Distant Crew

Distant Crew is a remote hiring service that lets companies find software developers and take them on without an office. Clients look through its pool of candidates, request the people they want and run interviews, while the firm handles the employment side in a way one client compared to an employer of record.

What Distant Crew offers

• Talent pool — a browsable list of developers available for remote work.
• Talent requests — clients ask for a specific profile and Distant Crew puts forward matching candidates.
• Interview support — help with the interview stage so clients hire the right person for the project.
• Remote team building — assembling a complete development team that works entirely online.

Who it works with

The platform serves organisations that want to hire developers remotely for projects, from small business owners to larger employers, and says it aims to give both client and developer fair working conditions.

Key facts

• Founded: 2018, started by a professional IT recruiter
• Launch: a beta ran first, followed by a first public version in March 2021
• Connection: core team formed with a software entrepreneur from Burgas, Bulgaria