Nearform

Founded in 2011 in Ireland, Nearform has operated as a fully distributed company from day one—long before remote work became mainstream. Their globally distributed team of nearly 500 engineers, designers, and data specialists spans Europe, North America, South America, and beyond, united by a shared commitment to solving complex software challenges for enterprise clients including Walmart, Starbucks, Uber, and PUMA. Rather than retrofitting remote policies onto a traditional office culture, Nearform built their entire operation around the belief that exceptional talent exists everywhere—and should be empowered to work where they live.

What sets Nearform apart is their deep roots in open source. The company created Fastify, one of the most widely-used Node.js web frameworks, and their Technical Director Matteo Collina serves on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. This engineering-first DNA permeates everything they do: teams self-organize around core hours that work across time zones, knowledge flows freely through internal communities and open-source contributions, and technical craft is valued over corporate hierarchy. For engineers who want meaningful work on complex systems—banking, healthcare, retail at global scale—while maintaining genuine flexibility over when and where they work, Nearform offers a rare combination of enterprise impact and startup-like autonomy.