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Technical Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 64+ technical design jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 18 new this week. Hiring companies include Version 1, Okta, and Smith + Andersen.

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9-day fortnights 4
generous PTO 2
unlimited PTO 9
best places to work 19
generous parental leave 3

Updated August 24, 2026

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Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)

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Affirm · Remote · Canada

61 · GoodBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Staff Product Engineer

Ashby · Remote · Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$256k – $380k

Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Ashby · Remote · UK

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO£114k – £149k

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Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineering

Ashby · Remote · UK

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO£151k – £246k

Senior Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering (Agent Core Products)

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$195k – $220k

Data Engineer II

Splice · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$95k – $119k

Solution Development Architect: Presales, AI/GPU Infrastructure

10d

Myriad360 · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO$160k – $180k

Lead Technical Designer

10d

Sumo Digital · Remote · India

60 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Metadata

10d

Fivetran · Remote · Ontario, Canada

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$140k – $168k

Senior Software Engineer - Metadata

10d

Fivetran · Remote · Ontario, Canada

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$140k – $168k

Solution Consultant- Policy Center

11d

Guidewire · Remote · USA

58 · GoodBest Place to Work$138k

Senior Data Science Engineer I, Claims

1mo

Turquoise Health · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$170k – $190k

Technical Product Owner - Core Services

1mo

DoiT · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Enterprise Engineer - Salesforce Platform (EAA - STP)

1mo

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$187k – $197k

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Repayment UX)

1mo

Affirm · Remote · Spain

61 · GoodBest Place to Work€86k – €122k

Systems Engineer – SD-WAN & SD-Branch

12d

Arista Networks · Remote · Orlando, FL, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Endpoint Services Portal

2mo

Huntress · Remote · USA

60 · GoodBest Place to Work$160k – $190k

Staff Product Designer (PST)

3mo

Deepgram · Remote · San Francisco, CA, USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$180k – $240k

Software Engineer, Web Tools

2mo

Waabi · Remote · Canada or USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$141k – $249k

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

1mo

Built Technologies · Remote · USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$170k – $245k

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Employers hiring for Technical Design on this page include Version 1, Okta, and Smith + Andersen. Technical Design 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 Technical Design is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Technical Design roles span the full seniority range — we list 39 open roles requiring Technical Design 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 — Technical Design 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. Technical Design 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 Technical Design 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 Technical Design on current listings.

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