Updated July 25, 2026

37 open positions

Independent Work Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 37+ independent work jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and 4-day weeks—full pay and a better work-life balance. 10 new this week. Hiring companies include United Launch Alliance, Galt Pharmaceuticals, and AWIN.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Full Stack Engineer

23d

Wheelhouse

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher

3mo

Technergetics

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$75k – $150k

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Systems Engineer

3mo

Technergetics

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$75k – $150k

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

18d

ReversingLabs

RemoteUK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

25d

ReversingLabs

RemoteIreland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

IT System Administrator

indasys IT Systemhaus Gruppe

HybridStuttgart +3 more

73 · Great4 day week100% pay

Principal System Analyst

Parsons Corporation

HybridHuntsville, USA

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Maintenance Technician

25hours Hotels

OnsiteParis, France

69 · Good4 day week100% pay

Life Cycle Material Manager (LCMM) Customer Support

L3Harris Technologies

OnsiteGatineau, Canada

63 · Good9 day fortnight$57k – $107k

Electrical Assembler

13h

General Atomics

OnsitePoway, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Pharmacy Intern in Medical & Scientific Affairs / Regulatory Classics & Compliance

Sanofi

HybridBerlin, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Collections Agent

15d

AWIN

HybridIași, Romania

85 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Credit Controller

1mo

AWIN

HybridIași, Romania

85 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Logistician

OnsiteAnnapolis Junction, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight$84k – $146k

Expert Scientific Writer

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Warehouse Associate

24d

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Warehouse Associate

27d

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Warehouse Associate – Pharmaceutical Operations

1mo

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Electronics Assembler

General Atomics

OnsitePoway, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Electrician

Amgen

HybridThousand Oaks, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Regional Account Manager

CARFAX

HybridSeattle, USA

67 · Good4 day week during Summer$58k – $111k

Growth Data Analyst

Polymarket

OnsiteNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Android Developer - POS & Hardware Integrations

Ventrata

HybridBrno, Czechia

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Building Assistant

12d

Stanley Consultants

OnsiteMuscatine, USA

65 · Good9 day fortnight

Access Control Officer

15d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

System Safety Engineer 3

11d

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

System Safety Engineer 2

14d

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

System Safety Engineer 2

14d

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Postdoctoral Research Associate - LEGEND

2mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Systems Administrator

2mo

VulnCheck

HybridBaltimore, USA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Frontend Engineer, Observability

24d

Postman

HybridSan Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k

Associate HR Shared Services

22d

MongoDB

HybridGurugram, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior IT Network Engineer

1mo

Arista Networks

OnsiteChennai, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Support Engineer

1mo

Tanium

HybridNagoya +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Associate Technical Support Engineer

1mo

Tanium

HybridNagoya +2 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Intern, AI Engineering

1mo

Workato

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Independent Work on this page include United Launch Alliance, Galt Pharmaceuticals, and AWIN. Independent Work roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Independent Work is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Independent Work roles span the full seniority range — we list 37 open roles requiring Independent Work across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Independent Work hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Independent Work roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Independent Work candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Independent Work on current listings.