There Are 70 Fully Remote Junior Tech Jobs. One Company Has Half of Them.
We get a version of this question in Discord most weeks. Someone is a year or two in, or freshly out of a bootcamp, or finishing a degree, and they want to know where the remote junior roles are.
We have been giving a vague answer because we did not have a precise one. Now we do, and it is worse than the vague answer implied.
Across the 817 tech companies currently hiring in our set, there are 70 open junior roles that are fully remote. Thirty-five of them belong to Binance.
So realistically: 35 roles, spread across 24 companies, for the entire rest of the market.
How the ladder is shaped
Start with the whole board. We track 1,121 companies, 817 have something open, and between them that is 9,247 distinct roles.
| Level | Open roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 5,565 | 60% |
| Mid | 3,291 | 36% |
| Junior | 387 | 4.2% |
Four percent. That is the bottom rung. Our June post put it at 4.6%.
We are not going to make a trend claim off two data points two months apart while our company coverage is still growing (the coverage change alone could move it either way). But nothing in the number is encouraging, and it matches what people keep telling us.
Now add remote
Of those 387 junior roles, here is where they physically are:
| Location policy | Junior roles |
|---|---|
| Onsite | 144 |
| Hybrid | 106 |
| Fully remote | 70 |
| Remote, region-restricted | 65 |
We sat down to write the obvious paragraph here. The one about how companies will hire a staff engineer in another timezone but want the person who needs a mentor within arm's reach, so juniors get squeezed out of remote specifically.
Then we checked it, and it is not true.
| Level | Fully remote |
|---|---|
| Junior | 18.2% |
| Mid | 13.8% |
| Senior | 13.8% |
Junior roles are the most likely to be fully remote, by four points. And the share of junior roles attached to an office (65%) is within a couple of points of the market as a whole (63%).
So there is no remote penalty on junior roles. We were wrong about the mechanism before we started, and we would have published it if we had trusted the first cut of the data. (The first cut said the opposite. It was skewed by a single company posting one remote role across 221 locations, which is a story we told last week and then promptly fell for again.)
What this means is more depressing, not less. Juniors are not being excluded from remote work. They are being excluded from the market, at every location policy simultaneously, and the remote number is small for the boring reason that 4.2% of a board is a small number no matter how you slice it.
Who is actually hiring
The 70 remote junior roles, by company:
Binance: 35
Canonical: 5
JustMarkets: 2
One role each at Supabase, Spotify, Mapbox, Nebius, Hightouch, Blockstream, AlphaSense, Abnormal AI, Primer, Growe, Colonist, Joko, Adaption, Wordfence, Nivoda, Opencraft, Employment Hero, Xapo Bank
That is the whole list. Not a top slice, not the highlights. Every fully remote junior role we can see, at every company we track.
A pattern worth noticing: Canonical shows up here for the same reason it shows up in most of our remote analyses. It has been distributed since long before that was a stance, and it hires across levels rather than only at the top. Open-source-native companies are overrepresented on this list generally, which is probably about how they already work in public.
If you widen to include region-restricted remote (a role you can do from home, as long as home is in an approved country), you get another 65 roles. That is a real option and worth including in your search, as long as you read the restriction before you get attached.
The other thing that happens to junior roles
While we were in here we checked who publishes a salary band.
| Level | Roles disclosing pay |
|---|---|
| Senior | 54.5% |
| Mid | 51.4% |
| Junior | 33.5% |
Junior roles are the least likely to tell you what they pay. Two thirds of them make you ask.
That is exactly backwards from where the information is most needed. A senior engineer has a market rate in their head, a network to check it against, and the standing to walk. Someone taking their first or second job has none of that, and is the person most likely to accept a number because it was the number they were given.
When junior roles do disclose, the average band runs about $110k to $149k. Treat that with real caution: it is only 129 postings, and disclosure clusters in jurisdictions that legally require it, which are also the expensive ones. That figure is what transparent employers in high-cost markets pay. It is not a global junior salary and you should not walk into a negotiation in another country holding it.
What to actually do
Widen past fully remote. The 65 region-restricted roles roughly double your list, and hybrid at 106 roles is not nothing if you can reach an office at all.
Star companies, not postings. With 387 junior roles across 817 companies, most companies you would want are not hiring a junior today. Some will be in two months. Watching a shortlist of the right employers beats refreshing a search that returns the same 70 rows, and it is the exact reason we built starring the way we did: star a company and you get everything it has open now, plus whatever it opens next.
Take the open-source route seriously. The companies on that list skew heavily toward places where the work happens in public. Contributing is the one form of evidence that works when you have no track record, and it happens to be pointed at the employers most willing to hire remotely at your level.
Ask about pay in the first conversation. Two thirds of these roles will not have told you. Someone has to raise it and it is going to be you.
What we cannot see
Seniority is inferred from the job post, not declared in a standard field. A role that says "2+ years" and one that says "early career" both land in junior; a role that describes itself vaguely may land in mid when a human would call it junior. So 387 is our reading of 9,247 postings, and the true junior count is probably somewhat higher than we show.
Internships and new-grad programmes mostly do not appear at all. They tend to run on separate university-recruiting pages that are not the main careers feed, so if you are a student, this post is undercounting your world specifically.
And we only see companies we track. There are 1,121 of them, weighted toward product companies with real engineering orgs. Agencies, consultancies and the local market in most cities are not in here, and those are places juniors genuinely do get hired.
So read this as "the remote junior market at recognisable product companies", which is narrower than "the junior market" and is also, for what it is worth, the market most people asking us the question are aiming at.
If you are hiring juniors remotely and we have missed you, we would genuinely like to fix that, and it is a short list so one addition moves it. Tell us on Discord. And if you are the person two years in reading this and finding it bleak, the 65 restricted roles are the part we would go look at first. You can connect an agent and have it filter them against wherever you are actually allowed to work.
