IT Recruitment in Eastern Europe

…is just the beginning. We’ll build & launch your software R&D center
from scratch, and: 

  • Hire Silicon-Valley-level tech talents in Eastern Europe
  • Focus on building teams of 10+ software engineers
  • Recruit cultural fits for your company
  • Provide Eastern Europe’s talent pool guidance & salary benchmarking
  • Include EOR solution

High-Speed Recruiting to Build
a Senior Engineering Team in Eastern Europe

5 engineers within 1 month
20+ engineers within 3 months
100+ engineers within 1 year

Get Superior IT Recruitment Services in Eastern Europe

8 CVs to get 1

accepted offer

80% of our candidates

are approved by clients

98,6% of our hires

pass probation

5 business days

to send you first CVs

2-6 weeks

to close a vacancy

2.5 years

is the average tenure of our hires

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Why IT staffing in Eastern Europe?

1+ million tech talent

Eastern Europe is a tech powerhouse with 1.5 million software developers, and Poland, Romania, and Ukraine leading the charge. With so much talent at your fingertips, finding your ideal developer has never been easier.

Silicon Valley-grade tech expertise

Eastern European IT talents have carved out a reputation as top-tier tech experts, consistently ranking high on platforms like SkillValue, TopCoder, and HackerRank. Their mastery spans across languages like JavaScript, Python, C++, TypeScript, PHP, HTML, and other technologies. 

Unmatched cost savings

Western tech companies slash their local salary expenses by 2-3 times when tapping into Eastern Europe’s talent pool. With senior software developers in Eastern Europe earning around $68,000 annually, compared to the $117,600 typical in the US, the savings are substantial.

Cultural match

Choosing Eastern European software engineers means embracing a Western-like approach to mindset and business ethics. Plus, Eastern European software developers excel in English, with Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria ranking in the global top 20. They masterfully meet development requirements, seamlessly integrate feedback, and communicate with ease, both in writing and speech.

Excellent STEM education

The talent pool in Eastern Europe is growing rapidly, with local universities churning out around 80,000 STEM specialists each year. In fact, 133 local institutions are featured in the QS World University Rankings, ensuring that Eastern European programmers receive top-notch tech education and training. 

Thriving tech scene

This booming tech market has captured the interest of industry giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Sift, drawing them to establish their R&D operations in the region. Ready to join the ranks and create your own success story here?

Get to Know Us Better

We provide full cycle IT recruitment services in Eastern Europe:

  • Initial consultation and local guidance
  • Salary benchmarking
  • Sourcing, interviewing, negotiating with candidates
  • Onboarding, employment, and payroll solutions

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Meet Our Dedicated IT Recruiters

Alina Grytsenko

Senior Recruiter

Anastasiia Tertychnaya

Senior IT Recruiter

Bianka Jaworska

Senior IT Recruiter

Daryna Gornitska

Chief IT Recruitment & Client Development

David Gomez

Lead Tech Recruiter in LATAM

Diana Lepadat

Tech Recruitment Lead

Dmytro Yuzenko

Senior IT Recruiter

Elena Kravets

Senior Recruiter

Maryna Panchuk

Head of IT Recruitment Department

Rebeca Szasz

Middle IT Recruiter

Viktoriia Krut

Senior IT Recruiter

Weronika Sobieralska

Senior IT Recruiter

Yulia Baranovskaya

Senior IT Recruiter

Mariana Prokopiuk

Lead of IT Researchers Team

Myroslava Dovhanych

Junior IT Recruiter

Our Recruitment Process

Kick-off call

  • Discuss your hiring needs and requirements
  • Report on salaries and talent pool for open positions
  • Negotiate and sign the contract

Preparation

  • Create a hiring strategy
  • Compose ideal candidate profiles
  • Define and promote your EVP to local developers

Candidate Search & HR Interview

  • Source, headhunt, and pre-screen candidates
  • Conduct the HR interview
  • Evaluate the candidates’ experience, previous projects, English level, and soft skills

Tech Interviews & Offer

  • Let you conduct tech interviews and test tasks
  • Update you on the hiring progress weekly
  • Manage job offers
  • Work with offer rejections and counteroffers, if any

Post-offer support

  • Accept payment for hires
  • Help you onboard your hires 3-month candidate replacement warranty
  • Employment, payroll, and other operational support

Result

Your own software development team in Eastern Europe of your size, budget, and required skills

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More Than Just IT Recruitment in Eastern Europe

Alcor is an all-in-one place to establish and run a turnkey software R&D center in Eastern Europe:

  • Employer of Record support — no need to set up your legal entity
  • From 0 to 100 software developers in one key talent pool
  • Establish your corporate culture with your own team. No intermediary
  • No buy-out or other hidden fees
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Companies Scaling with Alcor

Alcor is a reliable partner that meets our hiring needs. We finally hired experienced software engineers in Eastern Europe with strong tech skills and business acumen. Account Managers are awesome!

Andrii Akselrod CTO People.ai

With Alcor’s all-in-one solution, we got a software R&D office with 15 senior PHP devs and a compliant operational coverage. I really appreciated their transparent pricing structure and deep expertise.

Boris Glants CTO Tonic Health

We interviewed a lot of EoR platforms and companies, but Alcor was the only one that provides a combo package of EoR and Recruting offerings. Alcor helped us build a full stack team in 1.5 month.

Dmitrii Iermiichuk Head of Engineering Gotransverse

We wanted to switch from our outsourcing provider, and Alcor has become really game-changing for us. Within a mere 6 months, we got a fully-fledged team of 30 engineers in our own R&D office.

Elena Leonova Director of Product Management BigСommerce

Alcor’s R&D solution eclipses full-cycle recruitment, EOR service, and operational support for our offshore team. Their ‘all-in-one place’ approach is far more cost-effective than I could’ve imagined.

Farhad Shamshirzan
Farhad Shamshirzan Director of Software Engineering Certent

I value their commitment to going the extra mile. We evolved from an outstaff project into an independent company, and Alcor’s support was crucial. They hired and ondoarded 15+ professionals for us.

Grigoriy Didorenko Research and Development Director BIScience

Thanks to Alcor, we hired four engineers and a designer that strengthened our team. Beside stellar recruitment, Alcor flawlessly handled our payroll. Their approach was seamless and swift.

Kirill Latish Head of Engineering & Communications Velory

Alcor closed our 4 QA positions in a month and more than doubled the team in a year! We chose Alcor because of their communication style, cost, scope of services, and ideas to help us be successful.

Vitalii Belelia Production Management & App Support Manager Ledger

FAQ about IT recruitment services in Eastern Europe

1) Is it cheaper to hire software developers in Eastern Europe?

Yes, with hiring software developers in Eastern Europe, you can save from 30% to 70%, while scaling your company at the same time. Here’s what makes it possible: the difference in salaries & taxes and Alcor’s comprehensive all-in-one-place software R&D center solution without buy-out fees.

In the US, a senior software developer earns up to $180,000 a year, while software engineering experts from Eastern Europe make, on average, $83,500. The regional taxation policies also offer lower tax rates.

Lastly, our approach goes beyond finding software developers. We get you a software team that’s yours from day one — cut costs by not paying buy-out fees!

2) What are the benefits of building a development team with Alcor?

With Alcor’s 360-degree model, there’s no need to engage with multiple vendors to establish your R&D team offshore or nearshore. In one place without additional intermediaries, you receive full-cycle IT recruitment services alongside effective Employer of Record support that eliminates the need to establish your legal entity in the target location.

Additionally, we assist in leasing office space, providing employee benefits, procuring laptops and other equipment for your team, and much more. Just share your needs, and we’ll take care of them all!

3) How fast can Alcor build a development team in Eastern Europe? 

We pride ourselves on expeditious tech recruitment — stellar quality within tight timeframes. Alcor’s average time to close a vacancy when hiring a developer is 2-6 weeks. In just 1 day of our cooperation, you’ll get blind CVS. In the next 5 days, we’ll start sending you CVs of pre-vetted candidates whom you’d want to invite for an interview right away.

4) Can you headhunt C-level management in Eastern Europe?

That’s an ace up our sleeve. We’ve amassed 7 years of experience in the industry and accumulated the best practices in recruiting C-level and Lead specialists! That’s why, C-level management positions, such as CTO, CIO, CMO, CFO, and others, come to our recruiters as easy as pie. Our clients attest to it: we hired the Head of R&D for Sift, an online fraud detection application development firm, from the second CV. Other successful cases include the Director of Engineering for Dotmatics and the Deployment Lead for Ledger. 

5) What about payroll, accounting, and office lease?

If you hire an application or web development team with Alcor, there’s no need to establish your legal entity in a target location. With our comprehensive EoR support, we take care of all the nuts and bolts for your software developers. It includes the employment of software engineers, monthly payroll management, tax payments, compliance with all local laws, and even more. With our turnkey solution, you can be assured — we guarantee 100% compliance while handling all the paperwork. 

Finally, if you want to pump it up, opt for our R&D services with full operational support, office lease, and equipment procurement.