“They did a wonderful job of curating the folks on the list,” adds Arjun Dev Arora, founder and CEO of. The company was founded by Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of 99designs, Allan Grant of CureBit and Doug Feirstein, founder of LiveOps and uSell. These guys make the process fast, efficient and affordable.” I have dealt with many recruiters in my day and they are either ineffective or super busy and expensive. They have a ton of supply and the process is very fluid. “We have had great experiences with DeveloperAuction,” says Stew Langille of Visual.ly. The company says the next one will go live in mid-September and run until the end of the month.ĭeveloperAuction says it is accepting applications from developers with “notable GitHub profiles,” CS degrees from Stanford or MIT or currently employed at Google, Zynga, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Yelp and Square for upcoming auctions. The auctions run on two week cycles for the entire site. With DeveloperAuction we’re flipping the traditional model on its head, by having employers submit offers first, and interview later.”Įngineers have no obligation to accept the highest offer, but startups are required to honor their highest bid if follow up, in-person interviews are successful and they want to make a hire.

“Engineers get approached by start-ups and recruiters dozens of times a year, the problem is sorting out which opportunities are worth pursuing.

“We help developers get paid what they’re worth through a competitive process,” says co-founder Matt Mickiewicz. In the company’s first auction, which ended August 31st, 88 engineers put themselves up for auction and 142 startups, including Quora and Dropbox, submitted over $30m in job offers. DeveloperAuction has built what they call the “first transparent marketplace for recruitment,” allowing engineers to put their talent up for auction from startups that need talent.

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