OBridge
- Time to first shortlist
- 24 hours
- Cost to search
- Free
- Pre-screened
- Yes
- Background checks
- Yes
- Contracts and payroll
- Handled
- Local entity needed
- No
- Replacement if it fails
- Yes
- Knows your startup already
- Yes
Describe the role in plain English. See matched engineers, what they cost, and how fast you can have them. OBridge already knows your stack and your stage.
Contracts, payroll, taxes and local compliance are handled for you. You do not need a company in the country your engineer lives in.
Senior engineers from around €3,900 a month, fully loaded. Your runway goes considerably further.
No search fee, no retainer, no charge for interviewing. You pay when an engineer begins work.
Technical evaluation, skills assessment and background checks all happen before a single candidate appears in your app.
Type it in plain English. No forms, no job description to write.
Matched engineers, what they cost, how many are available, how soon.
Technical evaluation, skills assessment, background checks. You only meet people who passed.
One click. Contracts, payroll and compliance handled. They start.
| Hiring yourself | A recruiter | Freelance platforms | OBridge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first shortlist | 4–12 weeks | 2–4 weeks | 3–7 days | 24 hours |
| Cost to search | Your time | 15–25% of salary | Free | Free |
| Pre-screened | No | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| Background checks | You | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| Contracts and payroll | You | You | You | Handled |
| Local entity needed | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Replacement if it fails | You start again | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| Knows your startup already | — | No | No | Yes |
Domain expertise, problem solving, and whether they can actually work remotely and communicate.
Code quality, debugging and system design, tested against what you specifically asked for.
Identity, employment history and legal eligibility to work.
Because you already have an OBridge profile, the hiring flow starts with your sector, your stage, your tech stack and the roles you have already listed. You are not filling in a form about your company for the fourth time this month.
When your startup is ready to build its team, the planned discovery network brings founder and talent profiles into the same place. Hiring illustrations are examples, not a live placement service.
No. Contracts, payroll, tax and local employment law are handled for you.
You pay the engineer's monthly rate and nothing else. No search fee, no retainer, no charge for interviewing.
Tell us and we replace them. You are not locked into a long contract.
A first shortlist within 24 hours of the call. How quickly someone starts depends on their notice period, which you can see before you commit.
Yes. Hourly, monthly, or a full team, and you can scale down.
No. Any founder on OBridge can hire.
One sentence is enough to start.