Your career, quietly working in the background
Write one profile, then get on with your life. We keep it in front of real hiring teams — even on days you're not job hunting. No applications. No bots. No promises of instant offers.
- One handwritten profile, always visible
- Teams find you and bring salary ranges
- Real humans only. No bot outreach.
- Go passive anytime — your profile keeps working
Your one-stop hiring platform
Post your profile once
Build a single, comprehensive profile that showcases your skills, experience, and what you're looking for. No more filling out repetitive applications — your profile does the work for you 24/7.
Teams apply to you
Verified teams browse the pool and reach out only when there's a real fit — no cold pitches, no mismatched roles.
No cold applications
Say goodbye to the "application black hole". Every conversation on Katara begins with a verified team that has already expressed a direct interest in your specific background.
Curated matches
Our matching engine filters out the noise. We surface opportunities that align with your seniority, location preferences, and career goals so you only spend time on what matters.
Get discovered
A fast growing directory of exceptional engineering talent
The Katara difference, in numbers
Applications you'll ever fill out
Teams verified before they can message you
Profile that replaces every application
The application grind
- Endless applications into the void
- Ghosted after interviews
- Salary revealed at the very end
Teams pitch you
- One profile, discovered by every verified team
- Conversations start with real interest
- Salary upfront, always
Two sides, one seamless network
Create your profile once and let verified teams come to you with transparent offers.
We've all bookmarked great people and lost them in a notes app six months later.
Katara gives your team a lightweight Kanban made for hiring. Move engineers through stages together, leave notes your teammates can actually find, and keep warm candidates ready for next quarter's sprint. When the req finally opens, you're already halfway there.
Shared Pipelines
One board, whole team, same truth
Candidate Tracking
Stages, notes, status in one place
Talent pools
Save brilliant people before the role exists
Sprint-ready hiring
Open a req with a bench already warm
And we never cap developer signups on our side. A bigger pool makes everyone's pipeline better — charging per contact would just punish you for being thorough.
Set up your team pipeline0% 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 here. No resume scrapers scraping LinkedIn at 3am. No bots pretending to be interested in your work. Every profile was written by the engineer themselves — and a human on our team read it before it went live.
If you're an engineer
- You wrote your profile, not a prompt
- No algorithm quietly bins you before a human looks
- Real hiring managers read every word
- Nobody fakes enthusiasm at you
If you're hiring
- 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.
One price. No placement fees. Ever.
Here's the thing about agency fees — they only work if someone gets placed quickly. That shapes the advice you get, whether anyone admits it or not. We charge one flat subscription whether you hire this quarter or next year. So take your time. Build a pool you trust. Come back to it every sprint.
- No success fees. No small print.
- Cancel anytime.
- Yearly billing saves ~20%.
| Traditional agencies | Katara | |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | Retainers, often £8k+ | $374–$758/year |
| Per hire | 15–25% of first-year salary | $0 |
| Incentive | Close fast, collect fee | Help you build a pipeline that lasts |
| Candidate access | Curated, gated | Full pool, unlimited signups |
Create your profile once and let top teams pitch to you.
No applications, no waiting on replies. Build your profile once and let verified teams come to you with real offers.
Create your profile