Skip to content
Lisbon → American tech

Connecting European engineers
to American tech.

The talent was never the problem. The door was. We are based in Lisbon, and we are free for engineers.

ApplyHow it works

How it works

Four steps, and a person at every one of them.

  1. 01

    You apply

    Twenty minutes. A person reads it.

  2. 02

    We answer

    Either way, within five working days.

  3. 03

    We get you ready

    A conversation, then the specific gaps.

  4. 04

    We introduce you

    When we would stake our name on it.

Questions

What does it cost me?
Nothing, ever. Companies pay us when they hire. If anyone in this industry asks a candidate for money, walk away.
Do I need a degree?
No. Self-taught engineers with something running are exactly who this was built for.
My English is good but not perfect.
That is fine, and it is most people. What matters is whether you can hold a technical conversation and write clearly. An honest “conversational” is worth more to us than an inflated “fluent”.
What about a visa?
It depends on the company and the role, and anyone who tells you otherwise before meeting you is guessing. Some routes start remote. We tell you which one you are looking at before you invest time in it.

Why Verzes exists

Nothing about me changed. Somebody American just finally looked.

I am European. I studied in Portugal. I could write software, and I could not get anyone to let me write it for a living.

Then some American founders came to Lisbon on holiday, and I got talking to them. They looked at what I had built. They hired me as an intern within weeks, and three months later I was full time.

Nothing about me had changed in those weeks. The only thing that changed was that somebody finally looked.

I got a career out of a holiday conversation. That is a wonderful story and a terrible system — there are thousands of engineers across Europe in exactly the position I was in, and almost none of them are going to happen to meet the right person at the right table. Verzes is the attempt to do deliberately what happened to me by accident.

For American companies

Engineers who are hungry in a way your local pipeline is not.

We are a Lisbon-based team that finds European software engineers, screens them properly, and introduces the ones we would vouch for. You see a short list of people, each with a written case for why.

  • Screened by people, in English

    Every candidate has had a real conversation with us before you see them. We check that they can build, and that they can work in English — which is the thing that actually goes wrong when this is done badly.

  • Start with an intern

    The lowest-risk way to find out, and how most of our people arrive. If it works you convert them; if it does not you have lost a season rather than a headcount.

  • A case, not a CV dump

    A short written argument for each person: what they have built, where they are strong, where they are not yet. If we would not put our name to someone, we do not send them.

Tell us what you are hiring for

Apply

One evening. One honest application.

The worst outcome is that somebody finally looks at your work and tells you the truth about it.

Apply

Verzes does not guarantee a job, an interview or an introduction, and we are not immigration advisers. What we do promise is that a real person reads your application and answers you either way. We never charge engineers.