Companies hiring remote software engineers anywhere in the world

https://www.remoterocketship.com/companies-hiring-worldwide/software-engineers

by Lior539 • 3 years ago

174 106 3 years ago

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!

niel2• 3 years 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/re...

Team bios with locations: https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/team/

Lior5393• 3 years ago

Good 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

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_holmes5• 3 years ago

Thank 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"

heywire• 3 years ago

Just 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.

niel2• 3 years ago

Thanks! I'm not directly affiliated.

I see someone at Sourcegraph has been tracking this issue at https://github.com/sourcegraph/handbook/issues/3666

Existenceblinks4• 3 years ago

Yeah 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.

k__2• 3 years ago

Why should remote mean global?

officialchicken2• 3 years ago

"Know your customer" ... these are jobs on the internet, building the internet, for users on the internet. And because the internet is global.

electroly• 3 years ago

"Should" is a loaded word that I won't address, but commonly "work from home" is the term used when you're still located near the office, vs. "remote" which is where you're nowhere near an office.

Existenceblinks4• 3 years ago

Because that's been the sentiment. From the era it was popularized by Remote book (office not required), and then there's discussion around location adjusted salary (e.g. gitlab). As far as I know Basecamp still pays roughly same rates everywhere (location independent). Employer of Record like Deel.com or Remote.com exists for making global hire easier.

I don't think I actually answer "why should" .. but that's not what I say anyway.

oleg_antonyan2• 3 years ago

The same reason why some companies consider "US-only" to be remote

surge• 3 years ago

It'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.

jleyank2• 3 years ago

Do 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?

jkukul4• 3 years ago

Many 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.

sarchertech2• 3 years ago

In 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.

marcus_holmes5• 3 years ago

I move between countries. Anyone happen to know how this works for this situation? (i.e. I'm currently in Mexico, but next week I'll be in Guatemala. Does Deel cope with this, and if so how?)

wojcikstefan• 3 years ago

The 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

marcus_holmes5• 3 years ago

cries in Australian

dielll• 3 years ago

Hey, 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• 3 years ago

Whenever a company has got a "Python" tag, there's a "Pyth" tag right before that, I assume that's a typo?

a3w2• 3 years ago

The language exists, but yes, I was astounded as well to see it this frequent.

a3w2• 3 years ago

How 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.

missedthecue• 3 years ago

I 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• 3 years ago

Might be too much hassle for the employer, many employees will happily take USD.

mytailorisrich2• 3 years ago

That'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• 3 years ago

I'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.

Existenceblinks4• 3 years ago

It's up to employee. I had a FCD bank account (store dollar) and convert into local currency when I got a good rate. Though later on I just don't care much, Wise's rates is acceptable and I convert it into local bank account ASAP.

yccs272• 3 years ago

Additionally to the silbling comments - if the employer only offers USD payment, virtually all banks will offer some financial product to hedge against currency risk. This comes at a price, of course, but presumably the employer pays well enough that it's still worth it.

badcppdev2• 3 years ago

Can you tell me about this product? Does it cover 1 year of employment?

badcppdev2• 3 years ago

Can you tell me about how a hedging solution works when a nobody knows if the person will be working for the company for 2 months or 5 years? Is the salary to be renegotiated if the rate moves too much?

The FX risk cannot be magicked away.

TheCoelacanth• 3 years ago

The risk can't be magicked away, but there is usually someone who will take on the risk for a cost.

oleg_antonyan2• 3 years ago

If you live in a country with that volatile currency, then chances are even miserable by 1st world standards remote salary in USD is rudiculuosly higher than local market, and you are rich anyways. And it usually goes the opposite direction, i.e. local currency get cheaper over time, thus you are becoming "richier". Trust me, payments in stable convertible currency is a huge deal for many-many people outside of US

nisegami• 3 years ago

I feel like most people would see payment in USD is as a positive, not a negative.

orangepurple• 3 years ago

You open up a US dollar denominated bank account in Switzerland and keep dollars as dollars.

l1am0• 3 years ago

JustWatch (company I work at) also hires basically from everywhere: https://talent.justwatch.com

My team is split over Germany, Sweden, Croatia, India. We are all fully remote.

jedberg• 3 years ago

Out 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?

elkos• 3 years ago

Greek 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.

agnivade• 3 years ago

Not 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.

ravishi• 3 years ago

Thank you for sharing. Just applied from Brazil.

saasxyz3• 3 years ago

I just took a look and all jobs says hybrid. How it supposed to be globally remote?

quadcore• 3 years ago

A candle in the darkness thank you. A suggestion: I would randomize the list in order to not bloat the top n inbox.

john-radio• 3 years ago

Yeah, currently the top companies are 10Up, Academia.edu, and Aragorn; so it is alphabetically sorted, in other words, arbitrarily.

signaru• 3 years ago

Another 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• 3 years ago

This is the list that I've been using as a reference:

https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote

itake4• 3 years ago

It 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• 3 years ago

In 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• 3 years ago

Exactly. This site shouldn't follow Cameroonian or Peruvian labor laws either.

0xfaded2• 3 years ago

wheres 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_twenties2• 3 years 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.

itake4• 3 years ago

(3) If no wage scale or salary range exists, the employer must provide the minimum wage or salary expectation set by the employer prior to posting the position, making a position transfer, or making the promotion.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=49.58.110

Since aggregators aren't "job postings", I am guessing at least for WA, the website is compliant, but if you click through to the job postings, then the salary range is not published there either [0]. Should an aggregator be allowed to publish illegal job postings?

[0] https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/10up/jobs/senior-we...

indymike3• 3 years ago

This is going to start showing up in job ads: "This job is not available for people in the State of California, Washington or New York"

itake4• 3 years ago

and Colorado.

comprev2• 3 years ago

It's becoming more common to see footnotes in adverts like that in general.

As an example, Discogs.com [0] explictly states the states where you can remote from. "This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, ID, AZ, TX, IL"

[0] https://discogsinc.bamboohr.com/careers/118

paxys• 3 years ago

And companies that do that will soon realize that cutting off the three states with the highest concentration of qualified tech workers isn't a winning strategy.

macinjosh• 3 years ago

Commerce on The Internet is being slowly ruined by minor fiefdoms who have strong opinions about how everyone else should behave. Like NY trying to tax out of state remote workers. What a nightmare.

I live in another state with a similar law and it has negatively impacted my job and earning prospects in remote work.

Beaver1172• 3 years ago

I've seen a footnote on some job sites that said something like "For Colorado residents the salary band is 50,000 to 999,999"

SlickStef11• 3 years ago

Are you taking suggestions? WunderGraph is hiring remote engineers from anywhere in the world.

https://wundergraph.com/jobs#open-positions

saasxyz3• 3 years ago

one listing says EMEA. What's that mean?

dotluis• 3 years ago

Europe, Middle East, and Africa

philsnow• 3 years ago

Probably "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).

joshribakoff• 3 years ago

One 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• 3 years ago

It seems straightforward to have a list of legally forbidden countries...?

xwdv2• 3 years ago

It’s also pretty straightforward to work through a VPN and get paid out to foreign accounts.

blowski• 3 years ago

It'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/

All that being said, there are plenty of remote jobs available where this isn't a problem at all.

httgp• 3 years ago

Seeing a lot of gateway timeouts. Are you folks aware of this?

Lior5393• 3 years ago

sorry about that! Site was getting a lot of traffic. Issue is fixed now!

iLoveOncall• 3 years ago

I 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• 3 years ago

Couldn't find a quick form to submit a new suggestion but PostHog (posthog.com) is fully remote and hires anywhere.

asib• 3 years ago

First posting I looked at is US/Canada remote only: 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.

Lior5393• 3 years ago

Hmm that's a bug and shouldn't be there. Sorry about that. Mind sharing any others you come across?

fomine32• 3 years ago

Timezone must be the last barrier to hire remotely from worldwide. Is there any startup try to solve it?

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