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Tailwind Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 23+ tailwind jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 8 new this week. Hiring companies include Toast, Uplift, and Seeq.

Schedules on this page

4-day weeks 3
9-day fortnights 1
flexible hours 1
unlimited PTO 6
best places to work 12

Updated September 12, 2026

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Full-Stack Software Engineer

4mo

Uplift · Remote · USA

83 · Great4 Day Work Week

Full-Stack Software Engineer

4mo

Uplift · Remote · USA

83 · Great4 Day Work Week

Principal Software Engineer, International Integrations

Toast · Remote · Canada

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$169k – $270k

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Product Engineer

SafetyWing · Remote · Worldwide

65 · GoodFlexible Hours

UX Engineer

3mo

Clover Health · Remote · USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$157k – $205k

Full Stack Software Engineer, Front-End Focus

25d

JumpCloud · Remote · India

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Visual Designer, Web

1mo

Vercel · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$208k – $312k

Full Stack Software Engineer

1mo

Seeq · Remote · Canada

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$230k – $280k

Full Stack Software Engineer

1mo

Seeq · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$170k – $205k

Staff Software Engineer, Android

3mo

Toast · Remote · USA

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$151k – $309k

Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack), Digital Storefront

3mo

Toast · Remote · USA

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$125k – $254k

Middleweight Front-End Web Developer

2mo

FLOCC · Hybrid · Norwich, UK

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week£28k – £32k

Senior Frontend Engineer, Conversational & Gen UI

Farther · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Frontend Developer

3mo

Music Vine · Hybrid · Leeds, UK

74 · Great9 Day Fortnight£40k – £45k

Software Engineer, Frontend

2mo

Sierra · Onsite · San Francisco, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$230k – $290k

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Team Web

3mo

Fin · Hybrid · Dublin or London

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer

NEW

Toast · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

58 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Principal Software Engineer, IQ Grow

NEW

Toast · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

58 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

Software Engineer I, IQ Grow

Toast · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Software Engineer II, IQ Grow

Toast · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Tailwind on this page include Toast, Uplift, and Seeq. Tailwind 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 Tailwind is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Tailwind roles span the full seniority range — we list 23 open roles requiring Tailwind 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 — Tailwind 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. Tailwind 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 Tailwind 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 Tailwind on current listings.