Hire African Developers, Designers & Virtual Assistants

Hire the talent your team is missing.

Developers

Find engineers across frontend, backend, mobile, data, AI and DevOps.

Designers

Work with designers on product, brand, UI, UX and motion.

Virtual assistants

Hire an assistant for your inbox, calendar, research and admin.

Three steps to hiring talent.

Post a job

Post your requirements, timeline and budget, or let AI draft the post for you.

Get AI matched

Talent send proposals, and M.A.A.V.I.S suggests the best fits by matching your requirements to their profiles.

Hire directly

Message the talent you shortlist, interview them, and agree the terms together. You contract with them and pay them directly.

The same skills and the same AI tools, at a lower rate.

A developer in Accra builds with the same frameworks and the same AI models as one in San Francisco. ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot cost the same in Accra as they do in London.

What differs is the cost of living, and that is what their lower rate reflects.

Rates vary by person. Compare them on the profiles.

~50% less an hour than a developer in the US.

A mid-level developer in Africa contracts at about $23 an hour. The same developer averages $37 in the UK, $42 in Germany and $47 in the United States.

Data from Lemon.io developer rate data, August 2026.

Africa: $23 an hour, average mid-level contract rate
United Kingdom: $37 an hour, average mid-level contract rate
Germany: $42 an hour, average mid-level contract rate
United States: $47 an hour, average mid-level contract rate

Look for the Verified badge.

Nkonsonkonson: interlocking chain links. An Adinkra symbol from the Akan people of Ghana, meaning we are linked to one another.

We issue the Verified badge after two checks: a member of the DevDey team has spoken to them about their work, and their identity is checked against the name and photo on the profile. Not every profile has one.

Profiles without the badge are self-reported, and labelled that way.

M.A.A.V.I.S finds the talent that fits your job.

M.A.A.V.I.S, Multi-Agent AI for Matching, Intelligence & Sourcing, is the AI assistant built into DevDey to help you hire. Tell it what you need in your own words and it ranks every profile by fit on skills, experience, rate and availability.

You write in plain English

Describe the role in a sentence, the way you would explain it to a colleague.

M.A.A.V.I.S finds matching profiles

M.A.A.V.I.S shows you the talent that best matches your requirements.

You choose who to message

Compare and open profiles, then message the talent that fits.

Shared working hours with your team, every day.

African time zones line up with most major business hubs, so the day overlaps wherever you are hiring from. Pick your city to see how much of it you share.

Talent across 11 African countries
Overlap worked out live from both cities’ clocks, summer time included
No account needed to browse profiles

Questions worth asking first.

What does it cost?

Browsing, posting a job, messaging and contracts are free on every plan. A subscription buys M.A.A.V.I.S AI matching queries and more job posts a month: free to start, then $4.99 or $12.99, plus an enterprise plan. That is all we charge.

Do you take a cut of what I pay talent?

No. You agree the rate with your talent and pay them directly. We do not process the payment, take a commission, or mark up their rate.

How are profiles checked?

Anyone can create a profile. The Verified badge is only issued after we have interviewed that talent and confirmed their identity. Profiles without it are self-reported, and shown as such.

Who owns the work?

You and your talent settle that in your contract. DevDey claims no ownership of anything built through the platform.

Can I look before creating an account?

Yes. Every profile, portfolio and skill list is public. You only need an account to post a job or message talent.

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