european-remote-software-companies, a monthly-refreshed hiring list for Europe

A mirror of a directory, not a job board

The repository holds a list of remote-friendly software companies that hire people in Europe, and the README is explicit that it mirrors the directory at europeanremote.com, specifically the teams section. Every company in the list has a page on that site with its tech stack, benefits, work mode and the countries it hires from.

That distinction matters for what you can expect from the data. The README does not describe job postings, application links or salary ranges as the primary payload. It describes a directory of employers and the attributes that make them interesting to a remote candidate, with the site as the richer source and this repository as the structured, versionable form of it.

The scale is stated: the list has 228 companies, and Hiring now marks the 99 of them that had remote roles open to people in Europe when the list was last checked, on 14 October 2026.

For anyone building tooling on top of it, that sentence is the most important line in the README, because it defines the semantics of the flag. A company marked Hiring now was hiring at the check date, not necessarily now, and the flag will lag reality by up to a month in the worst case.

Eight columns, and what each one actually tells you

The table has a fixed schema, and the column set is the design.

Company is the name, hyperlinked to the company page on the site. Headquarters is the country, and the values include a No office entry for companies without a physical base, 37signals and Buffer among them. Domain is the company's sector, and the vocabulary in the visible rows runs from Cybersecurity and Automotive & Mobility through EdTech, HR & Recruitment, Databases & tools, Security, Marketing, AI & Machine Learning, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, LegalTech, IoT & Hardware, DevOps, AI tools, Collaboration, Marketplace, Content management, Design, Social media, FinTech, Logistics, Operating Systems, Developer Tools and Communication.

Work mode has two values in the rows shown, Fully remote and Hybrid remote, and the two are genuinely different for a candidate.

Tech stack is a comma separated list of languages, frameworks and cloud providers, and it is the most useful column for a developer. The visible rows show the range: Golang with React, TypeScript and AWS for 1Password, Python with C, C++ and React for 2hire, Scala and OCaml with C++ and Cloudflare for Ahrefs, PHP and WordPress for Automattic, Elixir and GCP for Cabify, and Python with Django for BillionToOne. The list also shows entries with a very small stack, such as 360Learning with just AWS or Buildkite with AWS alone.

Salary transparency and Global salary are two separate boolean columns, and they are not the same question. Salary transparency records whether the company publishes salary information at all. Global salary records whether the company pays the same regardless of where the person sits. The rows show the two set independently, which is why Buffer has salary transparency but no global salary, and Ahrefs has global salary but no salary transparency.

What the rows say about the European remote market

The visible slice of the table is a small sample, but it is a revealing one, and reading it says something about how remote hiring is organised.

The headquarters column is not a European list. Canada for 1Password, the United States for a large share of the entries including Acante, Anomali, Appfire, Aptus.AI, Angle Health, Aura Company, Baremetrics, BillionToOne, Blip and Block, Singapore for Ahrefs, Australia for Atlassian and Buildkite, the Netherlands for Bird, Germany for AUTO1 Group, Celonis and ChartMogul, the United Kingdom for Aula Education, Bind and Canonical, and France for 360Learning and BeReal. Several companies have no office at all.

That is the point of the list. A remote-friendly company headquartered in the United States or Canada and hiring in Europe is a materially different opportunity from a European startup, and the headquarters column is what lets you tell them apart.

The domain column shows a second pattern. The categories with the most visible entries are the ones where engineering hiring is continuous rather than occasional: Cybersecurity appears repeatedly, as do Databases & tools, Marketing, DevOps, Enterprise Software, AI & Machine Learning, FinTech and Collaboration. And the work mode column shows most entries as hybrid remote rather than fully remote, with fully remote companies the minority in the visible rows, including 1Password, 360Learning, Agile Lab, Altilia, Atlassian, Automattic, Balsamiq, Baremetrics, Bird, Buffer, Buildkite, Canonical, CAST AI and Castellum.ai.

For a candidate, the tech stack column is the one that turns this list into a search: filter for Golang and AWS, or for Python with Django, and you have a set of employers to compare on salary transparency and global salary instead of scrolling a job board.

A monthly check, and a removal policy

The maintenance model is the part that determines how much you can trust the data.

Every company is checked once a month, and companies that shut down or were absorbed into another company are removed. That removal policy is the interesting part of the design, because a directory of employers that only ever grows becomes a list of dead careers pages within a year, and the two cases are distinguished: a company that was acquired is not the same as a company that folded, and in both cases its entry goes away rather than being left to rot.

The monthly cadence also sets a hard expectation on the hiring now flag. A company that closed its role on the fifteenth is still marked as hiring until the next check, and a company that opened one last week is not marked until the check catches it. Any use of the data has to accept a month of staleness, and the README is upfront about that rather than implying the data is live.

For the project's own mechanics, the last push to the main branch was on 2026-10-14, the same date as the check the README describes, so the snapshot and the repository state line up. There are no GitHub releases, so there is no version history to diff against.

Contributing is a pull request or an email

The contribution path is documented in one line, and it offers two doors.

To add a company or correct an entry, you read CONTRIBUTING.md, or you write to [email protected]. The existence of a CONTRIBUTING.md at the root of a repository that contains only .github/, CONTRIBUTING.md and README.md tells you most of what you need to know about the workflow, which is that the source of truth for the list is the site, and the repository is where the structured form of it lives.

The alternative to a pull request is worth knowing about, because it means the list can be corrected without a pull request, and the correction still lands. The email address in the README is a real channel for a project with this shape.

The job alerts are the other subscription. There is a link to subscribe to weekly emails with remote jobs open to people in Europe, and the weekly cadence is separate from the monthly company check, so the two update on different schedules. The list tells you which employers are worth your attention, and the alerts tell you what they are hiring for.

One thing to keep in mind is that the site itself is where the detail lives. Each company page carries the tech stack, the benefits, the work mode and the countries hired from, and the table in the README is a summary of that page rather than a replacement for it.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt this repository if you want a machine-readable snapshot of European remote-friendly software employers with their tech stacks and work modes, because the data is structured rather than prose and is refreshed every month with companies that shut down removed. Do not treat it as a job board, since it is a directory of companies rather than a feed of openings, and the live site plus the weekly job alerts email are where the actual vacancies are. Before you rely on it, read CONTRIBUTING.md to see the entry format, remember that the hiring now flag reflects the state on the last check date rather than the moment you read it, and note that the repository carries no recognisable licence and publishes no tagged releases.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. EuropeanRemote/european-remote-software-companies on GitHub
2. Issues
3. README