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Unlike typical agencies, we offer:
Tech Interviews Tailored to Your Role
Compensation Locked-in Before You Meet
Payroll, Timezone, Your Way All The Way
Search for candidates
Spend weeks searching through job boards and LinkedIn
Screen resumes
Review hundreds of resumes with unverified skills
Multiple interviews
Conduct 3-5 rounds of interviews per candidate
Meet (& Assess)
Meet engineers we interviewed for you specifically
Negotiate terms
Lengthy back-and-forth on rates and availability
Get to work
Get your new teammate up to speed
Our streamlined process
Simply tell us what you need. We go through an entire interview process tailored to you. Then we introduce you only to the engineers we know meet your needs.
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Tell Us What You Need
We are engineers and tech founders. We will understand you.
Let's discuss your needsProject Requirements
Title:
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Tech Stack:
Experience Level:
Senior (5+ years)
Description:
We are starting a new venture building an innovative education platform. We are looking for an exceptional full stack engineer. We need someone who will spend most of their time on the backend and will be able to produce scalable, optimized code, but will also stay familiar with and contribute to the frontend. The individual will also need to have very good system design skills and help the team make arhitectural....
We Interview, You Review
We start fresh for every client. No pre-vetted pool - we find and fully assess the best currently-available engineers specifically for you. You get simple profiles with plain language summaries, recorded interviews, and coding scores.
Selected Engineers
Alex C.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Sarah M.
Senior Full Stack Developer
David K.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Contract & Start
Contract terms are agreed upfront. Select your engineer and get to work.
Try hiring with usContract Signed
Alex C.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Start Date
Today
Duration
6 months
Why We Started Astrid
We've built teams at startups and at FAANG companies. The worst part? Getting flooded with bad candidates from recruiters who couldn't tell React from Redux. So we created Astrid — a way to hire great engineers without wasting weeks on interviews that go nowhere.
A Recruitment Agency that Actually Recruits
What we deliver that others don't
In-Depth Technical & Soft-Skill Screening
Skip time-consuming interviews and meet only offer-ready talent. Let our ex-FAANG engineers run the same multi-stage technical and behavioural assessments we use for our own hires.
Offshore Rates, Brilliant EU Engineers
Pay offshore-level rates yet gain senior EU engineers. They deliver high-quality code & effective communication - all close to your timezone.
Tech-Fluent Partners
Tired of recruiters parroting your job description? Let senior engineers vet the role first, then hand-pick talent who'll ship real features from day one.
No-Negotiation Hiring
Rate, schedule and T&Cs are locked in before you meet the engineer - no surprises, no last-minute renegotiations, no lost candidates.
One-Contract Hiring
Forget cross-border paperwork. We carry every payroll, tax and IP liability inside the EU/UK framework, while you receive one predictable invoice.
1-Page Profiles & Recorded Interviews
Skill scores, interview videos, strengths and weaknesses - everything distilled on one page for easy, confident decisions.
One Page Giant Leap
The results of a world-class tech interview process provided to you at first sight
David K.
Senior Full Stack Developer • 9 years
Eastern Europe (UTC+2)
View Recorded Interview
Tech Stack
Technical Assessment
backend
8/10
frontend
7/10
system Design
9/10
problem Solving
8/10
code Quality
7/10
Soft Skills
communicates Clearly
8/10
teamplayer
9/10
leadership
9/10
Key Strengths
Backend development, complex algorithms, system architecture, and leading technical teams.
Areas for Growth
He excells at the backend. He could not immediately recall some details related to frontend technologies (React) and his frontend code was not as efficient as expected, but it was functional.
Summary
David is a very good full stack engineer. While it was not originally highlighted on his CV, our interview revealed that he does have experience with Flask, MongoDB, and Kubernetes as the customer requires. He can readily build both on the frontend and backend. He was able to communicate clearly and has leaderhip skills as evidenced by his history leading projects for fintech and e-commerce clients. He would love to be challenged with complex algorithms.
"At Google, I loved building teams and creating a culture where we could thrive. It's deeply satisfying to bring the right people together and watch a superstar team emerge. At Astrid, I get to help people do just that and still have time every day to code, learn and build what excites me. It honestly feels like a dream come true."
Andrew
Ex-Google Senior Software Engineer
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