Best Companies by City for Software Engineers in Europe

WIP collection, add a comment if anything is missing.

The criteria used for selecting companies in this list include factors that most devs out there find attractive, such as:

• Compensation

• Size of office in the city and amount of job openings

• Quality of work being done there

• Company brand

• Career progression opportunities

• How engineers are treated in the company (is it a cost center, first-class citizens etc) and so on.

Basically, it includes some classic big tech companies, High-frequency trading firms and high-paying scale-ups.

In some cases, for locations that are attractive, some ‘lower quality’ companies are included. For example, for Zurich, I include also UBS, Swisscom or GetYourGuide which aren’t at FAANG level, but still easily pay 6 figures salaries and have many openings. Similar thing for Samsung in Warsaw.

I try to keep the list up-to-date, but since it’s not easy to track everything that happens in all these companies and offices, it might not always be 100% accurate.

If you know better and want to help keeping this list high-quality, let me know in the comments or by email and I’ll make sure to update it!

Also, if you want to have a weekly updated list of 4000+ top-paying dev jobs in Europe, in addition to a growing list of high-paying fully-remote companies, you might be interested in EuroTopTechJobs.com: it’s my private job board, and you get access to it as a paid sub of this newsletter (in addition to useful content and guides like this one on building a top CV).

Here’s the list:

• ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

  • Google, Facebook, Snap, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Snyk, GetYourGuide, UBS, Swisscom, DFINITY, Cisco, Expedia (Geneve).

• LONDON, ENGLAND

  • Google, Facebook, Snap, Jane Street, Stripe, Coinbase, Apple, Amazon, Hudson River Trading, Citadel, ByteDance, Two Sigma, Palantir, Bloomberg, Revolut, GSA Capital, Marshall Wace, Quadrature, Five Rings, G-Research, Starling, Personio, DeepMind, DRW, Millenium, BlackRock, MAN Group, Jump Trading, DE Shaw, AQR, Maven Securities, Twitter, Point72, IMC, Optiver, Susquehanna (SIG), XTX, Old Mission, Squarepoint, Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), Yelp.

• AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

  • Uber, Databricks, Bitvavo, Booking, Miro, Flexport, Atlassian, Spotify, Optiver, IMC, Amazon, Adyen, Google, Stripe, Flow Traders, MessageBird, Reddit, Box, JetBrains, Personio, Elastic, GitHub, Catawiki, Tower Research, Radix Trading, Headlands Technologies, DRW.

• PARIS, FRANCE

  • Google, Meta, Datadog, Criteo, Microsoft, Stripe, Airbnb, Amazon, Atlassian, Hubspot, Workday, Ankorstore, Red Hat, Algolia, Alan, 360Learning, ContentSquare, Snap.

• BERLIN, GERMANY

  • AWS, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, HubSpot, Stripe, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Personio, Databricks, JetBrains, Wolt.

• DUBLIN, IRELAND

  • AWS, Microsoft, Google, Mastercard, Workday, Salesforce, Meta, Stripe, VMware, LinkedIn, Etsy, Personio, ByteDance, Coinbase, Hubspot, Oracle.

• MUNICH, GERMANY

  • Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Adobe, Workday, Celonis, BMW, Salesforce, SIXT, SAP, Huawei, Personio, Intel, JetBrains, IBM, Amazon.

• WARSAW, POLAND

  • Google, Snowflake, Asana, Netflix, Pinterest, Rippling, Oracle, Waymo, AMD, Samsung, NVIDIA, Box, Warner Bros, Visa, Amazon, Bolt, Samsara.

• BARCELONA, SPAIN

  • Amazon, Apple, New Relic, Stripe, Rippling, Revolut, Skyscanner, Microsoft, N26, Criteo, Adobe, Thoughtworks, Oracle, Glovo, Personio, MongoDB.

• CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

  • Apple, Amazon, Roku, Arm, Microsoft, Qualcomm, MathWorks, AMD, Nutanix.

• EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND

  • Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Flutter, Unity, Skyscanner, Huawei.

• BELGRADE, SERBIA

  • Databricks, Microsoft, Nutanix, Rivian, Foursquare, Yandex, JetBrains, Nordeus, Luxoft.

• MADRID, SPAIN

  • Amazon, Datadog, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Personio, Twilio, Glovo, VMware, Meta, Oracle, Revolut.

• STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

  • Klarna, Spotify, Netlight, PayPal, Ericsson, Ubisoft, Warner Bros, King, Google, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Wolt.

• KRAKOW, POLAND

  • Google, Rippling, Oracle, Revolut, Uber, Amazon, Deliveroo, IBM, Splunk.

• BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

  • Crowdstrike, UI Path, Google, Adobe, Stripe, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Amazon, Bolt , Booking, Revolut.

• COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

  • Microsoft, Maersk, Zendesk, Workday, Unity.

• PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Productboard, Pure Storage, Apple, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft, JetBrains, Proton, Parrot.

• TALLINN, ESTONIA

  • Bolt, Wise, Microsoft, Twilio, Wolt.

• OSLO, NORWAY

  • Microsoft, Cisco, Aker Solutions, Arm, Mastercard, Meta, Kahoot, Autostore, Remarkable, Netlight.

• SOFIA, BULGARIA

  • VMWare, Docker, IBM.

• LUXEMBURG, LUXEMBURG

  • Amazon.

• AARHUS, DENMARK

  • Google, Uber, Databricks, Microsoft/GitHub, CrowdStrike, Chainalysis, Roku.

• MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

  • Booking, Roku, IBM, Arm.

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Last updated: 29/08/2024

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