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What teams struggle to hire in engineering

The work that piles up in engineering is rarely the work the founder wants to do. The usual gaps:

Full-stack engineers who ship features and fix bugs without needing everything spelled out

Frontend developers who turn designs into fast, responsive interfaces

Backend and API work built to scale, not just to demo

DevOps and infrastructure kept stable, deployed, and monitored

QA so releases do not break in production the week after they ship

Most teams try to cover all of this with one overloaded developer, until the backlog and the on-call both catch up with them.

What teams struggle to hire in engineering

Why remote works for engineering

Engineering is one of the easiest functions to hire remote for, because the work already lives entirely on a screen.

Code, reviews, deploys, and standups all happen in the same tools whether the engineer is down the hall or across the world

Timezone spread is an advantage — bugs get fixed and builds run while you sleep

The engineers who have done it before have shipped for teams like yours, on GitHub, AWS, and Docker, the same stack you already run

If you have assumed engineering has to sit together in one room, the opposite is usually true. The best distributed teams ship as fast as co-located ones, on the same tools.

Why remote works for engineering

Roles engineering teams hire

Most teams build their engineering org from some mix of these. Each links to live candidates.

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Pricing

Searching is free. To unlock full profiles and message candidates, it's $100 a month. The $1,999 placement fee only applies the day you actually hire someone. No retainer, no contract, cancel anytime.

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Scout OS vs the alternatives

Hiring locallyJob boardsTraditional recruiterScout OS
Cost$90k–$130k/yr salaryFree to post, costly in time15–30% of salary, $15k–$30k on a $100k hire$99/mo + $1,999 flat
Time to shortlistWeeksDays of sorting1–4 weeksUnder a minute
Who vetsYouNobodyThe recruiterDone. ~1 in 300 makes it on
Who picksYouYouThe agencyYou
If it failsYou eat itStart overSometimes a replacementNext placement free
Lock-inFull salaryNoneRetainer or contractCancel anytime

A recruiter's fee scales with the salary, so the better the hire, the more it costs you. On Scout OS it's flat. $1,999 is $1,999 whether the person earns $40,000 or $120,000.

Common questions

Pavago candidates are pre-vetted before you ever see a profile, so you're not sorting through a job board. You see real work samples, rates, and message directly, no recruiter middleman slowing things down.

Every candidate goes through a skills review, portfolio check, and reference verification before appearing in the pool. Roughly 1 in 300 applicants makes it through.

Our talent pool spans LATAM, Africa, South Asia, and Europe. You can filter by region when searching.

Your next placement is free. No retainer, no contract, cancel anytime.

Pavago handles compliant contracts so you don't have to set up entities in every country you hire in.

Browsing and searching is free. Full profiles and messaging are $100/mo, and a flat $1,999 placement fee applies only when you hire.

Most searches surface a matched shortlist in under a minute. Interviews and offers typically happen within days, not weeks.