Engineers We Have Placed

New Era Visionary Group is a master systems integrator and the company TalentSync contracted with. Barça Mobile is the consumer product it delivers for a global football audience, and the project the team we assembled worked on.

The team was seven engineers: two Backend Java Developers, two Frontend Developers, two Android/Kotlin Multiplatform Specialists and one QA Engineer. Every one was sourced and technically vetted by TalentSync and selected by the client, and the team worked under the client’s technical leadership on the client’s architecture and roadmap.

We did not run the programme and we publish no figures about how the product performed in the market — those are the client’s numbers to publish, not ours. What we can state is who was placed, into which team, and what they worked on.

OptimEyes is a Belgian SaaS company that helps manufacturing and supply-chain teams find and fix operational bottlenecks. The brief was two senior people at once — a Senior Software Architect to own the technical direction of a component and a Senior Python Developer to build it — and both were integrated into the client’s team within two weeks of the brief.

An architect-and-developer pair is a different search from two developers. The two have to agree on how they will work before either meets the client, or the client inherits an argument on day one, so we screened them as a pair and presented them as one.

OptimEyes interviewed and selected both engineers; we ran the search and the technical screen. The engineers work inside the client’s repositories and to the client’s definition of done.

Entail AI builds a no-code conversion-rate-optimisation platform. TalentSync placed engineers onto the client’s content platform build, and the senior hires were screened for security and code-quality standards as much as for delivery speed.

The engineers worked inside Entail’s own repositories and review process, on work Entail scoped and prioritised. This was a placement, not a delivery contract: we did not own the roadmap and we did not ship the product.

The quote below is from Entail’s founder. It is about the engineers rather than about us, which is the only kind of reference worth reading.

Not a placement. Advisory engagement. No engineer was placed and no recruitment fee was involved.

Pixelette Technologies is a software development company. This is the one entry on this page that is not a placement: the work was advisory and covered sweat-equity structuring — how to set up equity-for-work arrangements with the people building a product.

We include it because leaving it out would make the record look tidier than it is, and because it is a conversation founders occasionally want to have with someone who has watched those arrangements go wrong.

To be unambiguous about the boundary: this was not investment advice, we are not licensed to give investment advice, and we do not tell anyone which companies to invest in.

Qualiwise builds an AI copilot for product quality. The brief was a single Senior Python Developer for a small team that was already shipping, which meant the engineer had to be productive without a long ramp-up and without a senior colleague to lean on.

We sourced and technically vetted the shortlist, Qualiwise interviewed and selected, and the engineer signed one week after the brief was agreed.

One week is fast for a senior Python role and it is not a service level we offer. It happened because the brief was precise, the interview loop was two rounds, and the right person happened to be available. Qualiwise’s founder is quoted below.

SocialBee is a social media management platform. The brief was two Senior Full-Stack Developers in Java and Angular, added to an existing product team rather than forming a squad of their own.

Both engineers signed within two weeks of the agreed brief. Java paired with Angular is a narrower search than it looks — most full-stack candidates in the region pair Angular with .NET or Node — so the two-week figure reflects a good match between the brief and our existing network rather than a repeatable rate.

The engineers worked inside SocialBee’s own sprint cadence, review process and definition of done, and SocialBee managed them directly.

Silvertalent builds a talent acquisition platform. The brief was three Full-Stack Developers in React and .NET at once, which is a different problem from filling one seat: three people have to be comparable in level, available on the same start date, and able to work alongside each other from week one.

All three signed within two weeks of the agreed brief. React with .NET is the strongest full-stack combination in the Moldovan and Romanian market, and that is the main reason a three-person brief moved at that pace.

Silvertalent is itself in the hiring business, so the bar for the shortlist was set by people who screen engineers for a living. That made the feedback loop unusually fast and unusually blunt, which we would take every time.

Foodamigos is a food delivery startup. The brief was one Senior Frontend Developer in Angular for a small team, and the engineer signed one week after the brief was agreed.

Startup briefs are usually the fastest searches we run, for an unglamorous reason: the founder is the interviewer, the decision needs one meeting, and there is no internal approval chain sitting between the shortlist and the offer.

The trade-off is that a small team gives a new engineer very little to lean on, so we screened for people who had worked without a platform team and without a senior colleague to escalate to. That is a different screen from the one a fifty-engineer product org needs, and running the wrong one is how a fast placement turns into a three-month problem.

Innovatec builds automation systems for hatcheries. The brief was a PLC Specialist — industrial control software rather than web or product engineering — and the engineer signed within two weeks of the agreed brief.

This is the least typical engagement on the list and the most useful one to read if your roles sit outside the usual product stacks. Industrial automation candidates do not come from the same pool as our web and backend engineers and they are not interchangeable with them, so we sourced this role separately.

If your hiring is in embedded, control systems or industrial software, say so at the brief and we will tell you honestly how deep our network is in that area rather than quietly running a general search.