Relocate.Me: Jobs & Moving Abroad

Do cover letters still matter in 2026? Our answer: Yes, but only if you write them well. Otherwise, it's a waste of time. To give you an example, one of the subscribers to our Substack newsletter, The Global Move, recently wrote a cover letter that opened the door for him at a Berlin-based tech company while applying from abroad. He kindly gave us permission to share that cover letter publicly, so we could break down what made it effective and share practical advice other job seekers can use when writing their own. You can find the cover letter and our thoughts on why it worked in this new article 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/how-to-write-a-cover-letter-in-2026 #CoverLetters #JobSearchAdvice

Just published an interview with Peter, who moved from Nigeria 🇳🇬 to Portugal 🇵🇹 to join Catawiki as a Software Engineer. In our conversation, Peter shares why he chose Portugal, what Catawiki's interview process was like, how the relocation support worked, and what surprised him most after making the move. If you're considering relocating to Lisbon/Portugal for a tech job, it's worth a read: 👉 https://relocate.me/blog/expat-stories/moving-to-portugal-it-job-software-engineer-interview/ Interested in joining Catawiki in Lisbon? Explore their open roles here: 👉 https://catawiki.careers/location-Lisbon-Office — Finally, consider joining The Global Move private job board for hand-curated roles with visa sponsorship/relocation support: 👉 https://globalmove.relocate.me

Last year, a friend of ours, Jani, a full-stack dev from Slovenia, was preparing for interviews. The technical stuff wasn't the hardest part. The hardest part was this: how do you know if your answers actually sound clear? Not in your head. Out loud. In a real interview, nobody hears the polished version you rehearsed in your mind. They hear what comes out under pressure: the answer that drags on, the explanation that wanders, the moment you know the topic cold but still sound shaky. And when you get rejected, you usually never find out what went wrong. Was it your confidence? Your English? The way you structured it? That's what pushed Jani to build Pavone.ai. It lets you practice interview answers out loud and get feedback on clarity, structure, confidence, and delivery before the real thing. Made for people preparing without a bootcamp, regular mock interviews, or a senior engineer on hand to provide honest feedback. The first practice run is free. Worth a try → https://pavone.ai

​​Hello everyone 👋 Last Thursday, we briefly announced the launch of our new private job board for paid subscribers to our Substack newsletter, The Global Move: https://globalmove.relocate.me Some of you may have already checked it out (and even joined), while others may still have no idea what it is. So, we'd like to take a moment to introduce it properly and help you decide whether it could be useful for your international tech job search. 📌 Why we built it For over a year, our team has been publishing weekly manually curated lists of relocation-friendly tech jobs on Substack. In this format (Substack posts), those job lists are difficult to browse. Plus, searching through the archive (6,000+ jobs shared to date) has become time-consuming, with opportunities spread across 60+ weekly job lists and many openings that are no longer active. The goal of the job board isn't to replace the newsletter, but to make the experience much more practical for subscribers. 📌 The idea behind the job board • Jobs appear on the job board daily on weekdays as we find them (rather than once a week on Thursdays) • A searchable archive • Filters by job type (relocation/international remote), category, country, company size, etc. • The option to save jobs, mark them as applied, and report inactive ones • 100% manually curated You can read more about the job board here: https://relocateme.substack.com/p/introducing-the-global-move-job-board Or, head straight to the job board and join: 👉 https://globalmove.relocate.me At the moment, there are 1,200+ job openings: • 1,000+ tech roles with visa sponsorship and/or relocation support • 240+ remote roles open to international talent

Just moved to Germany or about to? 🇩🇪 Quick one worth knowing about. We've partnered with UniRents, who does something that makes a lot of sense if you're relocating: instead of buying everything for a new apartment, you rent it. Furniture, appliances, the stuff you need to actually live somewhere: the upfront cost of buying it all is brutal, and then you're stuck either hauling it to your next country or tossing it when you leave. How it works: 👉 Pick what you need at unirents.de 👉 Pay only for as long as you need it 👉 Delivered in 2–3 working days 👉 Picked up when you move out It's a popular option for international workers who'd rather not sink money into furniture they'll abandon in a year. If that's you, the code RELOCATEME15 gets you 15% off your order 👇 unirents.de

Hello everyone 👋 Here’s a batch of new job opportunities for you to check out: Senior Frontend Engineer • Location: Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 • Company: PayPay Card Senior Software Engineer - Logistics • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • Company: Picnic Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse Systems • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • Company: Picnic Senior Product Manager - Shipping • Location: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 • Company: Catawiki Security Engineer • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • Company: Catawiki - - - 💡 And some important news: Our team has launched a private job board for relocation-friendly and international remote tech jobs. We’ll introduce it in detail soon, but in the meantime, you can explore it via the link below if you haven’t already: 👉 https://globalmove.relocate.me

​​As part of our effort to share useful tools and resources for relocation, we’d like to highlight SafetyWing. SafetyWing offers International Health and travel insurance solutions for digital nomads, expats, and families living abroad. Its Nomad Insurance Complete plan specifically comes with coverage in 175+ countries, including your home, and covers medical treatment, hospitalization, doctor and specialist visits, lost luggage, emergency evacuation, mental health support, and more. Another big plus: you can purchase it after you’ve already left. The sign-up process is fully online and takes just a few minutes. Join over 400,000 people protected by SafetyWing. Use the link below and save 10% on any yearly plan. Learn more / get covered anytime here 👇 https://explore.safetywing.com/Nomad-insurance-complete

Hello everyone! Just published a handpicked list of 35 #gaming companies currently hiring and offering visa sponsorship and/or relocation support. If you haven’t already, check it out on our Substack: 👉 https://relocateme.substack.com/publish/post/198234406 If you’re interested in international job opportunities beyond gaming, there are two more curated lists worth exploring: 1) 150+ companies hiring internationally for tech roles 2) 70+ tech companies hiring globally for remote roles

Hello everyone 👋 Here’s a batch of new job opportunities for you to check out: Lead React Native Engineer • Location: Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 • Company: Hevy Team Lead Engineering - App & Web • Location: Hamburg/Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 • Company: ABOUT YOU Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience (Platform) • Location: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 • Company: Catawiki Software Engineer - Consumer Products • Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • Company: Picnic Engineering Manager • Location: Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 • Company: PayPay Card Senior MLOps Engineer (Training & Inference Optimization) • Location: San Sebastian, Spain 🇪🇸 • Company: Multiverse Computing Senior Software Engineer (Backend & Infrastructure) • Location: Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 • Company: HENNGE ‐ ‐ ‐ To browse all opportunities currently available on our job board, use this link: https://relocate.me/international-jobs If you haven’t already, you can also subscribe to our jobs newsletter on Substack. Every Thursday, we publish a handpicked list of 100+ relocation-friendly tech jobs, plus remote-from-anywhere tech roles. Latest edition (May 7): https://relocateme.substack.com/p/weekly-hand-curated-tech-jobs-with-d66

How will searching for a tech job with relocation look in 2026? From what we’re seeing running The Global Move and Relocate.me, it will be: • more competitive • more global • more dependent on strategy … than in previous years, especially if you compare against, let’s say, 2021. More specifically: 1️⃣ There will be no “easier market” to move to. Mature tech hubs will stay competitive, and emerging ones will quickly attract global talent. 2️⃣ Over-application will break the traditional application model. Sending more applications won’t necessarily increase your chances. Precision will matter much, much more than volume. 3️⃣ Getting to the first interview will require multiple entry points: direct application, recruiter outreach, referrals, visibility (content, open source, community presence), to name a few. Oftentimes even for one role. 4️⃣ Being findable will matter as much as applying. Candidates who share projects, write, contribute, and show clear expertise will have a higher chance of being approached rather than ignored. 5️⃣ Referrals will continue to be one of the most effective ways to get interviews. But the nature of referrals will change. This year, cold messages like “Can you refer me?” will rarely work. We’ve broken all of this down in more detail (plus five other predictions) in our new Substack post. If tech job relocation is on your radar this year, it’s worth a read 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/how-searching-for-tech-jobs-with

Hello everyone 👋 Picnic, which delivers fresh groceries to millions of customers across multiple countries, has two new job openings in Amsterdam. Both roles are open to global talent and come with a comprehensive relocation package. Explore and apply via the links below: 👉 Java Engineer - Supply Chain https://relocate.me/netherlands/amsterdam/picnic/java-engineer-supply-chain-10251 👉 Junior React Native Developer https://relocate.me/netherlands/amsterdam/picnic/junior-react-native-developer-10252 Curious to learn more about Picnic? Check out this Substack post, where we cover Picnic’s team, tech stack, hiring process, and more. #amsterdam #netherlands #java #reactnative

Job seeker visas in 2026: which countries currently offer them (or something close)? Here’s the short list: Germany 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 Sweden 🇸🇪 UAE 🇦🇪 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Taiwan 🇹🇼 South Korea 🇰🇷 We’ve covered the topic in detail in our new Substack post, including which visas to look at, eligibility criteria, duration, whether you can work while job searching, and more. Check it out here 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/job-seeker-visas-in-2026-a-wide-wide #JobSeekerVisa

Happy Friday, everyone 👋 ABOUT YOU, one of Europe’s fastest-growing #ecommerce companies, has new job openings in #Hamburg, #Germany. Check them out and apply below: 👉 Senior Golang Developer 👉 Senior Security Analyst - IT Security 👉 Senior Application Security Engineer 👉 App Engineer - Purchase & Post-Purchase Plus, the Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) role we shared earlier is still open for applications. More to come. Stay tuned!

What’s the right way to approach the salary expectations question when relocating? Trying to negotiate a US salary in Lisbon or anchoring to your current salary without adjusting for the cost of living can easily backfire. First and foremost, adjust your expectations to the local market. Look at what people earn there and what things actually cost. Otherwise, you risk either lowballing yourself or pricing yourself out of the market. The salary expectations question can come up: - in the application form - during a call with a recruiter - in the final interview stages In our new post for The Global Move, we cover all three in detail, including concrete examples of what to say depending on the situation. Check it out here 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/how-to-answer-the-salary-question

We’d like to introduce you to Halter from New Zealand 🇳🇿 - now hiring on Relocate.me! Halter is building the digital operating system for agriculture, bringing physical AI to the farm and transforming real-world challenges in pastoral farming into digital workflows managed in one app. Backing from world-class investors, a US$2 billion valuation, recurring revenue with growth of over 2.5x through 2025 alone, and a high-performing, diverse team - these are just some of the indicators of Halter’s success. The company is actively hiring for tech roles in Auckland, with visa sponsorship and relocation support available. Here are some of its current openings: 👉 Machine Learning Engineer (All Levels) 👉 Software Engineering Manager 👉 Lead Mobile Engineer And many more roles are available on Halter’s careers page: https://www.halterhq.com/careers Consider applying - Halter is where you can do truly meaningful work. #auckland #newzealand #machinelearning #python #engineeringmanagement #mobile #ios #reactnative

We made a list of 70+ tech companies hiring GLOBALLY 🌍 for remote roles. Check it out here 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/big-list-of-tech-companies-hiring To build this list, our team used remote job boards, relevant public lists, Boolean search, and paid job search APIs. We manually reviewed each company’s careers or ATS page, job posting wording, application form, and LinkedIn profile (particularly the employee list) to determine whether its remote roles are truly global. Each company listed currently has at least one open remote tech role that can be done from anywhere or from a large portion of the world. Important: • The first 15 companies on the list are publicly visible. The full list is available with a monthly or annual subscription to our Substack. • We’ll review and update the list every 1–2 months. Subscribing (free or paid) ensures you won’t miss future updates.

Who’s planning a move to Germany 🇩🇪 or already going through the process? We suggest you check out a service called Caselink. It’s built by a diverse team of migrants and native Germans with experience spanning 10,000+ relocation cases. They offer support with visa and immigration processes (including the EU Blue Card and Job Seeker Visa), as well as settling in — from local registration (Anmeldung) to housing search and health insurance. Their AI-powered platform handles document verification, form pre-filling, and error checks in seconds instead of days — which translates directly into faster turnaround times and more affordable rates. Given Germany’s well-known bureaucracy and challenging housing market, using a service like this can be a real lifesaver. Learn more about Caselink here 👉 https://www.caselink.solutions #ServiceRecommendation #Relocation #Germany

Continuing our series of country guides, we’ve put together a list of helpful links for those considering a move to Singapore 🇸🇬. Here we go: ✅ DESTINATION RESEARCH To relocate wisely, start by doing research. 🪪 Visa options: https://relocate.me/visas/singapore and https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits Plus: • https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-transit-depart/entering-singapore/visa_requirements (to check if you need a visa to enter Singapore) 🧾 Taxes: https://relocate.me/taxes/guide/singapore + official guidance from IRAS, the Government agency responsible for the administration of taxes 💵 Take-home pay calculator: https://relocate.me/taxes/calculator/singapore (or download the Excel calculator provided by IRAS here) 🛒 Cost of living: https://relocate.me/cost-of-living/singapore Plus: • Numbeo • Ask locals on Reddit (see subreddits below) 🏥 Healthcare & insurance options: • General overview • First-hand insights 📊 Average salary data: https://relocate.me/salaries/singapore-average-salary 💻💰 Developer salaries in Singapore: NodeFlair.Salaries / Levels.fyi / Glassdoor / Jobstreet + Reddit for first-hand insights (for example) ❓ Ask questions about Singapore: • https://www.reddit.com/r/Singapore • https://www.reddit.com/r/askSingapore • Singapore Expats (Facebook group) ✅ JOB SEARCH: COMPANIES HIRING FROM OUTSIDE SINGAPORE Landing a job in Singapore as a foreigner isn’t easy – and there’s a reason for that. Singapore has policies designed to prioritize hiring local talent. For most roles, companies must apply for an Employment Pass and advertise positions to local candidates first. That said, opportunities still exist. According to Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, the country employs over 1.5M foreign workers, including 200K+ Employment Pass holders. Here are a few companies I’m aware of that offer visa sponsorship/relocation support: • BandLab (now actively hiring for a Backend Engineer role) • PwC • Riot Games Citibank might also be worth checking out. Redditors say they have a large number of foreign staff, so there’s a chance they still sponsor work visas. To explore the full list (and get notified whenever we publish new guides), follow us on Substack 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/moving-to-singapore-for-work

Continuing our series of country guides, we’ve put together a list of helpful links for those considering a move to Singapore 🇸🇬. Here we go: ✅ DESTINATION RESEARCH To relocate wisely, start by doing research. 🪪 Visa options: https://relocate.me/visas/singapore and https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits Plus: • https://www.ica.gov.sg/enter-transit-depart/entering-singapore/visa_requirements (to check if you need a visa to enter Singapore) 🧾 Taxes: https://relocate.me/taxes/guide/singapore + official guidance from IRAS, the Government agency responsible for the administration of taxes 💵 Take-home pay calculator: https://relocate.me/taxes/calculator/singapore (or download the Excel calculator provided by IRAS here) 🛒 Cost of living: https://relocate.me/cost-of-living/singapore Plus: • Numbeo • Ask locals on Reddit (see subreddits below) 🏥 Healthcare & insurance options: • General overview • First-hand insights 📊 Average salary data: https://relocate.me/salaries/singapore-average-salary 💻💰 Developer salaries in Singapore: NodeFlair.Salaries / Levels.fyi / Glassdoor / Jobstreet + Reddit for first-hand insights (for example) ❓ Ask questions about Singapore: • https://www.reddit.com/r/Singapore • https://www.reddit.com/r/askSingapore • Singapore Expats (Facebook group) ✅ JOB SEARCH: COMPANIES HIRING FROM OUTSIDE SINGAPORE Landing a job in Singapore as a foreigner isn’t easy – and there’s a reason for that. Singapore has policies designed to prioritize hiring local talent. For most roles, companies must apply for an Employment Pass and advertise positions to local candidates first. That said, opportunities still exist. According to Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, the country employs over 1.5M foreign workers, including 200K+ Employment Pass holders. Here are a few companies I’m aware of that offer visa sponsorship/relocation support: • BandLab (now actively hiring for a Backend Engineer role) • PwC • Riot Games Citibank might also be worth checking out. Redditors say they have a large number of foreign staff, so there’s a chance they still sponsor work visas. To explore the full list (and get notified whenever we publish new guides), follow us on Substack 👇 https://relocateme.substack.com/p/moving-to-singapore-for-work

HENNGE, Japan’s leading provider of cloud-based security solutions, is continuing to hire a Senior Software Engineer (Python/Web Dev) in Tokyo. The position is within the Access Control Team, working on HENNGE One Identity Edition, part of the HENNGE One suite serving over 2.8 million users. Tech stack: Python, Tornado, FastAPI, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS Learn more and apply here 👇 https://relocate.me/japan/tokyo/hennge/senior-software-engineer-python-web-dev-9754 To explore more roles offering relocation to Japan, follow this link. #japan #tokyo #backend #python #python