This is something I compiled during the last weeks while job hunting. If you miss something in this list, please fork or tell me on twitter and I'll add what's missing.
- Be careful with jobs that are not clear they hire outside US
- Look for job in niches (like SaaS job boards, language-specific communities, country-focused, and so on)
- Avoid Upwork (pay to work, no guaranteed results, often bad contracts) and Remote.com
- Remote.co is not Remote.com, remote.co is ok.
- There are companies that hire and act as a guild, but only pay as freelancer (X-team, Gun.io, and so on)
- Not really focused on freelancing, as it is to me more like a one-person business
- findwork.dev ⭐
- Angelist Jobs ⭐
- Remotive.io - previously Buffer remote jobs (maintained by Rodolphe Dutel)
- Workew
- Remoteok.io - by @levelsio from DigitalNomads
- We Work Remotely - also has Slack group very inclusive and open for feedback ⭐
- Remote.co - https://remote.co/remote-jobs/
- HN monthly post - Who's Hiring / Who Wants to be Hired threads, automatically posted by whoishiring
- Jobspresso - https://jobspresso.co/remote-work/
- letsworkremotely - https://www.letsworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/
- StackOverflow Jobs - https://stackoverflow.com/jobs
- Working Nomads - http://workingnomads.co/
- Tech Jobs for Good - https://www.techjobsforgood.com/ (US-only companies)
- Indeed, Linkedin (never tried)
- ⭐ Awesome Remote Jobs ⭐ ⭐
- ⭐ raynesio/remotelist
- Remoteintech/remote-jobs: just a list of companies that are remote friendly
- Remote Starter Kit
- Remote Payments: TransferWise; Stripe Atlas (opens Company in the US)
- NomadList: Nice reviews of many stuff
- rmotr - Remote programming Bootcamp
- mkdev - Learn programming with a mentor / Become a mentor
This is pretty love compilation. You are right about the upwork stuff, I had a serious problem with upwork and it's contracting procedures.