Engineering recruitment · New York
Engineering recruitment in New York.
Founder-led engineering recruitment for New York 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 New York
New York is a top-tier engineering market, home to fintech, enterprise SaaS and a fast-growing AI scene, with compensation to match. Demand for strong backend, platform and ML engineers is intense, and candidates here move quickly and expect a sharp process.
We screen every engineer technically before you meet them, so your time goes on people who can genuinely do the work. Whether you are a US company scaling a New York team or a European business opening a first American office, we bring the reach and the technical judgement to hire well. We can also advise on the compensation structure that will actually land a candidate here, where base, equity and the speed of your process all matter.
For current pay, see the New York tech salary guide. Ready to hire? Tell us the role.
Active desk
Engineering searches we are running in New York.
We recruit engineering roles for New York 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 New York.
- 1 Brief
A call with a founder to scope the engineering role: the work, the level, the package and what good looks like in New York.
- 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 New York, answered.
What does OpenSource's technical screen cover for engineers in New York?
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 New York?
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 New York?
For most engineering roles in New York 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 New York on a contingent or retained basis?
Both. Most individual engineering hires in New York 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 New York?
We recruit into New York from London, where both founders are based, and we have placed into New York teams for several years. Searches run remotely with video interviews, and we travel for leadership searches and client onboarding where it adds value.