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Index.dev is a tech recruitment platform that helps businesses find, hire, and manage remote software developers.

About

Index.dev is a global tech recruitment platform for remote software engineers[Forbes]. The platform helps businesses hire and manage worldwide tech talent, enabling them to build software products faster and compete globally[2]

Index.dev works with companies like Omio, Perforce Software, MATSUKO, and Venly, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. The company headquarters is in London, United Kingdom.

History

Sergiu Matei and Mike Sokirka founded the company in 2019 when Sergiu graduated from Oxford University. Before Index.dev, Sergiu founded Travod [Source] - the marketplace for multilingual language localization, reaching $10M net in revenue.

Encountering problems with hiring full-time developers themselves, the co-founders decided to build a recruiting platform that could help engineers from untapped markets in Central Eastern Europe, Latin America, Caucasus, and Asia access better employment opportunities overseas with no need to relocate.

Index.dev started as a remote-first company with no dedicated offices. During COVID, Index.dev grew 9x in revenue. [Source] As of 2021, Index.dev provides software developers from five continents access opportunities with companies in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Singapore on long-term embedded contracts.

So far, the platform counts over 8,000+ pre-vetted software engineers across a range of roles (full-stack, frontend, backend, DevOps, big data, AI, machine learning) and technologies (Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or Go).

Service and business model

Index.dev offers a range of services from custom software development to hiring dedicated development teams. The platform combines in-country sourcing, a rigorous vetting process, payment management, global compliance, and an easy-to-hire business model to help enterprises scale their remote engineering teams, manage them efficiently, and improve retention.G2

The company’s revenue model is based on fees charged to clients for sourcing, matching, and managing project-dedicated developers. Clients pay Index.dev a margin from the hourly rates of the project-assigned developers.

Talent search & vetting

Index.dev mainly focuses on outsourcing developers from Central Eastern Europe, Balkan, Baltic, and LatAm regions.

The platform designed a multi-level vetting process to evaluate candidates’ qualifications and eligibility, including code reviews, background checks, screening interviews, technical assessments, culture fit, time-zone preference, and English literacy. [Source]

Each developer is manually vetted to ensure he meets multiple criteria like technical skill sets, past projects, industry knowledge, ability to meet deadlines, ability to work in a remote team, time-zone overlap, frameworks, and time management. As a result, only the top 3% of applicants make the final cut. [Source]

External link Official website