🎯 Senior Engineers Who Ship
Exhausted by the endless search? Aldo connects you with senior remote engineers who are genuinely strong — vetted by people who have shipped software themselves, not by a recruiter matching keywords on a CV.
We're picky so you don't have to be. We screen continuously, interview for both hard and soft skills, and disqualify 95% of the talent we see before it ever reaches you. If a match isn't working, we replace them.
🤖 AI-Native By Default
Every engineer we place works with coding agents daily. We screen for it explicitly — not "have you used ChatGPT", but whether they can drive an agent through a real change in an unfamiliar codebase, review what it produces, and recognise when to throw it away.
That gap is now the single biggest difference in output we see between two engineers with the same résumé. We'd rather send you the one who has closed it.
Many are also comfortable building AI features rather than only working alongside them — retrieval, agents, evals and model integration — if that's what your roadmap needs.
🔎 The Four-Step Vetting Process
1. Continuous sourcing. We're always looking, not starting from zero when you call. Over 300 job boards plus the local tech communities we've been part of for a decade.
2. Experience screen. We cut anyone who hasn't shipped and owned real production work. Not "worked on a team that shipped" — owned it.
3. Technical interview. Run by someone who writes software. Includes driving a coding agent through a real change in a codebase they've never seen, then defending what they kept and what they threw away.
4. Founder interview. Communication, autonomy and judgement — whether they can work across a timezone gap without being managed hour to hour, and whether they'd actually fit your team.
About 95% don't make it through. That's the point.
🛠️ How Aldo Works
Tell us your vision. Share the essence of your product, your team dynamics, and the attributes of your ideal developer. Every business is unique — and top-tier developers are keen on joining a place where they fit right in.
We handle the groundwork. Chances are we already have a developer ready to interview. We sift continuously through talent from over 300 job boards and local tech communities, cut anyone without outstanding experience, then interview for both soft and hard skills.
You get the final say. We present a curated shortlist. You interview, discuss and decide. Once you've chosen, we streamline onboarding so everything's in place.
🤝 Why Founders Use Us
We specialise in overseas talent and we've been doing it for over a decade. We're run by startup founders and CTOs, so we understand what a company like yours actually expects — and we can tell a strong engineer from a well-rehearsed interview.
We pride ourselves on the highest signal-to-noise ratio in the industry: we handle screening and the initial technical interview, so the shortlist you see is short for a reason.
You make payments to our US-based business entity, while we take care of the legal, HR, tax, compliance and payment shenanigans for your new staff.
💬 They Can't Stop Raving About Aldo
"Aldo helped us find some talented Eastern European engineers who were instrumental to our ability to deliver on a number of critical projects with our key clients. Even with a significant timezone difference, they're very reliable and a pleasure to work with!"
Chris Mele — Managing Director, Siberia
"At Dell, we are constantly in search for more and better engineering talent for the countless projects and initiatives we're running. Aldo were a lifesaver when they brought into our team some of the brightest engineers we ever worked with."
Avryl Uthus — Principal Software Engineer, Dell
"Aldo is my go-to when I or my clients are looking for talented engineers that deliver. The overseas talent Aldo brought in to our projects has been top-notch."
Michael Forte — Founder & CEO, the xyz co.
"We partnered with Aldo to onboard Vlad, a senior full-stack JS developer. Vlad worked alongside our Austin-based lead developer and was instrumental in accelerating our time to market. I was highly pleased with the experience and the results."
Douglas Ferguson — Founder & CEO, Voltage Control
"We made 4 hires through Aldo and are very happy with the level of talent we get for the price. We had a few challenges we were going through organizationally and Alex has always been around to assist and advise."
Q Beck — President, True Impact Media
"We interviewed only a handful of candidates before making a decision to hire. The new team member is stoked to be a part of our team and has been writing code of exceptional quality!"
Michael Marston — Founder & CTO, Lunchdrop
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How is Aldo better than a traditional recruiter?
We specialise in finding overseas talent and we've been doing it for over a decade. We're run by startup founders and CTOs, so we deeply understand the expectations of a company like yours. We take care of screening and the initial technical interview, and disqualify 95% of unfitting talent early.
Are you a dev shop?
We're not a dev shop. Aldo is a headhunting agency and a platform that helps you find developers you employ through Aldo as an EOR. You can also choose to pay a recruiter's fee and employ the talent directly. We help you find the individuals who become some of the most loyal and productive members of your team.
I don't want to deal with international payments or compliance.
Great news — you'd be making your payments to our US-based business entity, while we take care of all the legal, HR, tax, compliance and payment shenanigans for your new staff.
I'd like to do the recruiting myself, but I've never hired overseas.
If you have the time and energy to do your own hiring but have never hired overseas talent before, we offer consulting and training sessions to increase your efficiency. Email us and we'll set it up.
What if the match isn't working out?
We'll swap them out and get you back on track. We'd rather replace someone early than have you manage around a bad fit.
How does pricing work?
Two options. Employ the engineer through Aldo as your EOR — you pay us monthly and we handle everything downstream. Or pay a one-time recruiter's fee and employ them directly. Which makes sense depends on how many people you're hiring and whether you want the compliance overhead. Ask and we'll walk you through both.
Is this cheaper than hiring in the US?
Usually, yes — but that's a consequence of geography, not a discount on quality. A senior engineer in Warsaw or Lisbon costs less than the same engineer in San Francisco because the market around them is different, not because they're worth less.
If price is the main reason you're here, we're probably the wrong agency. The firms competing purely on rate will beat us, and you'll get what that buys.
Who is Aldo not a good fit for?
If you need someone sitting in your timezone for a 9am standup every day, or you're hiring your very first engineer and want them in the room, we're probably not it. We're at our best when you already have some technical leadership and need to add capacity to it.
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