Pangea was founded on a single observation: Africa is producing senior engineers, designers, and product builders at a pace global companies haven't caught up to. We turned that talent density into a product — Community-as-a-Service — so any ambitious team can plug in to the continent without standing up an office, a recruiting team, or a payroll entity.
In the last decade, Lagos, Nairobi, Cape Town, Accra, and Kigali have built dense, compounding tech ecosystems. Local unicorns trained a generation of engineers on real production systems — payments at continent scale, telecoms infrastructure, fintech for hundreds of millions of users. That talent is now ready for the global stage.
Meanwhile, Western teams face the opposite problem: a thinning senior bench, rising comp, fewer engineers willing to relocate. The match is obvious. The friction — compliance, payroll, vetting, time zones — is what we exist to remove.
African software developers (and growing 3.8% YoY)
Global rank in English proficiency for 5 African nations
Time zone band covering most of the continent
Staff Frontend Engineer · Lagos
Tobi spent four years at a London fintech, leading the rebuild of their checkout flow used by 11M monthly users. He came home in 2023 and now leads a frontend chapter for a US healthtech series-B. He still ships from his apartment in Lekki, takes his daughter to school at 3pm, and reviews PRs over a cortado.
Senior Product Designer · Dakar
Amara worked at a YC-backed startup remotely for two years before realizing the company didn't know how to give her the staff-level work her resume earned her. We placed her at a European SaaS where she now owns the design language for an entire product surface — and runs a quarterly design critique for designers across West Africa.
Our vetting bar matches the bar our clients use internally. If we wouldn't hire them ourselves, we don't send them.
Honest about timelines, fit, comp, risk. No glossing, no surprise invoices, no inflated CVs.
We measure success by 12-month retention, not first-month placements. Most of our clients hire from us again within a year.
A shortlist in 72 hours. No upfront fees.