the issue? If you're already employed, I'm not sure why the law would apply to you?
- SlickStef11 4y agoAre you taking suggestions? WunderGraph is hiring remote engineers from anywhere in the world. https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions
- saasxyz 4y agoone listing says EMEA. What's that mean?
- philsnow 4y agoProbably "we hire from anywhere in the world, but for this position because of coverage reasons we would prefer somebody from these time zones". The other regions that are usually used alongside EMEA are LATAM ("the Americas") and APAC (roughly Asia and the Pacific islands).
- dotluis 4y agoEurope, Middle East, and Africa
- joshribakoff 4y agoOne of the reasons is sanctions. Might want to be careful entering into an employment contract if the other party is located in a country your government doesnt legally allow doing business with.
- Tepix 4y agoIt seems straightforward to have a list of legally forbidden countries...?
- xwdv 4y agoIt’s also pretty straightforward to work through a VPN and get paid out to foreign accounts.
- snapcaster 4y agoTechnically yes, but also this is likely fraud in most countries and would probably get you fired if found out
- blowski 4y agoIt's much more complicated than that. First you have to check your countries list of sanctions, and this is bizarrely difficult. 1. You might be able to work for most companies in a country, but that specific company (or type of activity) is sanctioned. 2. You might be ok for a while, but a sanctioned individual buys a stake and suddenly becomes not ok. 3. The employment itself might not be sanctioned, but your bank flags it as suspicious so payments are rejected and you run into other problems. For what it's worth, you can run a free check on ComplyAdvantage (full disclosure - that's my employer). https://complyadvantage.com/complytry/ https://complyadvantage.com/complytry/ All that being said, there are plenty of remote jobs available where this isn't a problem at all.
- httgp 4y agoSeeing a lot of gateway timeouts. Are you folks aware of this?
- Lior539 4y agosorry about that! Site was getting a lot of traffic. Issue is fixed now!
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI feel like I see one of those remote job boards every week on HN. There must be more job boards than jobs at this point.
- yakkomajuri 4y agoCouldn't find a quick form to submit a new suggestion but PostHog (posthog.com) is fully remote and hires anywhere.
- asib 4y agoFirst posting I looked at is US/Canada remote only: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/academia-edu/jobs/senior-full-stack-software-engineer-remote-first https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/academia-edu/jobs/s... edit: Did I misunderstand the premise? Seen a number of jobs that are North America based.
- Lior539 4y agoHmm that's a bug and shouldn't be there. Sorry about that. Mind sharing any others you come across?
- fomine3 4y agoTimezone must be the last barrier to hire remotely from worldwide. Is there any startup try to solve it?