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Python remote jobs in Europe 2026: 40+ companies hiring across the EU right now

Remote work in EU tech settled into a stable equilibrium in 2026. Some companies are fully remote (GitLab, Doist), some are remote-first with quarterly on-site (N26, Sourcegraph), some are hybrid 2–3 days a week (Zalando, Bolt), and a rare few forced full return-to-office (Booking.com Amsterdam, Palantir London).

For Python developers, remote-EU is the biggest arbitrage in the market: earn Berlin/Amsterdam rates while living in Warsaw, Lisbon, Porto, Cluj, Sofia, or Riga. This is the working list of who's hiring, salary bands where public, and how to apply.

Fully remote-EU companies (no timezone required beyond EU)

GitLab — Fully remote since day one. Python + Go + Ruby stack. Junior EU: €55K–€82K public band. Senior EU: €95K–€145K. Application: careers.gitlab.com. They hire ~10 Python roles a month EU-wide.

Doist (Todoist, Twist) — Fully remote, HQ in nowhere. Python + Rust. Junior EU: €50K–€75K. Senior: €90K–€130K. Very selective — expect 6–8 week interview process.

Automattic (WordPress, Tumblr) — Fully distributed. Python + PHP + JS. Global bands: $50K–$120K junior to senior. Take-home trial project is stage 2, take it seriously.

Buffer — Fully remote. Python + Go. Bands: $60K–$150K junior to senior globally. Small team, few Python-specific roles.

Zapier — Remote in EU-eligible countries. Python + Node. Bands not fully public but competitive with US remote. Very stable engineering culture.

Sourcegraph — Remote EU-eligible. Python + Go + TypeScript. Junior EU: €65K–€95K. Senior: €110K–€170K. Strong hiring throughput.

Elastic (Elasticsearch) — Distributed with EU coverage. Python + Java + Go. Junior EU: €55K–€80K. Senior: €90K–€135K.

HashiCorp — Distributed EU. Python + Go. Bands not public but US-adjacent.

PostHog — Remote-first with some London hubs. Python + TypeScript. Junior EU: €50K–€75K + equity. Senior: €90K–€130K + equity. Growing fast in 2026.

Prisma (the ORM company) — Berlin-headquartered but genuinely remote-EU. TypeScript primarily but Python contributions welcomed. €55K–€120K EU bands.

PlanetScale — Distributed. Python + Go. US-adjacent bands, hiring EU periodically.

Ashby (recruiting software) — Remote-first EU. Python + TypeScript. Growing. €65K–€130K.

Replicate (ML model hosting) — Remote-EU eligible. Python-heavy. €70K–€140K.

Remote-EU-first with occasional travel

N26 (Berlin fintech) — Remote-first, quarterly Berlin on-site. Python-heavy backend. Junior: €55K–€72K. Senior: €90K–€120K.

Trade Republic (Berlin fintech) — Hybrid but real remote option. Python + Kotlin. Junior: €58K–€78K. Senior: €95K–€135K.

Bolt (Estonian mobility) — Hybrid with 2 in-office days in Tallinn/Berlin/Bucharest. Some fully remote roles for senior. Python + Go. Senior: €90K–€140K.

Delivery Hero (Berlin) — Hybrid but remote roles exist. Python + Kotlin + Elixir. €55K–€130K bands.

Klarna (Stockholm) — Hybrid, remote-Sweden feasible. Python + Java + Scala. Senior: SEK 850K–1 200K.

Spotify (Stockholm + London + hubs) — Selectively remote in EU. Python + Java + Scala. Very high bar; senior Python EU: €95K–€150K.

Wise (London/Tallinn/hubs) — Hybrid with fully remote EU roles for senior. Python-heavy. Senior: £90K–£140K.

Miro (Amsterdam) — Hybrid, some fully remote EU. Python + TypeScript. Senior: €95K–€135K.

Contentful (Berlin) — Hybrid, remote-Germany + selected EU. Python + Node + Ruby. Senior: €95K–€130K.

GetYourGuide (Berlin) — Hybrid, some remote roles. Python-heavy. Junior: €55K–€68K. Senior: €90K–€120K.

AI-focused companies hiring Python remote-EU

Anthropic — Distributed with London hub. Python + PyTorch. Bands are US-adjacent → €130K–€250K senior EU. Bar is very high.

Hugging Face — Fully remote-EU. Python + PyTorch. Junior: €60K–€90K. Senior: €110K–€180K.

Mistral AI (Paris) — Hybrid with real remote-EU. Python + JAX. Senior: €100K–€175K + strong equity.

Cohere (London + remote) — Distributed. Python + PyTorch. Senior: £100K–£160K.

Weights & Biases (SF but hires remote-EU) — Python + TypeScript. Senior: €90K–€140K.

Runway (NYC but EU-remote periodic) — Python + PyTorch. Senior: €100K–€160K.

Stability AI (London + remote) — Currently rebuilding hiring. Watch careers page mid-2026.

Modal Labs (SF + remote) — Python-heavy infra for ML. €90K–€160K bands.

LangChain (SF + remote) — Python-first. €80K–€150K senior remote-EU.

Data + backend companies hiring Python remote-EU

Datadog (NYC/Paris/hubs) — Hybrid with real EU-remote roles. Python + Go. Senior EU: €110K–€160K.

MongoDB (NYC + remote-EU eligible) — Python + JavaScript. Senior: €90K–€140K.

Snowflake (SF + remote-EU eligible) — Python + Java. Senior: €110K–€175K.

Confluent (SF + remote-EU eligible) — Python + Java + Go. Senior: €100K–€160K.

Databricks (SF + remote-EU eligible for senior) — Python + Scala. Senior: €120K–€185K.

Fivetran — Remote-EU eligible. Python-heavy. Senior: €95K–€140K.

dbt Labs — Remote-EU. Python + Rust. Senior: €100K–€150K.

Traditional finance + insurance hiring Python remote-EU

JPMorgan Chase Poland/UK — Some fully remote Python roles for senior. Bands: enterprise + strong pension.

Goldman Sachs Warsaw — Hybrid, some remote possibility for senior. Python-heavy risk / trading tools. Senior: PLN 24 000–36 000/month.

Standard Chartered (London + remote-EU eligible) — Python-heavy risk / regulatory tech. Senior: £85K–£135K.

Allianz Technology (Munich + remote-DE) — Python-heavy risk / actuarial tech. Junior: €55K–€68K. Senior: €85K–€115K.

How to actually apply

Where to find current listings:

We Work Remotely (weworkremotely.com) — best global remote board
RemoteOK (remoteok.com) — good filter for Python + EU-eligible
Remotive — curated, EU-friendly
Himalayas (himalayas.app) — filter by role + location eligibility
The Hub (thehub.io) — Nordic remote focus
honeypot.io — reverse job board, EU-first, engineers get contacted
Landing.jobs — Portugal-founded, strong Iberian + EU remote coverage
LinkedIn Jobs — filter "on-site" off, filter Python, geographic remote-EU

What to include on your remote-EU CV:

Your time zone in Europe/City format at the top (e.g. "Europe/Berlin, UTC+1/+2")
Country of work eligibility explicitly ("EU citizen, EU work-eligible")
Async writing samples — a public tech blog or Substack, even one post, signals async fluency
English fluency level honestly stated (B2/C1/C2) — no cheating, they will find out on call 1
Two or three deployed projects with live URLs, GitHub links secondary
A note on hardware / setup if fully remote — good home office matters more than juniors realise

Common remote-EU interview traps:

Call 1 is always English fluency + async communication check. Bad camera / bad mic / poor English = auto-reject regardless of code.
Take-home projects are usually 4–8 hours, not the "quick 45 minutes" recruiters claim. Budget the time, deliver clean.
System design comes earlier at remote-first companies than in-office. Because senior remote-EU is expected to work independently, they test for it on round 2 not round 5.
Culture fit is coded as "async communication style" — if you need Slack replies within 5 minutes, remote-first isn't for you and they will screen for that.

Salary negotiation for remote-EU:

Public bands give you the anchor. If GitLab lists €55–82K junior EU, apply and expect an offer around €68–75K.
If the company doesn't publish bands, ask for the range on the recruiter screen. Half will tell you.
Cost-of-living adjustment: most remote-EU-first companies pay by role, not location. A Portuguese junior at GitLab gets the same €68K as a German junior at GitLab. This is the arbitrage.
Sign-on bonuses at senior level are increasingly on the table in 2026. Ask.

Getting to the point where you can apply

None of this matters until you're actually junior-ready. If you're at the start of the journey, take our free first lesson — ten minutes, no card. First 15 lessons are free.

The full Foundations track is €\$12/month with the 1,100+-lesson catalogue across 10 tracks — including the AI Engineering path (105 lessons) that the AI-first companies listed above are actively hiring for.

Eight to fourteen months of consistent study, three real deployed projects, and you're ready to apply to the companies on this page. That's not a fantasy — that's the median outcome for someone who does the daily two hours.

Remote-EU is the biggest opportunity in the market right now. Pick a target from this list and start today.