Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the world's most widely used Linux distribution, headquartered in London. Founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth, the company provides enterprise-grade services, support, and security for open-source software, enabling organizations to deploy and manage workloads consistently across diverse environments. Their portfolio spans the entire compute spectrum - from public and private cloud infrastructure (OpenStack), container orchestration (Kubernetes/MicroK8s), and data center management to specialized edge and IoT computing.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Artificial Intelligence • Software • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004
≈ $114k – $255k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • Freelance • Staff
C++
Go
Python
Rust
DevOps
Ubuntu
≈ $114k – $256k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • Principal
C++
Go
Python
Rust
TypeScript
SQL
DevOps
Ubuntu
Debian
Docker
gRPC
Kubernetes
OpenStack
≈ $66k – $172k per year (Estimated) • Junior • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Junior
Bash
C++
Go
JavaScript
Python
Rust
DevOps
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
Debian
Fedora
Gramian Consulting Group is an international management and technology consulting firm based in Los Angeles, California. The firm provides executive-level advisory services, digital transformation strategy, software engineering, and corporate restructuring for middle-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. By combining high-level strategic planning with hands-on technology execution, the company helps client organizations modernize their operations, optimize revenue models, and scale business growth efficiently.
HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Professional Services
Remote (Egypt, Israel, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ghana)
Digital marketing tools to grow your audience faster and drive revenue smarter. Backed by 24/7 award-winning support. Check it out now!
Sales & Marketing • Email Services & Providers • Email Marketing
$60k – $75k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (EMEA) • Contractor • Middle • English
JavaScript
PHP
SQL
Go
Node JS
Ruby
PHP
Laravel
Databases
Redis
ElasticSearch
Frontend
React.js
Vue.js
DevOps
Git
Design
Canva
Neo4j is the world's leading graph database platform, engineered specifically to store, query, and analyze highly connected data. Unlike traditional relational databases that rely on rigid tables and costly JOIN operations, Neo4j models data naturally using nodes (entities), relationships (connections), and properties (key-value attributes).
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Big Data • Information Technology • Database Management
Lead • 8+ years exp • Remote (EMEA) • Cofounder • Staff
Java
Databases
Neo4j
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Knowledge Graph
LangChain
LlamaIndex
GraphRAG
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Senior • 8+ years exp • Remote (EMEA) • Cofounder • Senior
Java
Databases
Neo4j
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Knowledge Graph
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
RunPod is a cloud computing company headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and founded in 2022. The company provides a specialized AI developer cloud featuring on-demand GPU instances, serverless GPU endpoints, and multi-node GPU clusters for training and inference. It operates a global infrastructure across more than 30 regions, serving over one million developers with scalable compute resources for machine learning and generative AI workloads.
HQ: Mount Laurel, United States • IT Infrastructure • LLM & Generative AI • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • AI Infrastructure • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Est. 2022
$100k – $180k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (EMEA, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
SQL
Python
Django
Flask
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
PyTorch
RunPod
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Ubuntu
SportyBet is an international sports betting, gaming, and digital entertainment platform owned by Sporty Group. Founded by Sudeep Ramnani in 2013, the platform is a market-leading sports betting operator in Africa - with operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, and Uganda - and has expanded internationally into markets like Brazil.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Gaming • Sports • iGaming & Gambling • Sports Betting • Est. 2013
≈ $90k – $219k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote • Senior
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Apache Tomcat
Netty
Databases
MySQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
RabbitMQ
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon CloudWatch
Grafana
Loki
Prometheus
Rest API
≈ $68k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote • Middle
Java
SQL
Java
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Databases
ElasticSearch
MySQL
Redis
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Amazon CloudWatch
Grafana
Loki
Prometheus
Rest API
Speechify is a voice AI productivity company best known for its text-to-speech app. It lets users listen to articles, PDFs, books, and web pages, and also offers voice typing, AI summaries, and AI podcasts. The company was founded in 2017 and is centered on accessibility and productivity.
HQ: Miami, United States • Education • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • 5000+ employees
Senior • In office (Lagos, Nigeria) • Senior
Kotlin
Java
Mobile
Kotlin Multiplatform
DevOps
GCP
Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Lagos, Nigeria) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Terraform
Vercel
In office (Lagos, Nigeria) • PhD
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Vercel
We are a connected financing platform that serves the financially excluded We believe that everyone should have the power to achieve progress in their lives and M-KOPA's solutions unlock this power. Our financial offerings are designed for the rea...
London • Nairobi • Accra • Lagos • Kampala • Hospitals & Clinics • Digital Goods • Financial Services • Est. 2010
Lead • Nairobi • Lagos • Johannesburg • Accra • Cape Town • Remote (United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda) • Full-Time • Staff
C#
C#
.NET
Databases
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
Docker
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Moniepoint Inc. is a leading financial technology company that provides a seamless platform for businesses, their employees and customers, to accept payments digitally, receive credit and access business management tools that enable them to grow with ease. We are the parent company of TeamApt Ltd and Moniepoint MFB and we support over 1,800,000 businesses to process $12 billion monthly through our digital payment acceptance channels. For our work in making digital payment accessible to businesses in emerging markets, our Nigerian subsidiary was awarded the National Inclusive Payment Initiative Award by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Financial Services • Payments • FinTech • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2015
Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (Nigeria) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C#
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Node JS
Express
Databases
MS SQL
MySQL
Redis
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Git
Kubernetes
Circle is a global financial technology company best known as the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) and EURC, two of the world's leading fully backed digital stablecoins. Headquartered in New York City, New York, the firm builds open financial infrastructure and developer APIs that enable internet-native payment settlement, treasury management, and blockchain integration. By bridging traditional banking networks with public blockchain systems, it allows businesses worldwide to store, send, and trade digital value seamlessly.
HQ: New York, United States • Financial Services • Stablecoins • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2013
$130k – $140k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote • Senior
Ruby
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Tailwind CSS
Analytics
A/B Testing
$130k – $140k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote • Senior
Ruby
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Edge AI
Frontend
React.js
Analytics
A/B Testing
Tether is a digital asset company founded in 2014 that issues USDT, the largest stablecoin in circulation and the most heavily traded asset in crypto markets. Each token is intended to hold a one-to-one peg with the United States dollar and is backed by a reserve portfolio dominated by short-dated Treasury bills, with regular attestation reports published on the reserve composition. Headquartered in San Salvador, El Salvador, the group has expanded beyond stablecoin issuance into gold-backed tokens, Bitcoin mining, energy, peer-to-peer communications and local artificial intelligence infrastructure.
HQ: San Salvador, El Salvador • Crypto Payments • Data Centers • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Stablecoins • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2014
≈ $90k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote • Senior
Node JS
JavaScript
C++
AI/ML
Tokenization
Frontend
npm
Web3
Bitcoin
≈ $150k – $281k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • Remote • Architect • English: B2
Node JS
JavaScript
AI/ML
Tokenization
Web3
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Smart Contracts
Token Standards
≈ $150k – $281k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • Remote • Architect • English: B2
Node JS
JavaScript
AI/ML
Tokenization
Web3
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Smart Contracts
Token Standards
Customer.io, legally Peaberry Software, Inc., is a customer engagement software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 2012. The company provides a platform that enables businesses to automate personalized messaging across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app channels based on real-time customer behavior and data. Serving over 9,000 brands globally, the organization operates as a remote-first company with a focus on data-driven marketing automation and artificial intelligence integration for B2B and B2C enterprises.
HQ: Portland, United States • Software • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • Est. 2012
$150k – $200k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (AMER, EMEA) • Senior
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
$150k – $200k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote (AMER, EMEA) • Senior
Go
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
GCP
LiveKit is an open-source real-time audio, video, and AI voice infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco. The company provides cloud and developer infrastructure designed to build ultra-low-latency video conferencing, live streaming, and interactive multimodal AI voice agents into web and mobile applications. Powered by flexible SDKs and scalable server orchestration, LiveKit is widely used by developers and enterprise teams to deploy real-time voice and video applications at global scale.
HQ: San Francisco, San Jose, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
LiveKit
OpenAI
Marketing
Salesforce
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Staff+ • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time • Staff
Go
Databases
ClickHouse
NATS
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
LiveKit
OpenAI
DevOps
gRPC
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
GitHub
etcd
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Senior • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Databases
ClickHouse
NATS
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
LiveKit
OpenAI
DevOps
gRPC
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
GitHub
etcd
Opportunities for all Where you are shouldn't govern what you do. We're changing the way the world works—one brilliant remote hire at a time.
Austin • Toronto • Chicago • Charlotte • Denver • Professional Services • Human Resources
Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (EMEA) • Full-Time • Senior • English: C1
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Datadog
Platform Engineering
Terraform
Heroku
QA
Sentry
Motorola Solutions is a global leader in public safety and enterprise security solutions, specializing in land mobile radio communications, video security, access control, and command center software. Created in 2011 following the spin-off of Motorola's mobile phone division, the Chicago-based company primarily serves law enforcement, emergency medical services, government agencies, and commercial enterprises. Its integrated ecosystem connects critical communications, AI-powered video analytics, and emergency dispatch systems to help organizations safeguard communities and operations.
HQ: Chicago, United States • Government • Military • Law Enforcement • Military Communication • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011
Senior • South Africa • Remote (Africa) • Relocation • Full-Time • Senior
C#
SQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
C#
.NET
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
LangChain
LLM
Spark
OpenAI
Frontend
Angular
NgRx
React.js
Mobile
Dependency Injection
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Platform Engineering
GitHub
Analytics
Power BI
New Era Technology is a global managed technology service provider and systems integrator. The company delivers digital transformation, IT infrastructure, and enterprise technology solutions to over 20,000 businesses, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and financial entities worldwide.
HQ: Chicago, United States • Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees
Remote
Java
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
Apache Kafka
DynamoDB
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Rest API
Amazon S3
API Gateway
Splunk
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres.
San Francisco • AI Infrastructure • Information Technology • Web Hosting
$120k – $290k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (EMEA) • Senior
C++
Go
Java
Python
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (EMEA, United States) • Senior
Python
Ruby
Rust
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
$120k – $290k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • San Francisco • Remote (EMEA, United States) • Senior
Go
Python
Ruby
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Hugging Face is an American company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, that runs the largest open platform for sharing machine learning models, datasets and demonstration applications. Its Hub hosts more than a million public models and is often described as the GitHub of machine learning, while its open-source libraries such as Transformers, Diffusers and Datasets are standard tools in research and production pipelines. The company earns revenue from paid Hub features, managed inference endpoints and enterprise deployments, and works with cloud and chip vendors to make open models easy to run anywhere.
HQ: New York, United States • Software • MLOps • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2016
≈ $53k – $102k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Paris • Remote (EMEA) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Python
Rust
TypeScript
AI/ML
Gradio
Hugging Face
DevOps
GitHub
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Boldin (formerly known as NewRetirement) is a financial technology company providing a collaborative financial planning and retirement modeling SaaS platform. Designed to bridge the gap between simple retirement calculators and traditional wealth management firms, the software delivers comprehensive accumulation and decumulation scenario planning for individual investors. Its proprietary modeling engine enables users to run Monte Carlo simulations, aggregate net worth data, optimize tax and Roth conversion strategies, analyze Social Security timing, and forecast healthcare and real estate costs.
Personal Finance • Wealth Management • Financial Services
≈ $67k – $191k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote • Full-Time • Middle
Ruby
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
Material UI
Redux
SWR
Yarn
DevOps
AWS
Marketing
ActiveCampaign
I Am Here is part of the Pulse Learning Group and provides evidence-based mental health and wellbeing solutions aimed at improving employee health, productivity, and engagement. As the partner of choice for businesses seeking to create safe and productive teams, I Am Here delivers solutions that are easy to use, measurable, and effective. The program encourages the use of Employee Assistance Programs and helps cultivate mentally healthy workplaces through compassionate connections and conversations.
Toronto • Wellness Programs • Health Care • Mental Health
≈ $68k – $191k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (EMEA, United States, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Middle
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Rust
SQL
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Senior |
15 |
$140K |
$200K |
$290K |
| All levels |
22 |
$140K |
$200K |
$290K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 94 open Backend Developer jobs in Lagos from 34 companies. 7 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 29 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
22 of these Backend Developer jobs in Lagos state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $140K and $290K a year, with a median of $200K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Nigeria (7), South Africa (2), France (1), Kenya (1), and Ghana (1). 94% of the listings are fully remote, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Backend Developer jobs in Lagos right now are Canonical (29), Speechify (12), Tether (4), LiveKit (4), PlanetScale (4), and Constructor (4). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (44), Kubernetes (41), AWS (30), Ubuntu (30), Docker (28), Go (27), GCP (25), and PostgreSQL (23). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Backend Developer jobs in Lagos, 1 offers a relocation package and 9 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
