Remote-First Companies Roundup

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With so many companies mandating their employees to return to the office, landing a fully remote job has started to feel like a modern-day treasure hunt—competitive, unpredictable, and requiring a keen eye for hidden opportunities.

In Buffer’s 2019 State of Remote Work report, 99 % of respondents stated they would like to work remotely, at least some of the time, for the rest of their career.

Given the demand for remote roles, I thought why not put together lists of companies that actively hire remotely exclusively for my subscribers.

While it would be easy to just pull together a generic list of remote-friendly companies, I want to give you something more valuable. So, instead of just dropping company names, I’ll include:

• Glassdoor ratings;

• details on their remote work policies;

• domain of activity;

• what kind of roles these are hiring;

This way, you’re not just seeing a list—you’re getting additional information to help you find the right fit.

To keep things digestible, we’ll focus on 5-10 companies at a time—quality over quantity.

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How often will I post these lists? That depends on the opportunities I find.

Since I work with hundreds of companies that hire remotely, I always have insights. However, many of these companies hire small batches of roles (1 to 10 positions) and often use Employer of Record (EOR) models. Many of the company I work with are either hybrid (for the locations where they have legal entity) and remote for the countries where they hire via EOR model.

But my focus is (at least for this first roundup) on fully remote companies—organisations that embrace it as part of their culture.

So, without further ado, here are the first list of 5 companies hiring remotely right now.

Shopify:

Industry Sector: The company operates within the broader e-commerce and software as a service (SaaS) sectors

Roles: Shopify hires for a wide variety of roles across sales, marketing, engineering, product, and other departments, including roles like:

• Incubation Sales - these focus on early-stage partnerships;

• Integrated System Sales - working with partners to integrate Shopify with other systems.

• Launch Services - Helps merchants set up and launch their online stores

• Merchant Success - Supports merchants after they've launched their stores.

• various engineering and product management positions.

Remote work policy: For years, Shopify has embraced a hybrid model of both remote and in-office work. They went fully remote in March 2020 for the foreseeable future.

Glassdoor score: 3.3 (as of 16 March 2024)

Dropbox:

Industry sector: Dropbox provides cloud storage, file synchronisation, and file sharing services and is classified within the broader technology sector, specifically within the software and programming industry.

Roles: Dropbox offers positions in engineering, product management, design, marketing, sales, and customer support.

Remote work policy: Adopted a "virtual-first" model, enabling employees to work remotely full-time. ​“Virtual First,” means that remote work is the primary experience for Dropbox employees. This means employees have the flexibility to be based pretty much anywhere and the policy applies to all employees, from Engineering to Sales and beyond. That doesn’t mean Dropbox has no office: they have Dropbox Studios, which are flexible spaces that can be used for occasional in-person collaboration, meetings, and events.

Glassdoor score: 4.1 (as of 16 March 2025)

Spotify:

Industry sector: providing access to a vast library of music, podcasts, and audiobooks through its platform, available on various devices.

Roles: Spotify offers roles in engineering, product development, data analysis, marketing, sales, and content management.

Remote working policy: At Spotify, employees can choose to work where they work best – whether that’s at home, at the office, or at times, somewhere else entirely.Their “Work From Anywhere” program supports employee’s choice to work either mostly at home or from one of their offices.

Glassdoor score: 4.0 (as of 16 March 2025)

Twilio:

Industry sector: Software - Infrastructure providing a Cloud Communications Platform (CPaaS) platform.

Roles: Twilio currently has open roles in departments such as marketing, engineering, service operations, HR, IT, sales & sales operations, accounting and Security.You can read more about the available roles here.

Remote work policy: Twilio has embraced a remote-first approach, meaning that employees have the flexibility to work remotely, and they can also work from a Twilio office. And this is not going to change for the forseeable future. Twilio has stated that they are not forcing returning-to-office mandates, and are committed to remaining a remote-first company, as CPO Christy Lake announced in this article

Glassdoor score: 3.7 (as of 16 March 2025)

Andela:

Industry sector: Andela is a private marketplace for technical talent, focusing on sustainable careers and connecting technologists with long-term engagements and international roles.

Roles: Andela hires for a variety of technical roles, primarily focusing on software development and related fields, including application development, artificial intelligence, data engineering, cloud, and DevOps. You can check out the open roles here.

Remote work policy: Andela is a remote-first company, meaning they prioritize and assume that everyone is working remotely, regardless of their physical location. However there are some restricted locations such as Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Crimea, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, North Korea, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Yemen.

Glassdoor score: 3.5 (as of 16 March 2025)

A little bonus

Here are my favorite top job aggregators that focus on remote roles:

JustRemote - the majority of jobs are in US / Canada and you can check out the companies they partnered with here.

DailyRemote – 24-Hr Fresh Listings

RemoteOK – High Volume of jobs, they have listings all over the globe as well as freelancing projects.

What do you think about this format and what else you would like to see in these roundups ? Do you prefer a simple list of remote companies instead ? Let me know in the comments: