Knowledge
Answers to the questions that matter
Structured answers to the questions buyers research before they're ready to talk. On hiring, talent, remote teams, and what working with African professionals actually looks like.
Why Africa
4 pagesHow Good Is Tech Talent in Africa, and How Do You Find the Strongest?
The gap is not in the talent. It is in what you can see of it from a distance. The strongest are as strong as the strongest you would hire at home. You can see it in what clients do once someone is in their team: in 2025
Working With Someone in Another Country: What to Agree at the Start
Most of the differences that matter in daily work sit between teams, not between countries. Two companies in the same city can differ on when someone raises a problem, how they disagree and how a review comment is writte
Is It a Good Deal for the Professionals? Pay and Conditions Through Tunga
Yes. Tunga pays its professionals several times what comparable local jobs pay, on time and in euros or US dollars. In most of the countries Tunga works in there are too few local jobs for digital professionals, and the
Why Work With Digital Professionals in Africa? What European Companies Should Know
Most European companies that look at Africa are looking for people they can't find or keep locally, rather than for a cheaper option. Africa's working-age population is growing faster than any other region's, and by 2040
How AI is changing the way you work
5 pagesDo You Need to Reorganise Before AI Pays Off?
Not first. Reorganising around AI does matter, but it costs before it pays, and the biggest risk early on is breaking what already works. In US manufacturing, adopting AI first lowered productivity, and in older plants r
Can Knowledge Work Outside IT Be Done Remotely?
Usually yes, when the work happens mostly at a computer. The limit is physical work first and heavy face-to-face contact second, such as selling in person or teaching; the type of knowledge does not set it. A job that ca
When AI Writes the Code, What Becomes the Bottleneck?
The people who can judge what comes back. When AI writes more of the code, the speed of a team is set by how fast someone can review it and decide whether it belongs in the product. Across more than 500,000 developers, a
No Time or Know-How in Your Team for AI? How to Add the Capacity
For smaller companies, know-how is the main obstacle to using AI, more than money, and the people who could learn it are busy running the business. There are four usual routes: free up and train your own people, hire an
AI Means We Need Fewer Developers: What That Changes for Staffing
If AI lets your team do more with fewer people, that may well be true for you, and nobody can yet say how far it will go. What it does change is the staffing question: in a smaller team each person carries more, the size
The draining side of running a business
9 pagesWhat Does an Employed Developer Cost per Worked Hour?
A mid-level software developer in permanent employment costs an employer roughly €46-57 per hour actually worked in the Netherlands, €54-59 in Germany, €48-54 in Ireland, €53-59 in Sweden and €80-98 in the United States
Non-Technical Founder? Where to Start Building Your Software Team
Start with someone who can carry the technical direction: usually your first developer, sometimes a technical co-founder. You decide what the product has to do and for whom; that person decides how it gets built, chooses
Need More Engineers but Can't Afford Local Salaries?
Hire engineers from outside your local salary market, into your own team and under your direction. Through Tunga, professionals from across Africa join your team remotely at €26-37 an hour, invoiced monthly on the hours
Local Market Too Small or Too Tight for the Developers You Need?
Look beyond your region, within the same working hours. In a small or tight market the problem is rarely one hard hire: every time someone leaves, you go back into the same small pool, against the same larger employers.
Nobody Can Maintain Our Legacy or Niche Stack Anymore. What Now?
The people who know these stacks still exist; your local market just has few of them. Because Tunga's pool of professionals from across Africa is large, it also includes niche and legacy stacks such as SAP, Salesforce, e
A Key Developer Just Left. What Now?
Use the notice period to get what the developer knows into your own systems, and move every account and access to the company. Then name what is actually missing. Usually that is capacity in a team that still knows what
Developers Stretched Too Thin? Adding Capacity Without Adding to Their Load
When good developers are stretched too thin, adding people is the obvious fix, but every new person also brings work: finding and vetting, contracts, onboarding, a new search when someone leaves, and someone to direct wh
Alternatives to Hiring Developers Locally: Nearshore, Asia, Your Own Hub or Africa
When local hiring is too slow or too expensive, European companies usually look at four alternatives: a nearshore partner in Eastern or Southern Europe, an offshore partner in Asia, their own hub abroad, or professionals
Can't Get Your Development Team Staffed? Your Options When the Roadmap Slips
When a developer vacancy has been open for months and the roadmap is slipping, there are four realistic routes: keep searching locally with more help, bring in a freelancer, hand a defined piece of work to a development
How we work
18 pagesIs Our Organisation Ready to Work With a Remote Developer?
Most likely, yes. If your team already meets on video, works in shared code repositories and talks in a team chat, most of what a remote developer from across Africa needs is already in place. What the developer needs fr
Roles, Stacks and Countries: What Tunga Can Staff
Tunga's pool of 3,500 vetted professionals across 38 African countries covers most software, data and AI roles: back-end, front-end and full-stack developers, data and AI, mobile developers, QA and test automation, DevOp
Just Raised Funding? How to Build the Team Without Losing Months
After a round, the plan usually needs more people than local hiring can deliver in time, and the founders' attention is needed everywhere at once. A workable sequence: first fill the roles that set the direction, such as
The First Weeks With a New Professional: How Onboarding Works
Once you have chosen a professional, Tunga arranges the contracts and agrees the start date; with notice at their current work, that is often one to two weeks later, and sooner when both sides can move fast. Before day 1
Device Security for Remote Professionals: What Tunga Requires
Every Tunga professional signs a device security checklist before an engagement starts and keeps it in place for as long as it runs. It covers disk encryption, strong passwords and screen lock, two-factor authentication
Who Owns the Work? Intellectual Property When Professionals Work Through Tunga
You do. The intellectual property in everything a professional makes for your company through Tunga, such as code, documentation and designs, is assigned to you, including work made with the help of AI tools. The rights
Tunga in Numbers: Talent Pool, Clients, Retention and Terms
Tunga was founded in 2015 and has its headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As of September 2026 it has 3,500 vetted professionals across 38 African countries, and it has worked with more than 300 client companies
Working with Professionals from Abroad: Which Rules Apply in the EU and the US
No. In the EU and the US, the rules on supplying workers, payroll tax and social security apply to work done in the client's own country. When a professional works from their own country, those rules do not apply to the
How Tunga Selects Professionals and Verifies Who They Are
Hiring someone you have only met on video raises two questions: can they do the work, and are they who they say they are. Everyone who joins Tunga's pool shares proof of identity, then goes through a multi-stage test cyc
Only Need One Developer? What a Small Team Should Know Before Adding One
Many small companies start with one developer, and that works. One developer is a vulnerable position wherever they sit: when your only back-end developer is ill or leaves, the work stops and the search starts again, and
Can Developers Outside the EU Work on Your Systems? GDPR, Security and the Limits
In most cases, yes, and the work to get there is smaller than it looks from the outside. Neither GDPR nor NIS2 forbids working with people outside the EU; they ask for the right contractual arrangements and for security
Does a Remote Developer Need to Speak Dutch? Working in English or French
In most development teams, yes. Bringing in someone who works in English feels like extra work: meetings, tickets and documentation that suddenly have to be in another language. In practice the code, the tools and much o
Tunga's Terms and Pricing: Rate, Notice, Absence and Replacement
Before talking to a staffing partner, most companies want to know two things: what it costs, and how easy it is to stop. Tunga charges an hourly rate of €26-37, invoiced monthly on the hours actually worked, so holidays
When a Developer Leaves: How Continuity and Replacement Work at Tunga
When a developer leaves or the fit isn't right, the real cost is starting over: a new search, a new onboarding, and the knowledge of your product that leaves with them. At Tunga, a professional who leaves or isn't workin
After a Bad Experience With Offshore Development: What Usually Went Wrong
When an offshore or nearshore team disappoints, the cause is usually one of a few well-documented failure modes: people rotating off your account, more coordination work than the rate suggested, a team that builds what i
8 Questions to Ask a Nearshore or Offshore Development Partner Before You Sign
Before you sign with a nearshore or offshore partner, the useful questions are the ones that test how these partnerships usually fail: turnover, hidden coordination work, proactivity, who actually does the work, how bad
Hiring a Developer Locally or Through Tunga: Which Is Actually Easier?
Hiring locally feels easier, mostly because working with someone nearby feels easier. The bigger difference is in what comes after finding someone: the contract, what happens when someone is ill or the fit isn't right, a
What Tunga Is: Not Recruitment, Not Outsourcing, Not a Platform
Tunga is closest to a staffing agency, with two differences: the professionals work remotely from their own country, and Tunga keeps the role filled for as long as it runs. Software engineers, AI operators, product manag
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