The next step for our students after finishing our course, full of confidence and self-esteem (ie. code on Github), is to go look for a programming job. We’re a remote bootcamp and we truly believe in the benefits of remote work. All the rmotr.com team has done some remote work before (teachers, mentors, tech team), and our first suggestion for our students is, of course, to go look for a remote gig. The obvious, follow up question is “where”. As we usually say, the problem today is not the lack of information, but the excess of it. If you google “remote programming jobs” you’re going to end up with thousands of results and you might be wasting your time. That’s why we usually recommend these 3 sites (plus a few other mentions) that we know are good places to land a solid remote programming job. Please note that this is just our own opinion based in our experience looking for jobs before rmotr.com. We’d love to hear your opinions and suggestions if you know better or more interesting resources.

Previously known as “Careers”, it’s our number ☝ recommendation. We’ve personally landed jobs in StackOverflow before, so we can speak from our own experience. The nice thing about SO is that they cut the crap out. Feels a lot like “for coders, by coders”. Job offers contain all the required information, along with salary, and (usually) Joel Test info. You can apply right there and there’s never spam coming their way. Thank you Jeff 🙌!

Total Remote Jobs (at the time of this writing): 64

Total Python Jobs: 15

From the awesome people of 37 Signals, authors of the praised book Remote, Office not required(highly recommended). Members of our team have also landed gigs from We Work Remotely, so it’s also part of our personally recommended places. Similar to StackOverflow, the job offers are clear and concise.

Total Remote Jobs: 67

Total Python Jobs: ? (search is not really good)

Less sexy than the others, but specially effective. Every month a “Who is Hiring?” post is created on Hacker News. People post their offers as regular comments. It can get tricky to read all the job offers, so you might need a little Python 🐍 to make better sense out of it:

Total jobs: 714

Total Remote Jobs: 98

Total Python Jobs: 154

As a side note: a few months ago, a team chose this domain for their Demo Day project, which resulted in: http://hackrtrackr.rmotr.com/. It’s a nice Python project which analyzes HN posts over time. Here’s a chart with history about jobs containing Python and Remote:

Other mentions

We can’t personally endorse these places, but we’ve heard good things about them (usually from our own students):

Jobs from startups. It’s a nice place to read about trending technologies being used by startups. Something good: usually there’s equity involved (this might also be seen as something bad if you’re not interested in equity and they offer less money). Something bad: you have to be logged in to see the jobs.

Total jobs: 12,532 😱 (there’s something wrong here)

Total Remote Jobs: 36

Total Python Jobs: 0😭

We haven’t looked into much detail at RemoteOk, but it was build by awesome levels.io (creator of nomadlist.com), so we know it’s legit. It’s a nicely built site which also aggregates offers from StackOverflow and WeWorkRemotely, so it might become your ultimate job-seeking source. Job posts seem to have good descriptions and link to the original offer. Filter and search is not implemented but there’s an API in place (feature request for levels.io)

Total Remote jobs: no count 🤔

Total Python Jobs: no search 😭

Finally, I take the chance to mention my previous employer, Clevertech. They’re a fully remote company since the beginning and they know how to do remote work effectively. I’ve learned a lot from these folks. It’s a good work environment with nice people, projects and interesting technologies (usually around Javascript): https://clevertech.biz/careers