IT Recruitment in Romania

It’s just the beginning of your seamless expansion to Romania. We’ll build and operate your own tech team at a fracture of a cost. You’ll get: 

  • Silicon Valley-caliber development team of 10+ software engineers in Romania
  • Romania’s talent pool guidance & salary benchmarking
  • Employer of Record service — compliant employment without legal entity
  • Cultural fits for your company
  • No intermediary in team management

High-Speed Recruiting to Build
a Senior Engineering Team in Romania

5
developers
in 1 month
20+
developers
in 3 months
100+ developers in 1 year

Get Superior IT Recruitment Services in Romania

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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Tech Business Choose IT Staffing in Romania

Rich talent pool

Romania is electrifying the tech world with its 240,000+ tech specialists, landing 4th in Europe for ICT talent— just behind Poland, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. The majority of local IT talent thrives in buzzing tech hubs like Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Iași.

Google-like tech expertise

Romanian software engineers are like the rock stars of the tech world, excelling in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, and cutting-edge tools like React, Angular, HTML, and CSS. With the most certified IT specialists in Europe and 6th place globally, Bulgaria is making big waves in tech!

2-3 times trimmed costs

In Romania, senior software developers pull in about $70,800 a year, while their US counterparts make around $117,600 annually. Plus, companies enjoy a sweet deal with corporate taxes as low as 1% or 16%, depending on their revenue.

Fluent English command

Romania is 15th globally and 13th in Europe for English language proficiency out of 113 countries. This helps local programmers easily communicate with foreign employers and colleagues, removing any language barriers and facilitating effective communication.

Excellent tech education

Romania is home to over 27 universities offering top-notch programs in engineering, programming, cybersecurity, and more. The country adds over 10,000 talented STEM graduates to its IT workforce each year, keeping the tech talent pool fresh and vibrant!

Flourishing IT scene

With over 7,930 IT businesses and more than 1,500 startups, Romania also houses R&D offices of major tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Oracle, and others. Ready to join the club?

Get to Know Us Better

We provide full cycle IT recruitment services in Romania:

  • Initial consultation and local guidance
  • Salary benchmarking
  • Sourcing, initial and tech interviewing,
  • Negotiating with candidates
  • Onboarding, employment, and payroll solutions
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Meet Our Dedicated IT Recruiters

Diana Lepadat

Lead Recruiter

David Gomez

Lead Recruiter

Bianka Jaworska

Senior IT Recruiter

Yulia Baranovskaya

Senior IT Recruiter

Weronika Sobieralska

Senior IT Recruiter

Rebeca Szasz

Senior IT Recruiter

Myroslava Dovhanych

IT Recruiter

Alina Grytsenko

Senior IT Recruiter

Mariana Prokopiuk

Lead of the Researcher Team

Karolina Nosek

Senior IT Researcher

Yuliia Vovk

Senior IT Researcher

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 Romania of your size, budget, and required skills

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More Than Just IT Recruitment in Romania

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

  • 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 Romania

1) Are Romanian developers good tech specialists?

Indeed, Romanian developers are known for their tech skills and great knowledge of English. The most popular technologies among local programmers are Java, .NET, PHP, C++, C#, and Python, with web programming expertise prevailing. 

2) What are the average salaries of Romanian developers?

Romanian developers’ salaries are lower than those in Western Europe. For example, Full-Stack Software Developers in Bucharest make $21,000-$72,000 (Junior-Senior), DevOps–$30,000-$84,500, Mobile App Developers–$13,500-$68,000, Back-End Engineers–$21,000-$72,000, Game Developers–$10,000-$68,000. It also depends on the technology stack. However, it mostly depends on the tech stack your product has and the seniority level you need.

3) How to hire developers in Romania?

There are several ways of hiring Romanian software engineers. You can find a freelance specialist, get an outsourced team, or hire a team of developers via a manpower agency (also called an employment agency). For the latter option, be sure to partner with a reliable tech hiring agency, preferably in Bucarest, with a proven track record in IT recruitment. 

4) Why tech companies choose IT staffing in Romania?

Romania ranks 3rd among the biggest talent pools in Eastern Europe which is a new promising job market for US companies. What’s more, local developers work as independent contractors and usually pay 10% or 16% of personal income tax that is one of the lowest rate in Eastern Europe.

5) Why should tech companies opt for IT recruiting in Bucharest?

Bucharest stands out as Romania’s leading IT hub, with a large community of software developers, advanced infrastructure, and a business-friendly environment. The city is named the largest academic center, annually supplying the national IT talent pool with STEM graduates from the Politehnica University of Bucharest and the University of Bucharest.

The city’s vibrant startup scene bursts with 224 companies, including UiPath, the country’s first unicorn. Bucharest is also home to major R&D centers like the Bucharest Technology Park and Bucharest West Gate Business Park. Such tech giants as Microsoft, HP, Oracle, Adobe, and IBM have already recognized Bucharest’s potential, establishing their own software hubs within the city. Interested in replicating their success? Contact us to explore Alcor’s IT recruitment services in Bucharest.

6) How much does it cost to hire senior programmers in Bucharest?

In Romania, the annual salary of a senior software developer, employed on B2B terms, typically ranges from $54,000 to $68,000. However, in Bucharest, where competition for talent is fiercer, developers’ rates tend to be slightly higher than the national average. The median wage of a senior programmer falls between $72,000 and $80,000 per year. Interested in obtaining a pay scale report for a developer with a specific skill stack? Feel free to reach out to Alcor, and our IT recruiters in Bucharest will prepare it asap!