Updated July 3, 2026

28 open positions

Independent Work Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 28+ independent work jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Galt Pharmaceuticals, Technergetics, and Tanium.

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10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Laravel Developer

Steadfast Collective

RemoteUK

92 · Excellent4 day week100% pay£32k - £40k

Full Stack Engineer

Wheelhouse

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

ReversingLabs

RemoteIreland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Backend Engineer

PostHog

RemoteUK

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher

2mo

Technergetics

RemoteUSA

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

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Systems Engineer

2mo

Technergetics

RemoteUSA

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

Warehouse Associate

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Warehouse Associate

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Student Worker, AI Explorer

15d

PanzerGlass

OnsiteHinnerup, Denmark

87 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Associate HR Shared Services

19h

MongoDB

HybridGurugram, India

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

All-rounder for House and Garden Management

10d

CIB Group

OnsiteSão Brás de Alportel, Portugal

74 · Great4 day week100% pay

Warehouse Associate – Pharmaceutical Operations

1mo

Galt Pharmaceuticals

HybridAtlanta, USA

82 · Great4 day week100% pay

Truck Driver - Class A

General Atomics

OnsitePalmdale, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Research Coordinator 2

University of Washington

HybridSeattle, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Data Operations Associate - Distressed

9fin

HybridBelfast, UK

70 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Building Technician

2mo

25hours Hotels

OnsiteBerlin, Germany

77 · Great4 day week100% pay

Research Associate or Research Fellow in Machine Learning

1mo

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Laboratory/Facilities Technician

11d

OnsiteAlbuquerque, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight

Regional Account Manager

1mo

CARFAX

HybridAustin, USA

67 · Good4 day week during Summer

Social Impact Associate

11d

Experian

HybridNottingham, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Systems Administrator

1mo

VulnCheck

HybridBaltimore, USA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Associate, HR Shared Services

15d

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

Leak Testing Operator

2mo

Applus+

OnsiteKapelle, Netherlands

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO€3,050 - €3,230/mo

Field Services Engineer

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$250k - $290k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Independent Work on this page include Galt Pharmaceuticals, Technergetics, and Tanium. 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 27 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.