Index.dev

I’m the CEO & co-founder of Index.dev - where we help leading companies scale their engineering team. Index works with companies like Omio/GoEuro, Vodafone, YC startups, as well as small and medium-sized tech companies. The problem is that hiring engineers in local markets is expensive and competitive. Limited local supply, however plenty on the global level.

We are building a global platform of remote engineers that can improve the chance of competing and building software products for many businesses, limited otherwise by in-country recruiting.

Index is a UK-based company. We combine in-country sourcing, a rigorous vetting process, hassle-free recruitment, and an easy-to-hire business model to help enterprises scale their remote engineering teams, manage them efficiently, and retain top-notch employees.

The moment of inception for Index was 2019 - I remember that year distinctly because I had to graduate from Oxford. I was living in San Francisco at that time. I’ve already experienced problems with hiring full-time remote engineers for my projects.  The process was opaque, painful, and expensive. On one side, the skilled tech talent from the different regions like CEE, CCA, and LATAM couldn’t find the exciting opportunities offered by international start-ups.

In a startup, you need to find the right team to help you make amazing products that your customers will love. Finding the right team is hard. It’s especially hard if you restrict your search to the city your company is based. In New York, London, or Berlin, hiring top tech talent is costly and can take months.

We decided to embark on the journey so that we can contribute to a world of reducing inequality, empower a more distributed, diverse workforce, and create a future in which the brightest local talent wouldn’t have to leave their country for a better future. Remote work means more equal opportunities for all around the world. A more distributed world.

During COVID we managed to grow 9x our revenue and we weren’t able to cope with all the demand generated. We also had customers that hired engineers 2 years ago and are still with us. Our top clients grew 11x, after 1 year with us. This makes us believe that what we are building is in high demand and will be, as leading companies have adopted remote work as one of the solutions.

Now Index strives to help talented people build a career remotely with their human potential, not their geographical location, race, or gender, and companies expand their teams.

We have clients in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe (Germany, Ireland, Sweden) that have already hired developers from Poland, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, etc. via our platform to get their projects off the ground.

Index.dev is a talent cloud that enables companies to hire, manage and scale their engineering teams. The company is building an intelligent matching infrastructure that makes the remote hiring journey easy, providing in-depth developer profiles, a rigorous vetting process, and fast hiring and management solutions for current and future hiring challenges.
 

An intelligent talent marketplace like Index takes the hiring process that typically requires months and shortens it to days.
 

Our expertly vetted team of professionals delivers best-fit candidates in many programming frameworks and languages, so your software project is always in good hands.
 

Here are 5 ways Index gives software projects peace of mind.
 

In technology ecosystems, rapidly growing or newly minted tech companies need to hire thousands of developers every year.
 

From hiring managers of large companies to startup founders, all quote the challenges to compete to hire good talent that is available locally. The local market is so competitive that a candidate with as low as two years of experience is offered compensation as high as a top executive in non-tech industries.
 

That’s why more and more companies are relying on a geographically dispersed workforce. But distributed workforce and freelance platforms are hit or miss in terms of quality.
 

A time-consuming screening process costs you a lot. Painful mis-hires cost you much, much more. With Index, you avoid all of this and see a huge return on investment every single year.
 

With Index, all developers are rigorously screened and vetted for high standards, saving companies time and money: typically 50 hours per hour and 5,000$ per hire.
 

Once matched, companies hire a senior developer and enjoy a 97% success rate in engagement and retention. We vet only candidates who are ready to work full-time and on long-term engagements in the most promising markets.
 

We pick best-fit candidates that can offer functional expertise combined with a deep, cultural fit. The top 3% percent of talent produces the best results.
 

These draw on the benefits of international diversity, bringing together people from many cultures with varied work experiences and different perspectives on strategic and organizational challenges.
 

We are building the world’s most client- and developer-centric company and take the privilege of growing developer careers very seriously, through:
 

This attracts the best and brightest to join the Index platform from all over the world.

And all this helps multinational companies compete in the current business environment.

Index specialized in the recruitment of nearly 100 software engineering skills, from the most popular like Python, Java, Angular, React, and Android developers to cutting-edge areas such as Data Engineering, DevOps, Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, and QA, Designers, Project Manager & Blockchain.

The companies who hire on our platform have diverse backgrounds in eCommerce Gaming & Betting, Finance, Education, Logistics, New Tech, or Crypto and are hand-picked by our team. We have customers that hire developers for the third time in a row.
For example, in the Finance industry, we have dedicated sourcing managers that screen best-fit candidates from dozens of certified experts. They choose only those who have been recognized with industry awards for game-changing applications and business solutions across the entire finance and banking landscape. From the client-side, we have dedicated account managers that assign a dev and get projects over the finish line through custom software solutions, industry specific programming, up-to-date functionalities, and streamlined, end-to-end hiring processes. For this field, we can serve Investment Banks, Retail & Commercial Banks, Wealth Management Institutions, Market Data Providers, Technology Providers, and Insurance Providers with solutions like: Digital Banking Transformation; Service Design; Global Digital Wealth Management Applications; Front-to-Back Office Trading; Risk Management Applications for Capital Markets; Crypto; Electronic Trading; Connectivity & Security.

We have an Embedded Linux software engineer in Turkey working for a US-based innovator and manufacturer of a wide range of computing devices. We have Android developers in Serbia working for the world’s #1 fishing app from Sweden. And there are dozens of software engineers who are working from their hometowns and opening better career opportunities every day. Top skills, experience, rate expectations and time zone overlap - all contribute to a chance for being picked by us and pitched to the companies.

Index specializes in the recruitment of nearly 100 software engineering skills, including popular programming languages Python, Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, Front End, Go, Rust, Ruby, Android, iOS developers, and cutting-edge areas such as Data Engineering, DevOps, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and even Quantum Computing. We also take any project off the ground by screening, vetting, and matching senior QA, Designers, Project Managers, and Software support specialists.

9.5 from 10. We run client satisfaction surveys, and monitor developer-client interactions, assessment, collaboration, and matching satisfaction.

We do regular (more like monthly) call/catch-up communications regarding current progress and satisfaction regarding Index's talents.
 

We have a dedicated Account Manager (AE) that is always available to assist with any inquiries or needs the client might have during and after an active engagement.

We have dedicated Managers that are in communication with local talents, to make sure they get onboarded within the client's team and deliver up to the client's expectations.

Pay per hour on a contract basis.

We don’t have a minimum requirement, but our rates start at 50 USD an hour.

50-180$/hour.

In 10 years, I envision Index being one step closer to becoming the leading marketplace for remote hiring. We work towards helping companies unleash the world’s most valuable resource - untapped global talent.