50 job websites for remote and tech roles, and how to use them well

• Why a list of job websites needs notes
• The 50 sites, grouped by what they are good for
  • Big aggregators
  • Remote-first boards
  • Startups
  • Freelance and contract marketplaces
  • Creative and design
  • Diversity-focused
• Which groups to use for which goal
• Finding roles before they reach aggregators
• Practical lessons
• Key takeaways

TL;DR

• Fifty sites sounds like a lot, but they fall into six groups: big aggregators, remote-first boards, startup boards, freelance marketplaces, creative portfolios and diversity-focused boards. Most people need two or three groups, not all six.
• “Remote” usually means remote within a region. On most global remote boards, the large majority of data and engineering roles are restricted to the US, Europe or LATAM. Filter by country before you read a single description.
• Many companies post straight to their applicant tracking system (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby). Searching those domains directly finds roles days before they show up on aggregators.
• A listing on an aggregator is not proof the job is open. Check the original posting first; a lot of results point at closed roles.
• Read the screening questions before you start an application. Address, notice period, salary, work-hour overlap and conflict-of-interest questions are common, and having the answers ready turns a 20-minute form into a 3-minute one.

Why a list of job websites needs notes

Lists of job websites are everywhere, and most of them stop at the names. The names are the easy part. What costs time is discovering, site by site, that a board is US-only, that its “remote” filter means “remote in Europe”, that a listing is four months old, or that applying requires an account on yet another platform.

This post groups the 50 sites by what they are good for and adds the notes I wish I had before I started using them, particularly for engineers based in India looking at remote or Bangalore roles.

The 50 sites, grouped by what they are good for

Big aggregators

These index millions of listings, including company career pages. They have the widest coverage and the most noise.

Remote-first boards

Every listing is remote in some form. Read the location line carefully: most are remote within a country or time zone.

Startups

Freelance and contract marketplaces

These are for gig and contract work. You bid on projects or get matched; there is no traditional application.

Creative and design

Diversity-focused

Which groups to use for which goal

• Full-time engineering role in your own city: LinkedIn and the country edition of Indeed, plus the regional boards your market actually uses. In India that means adding Naukri and Instahyre, which are not in the 50 but carry a large share of senior engineering roles.
• Full-time remote role from India: Remote Rocketship and Himalayas (country filters), Jobgether, and the ATS search described below. Treat the global remote boards as a bonus, not the main source.
• Startup role: Wellfound, Work at a Startup and the monthly Hacker News thread.
• Contract or side income: the freelance marketplaces, chosen by how you want to be paid (bids, gigs or a vetted network).

Finding roles before they reach aggregators

Most companies publish openings on their applicant tracking system first, and aggregators pick them up later. Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby host job pages on predictable domains, so you can search them directly:

"data engineer" remote site:greenhouse.io OR site:jobs.lever.co OR site:ashbyhq.com

Swap in your own title and add a location, for example (India OR Bengaluru). In Google, open Tools, then Any time, and choose Past 24 hours or Past week.

Two caveats from using this:

• Search engines rate-limit site: queries quickly. Run a few targeted searches rather than dozens of variations.
• Greenhouse has a public read-only API that tells you whether a posting is still open and lists its required questions, at https://boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/<company>/jobs/<id>?questions=true. A 404 means the role is closed, which saves opening a form for nothing.

Practical lessons

1. Filter by eligible location first. On the global remote boards I checked in one week, almost every data engineering role was limited to the US, Europe or LATAM. Country filters (Remote Rocketship, Himalayas) and per-listing region lines (We Work Remotely) save the most time.
2. Check that the listing is live. Aggregator results often point at postings that were closed weeks ago. Open the original ATS page before you plan your answers.
3. Read the screening questions up front. The ones that slow people down are full postal address, notice period and earliest start date, current and expected compensation, years with specific tools, willingness to work overlapping hours, and conflict-of-interest declarations. Keep these answers in one document and reuse them.
4. Expect some applications to need an account. Workday, Dayforce and some other career sites require registering per company. Budget the time, or prioritise roles with a direct form.
5. Tailor, but do not rewrite from scratch. One strong base resume plus a short, honest “why this company” paragraph covers most applications.
6. Track everything. A simple sheet with date, site, company, role, link and status prevents duplicate applications and makes follow-ups easy.

Key takeaways

• Pick the two or three groups of sites that match your goal instead of working through all 50.
• For remote roles, eligibility is the real filter; use boards that let you filter by country.
• Search Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby directly to see roles first, and confirm each one is still open.
• Prepare your screening answers once and reuse them; that is where most application time goes.