14 Fully-Remote Software Engineer Companies Paying $100k+ in 2026 (Live Job Data)

Most "best remote-first companies" lists are static, year-stamped, and break the moment a company shifts policy. This one is different: it's anchored to the Remote Goats jobs index, which tracks 17,000+ remote roles in real time. The 14 companies below were picked because they meet four criteria that matter:

• Truly fully-remote — not "remote-friendly", not hybrid-with-remote-option
• Compensate at $100k+ for senior software engineers (often well beyond)
• Have live open roles right now in the Remote Goats index
• Hire globally — not gated to one country

As of mid-May 2026, these 14 companies have 893 live remote roles between them, including 244 explicitly engineering / developer titles. That's a useful baseline of where to send applications if your strategy is "earn a Western salary while living anywhere."

Quick comparison

#	Company	Live remote roles	Eng / dev roles	Top hiring regions
1	AssemblyAI	10	8	United States, Australia
2	RevenueCat	33	14	Brazil, United States, Canada
3	Customer.io	26	11	United States, Canada, Mexico
4	DuckDuckGo	9	7	United States, United Kingdom
5	Metabase	21	9	United States, Canada
6	Maze	10	—	United States, Canada
7	Kalepa	36	19	United States, Poland
8	Kong	109	58	Italy, India, United States
9	Quora	7	5	Canada, United States, Ireland
10	Deel	403	59	Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Germany
11	Circle	129	18	United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
12	Assured	37	18	United States
13	Qualio	21	6	North America, Europe, Australia
14	Form3	4	3	Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

(Counts are a snapshot from May 2026; hit /jobs for current live numbers.)

Selection criteria

A "fully-remote, $100k+, globally-hiring" filter is narrower than most listicles imply. To make this list, a company had to:

• Have an explicit fully-remote engineering policy (not just "remote OK for some roles")
• Publicly compensate senior engineers in the $100k+ band (most pay $130k–$300k+ at senior level, with several running well past that for staff and principal roles)
• Currently have at least one live open role in the Remote Goats jobs index
• Hire in at least 2 countries / regions, with no geographic gate inside one country

This excludes a lot of "remote-first US-only" employers (which pay great but cap your geo flexibility) and "fully-remote-but-only-pays-50k" employers (which are everywhere). The intersection of "really remote" + "pays Western rates" is smaller than the listicles suggest.

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The 14 companies

AssemblyAI

Live remote roles: 10 (8 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, Australia

AssemblyAI builds speech-to-text and audio-intelligence AI APIs used by developers integrating voice features. They're one of the cleanest examples of a small, fully-remote, deeply-technical engineering org — the kind of place where individual engineers own meaningful systems and ship daily. Recent open titles include Forward Deployed Engineer and Research Engineer (Evaluations), so they're hiring across both customer-facing and core ML.

Best for: Mid-to-senior engineers who want to work on real ML / AI infrastructure (not just "we use OpenAI's API"), and don't need a huge team around them.

RevenueCat

Live remote roles: 33 (14 engineering / dev) — Top regions: Brazil, United States, Canada

RevenueCat handles subscription infrastructure for mobile apps — the iOS / Android / web subscription plumbing nobody wants to write themselves. They've been fully-remote since launch, with engineers concentrated in the Americas time zones (notably a strong Brazilian presence). 27 of 33 open roles are senior-level, so this is a senior engineer's market at RevenueCat right now, not an entry point.

Best for: Senior mobile / backend engineers in Americas time zones. Latin America base + US salary is a textbook geo-arbitrage setup here.

Customer.io

Live remote roles: 26 (11 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, Canada, Mexico

Customer.io is a mature messaging / marketing-automation platform — think email + push + in-app for product teams. They've been fully-distributed for over a decade and are one of the OG remote-first companies. Engineering openings span senior backend, SRE, email-channel platform, with a small principal-engineer surface for staff-level engineers wanting more scope.

Best for: Backend / platform / SRE engineers who want a stable, profitable, decade-fully-remote employer that isn't churning. North American or Mexico time zones strongly preferred.

DuckDuckGo

Live remote roles: 9 (7 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

DuckDuckGo is the privacy-focused search company, fully-remote since 2008. Small but high-leverage engineering team — 9 open roles is on the low end for our list, but with an Engineering Director (Backend) role open, they're clearly investing in senior leadership. Mostly senior+ titles (Senior Android, Senior Backend, Principal levels).

Best for: Senior+ engineers aligned with the privacy / pro-user mission. Hiring is biased toward US / UK / Canada time zones.

Metabase

Live remote roles: 21 (9 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, Canada

Metabase is open-source business-intelligence software. The combination of "fully-remote" + "open-source / Clojure stack" + "real product company with paying customers" is rare — usually you pick two of the three. Hiring is balanced across mid and senior levels with some staff openings (analytics engineering, CI engineering, engineering management).

Best for: Engineers who want to work on substantive open-source software with a real customer base. Clojure familiarity helps but isn't always required.

Maze

Live remote roles: 10 — Top regions: United States, Canada, Greece, Ireland, Brazil, Spain

Maze is a user-research and rapid-testing platform. It's one of the most genuinely globally-distributed companies on this list — open roles span 6+ countries across 3 continents, including European bases like Greece, Ireland, and Spain. If you want to live somewhere unusual on a remote tech salary, Maze's "we hire wherever" stance is the right kind of employer.

Best for: Engineers who want maximum geographic optionality. Less senior-heavy than RevenueCat or Customer.io.

Kalepa

Live remote roles: 36 (19 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, Poland, Canada

Kalepa builds AI tooling for commercial insurance underwriting — niche, lucrative, and surprisingly engineering-heavy as B2B verticals go. They've been fully-remote since founding, with a notable Polish engineering hub on top of the US base. Strong senior + principal + staff representation (28 of 36 roles), so this is explicitly a senior engineer's company — not a place to start out.

Best for: Senior, principal, and staff engineers (especially with applied AI experience). Good fit for engineers in Poland doing geo-arbitrage on Western salaries.

Kong

Live remote roles: 109 (58 engineering / dev) — Top regions: Italy, India, United States, Canada

Kong is the API gateway / service connectivity company (open-source Kong Gateway plus enterprise Kong Konnect). With 109 live remote roles across the company and ~20 each in Italy and India, they're one of the largest fully-remote engineering organizations on this list. The Italian engineering presence is unusual at this scale and reflects their Italian founding origin — useful for European engineers who want a European-time-zone employer.

Best for: Backend / infrastructure / SRE engineers across all seniority levels — Kong has openings from intern through principal. Strongest European engineering culture of any company on this list.

Quora

Live remote roles: 7 (5 engineering / dev) — Top regions: Canada, United States, Ireland

Quora went fully-remote in 2020 and stayed that way after most peers reversed course. Their open engineering roles skew heavily senior + staff (4 senior, 3 staff), and most are ML-focused (Senior ML Engineer Ranking, Staff ML Engineer Recommendations). This is a small, focused, ML-heavy hiring footprint — not a generalist software engineer destination.

Best for: Senior+ ML / recommendations / ranking engineers. Tight intellectual environment.

Deel

Live remote roles: 403 (59 engineering / dev) — Top regions: Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Italy, UK

Deel is the payroll / EOR / global-hiring platform — and is itself one of the largest globally-distributed companies in tech, with 400+ open remote roles across 50+ countries. The European footprint is striking: 64 in Spain, 58 in Portugal, 51 in Ireland, 47 in Germany, 40 in Italy, 38 in the UK. If you live in Europe and want a fully-remote employer, Deel is statistically your single most likely match.

Best for: Engineers anywhere in Europe (and beyond), at any seniority level. The tradeoff is a much larger / faster-moving organization than the others on this list.

Circle

Live remote roles: 129 (18 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States, United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Ireland

Circle is the USDC stablecoin issuer and crypto / payments infrastructure provider. Despite the size and regulatory complexity of the business, they've stayed remote-first across most of their engineering org — 129 open remote roles is the second-largest footprint on this list after Deel. Engineering openings span senior full-stack, security, principal levels, with notable openings in applied AI and cloud security.

Best for: Senior+ engineers comfortable with regulated / financial infrastructure environments. US-anchored hiring with a non-trivial UK / Ireland presence; less European-broad than Deel or Kong.

Assured

Live remote roles: 37 (18 engineering / dev) — Top regions: United States

Assured is a claims-automation platform for the insurance industry — one of those B2B verticals that's quietly profitable, deeply technical, and overlooked by most engineers. Strong staff and principal representation in the open-roles list (Staff AI Engineer, Staff Application Platform Engineer, Software Engineering Manager), so this is a senior engineer's company with real scope on offer.

Best for: Staff / principal / engineering managers in the US. AI / platform / DX engineers will find a notably high concentration of senior-scope roles relative to company size.

Qualio

Live remote roles: 21 (6 engineering / dev) — Top regions: North America, Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico

Qualio builds quality-management software for life-sciences companies — pharma, biotech, medical devices. They are one of the most genuinely globally-distributed companies in this list: open roles span North America, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Mexico in roughly equal measure. Multiple Full Stack Engineer postings explicitly tagged "Remote EU" or "Remote Ireland / UK" alongside US-based listings.

Best for: Engineers anywhere in the EU (especially Ireland / UK), Canada, Mexico, or Australia who want a globally-distributed mid-sized company. Strong fit for engineers in the Slovenia / Greece / Eastern-European zone given the explicit "Remote EU" stance.

Form3

Live remote roles: 4 (3 engineering / dev) — Top regions: Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain

Form3 is a cloud-native payments-platform company with a fully-remote, globally-distributed team. The live footprint is small (4 open roles) but all engineering, all senior, and all in European time zones — Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Kubernetes), Senior Software Developer (Go), and similar. Form3 is well-known among UK / EU senior backend engineers as a Go-heavy, Kubernetes-native, payments-engineering shop with above-market compensation.

Best for: Senior backend engineers in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, or Spain with Go and Kubernetes experience. Smaller live surface than the rest of the list, but very high quality-per-role.

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How to apply across these effectively

Three things that apply across this entire list:

• Tailor by region. Deel, Kong, and Maze are your strongest bets if you live in Europe; RevenueCat, Customer.io, and AssemblyAI lean Americas. Sending the same application to all 10 is suboptimal — different companies have different geo affinities.
• Match seniority honestly. Several of these companies (RevenueCat, Customer.io, Quora, Kalepa) have effectively no entry-level remote pipeline right now. Applying as a junior to a senior-only org wastes your time.
• Use Career Lab. The AI Career Lab on Remote Goats reviews CVs and runs skills-pattern analysis so you can target the specific roles your background actually matches.

Why this list will be different in 6 months

These rankings are based on live data, and live data moves. Companies open and close hiring waves; the 400+ open Deel roles today might be 200 by Q4 2026, while a smaller company might triple. The principles for picking a fully-remote employer don't change, but the specific list does.

I'll refresh this post quarterly. Or just hit Remote Goats jobs for live filters by company, region, and seniority — the underlying data is always current.

FAQ

What does "fully-remote" actually mean for these companies?

For this list, "fully-remote" means the company has no required physical office presence — engineers can work permanently from anywhere they have legal work authorization. It doesn't mean "anywhere on Earth, regardless of timezone." Most of these companies still cluster hiring within 4-6 hour timezone overlaps with their core team. Read the job descriptions: companies like RevenueCat are explicit about Americas time zone preference, while Maze and Deel hire genuinely globally.

Do all these companies pay $100k+ for software engineers?

For senior engineers, yes — that's the selection criterion. Most pay materially above $100k at senior level (often $150-200k+), and several pay well into $300k+ for staff / principal roles. Entry-level / mid-level compensation varies more, and not every entry-level role at every company on this list will hit $100k. The companies that do publish bands openly (Customer.io, DuckDuckGo, Metabase, RevenueCat) typically show senior bands starting at $150-180k base.

Which of these is best for engineers in Europe?

Statistically, Deel (400+ open roles with strong Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Italy, UK presence) and Kong (Italian engineering hub, 109 open roles) have the deepest European hiring surfaces. Qualio explicitly tags multiple roles "Remote EU" / "Remote Ireland / UK". Form3 is UK / Germany / Netherlands / Spain only and senior-engineering-focused. Maze and Customer.io also hire in multiple European countries. Circle has UK / Ireland presence. RevenueCat, Assured, and AssemblyAI are heavily Americas. See our country deep-dives for context on tax and lifestyle in each base.

Are these companies hiring entry-level or just senior engineers?

Mixed. Kong has the broadest seniority spread (intern through principal). Deel, Metabase, and Circle have substantial entry-to-mid-level pipelines. RevenueCat, Customer.io, Quora, Kalepa, Assured, and Form3 skew strongly senior+ (often 15-28 senior+ roles each, with much smaller mid-level presence). For an entry-level remote engineer, Kong, Deel, Circle, and Metabase are the realistic targets on this list.

How is this list different from "best European remote tech jobs"-style listicles?

Two things. First, the lens is global, not Europe-specific — RevenueCat is a great employer for an engineer in São Paulo, Customer.io for one in Toronto, Kong for one in Milan. Second, the list is anchored to live job data, not to a static editorial pick. If a company drops off the live index, they drop off this list at the next refresh. That's why it'll stay accurate longer than the static "10 best fully-remote companies" lists you find elsewhere.

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