Málaga
The main hub. Google, Vodafone, a rebuilt port full of restaurants, and La Malagueta beach a walk from the office. Most of our Nordic, Dutch and German desks are here.
🇪🇸 Destination
Working in Spain
Three hundred days of sun a year, swimming into October, and a winter that is a mild grey fortnight rather than a season. That is the part that changes your life. The timing is the rest of it: Málaga spent the last decade turning from a beach town into the fastest-growing tech city in Spain. Google put its largest European cybersecurity centre here, on the seafront between the marina and La Malagueta beach, and Vodafone a €225 million research hub. The city ran out of local candidates, which is exactly why it is hiring people like you.
- Where we place
- Málaga, Valencia and Alicante
- Typical contract
- Permanent Spanish contract
- Working week
- 39 hours
- Paid holiday
- 23 days plus public holidays
- Healthcare
- Public system, plus private cover from the employer
- Language needed
- Your native language plus around B2 English
Why people go
What actually makes Spain worth the move
Not the brochure version. The things people who moved here bring up unprompted a year later.
01
You are moving somewhere that is going up
Google's biggest cybersecurity centre in Europe sits on the Málaga seafront. Vodafone is investing €225 million and more than 600 skilled jobs into its research hub here. People have started saying Málaga Valley without much irony. A service desk in this city is not a dead end, it is a foot in a place where international companies are arriving faster than they can staff.
02
The Costa del Sol already speaks your language
This stretch of coast has one of the densest concentrations of Nordic, Dutch and German speakers working anywhere in Europe, and several hundred of them are inside the hubs we place into. You will not be the only Dane in the building. That matters far more in month three than it does in week one.
03
Life runs slower here, and mostly outdoors
The rhythm takes adjusting to, in the best way. Evenings are long: dinner starts at nine, the terraces stay full past midnight, and most of life happens outside rather than behind a door. Your weekends fill up with the slow version of everything: a menú del día with the team, three courses for €12 to €15, or the beach after work. It takes about a month to stop rushing, and then you never want to go back.
04
Roughly 300 days of sun a year
That statistic gets quoted until it means nothing, so here is what it actually looks like. Swimming in October. Terraces in January. A winter that is a mild grey fortnight rather than a season. If you are coming from northern Europe, this is the part that changes your life, not the job title.
Real numbers
What a month in Spain actually costs
Current 2026 prices, not figures copied from a five-year-old guide. If anything here turns out to be wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Alicante runs about 10% cheaper than Málaga across the board. Both sit well below Barcelona and Madrid, which is a large part of why the hubs are here rather than there.
- Room in a shared flat, Málaga
- €400 to €550
- Room in a shared flat, Alicante
- €350 to €450
- Studio or one-bed, outer Málaga
- €650 to €1,000
- Menú del día, three courses
- €12 to €15
- Caña of beer on a terrace
- €2 to €3
- Monthly transport pass
- Around €30
- Gym membership
- €25 to €40
- Comfortable month, sharing a flat
- €1,100 to €1,400
Where the roles are
The cities we place into in Spain
Alicante
Costa Blanca, around 10% cheaper than Málaga, and smaller in a way people either love or outgrow. The Explanada and the beach are both a short walk from the office.
Valencia
Spain's third city, with the beach a tram ride from the centre and a nine-kilometre park running through the old riverbed. Our Dutch, German, Swedish and Portuguese desks here come with breakfast and lunch provided every working day.
Before you go
What living in Spain is actually like
The parts of the move nobody puts in the job advert.
Getting set up
You need a NIE number and a Spanish social security number. Employers who hire internationally walk you through both, and most book the appointments with you rather than handing you a form and wishing you luck. A bank account takes an afternoon once the NIE is through.
Finding somewhere to live
Most people land in a shared flat found through Idealista or a Facebook group, then move somewhere better after six months once they know which barrio they actually want. In Málaga: Soho and El Perchel are central and lively, Teatinos is cheaper and full of students, Pedregalejo is by the sea and quieter.
Weekends
Granada and the Alhambra are ninety minutes inland, Seville two and a half hours, Morocco a ferry from Tarifa. The white villages start half an hour from Málaga. The Sierra Nevada has skiing into April, so you can genuinely ski and swim in the same weekend.
Most commonly hired for
- Customer advisor
- Technical support
- Inside sales
- Back office
Hiring now
Open roles in Spain
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Support Agent
Ask anyone who has lived abroad and they will tell you the same thing: the job was the reason to go, but the life around it is what changed them. Valencia is a very good place for that to happen. You help Dutch customers with their orders, returns and deliveries, in your own language, in a team where patience and a friendly way with people matter more than a CV full of call centres. Breakfast and lunch are provided every working day, you are on full Spanish health insurance, and Spanish lessons are free, so the city opens up a little more every week. Around you: the beach a tram ride from the centre, nine kilometres of park through the old riverbed, paella where it was invented, around three hundred days of sun, and colleagues from all over Europe who took the same leap. Give it a year and you will be surprised how much you have grown.
Breakfast and lunch on the house, every day
Full-time · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
DutchInside sales
Dutch-speaking After-Sales Agent
Most people who live abroad come home with more than a tan: they come home able to talk to anyone. This role turns that into a commercial skill. You call people who are already customers, in Dutch, to help them get more out of what they bought and recommend what genuinely suits them. No cold calls, an easy-to-learn order system, and monthly commission on top of your fixed salary, so a good month shows in your pay. The skills you build here open doors later into sales, account management and customer success, wherever you end up next. Meanwhile you live in Valencia, with breakfast and lunch every working day, Spanish health insurance, free Spanish lessons, an international team and the beach a tram ride away.
No cold calls · commission on top
Full-time · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
GermanCustomer advisor
German-speaking Customer Support Agent
The people who move abroad in their twenties are very often the ones doing something interesting in their thirties. This is a straightforward way to start. Join the German-speaking support team of an established brand and help customers with orders, products, returns and deliveries, in your own language. No experience needed: patience, a friendly manner and a willingness to learn matter more than a CV. Breakfast and lunch are provided every working day, you are on full Spanish health insurance, and Spanish lessons are free. Valencia does the rest: a beach a tram ride from the centre, a nine-kilometre park through the old riverbed, a famously good food scene, a winter that barely counts as one, and friends from all over the world before you have finished unpacking.
Breakfast and lunch on the house, every day
Full-time · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
GermanInside sales
German-speaking After-Sales Agent
Sales without the part everyone dreads, in a city that will teach you more than any training course. You call existing German-speaking customers to help them get more from what they bought and recommend the products that genuinely suit them. No cold calls, an easy-to-learn order system, and a monthly bonus on top of your fixed salary. You build real commercial skills, the kind that lead into account management, customer success or a bigger sales role later, and you build them while learning to live in another language and culture, which is exactly the part future employers notice. Breakfast and lunch every working day, Spanish health insurance and free Spanish lessons come with it.
No cold calls · a monthly bonus on top
Full-time · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
SwedishInside sales
Swedish-speaking Sales Agent
Swap the Swedish winter for a year that will teach you more than any course could. You call existing Swedish-speaking customers to help them get more from what they bought and recommend the products that genuinely suit them. No cold calls, an easy-to-learn order system, and monthly commission on top of your fixed salary, so a good month shows in your pay. You build real commercial skills, the kind that lead into account management, customer success or a bigger sales role later, while learning to live in another language and culture. Breakfast and lunch every working day, Spanish health insurance and free Spanish lessons come with it, in a lively office full of people from all over Europe and a city with the beach a tram ride away.
No cold calls · commission on top
Full-time · As soon as you can
Hiring nowValenciaOn-site
PortugueseInside sales
Portuguese-speaking Sales Agent
The people who move abroad in their twenties are very often the ones doing something interesting in their thirties. This is a strong way to start. You call existing Portuguese-speaking customers to help them get more from what they bought and recommend the products that genuinely suit them. No cold calls, an easy-to-learn order system, and monthly commission on top of your fixed salary. The commercial skills you build here travel anywhere, into account management, customer success or bigger sales roles. Meanwhile you live in Valencia, with breakfast and lunch every working day, Spanish health insurance, free Spanish lessons and an office full of people from all over Europe.
No cold calls · commission on top
Full-time · As soon as you can
Hiring nowMálagaOn-site
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Service Representative
Almost everyone on this floor arrived the same way: one job, one suitcase, no Spanish. A few years on, many of them lead teams, have moved into bigger roles in Málaga's growing tech scene, or have taken what they learned to a new country. It starts at the Norwegian desk of one of the biggest multilingual offices in the south of Spain, where several hundred Nordic and Dutch speakers already work, so you will not be the only Norwegian in the building. Málaga around it is a city on the rise: Google built its largest cybersecurity centre in Europe on the seafront, and a young international crowd keeps arriving. Then there is the everyday reason people stay: three hundred days of sun, the beach a tram ride from your desk, and Oslo two and a half hours away whenever you need it.
300 days of sun · a Nordic community already on site
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowAlicanteHybrid
DutchCustomer advisor
Dutch-speaking Customer Expert, Telecoms
The first job abroad is the one people look back on as the start of everything: you learn a system nobody taught you, make friends who grew up a thousand kilometres away, and build a confidence that follows you to whatever comes next. This is a good one to start with. A Dutch telecoms brand you already know runs its customer desk from the Spanish coast, with offices in both Alicante and Málaga. You help Dutch customers set up SIM cards, get online, fix home internet and install TV boxes, in your own language, on a permanent Spanish contract with a monthly bonus on top. It has a real ladder too: two weeks of training and guided calls, then a clear route to Team Leader, Trainer and beyond. Pick your city: Alicante, smaller and around 10% cheaper on the Costa Blanca, or Málaga, the fastest-growing city in the south.
Alicante or Málaga · a monthly bonus on top
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
DutchTechnical support
Dutch-speaking Technical Support Agent
Some jobs abroad are a gap year with a desk. This one is the start of a career. You support Dutch-speaking customers, and the electricians who install for them, with smart chargers for electric cars: installation, setup and troubleshooting, by phone, chat and email. It is a step more technical than standard customer service, with full training, so an interest in technology matters more than experience. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, and your pay rises after six months and again after a year. The team is small and deliberately un-corporate, the office is by the harbour, and the city around it is the fastest-growing tech hub in Spain. Two years here and you have a technical skill set, a second language and a network that opens doors anywhere.
Pay rises at 6 and 12 months · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
DanishCustomer advisor
Danish-speaking Customer Support Agent
Everyone who moved to Málaga for work tells a version of the same story: they came for a job, and found out who they were. This is a good place to start yours. A small, deliberately un-corporate team looks after the Danish-speaking customers of product-led European tech companies from an office right on Málaga harbour. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, and the week is hybrid, so the sea is a five-minute walk when you are in the office and your own sofa when you are not. Málaga is the fastest-rising city in the south of Spain, with Google's largest European cybersecurity centre on the seafront and a young international crowd arriving behind it, so you land somewhere that is growing as fast as you are. And then the smaller stuff: three hundred days of sun, a swim before your shift, and dinner on a terrace for what a coffee costs in Copenhagen.
Swim before work · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
NorwegianCustomer advisor
Norwegian-speaking Customer Support Agent
Trade the Norwegian winter for the year that changes how you see everything. This is the Norwegian seat on a small, un-corporate support team right on Málaga harbour, looking after the customers of product-led European tech companies. You are on a permanent indefinido contract from your first day, and the week is hybrid, so you are by the water when you are in the office and at home when you are not, with Oslo two and a half hours away whenever you need it. Around you is a city on the rise and a crowd of people from everywhere who made the same jump, the kind of people who go on to start companies, step into bigger roles and keep exploring. Add three hundred days of sun, a coast you can swim off before work, and a cost of living that lets a Spanish salary stretch further than you would think.
Swap the winter · permanent from day one
Permanent · Rolling intakes
Hiring nowMálagaHybrid
GermanCustomer advisor
German-speaking Customer Support Agent
The year you move abroad is the year you stop waiting for life to start. This is a solid place to do it: the German-speaking seat on a support team right on Málaga harbour, at a serious, established company that looks after the customers of European tech brands. You sit alongside colleagues who speak German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, so the office feels like a small Europe with better weather. The week is hybrid once you are settled in, and team activities and after-work events turn colleagues into friends. The team is growing, so there is real room to grow with it rather than sit in a queue. Around you is the fastest-rising city in the south of Spain, three hundred days of sun and a beach you can walk to after work.
Hiring now · a team from all over Europe
Full-time · Hiring over the next weeks
Hiring nowMadridHybrid
GermanInside sales
German-speaking Account Executive
If you want a career abroad rather than just a year in the sun, start here. A fast-growing e-commerce software company in Madrid is looking for a German-speaking Account Executive to grow the German market. It is outbound B2B sales: 80 to 100 calls a day, finding new businesses and taking them all the way from the first conversation to a signed deal. It is close to entry level despite the title, the team teaches you its own method, and the commission on top of your base salary has no ceiling. You can work from the Madrid office or remotely from anywhere in Spain. There is no relocation package, so this one is for people who can organise their own move or are already here. In return you get one of Europe's great capitals and a sales skill set that travels anywhere you go next.
Uncapped commission · a real B2B sales career
Full-time · As soon as you can
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