Help & FAQ
Questions, answered.
Everything you might want to know about finding remote work, and posting it, on Forcepull.
The basics
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What kind of jobs are on Forcepull?
Forcepull is a remote-only job board for tech. Engineering, design, product, infrastructure, data, security, and adjacent roles. Every listing is fully remote with a published salary. We don't accept hybrid, "remote-friendly", or on-site roles. Region-constrained remote (for example, EU-only or US time zones) is fine. An occasional in-person team gathering is fine.
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Why remote only?
Two rules are the whole promise of the board: every listing fully remote, every listing with a published salary. Mixing in office or hybrid roles would dilute that promise. People who want remote work shouldn't have to filter out office listings, and on-site roles get more traction on boards built for them. We picked a side and stuck with it.
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Why not hybrid?
Hybrid is location-coupled. If a role requires anyone to be in an office on any regular basis (one day a week or a few days a month), it becomes a local job for that city. A candidate two countries away can't take it without relocating, so it isn't really remote. Annual or twice-a-year team gatherings are fine; recurring required in-office time is not.
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What about office-required roles?
Nothing against them. Plenty of great companies have offices and prefer that setup. But office-required hiring is well served by other boards, and Forcepull is the place for people who want fully remote work. We're pro-remote, not anti-office.
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Do you accept non-tech roles?
No. We're focused on tech. That keeps the board useful for the people browsing it. If you're hiring for a non-tech role, there are better places for your listing.
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How do you make money?
Not by charging to post. Nine months of a listing fee sold nothing, and posting is closed now: the board is curated, so a listing is chosen rather than bought. The board is currently self-funded. When advertising returns it will be labelled and never a job, and it will not change the order of the jobs.
How listings get here
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Can we pay to have our job listed?
No, and there is no price at which you could. Every listing is chosen by us. A list you can buy your way onto stops being a recommendation, so we would rather carry fewer jobs and have the board mean something. See how this is paid for.
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How does a role end up on the board?
We find it, usually from a company's own careers page or the board they already run, and check it by hand against the same three rules every time: fully remote, a real published salary, and an apply link on the employer's own site.
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We are hiring. Can we tell you about a role?
Yes. Send us the link to the role on your own careers site and it goes into a queue we read. We cannot promise a reply or a listing, and most suggestions will not become one, but nothing is published without somebody here choosing it.
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Something on our listing is wrong, or the role is filled.
Email us. If the role is filled we will close it (the page stays up, marked closed). If a fact is wrong (salary, location, the apply link) we will correct it. If you want the listing taken down, we will.
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Do you offer premium placement or sponsored job postings?
No. Every job listing gets the same treatment. No paying extra to jump the queue, no "featured" spots for companies with deeper pockets. When we sell advertising it will be labelled and never a job, and it will not move yours.
Getting started
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How do I get a job in front of you?
Send us the link to the role on your own careers site. There is no account to create and nothing to pay: Forcepull does not take posts, it takes suggestions, and we publish what we choose.
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How do tags work?
We tag each listing with the relevant skills (Ruby, Python, Rails, Design, ...). Tags help candidates understand the role quickly and make a listing easier to scan.
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How long do listings stay active?
There is no expiration date. If you know a role is filled, tell us and we will close it, which removes it from the open listings. The page itself stays up, clearly marked as closed, so links to it keep working.
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Something on our listing is out of date. Can it be changed?
Yes. Email us the facts that changed (salary, location, the apply link), or to take the listing down.
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A role was closed by mistake. Can it be reopened?
Ask us and we will reopen it. It keeps its original publish date, so reopening does not move it up the queue.
For employers
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How do candidates apply?
Candidates apply directly via the application URL on the listing, or by emailing the address you choose to list instead. Either way, we don't act as a middleman or collect applicant data.
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Can several of our roles be listed at once?
There is no limit and no volume-discount trickery, because there is nothing to buy. How many of a company's roles end up here depends on how many of them meet the rules, not on who the company is.
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Do you sell my data?
No. We don't sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers, and we won't email you marketing for "premium" features. We do not currently display advertising. When we do, it will be a labelled placement, not a profile of you, and we will not send advertisers your email, your IP, or anything else that identifies you. The processors we do rely on (email delivery, hosting) are each named in the privacy policy.
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Do you track how my listing performs?
No, and we can't: there is nothing on the page that measures it. We used to count apply clicks and page renders in aggregate, and we removed both, so there are no numbers to give you and no table they could come from. We don't use third-party analytics either. A visit to your listing leaves nothing behind, which means the only performance signal is the one you already have, which is who turns up in your own application inbox.
For job seekers
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Is it free to browse and apply to jobs?
Yes, completely free. You don't need to create an account, upload a CV, or provide any personal information to view listings or apply.
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Do you sell my data or email address?
No. We don't collect job seeker data at all. When you apply to a job, you're applying directly to the employer.
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Do you track me with analytics or cookies?
No. No Google Analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, and nothing first-party either: the apply-click and page-view counters this site once ran are gone. No retargeting ads, no creepy surveillance.
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Do I have to upload my CV?
No. We don't want your CV or your personal details. Click through to the employer's application and apply directly.
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Can I get email alerts for new jobs?
Yes. Subscribe to the jobs digest from the box at the bottom of the jobs page. Double opt-in, and unsubscribing deletes your address entirely.