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RecruitHow ingenium Trading scaled its engineering bench across five countries while protecting its quality bar
Location
Austria
Industry
Financial Technology
Company size
20+
Founding Year
2021
With Remote People since
2023
- Hire Anywhere, Worry-Free
- Ultra-low-latency engineers don’t all sit in one country
- The brief: junior engineers with a senior trajectory
- Five countries, one quality bar
- Recruitment and employment as a single workflow
- The Bottom Line
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Hiring, payroll, and compliance in 150+ countries.
Partners Remote People & ingenium Trading
Sectors Financial Technology · Machine Learning · Ultra-Low-Latency Systems
Challenge Building a long-term engineering pipeline across five jurisdictions without compromising on technical quality.
Ultra-low-latency engineers don’t all sit in one country
ingenium Trading is a high-performance technology company building machine learning applications and ultra-low-latency systems for the global financial services sector. The work is unforgiving: technical rigor and a long-term engineering mindset are non-negotiable.
That kind of work also concentrates the very people qualified to do it in a small number of cities. Sticking to a single labor market would have capped how fast the team could grow — and how senior the eventual bench could become.
The brief: junior engineers with a senior trajectory
During a period of growth and internal team evolution, ingenium chose to invest in promising early-career talent rather than chase headline-priced senior hires. The strategy was deliberate: hire C++ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and an Infrastructure Team Lead who could grow into senior roles inside a structured, mentorship-led environment.
That changed the recruitment problem in two ways. The technical screen had to be sharp — junior didn’t mean lenient. And the cultural screen had to be even sharper, because the value of the hire depended on the candidate growing inside the team for years.
Five countries, one quality bar
Roles were filled across Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Philippines. Each market has its own salary benchmarks, candidate expectations, and signals of seniority. Treating them as one market would have produced inconsistent shortlists.
Remote People ran each search against the same technical and cultural standards, calibrated locally. The result was a multi-country bench where the quality threshold was the same in Manila as it was in Bratislava.
Recruitment and employment as a single workflow
Hiring across five countries surfaces a second problem the day after the offer is signed: how do you actually employ those people compliantly? Standing up entities in five jurisdictions wasn’t realistic for the timeline.
Remote People handled both sides — recruitment and Employer of Record — as one engagement. ingenium’s HR team didn’t have to switch providers between offer and onboarding, and the new hires showed up on day one with a compliant local employment contract.
| The Results | |
|---|---|
| 5 countries | Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Philippines |
| 3 role categories | C++ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure Team Lead |
| One partner, two services | Recruitment and EOR delivered together |
| Pipeline, not point fixes | A reliable engineering bench, not a series of disconnected hires |
Remote People enabled us to scale our development capabilities swiftly and build a reliable pipeline of skilled software engineers — while maintaining exceptional quality throughout.
Barbara Feist Global HR Officer, ingenium Trading
The Bottom Line
Building a reliable engineering pipeline across five countries is a different exercise from filling roles one at a time. It requires a partner who can hold the line on quality across markets, and an employment infrastructure that doesn’t bottleneck the recruitment.
For ingenium, that combination produced a scalable approach — not just a set of one-off hires.
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