Startups Hiring in Europe (€100k+ Engineering Jobs)

Most startups don't pay like a big employer. These do: privately held companies founded in 2012 or later with fewer than 5,000 people, and every role listed pays €100k+. Pick a company below to see its open engineering roles, pulled daily from its own career page.

Right now 51 companies among the startups have 546 open roles in Europe, most at ClickHouse, Lovable and Helsing. 2 of them sponsor visas.

By Felix · roles refreshed daily from company career pages

53 startups we track

1. 

   01ClickHouse

   35 open roles

   ClickHouse builds the open-source columnar database of the same name and runs it as a managed cloud service. Engineering is remote-first across EMEA, with the core C++ database, cloud infrastructure and security teams hiring in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and Spain.

   See ClickHouse's 35 roles →
2. 

   02Lovable

   30 open roles

   Lovable is the Stockholm-based AI app builder that turns a prompt into a working full-stack application, and one of the fastest-growing startups Europe has produced. Engineering sits in Stockholm with a growing London office, working on the agent runtime, platform infrastructure and security. Senior engineers in Stockholm earn around SEK 1.68M (roughly €151K), with a median of SEK 1.37M.

   See Lovable's 30 roles →
3. 

   03Helsing

   25 open roles

   Helsing is Europe's best-funded defence-AI company, building AI software, strike drones and electronic-warfare systems out of Munich, with engineering teams in Berlin, London, Paris and Barcelona. They hire AI research engineers, backend, frontend and embedded software engineers, and electronics and systems engineers. Senior engineers earn a median of around €152K total comp in Munich (€176K at L3) and around £122K in London.

   See Helsing's 25 roles →
4. 

   04Thought Machine

   24 open roles

   Thought Machine is a London-based fintech building cloud-native core banking infrastructure. Their platform Vault powers banks around the world. The engineering is technically deep—distributed systems, financial transaction processing, and cloud infrastructure at scale.

   See Thought Machine's 24 roles →
5. 

   05Cohere

   24 open roles

   Cohere builds enterprise-focused large language models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and the North agent platform, with a strong focus on private and sovereign deployments. The European engineering and research teams are in London and Paris, with further roles in Berlin, Munich and Edinburgh and many postings open across Europe. London engineers earn a median of £176K, with L3 packages around £236K.

   See Cohere's 24 roles →
6. 

   06Anthropic

   23 open roles

   Anthropic is an AI safety company building Claude, one of the most capable large language models. They have engineering teams in London, Dublin, and Zurich working on core model development, infrastructure, and safety research. One of the highest-paying companies in AI.

   See Anthropic's 23 roles →
7. 

   07Mistral AI

   22 open roles

   Mistral AI is a Paris-based AI company building frontier large language models. Founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, they're one of Europe's most important AI companies. If you want to work on cutting-edge AI research and infrastructure in Europe, Mistral is the one to watch.

   See Mistral AI's 22 roles →
8. 

   08Checkout.com

   21 open roles

   Checkout.com is a London-headquartered global payments company that processes card, wallet and local payments for large online merchants. Its London engineering hub builds the acquiring, fraud-detection and payment-orchestration platform, with teams working in Go, .NET and cloud infrastructure.

   See Checkout.com's 21 roles →
9. 

   09Applied Intuition

   20 open roles

   Applied Intuition builds the simulation, validation and vehicle software stack that car makers, truck OEMs and defence programmes use to develop autonomous and software-defined vehicles. Its European engineering teams in Munich, Stuttgart and London work on cloud infrastructure, the vehicle OS, perception and machine learning software.

   See Applied Intuition's 20 roles →
10. 

    10Personio

    19 open roles · Sponsors visas

    Personio is one of the bigger European-born companies on this board. Based in Munich, they're building HR software specifically for the European market. If you want to work at a scale-up that's actually European, not just a US company with an EU office, Personio is a solid pick.

    See Personio's 19 roles →
11. 

    11Attio

    18 open roles

    Attio is a London-based, AI-native CRM built for modern go-to-market teams. The engineering team works on the product, platform and security from London and remotely across Poland, Portugal, Ireland and Germany. Senior engineers are posted at £95–125K in London and €95–125K for remote EU.

    See Attio's 18 roles →
12. 

    12ElevenLabs

    16 open roles

    ElevenLabs builds AI voice and audio models—text-to-speech, dubbing and conversational agents—and is one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies. Engineering and research teams are spread across London, Warsaw, Sofia and Berlin, plus remote roles across Europe. London engineers earn a median of £190K (packages start around £100K), and Poland-based research engineers start around PLN 950K.

    See ElevenLabs's 16 roles →
13. 

    13Monzo

    14 open roles

    Monzo is one of the UK's most successful fintech companies. The engineering team works in Go and has built most of their banking infrastructure from scratch. If you're interested in fintech and want to work at a company that's genuinely product-led, Monzo is a standout.

    See Monzo's 14 roles →
14. 

    14Grafana Labs

    14 open roles

    Grafana Labs is fully remote and the company behind Grafana, Loki, and Mimir. If you've used their open-source tools, you know how good they are. The engineering work is focused on observability infrastructure, and they're one of the most developer-loved companies in the space.

    See Grafana Labs's 14 roles →
15. 

    15Synthesia

    13 open roles

    Synthesia is the London-based AI video platform (avatars, dubbing, generative video) and one of the UK's biggest AI scale-ups. Engineering and research sit in London, with several roles open to anyone in Europe or remote in the UK.

    See Synthesia's 13 roles →
16. 

    16Bolt

    12 open roles

    Bolt is a Tallinn-based mobility platform operating across 45+ countries in Europe and Africa. Their engineering team in Estonia works on ride-hailing, food delivery, and micro-mobility at serious scale. One of Europe's most valuable tech companies with a $6.8B valuation.

    See Bolt's 12 roles →
17. 

    17Zego

    12 open roles

    Zego is a London-based insurtech that sells usage-based commercial motor insurance to delivery drivers, couriers and fleets, priced with telematics data. Its London data and engineering team builds the pricing, claims and telematics platform.

    See Zego's 12 roles →
18. 

    18Ashby

    12 open roles

    Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform (applicant tracking, scheduling, CRM and analytics) used by fast-growing technology companies. It is remote-first, with an EMEA engineering team working from across the EU and the UK on the product and platform.

    See Ashby's 12 roles →
19. 

    19Sierra

    11 open roles

    Sierra builds conversational AI agents for customer service at large consumer brands, co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Its European engineering teams sit in London, Paris, Madrid and Munich, building and deploying agents for enterprise customers. Posted ranges are exceptional: London software engineers at £150–315K, Paris €125–265K and Madrid €170–245K.

    See Sierra's 11 roles →
20. 

    20Trade Republic

    10 open roles

    Trade Republic is a Berlin-based neobroker and one of Europe's fastest-growing fintech companies. They're building investment infrastructure for millions of Europeans. The engineering challenges around real-time trading, regulatory compliance, and financial data are technically deep.

    See Trade Republic's 10 roles →
21. 

    21Apollo Research

    10 open roles

    Apollo Research is an AI safety organisation that evaluates frontier models for deceptive and scheming behaviour and advises labs and governments on AI control. It is based in London (with a San Francisco office), where its engineers build evaluation infrastructure, red-teaming tooling and security systems.

    See Apollo Research's 10 roles →
22. 

    22Phantom

    9 open roles

    Phantom is a smaller company, but they're building one of the most-used crypto wallets. Fully remote and focused on making web3 accessible. If you're interested in crypto engineering without the hype, they're worth watching.

    See Phantom's 9 roles →
23. 

    23Wintermute

    9 open roles

    Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading firms in crypto, providing liquidity across most digital-asset exchanges and OTC. Engineering is in London: C++ and Python developers building low-latency trading systems, plus ML and quant researchers.

    See Wintermute's 9 roles →
24. 

    24Black Forest Labs

    9 open roles

    Black Forest Labs is the Freiburg-based team behind the FLUX image and video generation models. Research and engineering are in Freiburg, with roles also open in Berlin, Munich, London, Amsterdam, and Paris. Posted EU base salary bands are €130–340K for research and member-of-technical-staff roles and €140–190K for product and developer-experience engineers.

    See Black Forest Labs's 9 roles →
25. 

    25Granola

    9 open roles

    Granola is an AI notepad for meetings that transcribes calls and turns rough notes into structured summaries. The company is based in London, where its small engineering team builds the desktop and mobile apps, the transcription pipeline and the AI features.

    See Granola's 9 roles →
26. 

    26LiveKit

    8 open roles

    LiveKit builds the open-source real-time infrastructure (WebRTC) behind voice and video AI agents, used by companies such as OpenAI for its voice products. It is a fully remote company, with engineering roles open across EMEA, the UK and Ireland.

    See LiveKit's 8 roles →
27. 

    27incident.io

    8 open roles

    incident.io is a London-based incident management and on-call platform that helps engineering teams declare, run and learn from incidents directly in Slack. Its product, platform and security engineers work from London on a Go and TypeScript stack.

    See incident.io's 8 roles →
28. 

    28OpenAI

    7 open roles

    OpenAI builds ChatGPT and the models behind it. Its European engineering is concentrated in London, Dublin and Munich, working on the same ChatGPT and platform infrastructure as the San Francisco teams rather than on a regional sideline. Pay for the London roles is published on the posting and is among the highest on this board.

    See OpenAI's 7 roles →
29. 

    29Isomorphic Labs

    7 open roles

    Isomorphic Labs is Alphabet's AI drug-discovery company, spun out of DeepMind and headquartered in London with a second office in Lausanne. They hire research scientists, ML research engineers and software and data platform engineers to build on AlphaFold-class models. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £238K total comp, among the highest in Europe.

    See Isomorphic Labs's 7 roles →
30. 

    30xAI

    7 open roles

    xAI is the AI company behind the Grok models and apps, training them on one of the largest GPU clusters in the world. Its London engineering team works on backend APIs, mobile apps, sandboxing infrastructure and X Money.

    See xAI's 7 roles →
31. 

    31RevenueCat

    6 open roles

    RevenueCat is a smaller company, but they're remote-first and the engineering work is focused on subscription infrastructure that thousands of apps depend on. If you prefer a smaller team with outsized impact, they're worth a look.

    See RevenueCat's 6 roles →
32. 

    32N26

    6 open roles

    N26 is a Berlin-based mobile bank that's one of Europe's most well-known fintech companies. The engineering team builds banking infrastructure from scratch—payments, compliance, fraud detection. A solid pick if you're interested in European fintech.

    See N26's 6 roles →
33. 

    33Chainalysis

    6 open roles

    Chainalysis is the leading blockchain analytics company, with a real engineering office in Aarhus, Denmark (plus London). They build blockchain data infrastructure, investigations tooling, and compliance software used by governments and financial institutions globally. Senior engineers in Europe earn $140–200K.

    See Chainalysis's 6 roles →
34. 

    34Scale AI

    6 open roles

    Scale AI provides the data and evaluation infrastructure behind frontier AI models, plus generative-AI applications for enterprises and governments. Their London office hires platform, infrastructure, ML and forward-deployed engineers. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £161K total comp (£218K at L4).

    See Scale AI's 6 roles →
35. 

    35Workato

    6 open roles

    Workato is an enterprise automation and integration platform (iPaaS) used by thousands of companies. Their European engineering teams sit in Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, and London, working on the core platform in Rust and Go.

    See Workato's 6 roles →
36. 

    36Flo Health

    6 open roles

    Flo Health is the London-based company behind Flo, the women's health and cycle-tracking app used by tens of millions of people every month. Its London engineering team builds the app's AI and machine-learning features, mobile clients, security and infrastructure.

    See Flo Health's 6 roles →
37. 

    37MoonPay

    6 open roles

    MoonPay is a crypto payments company that lets people buy, sell and swap digital assets inside wallets, apps and its own products. Its engineering organisation is split between London and New York, with London teams working on blockchain platforms, mobile apps, data and machine learning.

    See MoonPay's 6 roles →
38. 

    38Sentry

    5 open roles

    Sentry is an error monitoring platform used by a lot of engineering teams. Open-source at their core and with EU roles available. Developer tools company, which means the engineering work is directly relevant to what most of us deal with every day.

    See Sentry's 5 roles →
39. 

    39Ripple

    5 open roles

    Ripple builds enterprise blockchain and crypto payment infrastructure, including RippleNet, the XRP Ledger, and its stablecoin products. Their European engineering teams sit in London, Dublin, and Geneva, working on payments connectivity, security, data, and infrastructure.

    See Ripple's 5 roles →
40. 

    40Docker

    5 open roles

    Docker makes the developer tooling behind containers: Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, the Docker Engine and build and supply-chain security tooling. Its engineering organisation is remote across North America and Europe, with UK-based roles on the engine, sandboxes and secure-build teams.

    See Docker's 5 roles →
41. 

    41n8n

    4 open roles

    n8n is the leading open-source workflow automation platform. Based in Berlin with remote roles across Europe, backed by Sequoia with $240M raised. Salary data is limited, but equity upside at this stage could be significant. Engineering spans AI agents, cloud infrastructure, and core workflow engine development.

    See n8n's 4 roles →
42. 

    42Anduril

    4 open roles

    Anduril builds autonomous defence systems: drones, sensors and the Lattice command-and-control software that ties them together. Their UK engineering team in London (with flight testing in Llanbedr, Wales) hires mission software, robotics, product security and DevOps engineers. London engineers earn a median of around £146K total comp.

    See Anduril's 4 roles →
43. 

    43Modal

    4 open roles

    Modal is a serverless cloud platform for running AI and data workloads, built by a small team of systems engineers. Alongside New York and San Francisco they have an engineering office in Stockholm and hire in London. Stockholm Member of Technical Staff roles are posted at $140–200K plus equity.

    See Modal's 4 roles →
44. 

    44Maze

    3 open roles

    Maze is a product research platform based in Europe. Smaller team, product-focused engineering, remote-friendly. If you're into design and UX tooling, they're one of the few companies in this space hiring in Europe.

    See Maze's 3 roles →
45. 

    45Pleo

    3 open roles

    Pleo is the European fintech building smart business spending solutions. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices in London, Berlin, Stockholm, Madrid, and Lisbon. 800+ employees across 74+ nationalities. Engineering covers payments, cards, and expense automation.

    See Pleo's 3 roles →
46. 

    46Qualio

    3 open roles

    Qualio is a Dublin-based quality management platform for life sciences companies. Fully remote across the EU with strong compensation—confirmed at €106–150K for senior engineers in Ireland. If you want B2B SaaS with real regulatory complexity and a remote-first culture, this is a solid pick.

    See Qualio's 3 roles →
47. 

    47Form3

    3 open roles

    Form3 is a London-based cloud-native payments platform processing billions in transactions for European banks. Small, high-trust engineering team working on Go-based microservices, Kubernetes infrastructure, and real-time payment processing. Senior engineers earn £85–100K—solid for a payments infrastructure specialist.

    See Form3's 3 roles →
48. 

    48Vercel

    2 open roles

    Vercel is the company behind Next.js and a leading frontend deployment platform. They have engineering presence in Berlin and London. If you care about developer experience, frontend infrastructure, and edge computing, Vercel is one of the most interesting companies in the space.

    See Vercel's 2 roles →
49. 

    49Linear

    2 open roles

    Linear is a modern project management tool beloved by engineering teams. They're remote-first with a Berlin coworking hub and hire across European timezones. The product is known for its exceptional performance and polish—the engineering reflects that standard.

    See Linear's 2 roles →
50. 

    50Poolside

    2 open roles

    Poolside is building foundation models for software engineering, with a remote-first team spread across EMEA and a London hub. Roles cover inference infrastructure, agent sandboxes, evaluations, and pre-/post-training research.

    See Poolside's 2 roles →
51. 

    51Contentful

    1 open role · Sponsors visas

    Contentful is a Berlin-based headless CMS company. If you've worked in web development, you've probably come across their product. European-born, and the engineering work is focused on content infrastructure and APIs.

    See Contentful's role →
52. 

    52Plaid

    Plaid connects apps to bank accounts—they're the infrastructure layer for a lot of fintech products. They have some EU presence and the engineering work around financial data, security, and API design is technically interesting.

    See Plaid's roles →
53. 

    53Wayve

    Wayve is a London-based autonomous-driving company training end-to-end AI driving models, with a growing engineering presence in Germany. The London team hires ML engineers, robotics and embedded software engineers, SREs and simulation and validation engineers. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £130K total comp, rising to £174K at TC4.

    See Wayve's roles →