What Is a Remote Technical and How to Become One

By ZipRecruiter Marketplace Research Team

Remote technical jobs are found in both technical support and IT as well as programming and software development. Common titles include remote computer programmer, software developer, and IT support engineer. As a virtual computer programmer, your responsibilities include writing programs using various computer languages, testing and debugging programs, using code libraries, and expanding and updating an existing program. As a software developer, your duties are to produce efficient and clean code, troubleshoot, upgrade, and debug existing software, and create technical documentation for reporting and reference. As an IT support engineer, you find solutions for hardware and software problems, track computer system problems, help customers to understand any issues they experience, and properly log all cases.

The qualifications to get a remote technical job vary but typically include a bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, computer engineering, or a related field. To be a remote computer programmer, you also need strong skills in several computer languages, such as Java and C++, and you may want to pursue certification in these languages. To be a remote software developer, you also need to have experience with different coding languages and knowledge of Git, AngularJS, and other frameworks. To be a remote IT support engineer, you need excellent communication and troubleshooting skills and experience with remote help desk software as well as Linux, Mac OS, and Windows environments.