Portugal

Feeny lists about 772 open tech roles in Portugal from 142 companies. Every listing comes straight from a company's own careers page and updates as roles open and close, so you're looking at what's genuinely hiring, not a snapshot from months ago. Portugal's tech market grew fast off the back of the remote-work wave, and the count reflects that momentum. Lisbon does most of the heavy lifting, with Porto and Coimbra adding real weight.

Lisbon dominates, and it's not close. Across 2 listed cities, the capital holds the bulk of the roles after it drew a wave of founders and remote workers who came for low costs and stayed for the quality of life. Porto is the clear second city with a growing engineering base of its own. Coimbra matters out of proportion to its size thanks to Feedzai anchoring an AI-and-fraud cluster there.

The companies that put Portugal on the map are the ones that went global from Lisbon. Talkdesk built a contact-center software business worth billions, and OutSystems turned low-code app development into a global platform. Feedzai runs an AI-and-fraud-detection cluster out of Coimbra that hires deep engineering talent. Around these anchors sit a wide field of SaaS and remote-first product companies drawn by the talent pool and the cost base.

The work skews toward SaaS, backend engineering, and AI, with a strong seam of fraud-and-risk work thanks to Feedzai. Remote-friendly product roles are unusually common here, a direct legacy of the remote-worker wave that reshaped Lisbon. Talkdesk and OutSystems keep demand high for platform and product engineers who can build software sold worldwide. If you want to work on genuinely global products without paying Amsterdam or Berlin rent, this is the trade.

Lisbon became one of Europe's favorite places to be a remote tech worker, and it shows in the mix of nationalities on most teams. The cost of living is lower than the big Northern European hubs, though Lisbon has climbed sharply as demand rose, so the bargain isn't what it was five years ago. The scene is young, international, and English-friendly, with the sun and the sea as a genuine part of the pitch. The honest catch is that local salaries often sit below what the same role pays in London or Berlin.

Portugal is unusually welcoming, which is a big part of why the scene grew so fast. The D8 Digital Nomad visa lets remote workers relocate legally, a dedicated startup visa supports founders, and the EU Blue Card covers skilled non-EU hires with a job offer. EU citizens can move and work freely. Between those routes, Portugal has become one of Europe's most straightforward countries to relocate to as a tech worker.