Pan-African talent · Lagos · Nairobi · Accra · Cape Town

Elite Offshore Talent,
For a Fraction of the Cost.

We connect ambitious startups with experienced engineers, designers, product, and growth professionals across Africa — built to ship faster. Compliance, payroll, and contracts fully handled.

  • Pre-vetted senior talent
  • Matched in 4–7 days
  • Up to 70% cost savings
African tech professionals collaborating at a workstation in Lagos
100% Match
Senior Engineer
5+ yrs · React, Node, AWS
~4 days
Avg time to first match
Lagos
Nairobi
Accra
Cape Town
Trusted by ambitious teams
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From brief to first commit in days.

01

Tell us what you need

Share a brief — the role, the stack, the seniority, the timeline. We translate it into a hiring spec in hours, not weeks.

02

We match in days

You'll see 2–3 pre-vetted profiles within 4–7 days. Every candidate has already cleared our technical screen and cultural interview.

03

Interview & decide

You interview, you choose. No black box, no obligation. If none of them fit, we go again — no charge.

04

We handle the rest

Contracts, payroll, compliance, equipment, time zones — handled. You get one invoice and a productive teammate.

Built different, on purpose.

4–7 day matches

From brief to short-list in less than a week. We move at your pace, not legacy-agency pace.

Pre-vetted, senior bar

Every professional has 5+ years, real shipping experience, and clears a multi-stage screen.

70% lower loaded cost

Same caliber as US/EU senior hires, at a third of the all-in cost. Reinvest into runway, product, or more hires.

EOR + payroll handled

We act as Employer of Record across 12+ African countries. You get one clean monthly invoice.

No long-term lock-in

Scale up, scale down, or pause with 30 days' notice. We earn your business every month.

30-day replacement guarantee

Not the right fit? We replace at no cost in the first 30 days. We obsess over the match because you do.

Same talent. Less burn.

Compare the true loaded cost of an in-house hire versus a Dive Talent placement. Move the controls — the numbers update live.

RoleEngineer
SenioritySenior
Team size2 people
110
Compare toUS market
In-house · US
$514,800
Salary + 32% loaded overheadannual · 2 seats
Dive Talent · ALL-IN
$164,736
Salary + benefits + compliance + supportannual · 2 seats
Annual savings
$350,06468%

Reinvest into product, runway, or another hire.

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From senior ICs to full product squads.

Whether you need one specialist or an embedded team, we staff the depth and seniority modern startups actually need to ship.

Engineering

  • +Senior Frontend Engineers
  • +Senior Backend Engineers
  • +Fullstack Engineers
  • +Mobile (iOS · Android · React Native)
  • +DevOps · Platform · SRE
  • +QA & Test Engineers
  • +AI / ML Engineers
  • +Automation Engineers

Design & Product

  • +Product Designers (UI/UX)
  • +Visual / Brand Designers
  • +UX Researchers
  • +Product Managers
  • +Project Managers
  • +Scrum Masters
  • +Business Analysts
  • +Technical Program Managers

Data & Growth

  • +Data Analysts
  • +Data Scientists
  • +Data Engineers
  • +Analytics Engineers
  • +Growth Marketers
  • +Performance Marketers
  • +SEO & Content Specialists
  • +Lifecycle / CRM Marketers

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A continent-wide bench of shipping professionals.

From Lagos to Kigali, Cape Town to Cairo — our network spans the engineering, design, and product hubs of Africa. Built to ship faster, in your time zone, with full compliance handled.

Map of Africa with Dive Talent hubsLagosAccraCairoKinshasaAddis AbabaNairobiKigaliKampalaLusakaCape TownJohannesburgDakar
12+
Countries actively staffed
2,400+
Pre-vetted professionals in our network
~70%
Average cost savings vs US/EU hires
Compliance, payroll, and contracts — all handled. We operate in every major African talent hub through local entities and EOR partners, so you hire globally without the legal overhead.

Founders & teams hire us from across the globe.

  • 🇺🇸United States
  • 🇬🇧United Kingdom
  • 🇨🇦Canada
  • 🇩🇪Germany
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands
  • 🇦🇪UAE
  • 🇸🇬Singapore
  • 🇦🇺Australia

Hard problems, shipped on time.

We needed senior engineers fast — and we needed them to be actually senior, not just expensive. Dive matched us with a fullstack lead in 5 days who has shipped more in his first month than our last two contractors combined.
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Sarah Chen
CTO, Pillar (Y Combinator W23)
The hiring quality is unreal. We pay roughly a third of what we'd pay in SF and the work is just as good — sometimes better, because they actually care.
MT
Marcus Tobin
Founder, Ledgerly
I run a remote-first team of 12 and 8 of them are through Dive. Best decision I made last year.
AR
Amir Rashid
CEO, Nordhaus
Compliance and payroll alone would have taken our team weeks across 4 countries. Dive just handles it.
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Helena Vasquez
COO, Vector Health
They sent us 3 designers in 4 days. We hired all 3.
JP
Jin Park
Head of Design, Cobalt

Honest answers
to real questions.

The five things founders ask us most.
Don't see yours? Drop us a line — we reply within 24 hours.

Most clients get 2–3 hand-picked profiles within 4 days of their brief. From acceptance to first commit is typically another 3–5 business days, so end-to-end you're looking at about a week or so.
Senior. The bar is 5+ years of experience, prior shipping at a real product company, and a multi-stage technical screen. Roughly 4% of applicants make it into the network. We don't repackage juniors at senior prices.
We do — fully. We act as Employer of Record across every country we operate in, run local payroll, handle taxes and statutory benefits, and provide IP-protected contracts. You get one clean monthly invoice and zero entity headaches.
You're never locked in. Scale up, scale down, or pause with 30 days' notice. If a match isn't working in the first 30 days, we replace them at no cost — or you walk away owing nothing further.
Africa sits between GMT and GMT+3 — that's 4–8 hours of overlap with US teams and a near-full overlap with Europe. Most of our talent works async-first and adjusts hours to match your team's rituals (standups, reviews, demos).

Ready to build faster?
Let's match you with talent this week.

Tell us what you're building. We'll send you 2–3 hand-picked profiles within 4 days — no fees, no commitment.

Hire TalentOr email hello@divetalent.co