AndrewStetsenko/tech-jobs-with-relocation: a curated handbook, not a scraper

What the handbook actually solves, and for whom

The problem is not a shortage of job ads. It is that most job boards treat relocation as an afterthought, so an engineer in Lagos or São Paulo spends evenings opening postings that quietly require existing work authorization. The README frames this directly: once you decide to relocate, the questions arrive in a flood, from how to prepare a resume for foreign employers to where companies open to international hiring are listed and what relocation assistance usually covers. The handbook answers those questions by pointing at articles, tools and boards rather than by hosting the postings itself. The intended reader is a working engineer, primarily in tech, who is willing to move countries and needs to know which boards let you filter for visa sponsorship before you apply. It is not aimed at recruiters, and it is not aimed at people looking for remote-only work, though the README notes that from January 2026 the weekly Substack lists also include remote-from-anywhere roles.

Why the repository is a link collection and not a dataset

The top-level directory holds three entries: LICENSE, README.md and visuals/. There is no scraper, no schema, no scheduled job, no generated data file. That is the whole mechanism. The README is the product, and it is organized into sections: resume preparation, job search reads, niche job boards with a relocation filter, The Global Move newsletter, and other places to check. Each entry is an outbound link with a sentence explaining what to do once you arrive. For Wellfound, the README says to open the Filters tab, find the section named Immigration + Network, and tick the box to only show companies that can sponsor a visa. For Landing.Jobs it says to select the Visa & work permit filter. For SwissDevJobs it names the checkbox for visa sponsorship for non-EU residents. That specificity is the value: a bare list of board names would leave you guessing which toggle matters. The trade-off is equally clear. Nothing here is verified programmatically, so every filter name is a claim about someone else's interface that can go stale without any signal in the repository.

Getting value out of it in the first ten minutes

There is nothing to install. The README does not describe a package, a CLI or a self-hosted service, so the only setup is cloning or reading the file. If you want a local copy to annotate, clone the default branch.

The relocation filter is the part worth copying

Most of the README is advice you could find elsewhere with enough searching. The board-by-board filter instructions are the part that is hard to reconstruct. Relocate.me is described as built around and focused on tech jobs that offer relocation. Wellfound hides visa sponsorship behind the Immigration + Network section of its Filters tab. Landing.Jobs is Portugal-heavy but covers other parts of Europe, and its Visa & work permit filter is the one to select. SwissDevJobs is Switzerland-only, with a checkbox for visa sponsorship for non-EU residents. TokyoDev and Japan Dev cover Japan for English-speaking developers. Arbeitnow lists Europe-based positions with relocation assistance, visa sponsorship and salary information. The pattern to notice is that each board encodes the same concept under a different label, and the README's job is to translate. If you are targeting one country, read that board's paragraph first and ignore the rest; the handbook is a map, not a ranked list.

Where it stops being useful

The README does not document visa eligibility rules, processing times, salary thresholds or country-specific legal requirements, and it does not attempt to. It also does not track whether a listed board still exists or still offers the filter it describes. The most concrete limitation is the paywall: access to the weekly job lists and the full archive is available with a paid subscription, and the README states this plainly. The free repository gives you method; the recurring value sits behind the newsletter. If your constraint is budget rather than time, the repository alone will not hand you a list of openings. A second limitation is scope. The handbook assumes you are already employable in tech and need to relocate; it is the wrong tool if you are switching careers into tech, if you need a job this month with no visa runway, or if your target country's immigration path does not run through employer sponsorship at all.

Compared with a general job board or an aggregator

A general board like LinkedIn is where the README sends you too, but with a different method: add relocation, visa support or visa sponsorship to the keywords field and pick the target city or region, because the filter does not exist as a checkbox. That difference matters. On LinkedIn you are constructing the query yourself and accepting noise; on Relocate.me or SwissDevJobs the sponsorship constraint is a first-class filter, so the result set is smaller and cleaner. The handbook also points at a Hacker News monthly Who is hiring thread, where the README suggests searching offerings with the keyword visa, and at a Telegram channel for daily alerts. Neither is a replacement for a board. The honest comparison is that this repository is an index of indexes: it does not compete with job boards on inventory, it competes on knowing which boards have the toggle you need.

Licence, maintenance and what an upgrade costs you

The repository is licensed CC0-1.0, which places the README text in the public domain to the extent the licence permits; that is a statement about the licence file, not legal advice, and it says nothing about the third-party sites the README links to, each of which has its own terms. There are no releases, so there is no version to pin and no changelog to read. The last push was on 2026-08-31. In practice, upgrading means re-reading README.md and re-checking the filter names it gives, because a renamed checkbox on Wellfound or Landing.Jobs is the only kind of breakage this project can suffer. The cost of staying current is therefore a few minutes of clicking, not a dependency bump.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt it if you are an engineer planning a first move abroad and you want a single starting point for resume advice, relocation-aware job boards and visa-filter tactics; the README lists boards such as Relocate.me, Landing.Jobs and SwissDevJobs with the exact filter to tick on each. Skip it if you expect a scraper, an API or a database of open roles: the repository contains only LICENSE, README.md and visuals/, and the weekly job lists sit behind a paid Substack subscription. Before relying on it, open the README and check that the boards it names still expose the filters it describes, because broken outbound links are the only failure mode this kind of project can have.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. AndrewStetsenko/tech-jobs-with-relocation on GitHub
2. Issues
3. License: CC0-1.0
4. Project website
5. README