Africa-built.
Globally
accountable.
We're a senior-led technology consultancy headquartered in Lagos. We work with companies that take their critical systems seriously — and we engineer software with the same seriousness.
Empower businesses with cutting-edge software engineering, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions — accelerating digital transformation, hardening security, and driving measurable innovation.
We believe Africa's tech talent is world-class and ready to build at world-class standards. Hexcore exists to prove that, one production system at a time. We hire, train, and pay accordingly — talent is global, and opportunity should be too.
We are pragmatic, opinionated, and obsessed with the boring details that separate impressive launches from durable businesses. Code review, observability, runbooks, postmortems — defaults, not extras.
Our clients hire us when the stakes are real. We don't treat critical systems as a learning opportunity for juniors, and we don't treat engagements as a path to selling more engagements. The work is the work.
Long-term partnerships outlast individual projects. Our largest clients have been with Hexcore for four years. The best engagements end with our engineers having quietly worked themselves out of a job — and being asked to come back for the next one.
What we
actually believe.
Craft over speed-of-output
Velocity that produces fragile systems is not velocity — it's debt with extra steps. We optimise for shipped, durable, owned-by-someone code.
The operator is the customer
The person on call at 2am with our pager is our customer. Their experience is the most honest review of our work.
Documentation is engineering
An ADR, a runbook, a postmortem — these are first-class deliverables, not afterthoughts. Future-you is paying for them.
Diversity is operational, not decorative
Our engineering, security, and AI teams are intentionally diverse. Different problem-decomposition styles surface different bugs. That's the value.
Africa is a hub, not a back office
Our engineers ship to four continents from Lagos. We hire, train, and pay accordingly. Talent is global; opportunity should be too.
Boring tech, applied with taste
We default to the proven boring tools. We add novelty only where it earns its keep. Surprise is the enemy of operations.
Six years.
Quiet compounding.
Senior people.
Doing the work.
Our leadership is operationally involved in client engagements — they review the code, run the steering committees, and sit on the on-call rotations.
15 years across payments, telco, and platform engineering. Previously led engineering at a regional fintech and built distributed systems at a tier-1 mobile operator. Founded Hexcore to prove African engineering can ship at world-class standards.
Distributed systems specialist with deep experience operating Kubernetes platforms at scale. Owns Hexcore's engineering standards, hiring bar, and on-call practices.
ML engineer turned AI systems architect. Has shipped production ML in fraud, healthcare, and search. Leads Hexcore's AI-Native practice and is responsible for our eval-first engineering culture.
OSCP, CISSP. Background in offensive security and compliance for regulated industries. Runs Hexcore's offensive testing practice and our internal secure-SDLC.
AWS / Azure / GCP certified architect with a decade of migration experience. Leads our cloud strategy engagements and FinOps practice.
Product designer with a background in regulated-industry UX. Owns the design practice that ships interfaces clinicians, regulators, and operators actually want to use.
Engineering excellence is non-negotiable
We write code the way a structural engineer pours concrete. Reviewed. Tested. Observed in production. Boring on purpose.
We build for the operator, not the demo
Launches are easy. Operating a system that doesn't wake people up at 3am is the work. We optimize for the second one.
Africa-built. Globally accountable.
We are headquartered in Lagos and we work to international standards. Our clients span four continents. Our timezone covers the gap.
Security is a feature, not a phase
Threat modelling at design time. VAPT before launch. Compliance as a continuous practice, not a once-a-year scramble.
Senior people, doing the work
The architect who scoped your project will be on the standups. We don't bait-and-switch with juniors. The ratio is the offer.
Honest counsel, every time
If a feature is a bad idea, we'll tell you. If you don't need us anymore, we'll say so. Trust outlasts any single engagement.
How we
build the team.
We hire senior. The median engineer at Hexcore has 7+ years of production experience. We don't do graduate intakes — we run a paid apprenticeship program for high-potential builders instead. Quality of decisions per engineer is the metric we optimise for.
Our interview is intentionally boring: a take-home (paid), a deep technical conversation about that take-home, a system-design round on a real problem, and a values conversation with leadership. No whiteboard puzzles. No live-coding stress tests.
Senior engineers at Hexcore earn world-class compensation benchmarked against US / EU bands, not local market rates. We publish bands internally and review them annually. Talent is global; opportunity should be.
Hybrid — 2 days per week in our Lagos office, the rest remote. We default to async written communication. Meetings have agendas or get cancelled. Documentation is engineering, not overhead.
We invest in our engineers' long-term careers. Annual conference budget, paid open-source time, internal tech-talks, and rotations across practices for those who want them. We'd rather lose a great engineer to a great opportunity than keep a stagnant one.
Diversity at Hexcore is operational, not decorative. Our hiring panels are diverse by design, our internal mobility is open and published, and we report representation metrics in our annual operating review.
Common
questions.
Most engagements begin with a discovery sprint — a fixed-scope, fixed-price 1–3 week phase that produces a decision-grade document: scope, architecture, risks, team shape, and a price for the build. You can act on it, take it to another vendor, or shelf it. There is no obligation to continue with us after discovery.
We offer three pricing shapes: (1) fixed-scope, fixed-price for discovery and clearly-bounded work; (2) outcome-priced for builds where the deliverable is well-defined; (3) embedded squads on T&M for ongoing capability. We avoid time-and-materials for new builds because it misaligns our incentives with yours.
Yes. Our engagement model assigns a senior architect to every project from discovery through to launch. They run the standups, write the critical code, and sit in the steering committee. We do not bait-and-switch with juniors after the sale.
Yes. We currently have active engagements across four continents. Our timezone (GMT+1) overlaps well with EMEA, Africa, and the eastern half of the Americas. We've operated alongside teams in San Francisco, London, Berlin, Nairobi, and Dubai.
Yes. We routinely sign mutual NDAs at the discovery stage, master services agreements for ongoing work, and data processing agreements where personal data is in scope (GDPR, NDPR, HIPAA where applicable). Our standard MSA is available on request.
All code produced for a client is the client's property, assigned on payment. We retain rights only to generic frameworks, internal tooling, and patterns we developed before the engagement. Source code is delivered with full history, in your repositories, under your DevOps accounts.
Hexcore is ISO 27001-aligned (certification in progress). All engineers complete annual security training. Client data is processed only on need-to-know, only in approved environments, and never copied to personal devices. Production access is auditable, time-bound, and reviewed quarterly.
We surface concerns early — usually in the weekly demo — and escalate to the steering committee within one cycle. If the original hypothesis is wrong, we re-plan in the open. We don't burn budget pretending things are fine; honest counsel is principle 06 for a reason.
Engineers who
give a damn.
We're always interested in talking to senior engineers, security practitioners, and AI builders who want to do their best work alongside other people who also want to do their best work. If that's you, the inbox is open.