List of companies hiring developers remotely from India, Full-Time

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Finding a full-time remote job is hard and it's harder when you are a developer living in India [UTC+05:30]. This post aims to make it easier.

Before you jump to the list, do you want to know how I prepared the list?
I started with the question

As a developer from India, what does it take to find a full-time remote job?

To find out, I tried various sources(AngelList, StackOverflow, LinkedIn, WeWorkRemotely, Glassdoor, Google, Company Career Websites, etc.) and looked at opportunities promoted as full-time remote jobs.

I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled on what feels like millions of job descriptions

then cross verified with other sources and then got the first-hand latest info from company representatives; I figured that even before skill match, you need to filter on so many levels that almost everything ends up in your "not fit" list and you start doubting if there are any remote jobs for you at all. Forget about skills, first, you need to

1. Filter out companies that are reluctant to hire from India UTC+05:30
   This is mostly because of timezone or admin issues. But problem for you as a developer is that this info about timezone preference is buried inside lengthy job descriptions as can be seen in this job post from a leading company
   

Extra read: A discussion on HN about biases in hiring remotely from India

2. Filter out companies that use remote hiring as backup option
   On the front, these companies look like companies offering a remote job but they do not have 100% remote DNA. Remote is their contingency plan. If no candidate is found in their geography, they will utilize applicants from other geographies and the remote hires will be treated as 2nd class employees there.

3. Filter out the fakes and everything else
   For every genuine remote job post, there are 60 posts which are one of the following: a scam, a position no longer available, advertisements posted as jobs, misrepresented as "Remote Only", etc.

But, don't you worry, there is hope

Some companies have understood the true potential of remote work and have consciously decided to make remote work, their first and only option. And the number of these companies with 100% remote DNA is growing every day.

Verified list of companies with 100% remote DNA

So I did the heavy lifting of the research to declutter and found some companies which

• Have 100% remote DNA
• Offer full-time remote job for developers
• Product based IT companies
• Hire from India [UTC +05:30](has substantial historical proof or interest in Indian developers)

1. DuckDuckGo - Privacy focused search engine
   Careers | Twitter
   
2. Canonical - Company behind Ubuntu
   Careers | Twitter
   
3. Automattic - Company behind wordpress
   Careers | Twitter
   
4. Gitlab - DevOps lifecycle tool
   Careers | Twitter
   
5. Zapier - Web applications integration and automation
   Careers | Twitter
   
6. Doist - ToDo app
   Careers | Twitter
   
7. Toggl - Time tracking tool
   Careers | Twitter
   
8. Discourse - Open source discussion platform
   Careers | Twitter
   
9. Status - Open source secure communication tool
   Careers | Twitter
   
10. Mattermost - Open source messaging platform
    Careers | Twitter
    

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What next?

It took me a whole week to narrow down these 10 companies after rejecting 100s of potential companies which were shown to be a fit by other sources and this made me realize(again)

As a remote developer from India, it is almost impractical to find a full-time remote work opportunity, especially when you already have a day job. You research on 100s of companies only to find out that only 1 or 2 of them offer the opportunity for India residents

For now, you can apply to these companies on their careers website. You may share in the application that you found them via Invide or maybe not, it's up to you. But I am very keen to know

Thank you

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