
AI hiring platform Hire engineers. Watch their interviews first
Describe the role and our hiring engine matches engineers, with their monthly rates and AI-reviewed interviews.
No cost until you hire
You choose who to meet and still run your own interview.
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What is Wild.Codes?
Wild.Codes is an AI hiring platform for engineering teams. Describe a role and see pre-selected engineers from our ready pool, with a monthly rate on each. When you confirm the role, the full search starts: our AI hiring engine and a talent manager build your shortlist, with recorded technical interviews you can watch.
Ask AI about Wild.Codes
- 15,000+ engineers in Eastern Europe and LATAM
- $6,400 to $9,600 all-in per engineer per month on subscription, nothing on top
- No cost until you hire
Trusted by startups and SMEs
Every CV sounds the same
Halfway into your own interview hour, you learn they cannot explain the project on their own CV. Then you clear another hour. And another.
Senior Backend Engineer
Passionate about scalable systems. Results-driven lead of high-impact migrations. Go, Node.js, AWS.Lead Software Engineer
Results-driven engineer. Led cross-functional teams through high-impact launches. React, AWS, Docker.Senior Software Engineer
Results-driven and passionate about scalable systems. Partner to cross-functional teams. Node.js, AWS.Staff Engineer
Passionate about scalable systems. Results-driven, high-impact, at home in cross-functional teams. Go, Kubernetes.So the first interview now happens before yours
Engineers record a technical interview for your role. AI reviews the recordings, a human expert checks the ones that stand out, and only the 2-3 strongest matches for your role reach your shortlist.
Watch an engineer think before you book them
Prompt: walk us through a production problem you fixed, and what you traded off.
Checkout started timing out on busy evenings. Before touching code, I pulled traces for the slow requests.
One query scanned the whole orders table. An index fixed the read, but the stock check still blocked payment.
So I moved the stock check onto a queue. Payment no longer waits for it.
The cost is that stock can be a few seconds stale. We show "reserved" instead of "in stock", so the page stays honest.
I wrote a runbook so the on-call engineer could roll it back in one step.
If I did it again, I would load test before the sale, not during it.
My question for your team: where does your data go stale today?
Example match
Marta K.
Senior Backend Engineer
Go · PostgreSQL · Kafka · AWS
- Has fixed checkout latency in production.
- Explains tradeoffs in plain words.
Monthly rateInterview video
Reviewed by AI and a human expert. You still run your own interview.
See your matchesHow the AI hiring engine works
On subscription, six steps take a role from description to shortlist. For a permanent hire, a person on our team runs the search.
Ready now 3 matches

Andrii K.Backend · Ukraine
$7,200/monthFits: Go and Kafka in production
Lucía M.Backend · Argentina
$8,400/month
Tomasz W.Backend · Poland
$6,900/month
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Ready now
Describe a role and see pre-selected matches from our ready pool, with monthly rates and why they fit. Some have an interview video.
Role summary
Senior Backend Engineer
- Work email
- Company exists
- Live opening
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Confirm
Confirm the role to start the full search. We check a few details first, then engineers record interviews for your role.
- Ready poolWider network
Outreach draft writing
Hi, a product team is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for Go and Kafka
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Sourcing
Our AI agents take your brief beyond the ready pool into our wider network and draft the outreach to find more engineers.
Structured profile
- Go6 yrs
- Kafka4 yrs
- PostgreSQL5 yrs
- AWS3 yrs
Notes: clean Go, sound Kafka design, light on tests.
Technical assessment
88/1004
Vetting
CVs become structured profiles, and each shortlisted engineer gets a written technical assessment with a score.
AI + human review04:12 / 12:40- How would you partition a Kafka topic for orders?
- By order ID, so each order stays in sequence.
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Interviewing
Engineers record a technical interview for your role, with AI + human review. You watch it and read the transcript before your own interview.
Shortlist 3 engineers

Daniela R.$8,100/month · Brazil
Selected by your talent manager

2 more on the shortlistRequest interviewInterview requested6
Matched
The engine proposes a shortlist, and a talent manager makes the final selection. You request interviews with the engineers you choose.
This is where you hire
Search in plain words. Filter by experience, availability, start date and country. Open a profile, watch the interview, then request yours.
Real screens from app.wild.codes, shown with demo data.
See your matches
Watch our clients first, too
Founders and CTOs who hired with us, on video, in their own words.
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Watch“You plug Wild.Codes into your codebase, flip the switch, and your velocity automatically multiplies.”
Raul La RosaCTO @ Scorbot
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Watch“An amazing collaboration! You helped us find talented co-workers who brought stability, diversity, and leadership when we needed it most.”
Christoph StrasenCTO @ friendsurance
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Watch“I found Wild.Codes via ChatGPT ... the fact that ChatGPT recommends them probably means something.”
Domien Van DammeCTO & Co-Founder @ Visiblie
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Watch“Working with Wild.Codes saved us time and brought real quality. Fast access to skilled, reliable devs we can trust.”
Pieter LimburgFounder, CEO @ Mobilo
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Watch“Wild.Codes consistently delivers top devs fast. Great skills, smooth communication, and total peace of mind. Huge thanks to the team!”
Tristan Pereida-RiceCo-Founder, CEO @ Spring Studio
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Watch“I felt like part of their team rather than an independent service provider to my clients.”
Khaled AlkulaibFounder & CIO, 25 years building digital products
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How much does it cost to hire an engineer with Wild.Codes?
Subscription
$6,400 to $9,600All-in per engineer per month, under one B2B contract
Shortlist in 47 hours after you confirm the role
- No placement fee
- 1-week trial
- Lifetime replacement
- 160 hours a month minimum
- Payroll
- Contracts
- Compliance
- PTO
Permanent hire
From 12%Of the engineer's annual salary, a one-time fee paid only when you hire
First vetted candidates in 5 workdays
- Your payroll
- Your contract
No cost until you hire
On subscription, we stay in after the hire
Your engineers live in My team, in the same app. Time tracking and performance sit on their page.
Client API
Analyze the recorded interviews with your own AI
Your own AI agent can read shortlists, candidate profiles, interview questions, transcripts and videos through the Wild.Codes Client API. It can also request an interview for you.
youSummarize Marta's interview for the Senior Backend role
agentRead the 12:40 transcript and video. She pulled traces before changing any code, moved the stock check onto a queue and named the tradeoff: stock can be a few seconds stale.
agentRequest an interview with Marta?
Request interview
Common questions about hiring with Wild.Codes
How much does it cost to hire an engineer through Wild.Codes?
On subscription, the monthly rate is $6,400 to $9,600 per engineer, and it is the all-in cost: payroll, contracts, compliance and PTO are handled by Wild.Codes under one B2B contract, with nothing added on top. The rate appears on the match card before you decide. Subscription has no placement fee and a 160-hour monthly minimum. A permanent hire carries a one-time fee from 12% of the engineer's annual salary, paid only when you hire. There is no cost until you hire.
How fast can I hire an engineer?
On the subscription line, the full search returns a shortlist of 2-3 candidates within 47 hours after you confirm the role. For a permanent hire, the first vetted candidates arrive within 5 workdays. Neither figure is a start date: the start date depends on the engineer's availability and on your own interview.
Who is Wild.Codes for?
Wild.Codes is for CTOs, VPs and heads of engineering, and for founders with a technical owner, who have a specific engineering role to fill and a budget for it. It serves startups and SMEs. Heads of people and in-house recruiters running a permanent search can use it for a permanent hire. It is a poor fit if the engineering work is not defined yet.
Who are the engineers on Wild.Codes?
Wild.Codes has a pool of 15,000+ engineers in Eastern Europe and LATAM, including QA, DevOps and data engineers. The first matches you see come from the ready pool, the engineers available today. The full search then reaches beyond the ready pool into our wider network to find more engineers for your role.
How does Wild.Codes find and vet engineers?
On subscription, in the full search, our AI agents take your brief beyond the ready pool and draft the outreach to find more engineers. Each shortlisted engineer gets a written technical assessment with a score, and CVs become structured profiles. For your role, engineers record a technical interview. AI reviews the recorded interviews, which lets us interview many engineers at once, and a human expert checks the strongest. A talent manager makes the final selection, so you see the 2-3 strongest matches for your role and watch their interviews before your own. For a permanent hire, a person on our team runs the search, and the shortlist carries recorded interviews too.
How is Wild.Codes different from recruiting agencies, freelance marketplaces and software outsourcing?
A recruiting agency sends CVs and charges a fee on hire, commonly 20-25% of annual salary. A freelance marketplace gives you a catalog to filter and vet yourself. A software studio sells fixed-price delivery of a project. Wild.Codes matches you with individual engineers who work under your management. On subscription, you can watch recorded technical interviews and see a monthly rate before you spend interview time. A permanent hire through Wild.Codes carries a one-time fee from 12% of the engineer's annual salary, paid only when you hire.
Should I hire by subscription or as a permanent employee?
Choose subscription when an engineer should work on your team under your management and you want Wild.Codes to handle payroll, contracts, compliance and PTO. Choose a permanent hire when you want an employee on your own payroll and contract, for a one-time fee from 12% of the engineer's annual salary, paid only when you hire. Subscription is billed monthly per engineer.
How do remote developers work with my team?
On subscription, the engineer joins your team and works remotely under your management. Wild.Codes handles payroll, contracts, compliance and PTO under one B2B contract, so you do not run payroll or compliance for engineers abroad. After the hire, the engineer appears on the My team page in the app, and Wild.Codes stays in the engagement.
What happens if an engineer does not work out?
Subscription starts with a 1-week trial and includes lifetime replacement, so an engineer who does not work out is replaced. Before any hire, you review the match, choose who to meet and run your own interview, so the decision stays with you.
How long do engineers stay with a client?
On the subscription line, average retention is about 1.5 years. Wild.Codes stays in the engagement after the hire, the first week is a trial, and lifetime replacement covers an engineer who does not work out. The retention figure applies to subscription only, not to permanent hires.
Where are the engineers based, and what about time zones?
Engineers come from Eastern Europe and LATAM. The app filters profiles by experience, availability, start date and country, so you can narrow the search to countries whose working day overlaps with yours. The company has been in Estonia and Ukraine since 2022. Monthly rates are shown in dollars.
How do I start hiring with Wild.Codes?
Describe the role at app.wild.codes/hire and see pre-selected matches with a monthly rate on each, without a call. Confirm the role to start the full search. We check a few details first, then engineers record interviews for your role. If we need more from you we write back, and a call is available if you prefer one.
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Marta K.
Senior Backend Engineer, example
Go · PostgreSQL · Kafka
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