Tech Job Portals

The default professional network with 1B+ users. Free job search; Premium ($30/mo) unlocks Featured Applicant and InMail. For CTOs, the signal-to-noise ratio is low, but network effects make it unavoidable.

Largest job aggregator by raw volume. Free for candidates, pay-per-click for employers. Breadth is unmatched but tech-leadership signal is diluted by sheer volume.

Company reviews and salary data paired with job listings. Owned by the Indeed parent (Recruit Holdings). Useful for employer-brand research before applying.

Algorithmic job distribution across 100+ boards. Strong for SMB hiring. Free for candidates. Not where CTOs look, but employers may reach you through its distribution network.

Legacy job board that pioneered online hiring in the 1990s. Still trafficked but largely surpassed by Indeed and LinkedIn for tech roles.

Another legacy player, largely surpassed. Still has employer-side tools but irrelevant for senior tech hiring. Mentioned for completeness.

Veteran tech job board with strong defense and government contractor presence. Leans enterprise and established tech. The oldest surviving tech-specific board.

Strong employer branding with city-specific hubs (Built In NYC, Chicago, Austin, etc.). Companies invest in content profiles. Attracts engaged mid-level tech talent.

Inverse-model board where companies apply to candidates. Technical-screen-first approach filters by skill, not resume keywords. Strong in the UK market.

Curated marketplace that only accepts top candidates and vetted startups. Weekly batches of introductions. Strong in NYC and SF startup ecosystems.

Premium freelance network claiming to accept only the top 3% of applicants. Strong for contract-to-hire and fractional technical leadership. Expensive but consistent quality.

Curated remote engineering talent marketplace. Strong LATAM and EU developer pools. Vets candidates through HackerRank-style assessments before listing.

AI-powered vetting of remote engineers, primarily from India and LATAM, matched to US employers. Claims 3M+ developer network. Growing fast in the remote-staffing space.

Started training African engineers, now a global remote talent marketplace. Long-form contract placements with quality guarantees. Increasingly LATAM-focused.

Pieter Levels project. Pay-to-post model ($299+) keeps listing quality high. One of the highest-traffic remote-only boards. Transparent salary data.

Older and more enterprise-friendly than RemoteOK. Founded by the Basecamp team. Pay-to-post keeps quality consistent. Strong in established remote-first companies.

Hand-curated daily digest of remote jobs. Smaller but higher-signal than aggregators. Good newsletter format for passive monitoring.

Remote-only job board with free and paid posting tiers. Clean interface with good category filtering. Smaller but growing.

Community-driven remote job board with a strong weekly newsletter. Runs a Slack community of 30k+ remote workers. Good for staying in the loop on remote-first companies.

Owned by FlexJobs. Combines educational content about remote work with curated listings. Better as a research resource than a primary job board.

Paid candidate subscription ($10-25/mo) with hand-screened listings. Every job is vetted for legitimacy. Premium feel, but the subscription model limits the candidate pool for employers.

Curated remote job board. Smaller volume but each listing is reviewed before publishing. Clean, no-nonsense interface.

Aggregator-style remote board with a large index. Less curated than Remotive or Jobspresso but broader coverage.

Monthly thread on the 1st of each month. Highest-signal source for YC and post-YC startups. Not a permanent site -- you need to catch the thread. If you are hiring for a technical team, post here.

Formerly AngelList Talent. Houses the YC "Work at a Startup" listings. Equity-transparent job posts. The default board for startup hiring, from seed to Series C.

Y Combinator's official job portal. Only vetted YC companies can post. One application reaches all participating YC startups. If you want to join a YC company, start here.

Self-post format on Reddit. Lower signal than HN but free and surprisingly active. Best for freelance and contract work. Not where CTOs hire, but where indie devs find gigs.

Tag "job" on Lobste.rs. Invitation-only community, so the audience is smaller but higher-quality than HN. Strong systems programming and infrastructure bias.

Largest pure-play AI jobs board. Strong in the research community. If you are hiring ML engineers, research scientists, or AI product managers, this is the specialist board to post on.

Smaller, focused board for ML and applied research roles. Less volume than ai-jobs.net but tighter community. Good for niche ML positions.

Climate-tech jobs board with strong AI-for-climate cross-listings. If you are building at the intersection of AI and sustainability, this is where the mission-driven talent is.

MLOps-focused job listings from the company behind Metaflow. Small but growing, with a community of ML infrastructure engineers. Niche within a niche.

Paid candidate model (20-60 EUR/mo) focused on 80k+ EUR roles. Think "StepStone for executives." Strong in the DACH market for director and C-level positions.

Focused on $100K+ roles across all functions. Paid candidate subscription. The original "executive job board" in the US. Less tech-specific than Dice but higher seniority.

Sub-rosa executive opportunities shared through a vetted network. Members share roles they hear about. The "whisper network" for exec jobs, formalized. Network-vetted access.

Fractional CXO and interim leadership marketplace. Network-driven matching for board seats, advisory roles, and interim executive positions. Built by Matt Blumberg (Bolster CEO, Return Path founder).

Candidate-side platform of the AESC (Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants). Direct overlap with the retained-search cluster. Paid membership gives visibility to AESC member firms.

DACH market leader by volume. Owned by Axel Springer. The Indeed of the German-speaking world. Every German employer posts here. Strong salary transparency features.

The DACH LinkedIn. Strong network signal in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Less international than LinkedIn but deeper in the German-speaking market. Part of NEW WORK SE.

Visual employer profiles with immersive company pages. The strongest tech job board in France, now expanding across Europe and the US. Acquired Otta in 2024.

French executive and management (cadre) job portal. Government-affiliated. Mandatory for French employers above a certain size. The default for cadre-level hiring in France.

Swiss job market leader, especially in the Romandie (French-speaking Switzerland). Part of the Ringier/JobCloud ecosystem alongside jobs.ch.

The other Swiss job market leader, stronger in the German-speaking part. Together with Jobup.ch covers the entire Swiss market. Part of JobCloud.

Spanish and Iberian market leader. InfoJobs Brasil is also strong. Owned by Adevinta (Schibsted). The default job board for Spanish-speaking markets.

Tech-only, DACH-focused board where companies apply to developers. Acquired by NEW WORK SE (XING parent). Inverse application model similar to HackaJob.

Tech-focused board growing from LATAM into Spain. Strong in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Good for hiring remote LATAM engineers with European timezone overlap.

Spanish IT specialist job board. Smaller than InfoJobs but more tech-focused. Good for hiring developers and IT professionals in Spain specifically.

ANZ market leader. Dominant in Australia and New Zealand. Owns JobStreet (SEA). If you are hiring in Australia, you post on Seek. There is no alternative at scale.

Southeast Asian market leader. Dominant in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines. Owned by Seek. The default for SEA hiring across all functions.

Indian market leader by a wide margin. Owned by Info Edge. If you are hiring engineers in India -- onshore or remote -- Naukri is where the talent is. 100M+ registered users.

MENA market leader. Dominant in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. 40M+ registered users. The default for hiring across the Middle East and North Africa.

Brazilian market leader. Paid candidate model. Owned by Seek. If you are hiring in Brazil, Catho and InfoJobs Brasil are the two boards to cover.