Remote software engineering jobs
Engineering is the largest remote hiring category on RemoteWork. Most of these roles are at venture-backed companies that already run distributed teams, which is what makes them realistic to land from Lagos, Nairobi or anywhere else outside the company's home market.
Each listing is screened for its hiring region first. A role that says "Remote (US)" or "Remote, EU only" is not a remote job for someone in Africa, so those are either removed or labeled before you spend an evening on a take-home.
Right now there are 186 live roles from 87 companies, 109 of them labeled Worldwide or Open from Nigeria.
186 live roles, newest posted 12 November 2026
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How to actually get hired from Nigeria
Most remote applications go into a pile nobody reads. Before you apply, you can check two things a listing rarely tells you: whether you can really do this job from Nigeria, and who at the company to reach directly.
Job report · ₦1,500
Is the role still open, and open from Nigeria? How you would be engaged and paid, the working hours in Lagos time, and whether the company looks legitimate. Anything we cannot verify is marked “not found”, never guessed.
Direct outreach pack · ₦6,000
Everything in the report, plus who to contact at the company and a specific message written from your CV for that job, so you reach a hiring contact instead of applying into a pile. If we cannot find a contact, we say so.
Reports are bought per role, from that role’s own page. The Nigeria label and the Lagos hours on every card stay free.
Also hiring in Nigeria · 77
Not remote: software engineering roles at 44 companies with offices or sites in Nigeria, hybrid or every day. Each says which when the employer does.
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Opens the chat with a ready-made prompt. Paste your CV and it picks the software engineering roles here that fit you, with the links.
What engineering employers screen for
Distributed engineering teams hire on evidence they can check without meeting you. Almost all of the first screen comes down to whether your work is visible and whether you are easy to work with across a timezone gap.
Code they can actually read
One repository you can talk through beats ten abandoned ones. A README that says what the project does, why you built it and what you would change is worth more than the commit count.
The take-home is the interview
Most of these companies replace a whiteboard round with a timeboxed task. Tests, a clear commit history and a short note on your trade-offs are usually what separate the shortlist from the pile.
Written communication
A distributed team reads you far more than it hears you. Expect to be judged on a pull-request description or a design note; being clear in writing is treated as an engineering skill, not a soft one.
Overlap hours, stated plainly
WAT (UTC+1) covers the whole European day and the US morning. Say the window you can commit to rather than claiming full flexibility, because a vague answer reads as a risk.
How you would be engaged
Most global companies hire in Nigeria as a contractor or through an employer-of-record such as Deel or Remote. Knowing which one a company uses, and that it is normal, keeps the money conversation short.
Engineering roles draw the largest applicant pools on this site, so reaching a human matters more here than anywhere else. The outreach pack names who to contact for a specific role and drafts the message from your CV. See how the outreach pack works
Questions, answered.
Can Nigerian developers get remote jobs at foreign companies?
Yes, and many do. The practical filter is the hiring region: roles marked Worldwide or naming EMEA, Africa or Nigeria are genuinely open. Companies usually pay through an employer-of-record or as a contractor arrangement.
Which engineering roles are easiest to get remotely?
Backend, full-stack and mobile roles at companies that already have engineers in several countries. Reading the company's research report on RemoteWork shows whether they hire in Africa and who to contact.
How are these jobs checked?
Every listing is read for its location requirements when it is collected. Roles restricted to regions that exclude Nigeria are removed; ambiguous ones stay but are labeled Check listing.