The developers who aren't on Seek.
Developers who ship real work look for their next job quietly and pick which companies may approach. Get picked, and you meet people you'd never reach with a job ad. 12.5% of base salary, only when they start.
No job ad. No retainer. Nothing to pay until day one.
Picked your company
Backend engineer, 7 years
Go, Postgres, AWS. After $165,000
Mobile engineer, 4 years
React Native, Kotlin. After $150,000
You've tried the usual.
The job ad
200 applicants, 190 of them irrelevant, and not one engineer you'd actually hire.
The agency
A CV pile, a fee north of $30k, and a candidate who's also interviewing at three of your competitors.
The LinkedIn DM
Your best people ignore theirs. So do everyone else's.
The developers you want aren't looking. Zagg is where they look without being seen.
You don't find them. They pick you.
Request access.
We check every new company by hand. Agencies can't sign up, so you're never competing with a recruiter for the same person.
We build your company profile with you.
The team, the work, the money. This is what developers read before they pick you, so we write it properly.
Get picked.
Developers who are looking browse profiles and choose who may approach them. Every developer you see has already chosen your company.
See the work, not the person.
Skills, experience, recency, the salary they're after. No name, no photo, no bias to fight.
Keen? Masks off.
Click Interested and both names are revealed. That same click accepts our terms, so there's no contract to chase.
Answer within 48 hours.
Developers never get ghosted, which is why they trust the platform and keep coming back. If you pass, one click says so.
Every approach lands with the salary on it.
No "competitive salary". You state the number, and both sides see the same market benchmark. Developers take calls from companies that respect their time. That's why they're here and not on Seek.
Send an approach
31h left to answer
Base salary you're offering
$180,000Market benchmark. The developer sees this too.
12.5%That's the whole pricing page, almost.
- 12.5% of base salary. Not package, super, bonus or equity.
- Invoiced on their start date. Not the offer, not the signature.
- 6-month pro-rata guarantee. If they leave early, the months you didn't use come off your next hire. Redundancies excluded.
- Contract roles: 15% margin on ABN contractors, 25% markup on PAYG contractors.
- No retainer, no exclusivity, no subscription.
Built for companies without a recruiter.
No job ad to write. No CV pile to sift. You read profiles from developers who already picked you, and you talk to the ones you want. The work is the part only you can do: deciding.
Questions
An agency finds candidates and sells them to you. Here, the developer finds you and decides whether you may approach. No middleman in the conversation, and a lower fee.
Properly. Every developer on Zagg has had a pre-screen call with us, a portfolio review and a GitHub review before they can start looking, and 3+ years is a hard bar. Nobody gets in on a CV alone. We don't run technical tests, because your interview process should stay yours.
Then your profile isn't landing, and we'll rework it with you. You pay nothing either way.
Yes, for the ones who've chosen Open mode. Everyone else, you only see if they pick you.
Yes, both. Permanent hires are 12.5% of base salary. Contractors are a 15% margin on ABN contractors or a 25% markup on PAYG contractors. Same vetting, same 48-hour rule.