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Java Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 1,418+ java jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 210 new this week. Hiring companies include MongoDB, Elastic, and Okta.

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9-day fortnights 34
generous PTO 84
unlimited PTO 305
best places to work 779
generous parental leave 147

Updated August 29, 2026

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Staff AI Engineer - Enterprise Analysis Platform

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13h

Capital One · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro · early access

Distinguished AI Engineer

Capital One · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)Pro-rata pay~$210k· reduced week

Software Engineer

Remesh · Remote · USA

86 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$135k – $170k

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Dev Ops Engineer

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Parsons Corporation · Remote · USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

Dev Ops Engineer

Parsons Corporation · Remote · Virginia, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

Senior Software Developer (Go) - US Payments

15d

Form3 · Remote · Ontario, Canada

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Senior Software Engineer (Go)

18d

Form3 · Remote · UK

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Senior Software Engineer (Go) - AI Resilience & Security Enhancements

1mo

Form3 · Remote · London, UK

92 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Software Engineer, Security Platform

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14h

Coinbase · Remote · India

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO₹4.4MPro · early access

Principal Presales Engineer (German speaker)

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Twilio · Remote · Spain

61 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Senior Software Engineer II

1mo

Signifyd · Remote · USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$170k – $220k

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

2mo

Signifyd · Remote · USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$150k – $190k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

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Elastic · Remote · Romania

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$326k – $516kPro · early access

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

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Elastic · Remote · Poland

62 · GoodBest Place to Workzł 369k – zł 584kPro · early access

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

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Elastic · Remote · Norway

62 · GoodBest Place to WorkNOK 950k – NOK 1.5MPro · early access

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Music Mission

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Spotify · Remote · New York, NY or Boston, MA

64 · GoodGenerous PTO$227k – $325k

Full Stack Engineer - Integrations

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17h

Front · Remote · Argentina

59 · GoodFlex FridaysPro · early access

Staff Software Engineer, Compute Platform (Routing)

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Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$218k – $257k

Software Support Team Lead

Adaptavist · Remote · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

68 · GoodFlexible Hours

Sr Staff AI Engineer

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14h

ServiceNow · Remote · Minneapolis, MN, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$172k – $301kPro · early access

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Employers hiring for Java on this page include MongoDB, Elastic, and Okta. Java 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 Java is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Java roles span the full seniority range — we list 1445 open roles requiring Java 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 — Java 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. Java 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 Java 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 Java on current listings.

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