Engineering recruitment · Berlin
Engineering recruitment in Berlin.
Founder-led engineering recruitment for Berlin startups and scale-ups. Every candidate is technically screened by us before you see a CV, so your interview time goes on people who can do the job.
Hiring engineers in Berlin
Berlin is one of the largest and most international startup hubs in Europe, and its engineering market reflects that: deep, diverse and highly competitive for senior talent. Backend, platform and infrastructure engineers are in constant demand across the city’s consumer, fintech and B2B scale-ups. English-first teams are the norm, which widens the pool but also the competition.
We screen every engineer technically before you meet them, and we know how to move at the pace this market demands. Whether you are making your first senior hire or scaling a platform team, we bring the network and the technical judgement. We can also help you hire across languages and seniorities, and set realistic timelines for a market where strong engineers routinely weigh several offers at once.
For current pay, see the Berlin tech salary guide. Ready to hire? Tell us the role.
Active desk
Engineering searches we are running in Berlin.
We recruit engineering roles for Berlin companies regularly and keep warm, technically screened pipelines for the searches we run most often. Tell us the role and we will come back with who is available.
How it works
How we run a engineering search in Berlin.
- 1 Brief
A call with a founder to scope the engineering role: the work, the level, the package and what good looks like in Berlin.
- 2 Search
We approach our network and the passive market. Most strong candidates are not applying anywhere.
- 3 Screen
A founder interviews every candidate technically before you see them, and writes up the evidence.
- 4 Shortlist and close
You interview a short list of people who can do the job. We manage offers, counter-offers and notice periods through to start.
“OpenSource was able to service all of our hiring needs and has left our teams in a really strong place. Their integration into our business was seamless.”
FAQ
Engineering recruitment in Berlin, answered.
What does OpenSource's technical screen cover for engineers in Berlin?
A founder who has written production software interviews every engineer before you meet them: the systems they have built and owned, the trade-offs they made, how they debug, and how they work with product and other engineers. You receive a written summary with the CV, so the first interview starts from evidence rather than a keyword match.
Which engineering roles do you recruit in Berlin?
Backend, frontend, full-stack and mobile engineers from mid to staff and principal level, platform, infrastructure and DevOps engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers. Stack-specific searches, for example Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Java or Rust, run against the same screen.
How quickly can OpenSource deliver a engineering shortlist in Berlin?
For most engineering roles in Berlin we come back with a technically screened shortlist within days of agreeing the brief. We screen every candidate ourselves before you see them, so the time you spend is on interviews, not on filtering CVs.
Do you recruit engineering roles in Berlin on a contingent or retained basis?
Both. Most individual engineering hires in Berlin run contingent, where you pay only on a successful placement. Leadership and business-critical searches run retained, with a committed process and full market mapping. Teams hiring several roles at once often prefer an embedded arrangement, where one of the founders works inside your team for a fixed period.
Does OpenSource have people on the ground in Berlin?
We recruit into Berlin from London, where both founders are based, and we have placed into Berlin teams for several years. Searches run remotely with video interviews, and we travel for leadership searches and client onboarding where it adds value.