Hire Senior Backend Developers in Europe
Server-side engineers who design APIs you can reason about, build data pipelines that don't fall over at 3am, and run production systems that respect your oncall rotation. Systems-thinkers, not framework tourists.
Engineers who actually fit the craft.
Every backend developers we place has been screened for the specific skills that matter in this discipline - not generic "software engineering" experience repackaged.
Production-tested, not bootcamp-fresh
Every backend engineer on our network has shipped and maintained services under real traffic. They know the difference between a side project and an SLA.
API discipline
REST, gRPC, GraphQL - they pick the right tool and document it. Consumers get a stable contract, not a moving target.
Database-literate
Index design, query plans, migration strategy. They can read an `EXPLAIN` output and tell you which join is costing you.
Ops-aware
Writes code that ships to production, runs in containers, emits useful logs, and plays nicely with your oncall rotation. Not just "works on my machine".
Engineers in our network. Real people. Long-term.
Every engineer Talzy places is a full-time, locally-employed team member - working exclusively for one company. Not a marketplace, not a rotation.
Every modern backend stack, represented in the network.
Sourcing is stack-aware - the shortlist you see only includes engineers with production experience in the technology you specify.
Languages
Frameworks
APIs
Databases
Queues & streams
Infra / runtime
The moments a dedicated backend actually earns their seat.
Building your core API
You are standing up the first serious version of your public API. You need someone who has designed rate limits, pagination, authentication, and idempotent writes from scratch - and who is opinionated about which decisions you will regret in a year.
Scaling past the monolith
Your one big app has become two slow apps. A senior backend engineer with real service-splitting experience can identify what to extract first, what to leave alone, and how to not break production while doing it. Not everything becomes a microservice.
Database performance rescue
Queries are slow, the box is at 80% CPU, and every feature ships with 'we'll optimise that later'. Now is later. A Talzy backend engineer with database depth can read query plans, redesign hot indexes, and buy you 6–12 months of runway without an AWS upgrade.
Event-driven platform work
You need Kafka / NATS / SQS experience that has shipped in production - including replays, dead-letter strategy, schema evolution, and consumer back-pressure. Real event-driven work, not a conference-slide version of it.
One brief, one shortlist, one backend developer on your team.
Tell us what you need. We come back in 3–5 business days with 3–5 backend developers who fit your stack, your seniority bar, and your team rhythm - already vetted, already interested.
Calculate your backend cost.
Salary at-cost (no markup) + a tiered monthly management fee + a workspace fee. No recruitment fee. All shown in USD, per month and per year. Move the controls, see exactly what you will pay.
Typical monthly cost by seniority
All-in, including employment, workspace, and Talzy fee. Ranges cover our three active markets.
Owns defined services, ships features independently
Owns subsystems end-to-end, mentors mid-level peers
Drives architecture and oncall culture, sets standards
The bar a backend clears before you meet them.
Technical skill is table stakes - alignment, stability, and communication matter just as much. We screen for all four before anyone lands on your shortlist.
Production walkthrough
Tell us about a service you have actually owned in production. What was the traffic, what broke, what did you change? Vague answers fail the round.
System design conversation
A 60-minute whiteboard discussion on a realistic scaling problem. We look for explicit tradeoffs, not pattern-name bingo.
Database & query exercise
A short session reading a slow query plan and proposing an index strategy. Reveals real database literacy fast.
Concurrency question
A practical question about race conditions, locks, or idempotency - the kind that bites in production. We care how they think, not whether they memorised a textbook.
Async communication check
Reviewing a real pull request asynchronously - is the feedback specific, kind, and actually improving the change?
From brief to engineer-at-desk in 2–3 weeks.
Role definition
We lock in requirements, seniority, stack, team fit, and the non-obvious things (timezone overlap, oncall, tooling).
Curated shortlist
Sourced from our active talent network across Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Every candidate vetted by a Talzy engineer first.
Your interviews
You run the final technical rounds. We prep candidates on your stack and handle the scheduling friction.
Employ & onboard
Local contract, payroll, and equipment ready. Engineer joins your sprint cycle on day one.
Talzy vs the other options.
A side-by-side honest comparison against the common ways to hire a backend developer - marketplace contractors, in-house recruiting, and outsourcing agencies.
| Talzy | Toptal / Arc | In-house | Agency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first hire | 2–3 weeks | 3–6 weeks | 3–5 months | 4–8 weeks |
| Cost structure | Salary + flat fee | Hourly markup 50–100% | Fully loaded salary | 60–120% markup |
| Employment | Full-time employee | Contractor | Direct employee | Vendor staff |
| You own the relationship | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Long-term retention support | Yes - career program | No | Your HR | No |
| Replacement if it fails | Included | Case by case | You re-recruit | Depends on contract |
We needed a senior Go engineer who could own our payments service end-to-end. Talzy sent three profiles inside a week, all qualified. The one we hired rewrote our idempotency layer and caught a race condition that had been losing us money for months.
Hiring backend developers through Talzy
Ready to hire your next backend developer?
Tell us the role and team context. We will send a shortlist of matching backend developers from our network within 3–5 business days.