Remote engineering placement
Northbound Talent places vetted engineers with US and EU companies on contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire terms. We do the technical screening, you do the hiring — and you always know exactly who you are hiring.
A typical placement
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Why teams use us
Most agencies optimise for volume. We optimise for the number of interviews you have to run before you make an offer.
We screen technically before you ever see a profile. A typical shortlist is three engineers, each with notes on what they're strong at and where they'd need support.
Every role has a stated overlap requirement, and we only present engineers who can genuinely hold those hours long-term — not just for the first month.
The engineer in the interview is the engineer who joins your standup. We verify identity and work history before anyone reaches your calendar.
How it works
Four steps, roughly three weeks for a typical senior role.
Forty-five minutes on the role, the team, the stack, and what “good” looks like six months in. We write the brief and you sign off on it.
We search our bench and the open market, then run a technical screen ourselves. You see notes from that screen, not just a résumé.
Usually three engineers within seven to ten days, each with availability, rate, and timezone confirmed in writing.
You interview and decide. We handle contracts, compliance, and payroll for contract engagements, and step back entirely on direct hires.
9 days
Median time to first shortlist
3.4
Interviews per placement, on average
94%
Contract engagements extended past month three
12
Countries our engineers work from
Open roles
Roles we are actively shortlisting for right now.
Series B fintech, New York
Own the ledger and settlement services that sit behind every payout on the platform. This is deep backend work with real correctness constraints, not CRUD.
Enterprise SaaS, Amsterdam
Lead the second version of a design system used by 30 engineers, with a hard accessibility bar and a migration path that can't break existing screens.
Health-tech scale-up, Boston
Set the paved road for 120 engineers: deploy tooling, service templates, and the guardrails that keep a regulated platform auditable.
Tell us what you are building and who you need. We come back within one working day with a plan and an honest read on how hard the search will be.
We work with senior engineers who want remote roles at companies that treat remote as normal rather than as a concession.