Belgium

Feeny is tracking about 331 open tech roles in Belgium from 84 companies. These are live listings pulled straight from company career pages, not a stale aggregate scraped once and left to rot. The count moves as roles fill and new ones post, so the number you see is what's actually hiring today. Belgium's smaller than its neighbors, but its enterprise-software firms punch above the population size.

Brussels is the city we index, and it carries most of the openings across 1 listed location. As the EU's political capital it pulls in institution work, data-governance roles, and the operations teams companies base there to sit at the center of Europe. Ghent is worth knowing too: it's a real SaaS cluster in its own right, home to companies like Odoo, even though Brussels is where most of the indexed listings sit.

The names that anchor Belgian tech are the ones that went global from a small home market. Collibra built a data-governance business used by large enterprises worldwide, and Odoo turned open-source business software into a genuine platform out of Ghent. Around them sit the B2B SaaS firms and the European operations arms of larger companies that use Brussels as a base. The through-line is enterprise software sold to other businesses, not consumer apps.

Expect the work to skew enterprise: backend and platform engineering, data governance, and B2B SaaS product roles. Collibra's whole business is data cataloging and governance, so that specialty runs deeper here than the country's size would suggest. Belgium's central location and EU-institution weight also create a steady demand for the engineers and operations people who keep cross-border software running. It's less startup-lottery, more building software that large organizations actually pay for.

Belgium is multilingual and EU-institution-heavy, which shapes the day-to-day: you'll work across French, Dutch, and English, often on teams that assume all three. Brussels costs less than Amsterdam or Paris but more than most of Central Europe, and the trade is a smaller scene with fewer marquee startups to job-hop between. What you get in return is stability, strong labor protections, and companies that tend to build for the long haul rather than the next raise. It rewards people who like solid engineering over hype.

Yes, and the routes are well-trodden. EU citizens can work in Belgium without a permit at all. Skilled non-EU hires usually come in on the EU Blue Card or a regional single-permit, both aimed at qualified professionals with a job offer. Belgium's international, institution-heavy makeup means employers are generally used to hiring foreigners, so the process is administrative rather than a wall.