Skip the agency fee.
Hire engineers who already want to talk. Pay a flat rate, not 20% of their salary. Agencies take 15–25% of first-year salary per hire. Katara is one flat subscription from $374 a year.
- $374/yr solo. $0 per hire.
- Teams from $758/yr, shared pipelines included
- Full-time and fractional roles welcome
- Track everyone in your own Kanban workspace
- Northline Labs
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- Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
OpenRemote · EUR 95,000 - 120,000
Read first. Reach out second.
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Browse real profiles
BrowseEngineers across EMEA and Japan write their own profiles. Filter by stack, seniority, timezone and salary.
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Message who you want
Reach outOpen with the role and a salary range. Everyone you write to has already said they're open to teams.
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Track it together
PipelineMove candidates through a shared Kanban so your CTO, PMs and recruiters see the same picture.
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Hire with no placement fee
Flat rateOne subscription covers every hire. No success fees, no percentage of salary.
A hiring workspace, not a directory.
A lightweight Kanban built for hiring. Move engineers through stages together and keep warm candidates ready for the next req.
Shared Team Pipelines
Move profiles into shared columns so your CTO, PMs and recruiters stay aligned across timezones.
- Northline Labs
- Jobs
- Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
OpenRemote · EUR 95,000 - 120,000
Centralized Candidate Tracking
See who was contacted, who replied and what stage they are in. No overlapping outreach.
Talent pools
Save brilliant people now and open the role later. Your pool keeps its context.
Calendar-synced interviews
Connect Google or Outlook, set availability once, and send booking links from the pipeline card.
We never cap developer signups. A bigger pool makes every pipeline better.
Set up your team pipelineSourcing and applicants. One board.
Publish roles under your brand. Applications land in the same Kanban as the engineers you sourced, with scorecards, interview booking, offers and onboarding attached. If an ATS only ever held your inbound applicants, you may not need it any more.
Careers at Northline Labs
Infrastructure for teams that ship every day.
Explore 3 open roles →Open roles (3)
Engineering
Design
Screening
2- JWJonas WeberPlatform EngineerSep 26, 2026InboundScreeningToday
- AOAmara ObiSenior Backend EngineerSep 26, 2026InboundScreeningToday
- GWGrace WanjiruSenior Backend EngineerSep 18, 2026Screening3 days
- KOKen OseiPlatform EngineerSep 19, 2026Screening1 day
Under your brand
Your logo, your banner, your roles. Candidates apply to your team, not to an agency.
One pipeline
Applicants arrive in Screening beside the engineers you sourced, with their answers and résumé attached.
A bigger pool
Every applicant gets a link to follow their application — and to claim a Katara profile of their own.
The pipeline doesn't stop at Hired.
Mark someone hired and Katara builds their first weeks. Tasks come from your template, dated from their start day, each with an owner. Nothing falls between HR, IT and the hiring manager.
Templates per role
Paperwork, laptop, access, first-day intro. Write it once and every hire gets it.
Dates that move
Change the start date and every due date shifts with it.
The hire does their part
They tick off their own tasks from their candidate portal. You see who finished what.
Nobody forgets
Reminders go out on the due date, and again the day after if a task is still open.
Most tools forget a candidate the moment they sign. That's when the work starts.
0% AI. On purpose.
We've all had that conversation with a recruiter bot. It knew nothing about us. We built Katara so nobody has to have it again.
There's no matching algorithm. No scrapers pulling profiles off LinkedIn at 3am. Every profile was written by the engineer — and automated checks screen out spam before it goes live.
If you're hiring
Hire engineers that could code proficiently before agents.
- What you read is genuine technical depth
- No keyword-stuffed LLM CVs
- Your inbox stays quiet until a real person writes
- Fewer profiles, yes. Better ones, too.
Slow markets don't need more automation. They need honesty — from platforms, and about the market itself.
No placement fees. Ever.
Agency fees only pay off if someone gets placed fast, and that shapes the advice you get. We charge one flat subscription either way.
- No success fees. No small print.
- Cancel anytime.
- Yearly billing saves ~20%.
| Traditional agencies | Recruiting platforms | Katara | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | Retainers, often $10k+ | Per-seat licences, often thousands a year | $374/yr solo, from $758/yr for teams |
| Per hire | 15–25% of first-year salary | $0, with messages rationed by credits | $0 |
| Incentive | Close fast, collect fee | Sell more seats and credits | Help you build a pipeline that lasts |
| Candidate access | Curated, gated | Everyone, open to work or not | Full pool, unlimited signups |
| Where applicants go | The agency's own database | Their platform, not yours | Your pipeline, under your brand |
| Profiles | Rewritten by the recruiter | Keyword-stuffed, often AI-written | Written by the engineer. 0% AI. |
Timezone-Aligned Sourcing
Filter for talent from UTC-1 to UTC+4 across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus Japan.
Contracting vs. Payroll
See at a glance who prefers cross-border contracts and who needs local payroll.
Source, track and onboard. One flat rate.
No placement fees. Read real technical depth, track every candidate, sourced or applied, on one board, and onboard the hire in the same place.
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