This is what I did; I live in central France but work in the UK (fully remote; I fly up once or twice a year normally for social gatherings).
I found the company where I'm not CTO via HN "who's hiring" in 2010.
My colleagues are scattered as well, and I don't know their ages. I haven't even met several of them in person, though we know each others' voices quite well by now!
Note to OP: it's worth posting a bit more about your father's experience; we're only sort-of hiring (and so haven't been posting to the threads on HN) but we're not doing Django or MongoDB... so it's hard to say if we'd be interested. No hard in sending a CV my way, anyway (see profile).
Ditto here. I was going to post the same thing. We Work Remotely is where its at. Also hit up ODesk and post on there for side work until full time work comes to play.
Check out:
https://weworkremotely.com/
http://hnhiring.com/ (search for "remote")
http://remotenation.co/blog/top-5-sites-for-finding-a-remote...