Haystack

Live pipeline across UK · Germany · US

Hire vetted tech talent across UK, Germany & US

Match with engineers, designers, product, data and AI specialists actively exploring new roles. Every candidate is pre-vetted, transparent on salary, and ready to interview.

Live signalsMid-level salary

Back End Engineer

London

£65k–£85k

Front End Engineer

Manchester

£60k–£82k

Full Stack Engineer

Bristol

£65k–£88k

DevOps Engineer

Edinburgh

£72k–£95k

Mobile Engineer

Leeds

£65k–£88k

Data Engineer

Birmingham

£68k–£92k

Machine Learning Engineer

Cambridge

£78k–£105k

AI Engineer

Remote (UK)

£80k–£110k

UX Designer

Berlin

£58k–£80k

Product Designer

Munich

£62k–£85k

Product Manager

Hamburg

£70k–£95k

Python Engineer

Frankfurt

£65k–£85k

React Engineer

Cologne

£65k–£88k

Node.js Engineer

Stuttgart

£65k–£88k

TypeScript Engineer

Düsseldorf

£65k–£88k

Java Engineer

Remote (Germany)

£65k–£90k

Go Engineer

San Francisco

£72k–£98k

.NET Engineer

New York

£62k–£82k

Back End Engineer

London

£65k–£85k

Front End Engineer

Manchester

£60k–£82k

Full Stack Engineer

Bristol

£65k–£88k

DevOps Engineer

Edinburgh

£72k–£95k

Mobile Engineer

Leeds

£65k–£88k

Data Engineer

Birmingham

£68k–£92k

Machine Learning Engineer

Cambridge

£78k–£105k

AI Engineer

Remote (UK)

£80k–£110k

UX Designer

Berlin

£58k–£80k

Product Designer

Munich

£62k–£85k

Product Manager

Hamburg

£70k–£95k

Python Engineer

Frankfurt

£65k–£85k

React Engineer

Cologne

£65k–£88k

Node.js Engineer

Stuttgart

£65k–£88k

TypeScript Engineer

Düsseldorf

£65k–£88k

Java Engineer

Remote (Germany)

£65k–£90k

Go Engineer

San Francisco

£72k–£98k

.NET Engineer

New York

£62k–£82k

Why teams pick Haystack

96

Roles covered

Engineering · Design · Data · Product

24h

First shortlist

from kick-off call

14–21

Days to hire

median across roles

24

Cities live

UK · DE · US

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96 roles. One pre-vetted pipeline.

Pick a role to see localised salary benchmarks, interview questions and live candidates.

Engineering

50 roles · 44 with salary benchmarks

Hire Back End Engineers

Hire back end engineers who ship reliable, scalable services.

£65k–£85k

Hire Front End Engineers

Hire front end engineers who turn design into delightful product.

£60k–£82k

Hire Full Stack Engineers

Hire full stack engineers who own features end-to-end.

£65k–£88k

Hire DevOps Engineers

Hire DevOps engineers who make shipping fast, safe and boring.

£72k–£95k

Hire Security Engineers

Hire security engineers who protect product without slowing it down.

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Hire Mobile Engineers

Hire mobile engineers who ship app-store-quality experiences.

£65k–£88k

Hire Data Engineers

Hire data engineers who make data trustworthy and useful.

£68k–£92k

Hire Machine Learning Engineers

Hire machine learning engineers who ship models into production.

£78k–£105k

Hire AI Engineers

Hire AI engineers building real products on modern foundation models.

£80k–£110k

Hire Hardware Engineers

Hire hardware engineers who turn ideas into physical product.

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Hire Embedded Engineers

Hire embedded engineers who write firmware that just works.

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Hire Systems Engineers

Hire systems engineers who go deep on performance and reliability.

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Hire Firmware Engineers

Hire firmware engineers who own the software-hardware seam.

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Hire AR/VR Engineers

Hire AR/VR engineers building spatial experiences.

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Hire Python Engineers

Hire Python engineers across web, data and ML.

£65k–£85k

Hire React Engineers

Hire React engineers who ship modern, fast front ends.

£65k–£88k

Hire Node.js Engineers

Hire Node.js engineers who ship reliable services at scale.

£65k–£88k

Hire TypeScript Engineers

Hire TypeScript engineers who keep large codebases tractable.

£65k–£88k

Hire Java Engineers

Hire Java engineers who ship resilient enterprise systems.

£65k–£90k

Hire Go Engineers

Hire Go engineers who build performant, simple services.

£72k–£98k

Hire .NET Engineers

Hire .NET engineers who ship modern C# at enterprise scale.

£62k–£82k

Hire Ruby Engineers

Hire Ruby on Rails engineers who ship product fast.

£62k–£85k

Hire PHP Engineers

Hire PHP engineers across Laravel, Symfony and modern PHP 8+.

£55k–£75k

Hire Kotlin Engineers

Hire Kotlin engineers across Android and backend JVM teams.

£68k–£92k

Hire Rust Engineers

Hire Rust engineers who write fast, safe systems code.

£78k–£105k

Hire C++ Engineers

Hire C++ engineers who work where every microsecond counts.

£78k–£110k

Hire iOS Engineers

Hire iOS engineers who ship native apps users actually keep.

£68k–£92k

Hire Android Engineers

Hire Android engineers who ship modern Kotlin-first apps.

£65k–£90k

Hire React Native Engineers

Hire React Native engineers who ship cross-platform mobile from one codebase.

£65k–£88k

Hire Flutter Engineers

Hire Flutter engineers who ship beautiful cross-platform apps from one Dart codebase.

£62k–£85k

Hire Vue Engineers

Hire Vue engineers who ship modern composable frontends.

£60k–£82k

Hire Angular Engineers

Hire Angular engineers who ship maintainable enterprise frontends.

£62k–£82k

Hire Next.js Engineers

Hire Next.js engineers who ship modern full-stack React apps.

£68k–£90k

Hire Django Engineers

Hire Django engineers who ship robust Python web apps fast.

£62k–£85k

Hire Spring Engineers

Hire Spring Boot engineers who run JVM services at scale.

£65k–£90k

Hire GraphQL Engineers

Hire GraphQL engineers who design schemas the rest of the org can build on.

£68k–£90k

Hire Laravel Developers

Hire Laravel developers who ship complete products on PHP's most-loved framework.

£55k–£75k

Hire WordPress Developers

Hire WordPress developers who build performant, headless or custom-themed sites.

£48k–£65k

Hire Shopify Developers

Hire Shopify developers who ship high-converting stores and custom apps.

£52k–£72k

Hire Salesforce Developers

Hire Salesforce developers who customise the platform end-to-end.

£60k–£85k

Hire Game Developers

Hire game developers who ship across Unity, Unreal and custom engines.

£55k–£80k

Hire Blockchain Engineers

Hire blockchain engineers who ship audited smart contracts and on-chain infra.

£90k–£125k

Hire Elixir Engineers

Hire Elixir engineers who ship fault-tolerant systems on the BEAM.

£72k–£98k

Hire Scala Engineers

Hire Scala engineers who ship typed, functional services on the JVM.

£78k–£105k

Hire Swift Engineers

Hire Swift engineers who push Apple platforms forward.

£70k–£95k

Hire MLOps Engineers

Hire MLOps engineers who keep models reliable in production.

£80k–£108k

Hire LLM Engineers

Hire LLM engineers who ship reliable AI features on foundation models.

£82k–£115k

Hire Computer Vision Engineers

Hire computer vision engineers who ship models for the physical world.

£82k–£115k

Hire Application Security Engineers

Hire AppSec engineers who embed with product teams.

£80k–£105k

Hire Penetration Testers

Hire penetration testers who find what attackers would.

£65k–£90k

Management

9 roles · 4 with salary benchmarks

DevOps

10 roles · 7 with salary benchmarks

Product & Delivery

8 roles · 5 with salary benchmarks

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Hires made on Haystack by teams like

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Leading tech employers use Haystack to hire world-class candidates

Answer Digital

"For anyone in the industry struggling with tech hiring and finding those really niche candidates, I'd highly recommend using Haystack. Ultimately Haystack helped us find great candidates that we couldn't find anywhere else."

Jonny Hiles

Jonny Hiles

Talent Acquisition Lead

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Leonardo

"Working with Haystack has helped us widen our brand, it's helped us recruit great people, and it's been an easy thing to do. When we think about our candidate experience and the experience of people in my team, I want that rounded experience and that's what we've seen with Haystack."

Craig Drysdale

Craig Drysdale

VP Talent & Engagement

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PayPoint

"I'm really impressed with the candidates that I'm finding on Haystack, I'm looking at them and thinking, 'wow, this looks like a great engineer'. We made multiple hires in our first year. It's been a really nice way to hire tech talent, with a very unique approach."

Marek Kafar

Marek Kafar

Senior IT Recruiter

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