Vetted
Every candidate is scored line by line against the literal wording of your brief — must-haves weighted, deal-breakers flagged, the reasoning written down for you to audit.
Bucharest · Staffing & Consulting
The right people, IT and beyond.
NexDev places vetted professionals for any IT or non-IT role — from cybersecurity, cloud, data and software engineering to project delivery, finance, operations and business support — with leading organisations in financial markets, energy and professional services. Shortlists in 72 hours, delivered from Bucharest, London, Poland and India.
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TRUSTED IN FINANCIAL MARKETS · ENERGY · PROFESSIONAL SERVICES · VMS / SOW DELIVERY · GDPR & EU SCC COMPLIANT
Now showingBucharest · HQ
72h
Average to shortlist
100%
Senior-level profiles
12
Specialisms, IT and beyond
EU
GDPR & SCC compliant
Why .vip
The top 1%.
Delivered fast.
The .vip in our name is not decoration — it is the standard. We are a quality-first company: we recruit from the top 1% of the talent in the market, and we give our clients speed without cutting corners. Every profile we put in front of you has earned its place.
Interviewed
No CV reaches you on keywords alone. We speak to every shortlisted professional first — motivation, availability, rate and fit, confirmed before your time is spent.
Proven
Track record over adjectives: delivered projects, references and evidence. If we would not hire them ourselves, they do not make our shortlist.
1%
The slice of the market
we recruit from
we recruit from
72h
From brief to
a ranked shortlist
a ranked shortlist
3×
Every candidate scored three times
against your brief, then averaged
against your brief, then averaged
Selected engagement types
TIER-1 INVESTMENT BANK
GLOBAL EXCHANGE GROUP
ASSET MANAGEMENT
PAYMENTS INFRASTRUCTURE
MARKET DATA PROVIDER
ENERGY & UTILITIES
BIG FOUR CONSULTING
Two ways in
Built for hiring leaders.
Trusted by contractors.
For clients
Fill critical roles without the noise.
We don't send CV volume — we send a ranked shortlist. Every candidate is scored line-by-line against your job description before you ever see them.
- Ranked shortlists with transparent, auditable scoring
- Native experience with VMS platforms and SOW engagements
- Contract, contract-to-hire and permanent search
- EU contracting, GDPR and Standard Contractual Clauses handled
For contractors
Senior roles. Straight terms.
We work with senior engineers who want long-term engagements at top financial institutions — with honest rates and a partner who actually understands the technology.
- Long-term contracts with tier-one financial clients
- Transparent rates — no hidden margins
- Interview preparation and professional CV production
- Fast onboarding, ongoing support during the engagement
Services
What we deliver
Three lines of service, one standard: senior people, vetted properly, delivered fast.
Contract staffing
Senior IT contractors for financial institutions, delivered through vendor management systems or direct. Single roles or full cohorts — pentesters, quants, engineers — ranked and ready to interview.
Executive & permanent search
Targeted search for technology leadership and hard-to-fill permanent roles — from principal engineers and security architects to directors of delivery. Discreet, structured, evidence-based.
Technology consulting
Delivery leadership, AI adoption strategy and programme management from practitioners who have run large engineering organisations inside global banks and market infrastructure firms.
Specialisms
Deep in every discipline.
Technology roles, where we started, and the business roles that keep organisations running — each one recruited by people who understand it.
SEC / OFF
Cybersecurity & Pentesting
Penetration testers, red teamers and AI-security specialists with offensive certifications and regulated-industry experience.
QNT / C++
Quantitative Development
Front-office C++ developers for fixed income, pricing and risk — engineers who speak both markets and low-latency code.
IAM / PAM
Identity & Privileged Access
CyberArk and PAM engineers covering secure credential management, session isolation and access governance at scale.
CLD / OPS
Cloud & DevOps
AWS and Azure engineers, Terraform and Kubernetes specialists building and securing regulated cloud platforms.
DAT / ENG
Data Engineering
Senior data engineers across Python, Spark and modern warehousing — the backbone of analytics in financial services.
AI / GEN
AI & GenAI Delivery
Engineers and leaders delivering LLM-powered products responsibly — from prototypes to governed production systems.
MOB / IOS
Mobile Engineering
iOS and Swift developers building customer-facing financial applications where polish and security both matter.
PGM / PMO
Programme & Delivery
Project analysts, planners and delivery directors who keep complex, multi-team financial programmes on schedule.
FIN / ACC
Finance & Accounting
Financial controllers, analysts and accountants who close the books, model the numbers and keep reporting audit-ready.
RSK / CMP
Risk & Compliance
Risk, compliance and regulatory specialists who turn new rules into working controls — without slowing the business down.
HR / PPL
HR & People
HR business partners, talent acquisition and people-operations professionals for teams that are growing or changing shape.
OPS / BIZ
Operations & Business Support
Operations managers, business analysts and support professionals who keep processes, suppliers and service levels on track.
How we work
From brief to onboarded,
in four steps.
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STEP 01
Brief
We take your job description apart line by line — required knowledge, weighting, deal-breakers — and agree the scoring rubric with you up front.
DAY 0 -
STEP 02
Shortlist
Our network and AI-assisted screening produce a ranked shortlist, each candidate scored against your rubric with a transparent breakdown.
WITHIN 72H -
STEP 03
Interview & verify
We coordinate interviews, references and compliance — right-to-work, contracting structure, GDPR — so your team only spends time on decisions.
WEEK 1–2 -
STEP 04
Onboard & support
Contracts signed, contractor onboarded, and we stay involved — performance check-ins, extensions and replacements handled proactively.
ONGOING
Sample submission
Every profile arrives
scored against your brief.
Each CV comes with a two-page cover sheet: why we are putting the candidate forward, and how they score on every requirement of your job description, with the evidence and the arithmetic in plain sight. The candidate below is fictional; the format is exactly what lands in your inbox.
NexDevSAMPLE-0001 · 12 October 2026
Candidate submission for Senior Python Backend Engineer
Candidate A
Senior Backend Engineer · Python & AWS
Backend engineer with 11 years in production software, the last seven in Python for payments, capital markets and insurance. Currently leads the card-authorisation ledger at a payments scale-up: FastAPI services on AWS, PostgreSQL, event-driven with SQS. Comfortable owning a service from schema design to on-call.
86%Strong fitrole fit
Submission details
- Role
- Senior Python Backend Engineer
- Engagement
- Contract
- Based in
- Bucharest, Romania
- Work model
- Hybrid, Bucharest
- Availability
- 2 weeks' notice
- Rate
- Shared per submission
- Right to work
- Yes
- Languages
- English, Romanian
Why we are putting this candidate forward
- Seven years of production Python in regulated domains: payments, investment banking and insurance, latterly as technical lead of a four-person team.
- Performance with numbers: card-authorisation p99 latency cut from 420 ms to 95 ms at 1,800 requests per second.
- Delivery discipline: contract tests and a GitLab pipeline that took releases from weekly to daily at a tier-1 bank.
- Domain fluency: MiFIR trade reporting, card schemes and insurance pricing, so briefs need less translation.
At a glance
- 11years in technology
- 7years directly relevant to this role
- 3projects matched to the requirements
- 2certifications held
Career path roles relevant to this brief highlighted
- Senior Backend Engineer, tech leadPayments scale-up, Bucharest · 3.5 yrs
- Backend Engineer (contract)Tier-1 investment bank, London · 1.7 yrs
- Python DeveloperInsurance software vendor · 2.1 yrs
- Software DeveloperTelecom operator · 2.3 yrs
- Junior DeveloperSoftware consultancy · 1.2 yrs
Candidate ASenior Python Backend Engineer · SAMPLE-0001
86% strong fit
Role assessment each requirement taken from the job description, scored on evidence in the CV
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6+ years of backend engineering experience Must haveWeight 15% Score 92
Eleven years in software, seven building Python backends in payments, banking and insurance.
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Strong Python, ideally FastAPI or Django Must haveWeight 25% Score 90
FastAPI in production since 2023, Django REST Framework 2019–2021; owns the ledger's Python codebase.
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Designing scalable REST APIs and microservicesWeight 15% Score 84
Split the authorisation ledger into five idempotent services; designed a trade-reporting API used by three teams.
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Hands-on AWS (Lambda, ECS or EKS, RDS, SQS)Weight 12% Score 80
ECS, RDS PostgreSQL, SQS and Lambda in production. EKS only in a proof of concept.
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PostgreSQL and relational data modellingWeight 10% Score 88
Designed the ledger schema with partitioning by settlement date; led a migration to PostgreSQL.
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Event-driven architecture (Kafka or SQS/SNS)Weight 8% Score 72
Production events run on SQS and SNS with dead-letter handling. Kafka listed, not evidenced in delivery.
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CI/CD, automated testing and DockerWeight 8% Score 86
GitLab CI with contract tests and Docker at the bank; GitHub Actions and pytest at ~85% coverage.
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Security: OAuth2 / OIDC and role-based accessWeight 4% Score 70
OAuth2 single sign-on with Keycloak for broker portals and one RBAC model; no dedicated security role.
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Financial services domain experienceWeight 3% Score 92
Card payments, MiFIR trade reporting and insurance pricing, all in production.
Weighted fit: 15% × 92 + 25% × 90 + 15% × 84 + 12% × 80 + 10% × 88 + 8% × 72 + 8% × 86 + 4% × 70 + 3% × 92 = 85.5%, shown as 86%.
Relevant projects
- Real-time card-authorisation ledger2024 to presentPayments scale-up
FastAPI services on ECS with PostgreSQL and SQS, idempotent writes and an outbox: p99 from 420 ms to 95 ms at 1,800 req/s.
Evidence for ABCDEF - MiFIR trade-reporting API2021 to 2023Tier-1 investment bank
Python services turning trade events into regulator-ready reports; contract tests took releases from weekly to daily.
Evidence for BCGI - Policy-pricing engine migration2019 to 2021Insurance software vendor
Monolithic pricing engine moved to Django REST services on PostgreSQL, with OAuth2 single sign-on for brokers.
Evidence for BEHI
How this was scored. Every requirement comes from the job description, weighted before any CV was read, and the same rubric is applied to every candidate NexDev puts forward for the role. Scores reflect evidence in the CV and our screening conversation.
- 85+ strong
- 70+ good
- 55+ partial
- below 55 low
- Your brief, not ours
Every requirement is lifted from your job description and weighted with you before a single CV is read. Must-haves are marked; miss one and the sheet says so on the first line.
- The arithmetic is on the page
The fit ring is the rubric: each arc is a requirement, its length the weight, its thickness the score. The weighted sum is printed underneath, so you can check the percentage yourself.
- Evidence, not adjectives
Each score cites what the candidate actually delivered, and gaps are stated plainly: Kafka listed but not evidenced, EKS only in a proof of concept.
- Like for like
Every candidate on the shortlist is scored on the same rubric, so you compare people, not CV formats.
Interviewed, not keyword-matched
Every shortlist starts
with a conversation.
No CV reaches you on keywords alone. We speak to every shortlisted professional first — motivation, availability, rate and fit, confirmed before your time is spent.
What people say
Trusted on both sides of the table.
Sample feedback — illustrative of the standard we hold ourselves to while we collect and publish real client and contractor quotes.
The shortlist was the first one where every profile was actually worth an interview time — each candidate scored against exactly what we asked for.
Engineering Director
Client · Tier-1 Investment Bank
Straight rates, no games, and someone who understood the contract before I signed it. Onboarding took days, not weeks.
Senior Cloud Engineer
NexDev contractor, Cloud Platform
We handed over a brief on a Tuesday and had a ranked shortlist with real reasoning behind every score by Friday.
Head of Talent Acquisition
Client · Global Exchange Group
About NexDev
Run by people who've sat on your side of the table.
NexDev was founded in Bucharest by a technology executive with two decades leading engineering organisations inside global banks and financial market infrastructure — running teams of hundreds, budgets in the millions, and the hiring that goes with both.
That experience is the product. We know what a strong CV looks like because we've hired against thousands of them, and we know what a bad placement costs because we've paid for them. Every shortlist we send is one we'd be willing to receive.
- Headquarters
- Bucharest, Romania
- Locations
- Bucharest · London · Poland · India
- Delivery
- On-site, hybrid & remote
- Client base
- Financial markets · Energy & utilities · Professional services
- Engagement models
- Contract · SOW · Permanent
- Compliance
- GDPR · EU Standard Contractual Clauses
- Languages
- English · Romanian
Where we work
Four locations.
One standard.
From our Bucharest headquarters we recruit and deliver senior talent for clients in London, Poland and India — on-site, hybrid or remote.
- BucharestRomania · HQ
- LondonUnited Kingdom
- PolandCentral Europe
- IndiaSouth Asia
BUCHAREST · LONDON · POLAND · INDIA
Insights
Notes from the desks we work with.
Short, practical notes for hiring leaders and professionals — each one with a quick interactive check you can run in under a minute.
Open roles
Current mandates.
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Contact
Tell us who you need.
We'll show you who we have.
Send the job description, or just a sentence about the role. You'll have a first conversation within one business day — and a ranked shortlist within 72 hours of an agreed brief.
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