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Bluecoders

Recruitment firm · Tech & Engineering

We recruit tech leaders and the teams around them.

In software, AI, deeptech, defence and industry.

  • CTO
  • VP Engineering
  • Head of AI
  • Engineering Manager
  • Staff Engineer
  • Founding Engineer
  • R&D Lead
  • Platform Engineer
  • Head of Data
The Bluecoders team sitting on steps in front of a wooden façade

The firm

10 years building lasting relationships with the people who make tech.

More than 2,000 hires, more than 800 companies, and a stable team: 8 of our 13 people have been here for more than two years.

Meet the team ↗

We have recruited for them

  • Safran.AI
  • Cegelec Défense
  • Traak
  • Aerix Systems
  • Agenium
  • Wheere
  • CerbAir
  • Rubicon
  • TheraPanacea
  • Alpha10X
  • PhysCade
  • DigitalKin
  • White Circle
  • Joko
  • FullEnrich
  • Diago.IA
  • NW Groupe
  • DiliTrust
  • Greenspot
  • Lucky Cart
  • Eres
  • Descartes
  • Zelty
  • SlimPay
  • Back Market
  • Foodles
  • Tango
  • Blumana
  • Bevolta
  • Lemrock
  • Nabu
  • Shotgun

Our sectors

Three sectors, three markets we know from the inside.

A Series A CTO and an embedded software lead for a defence programme are not found the same way: not the same people, not the same questions, not the same timeline. Each sector has its specialist, who knows the engineers in the field, including those who are not looking.

Defence, Industry & Hardware

Defence · cybersecurity · space · industry · energy · electronics · deeptech

Clearable engineers kept quiet by their programmes. We know how to check experience in protected environments, beyond the line on the CV.

  • CTOAerix Systems
  • Engineering ManagerSafran.AI (ex-Preligens)
  • Chief EngineerConfidential, aerospace company
Caroline Fleury

Your contactCaroline

Talk about a defence hire ↗

AI, Data & Science

AI · deeptech · research · health and medtech · science

PhDs and research engineers with academic, rarely linear paths. At Alpha10X, a Staff Software Engineer we hired became Head of Engineering within six months.

  • Head of DataTheraPanacea
  • AI R&D LeadPhysCade
  • Senior ML Engineer LLMWhite Circle
Géraud Mesnard

Your contactGéraud

Talk about a deeptech hire ↗

Business & Tech Solutions

SaaS · platforms and marketplaces · e-commerce and retail · fintech · mobility · services

Product engineers approached every week, who only answer the right offers. We know what makes them move.

  • VP of EngineeringZelty
  • VP Cloud & Platform ArchitectOrnikar
  • Staff Mobile EngineerJoko
Julia Salzmann

Your contactJulia

Talk about a tech hire ↗

Our models

Three models, three ways to hire.

Executive search

Your CTO, your VP Engineering, your Chief Engineer.

  • A market map within 8 days
  • A direct, confidential approach, with a report every week
  • Two executive searches at most per recruiter

A retainer at launch.

Executive search in detail ↗
Contingency recruitment

You are hiring your tech team. We find the engineers and managers with you.

  • An account lead who knows your sector, a recruiter who knows the job
  • Candidates assessed by the recruiter before you meet them
  • Replacement or refund if the person leaves during the trial period, under the terms of the contract

No retainer. Fees on hire.

Contingency recruitment in detail ↗
RPO

A specialist recruiter, embedded in your team.

  • To hire several profiles in parallel
  • To launch a new team or step up your hiring
  • In your tools, with your managers, across the whole cycle

Day rate, full time or part time.

RPO in detail ↗
With AI, every hire weighs more: what it changes for you

Client testimonials

“Bluecoders fully understood our projects and ambitions, which enabled us to hire a key strategic profile. Their qualitative approach was a real asset: we were not flooded with CVs, but received a targeted and relevant selection. The result: a fast, efficient hiring process, aligned with our expectations.”

Hiring a strategic profile in defence

Serge CourrierChief Executive, Cegelec Défense Mechatronics Solution
“Great experience working with Bluecoders. They really understood our needs, both on the tech side and the human side, and that made all the difference.”

Founding Engineer hire, 3 weeks

Photo of Jean-Luc ManceronJean-Luc ManceronCTO, FullEnrich
“We've worked with Bluecoders on several tech hires, and every time the team has been serious, responsive and professional. A strong understanding of our needs. Highly recommended!”

2 full-stack JS developers, 1 Staff Fullstack Engineer, 1 Staff Mobile Engineer

Photo of Deborah RippolDeborah RippolDRH, Joko
The Bluecoders team in a meeting around a large table

Our method

How we run a search, from the first conversation to the end of the trial period.

  1. Understand the role before searching.

    Context, technical, human: a real conversation with you, your sector contact and the specialist recruiter, not a job description received by email. You avoid back-and-forth on off-target profiles.

  2. Only people we have met.

    We only present candidates we have met, with our analysis: their path, their motivations, what could make them move. Your time goes to the interviews that matter, not to sorting CVs.

  3. An honest view of the market.

    Salary, attractiveness, competition: we tell you what the market thinks of your role, even when the answer is uncomfortable. You adjust before losing weeks.

  4. A clear commitment.

    We turn down searches we cannot deliver, and we explain why. When we say yes, it is because we know where to look.

  5. Follow-up all the way.

    We stay in touch with you and the candidate until the end of the trial period. At the first weak signal, we step in, before a departure is set.

A good hire does not show on the day it is signed. It shows two years later.

Our approach in detail ↗

Executive hires

The level of the roles we recruit

All our references ↗
  • Defence, Industry & HardwareEngineering ManagerSafran.AI (ex-Preligens)
  • Defence, Industry & HardwareCTOAerix Systems
  • Defence, Industry & HardwareMechatronics Design Office ManagerCegelec Défense
  • Defence, Industry & HardwareChief EngineerConfidential, aerospace company
  • AI, Data & ScienceHead of DataTheraPanacea
  • Business & Tech SolutionsVP of EngineeringZelty
  • Software, AI and deeptechHead of SREGitGuardian
  • Business & Tech SolutionsVP Cloud & Platform ArchitectOrnikar

Our results

Since 2016, in figures.

Engineers, managers and tech leaders, for start-ups, scale-ups and industrial companies.

Talk about a hire ↗
tech and engineering hires since 2016
2,000+
companies we have worked with
800+
recruiting engineers and tech leaders
10 years
  • CMechatronics ManagerCegelec Défense
  • SEngineering Manager, AI & Algo Product Manager, ML EngineerSafran.AI
  • Embedded Software EngineerTraak
  • ACTOAerix Systems
  • CTech Lead, safety-critical softwareConfidential
  • 3D Team LeadAgenium
  • PhD in Applied Mathematics (signal processing)Wheere
  • Lead Industrialisation Engineer (RF)Rubicon
  • Head of DataTherapanacea
  • Staff AI EngineerAlpha10X
  • PAI R&D LeadPhysCade
  • 2 Full-Stack JS Devs, 1 Staff Fullstack Engineer, 1 Staff Mobile EngineerJoko
  • Founding EngineerFullEnrich
  • ML EngineerDiago.IA
  • Lead Data EngineerNW Groupe
  • 2 Dev Back-endDiliTrust
  • Product ManagerZelty
  • Architecte techniqueEres
  • Mobile iOS SeniorGreenspot
  • Data EngineerLucky Cart
  • 2 DevOpsSlimPay
  • Engineering ManagerDescartes

Our team

The team

  • Christophe Hébert
    Christophe HébertinCEO & Founder
  • Cécilia Fille
    Cécilia FilleinCOO & Partner
  • Caroline Fleury
    Caroline FleuryinAccount Executive · Defence, Industry & Hardware
  • Julia Salzmann
    Julia SalzmanninAccount Executive · Business & Tech Solutions
  • Géraud Mesnard
    Géraud MesnardinAccount Executive · AI, Data & Science

BlueDinner

We know the people who build tech, and we bring them to the table.

For ten years, we have been meeting the market's CTOs and tech leaders. With BlueDinner, we bring a few of them together over a private dinner, in a small group, to compare their practices, their questions and what they are really testing in the field.

Sign up for the next dinner ↗
BlueDinner in a wine cellar
Guests at a BlueDinner
Guests at a BlueDinner

AI and your teams

Smaller teams, hires you cannot get wrong.

With AI, tech teams are getting leaner: fewer managers, more senior engineers, AI agents alongside each of them. In a team of five instead of nine, a wrong hire costs far more. It is the question that keeps coming up in our CTO interviews, and these are the hires we run: the ones you cannot afford to get wrong.

CTOEng. ManagerEng. ManagerDevDevQADevDevOpsBefore · 9 people, 3 levelsStaff EngineerProduct EngineerAI EngineerPlatformagentsagentsagentsagentsDECISION · SPECS · REVIEW · EVALSToday · 5 people, 2 levels, agents

Illustrative diagram.

What is changing in teams

  1. Fewer levels

    Middle management is thinning out. Senior people carry more, the CTO is closer to the code.

  2. Roles that blend

    Product, data and engineering are recombining. Roles do not disappear, their boundaries move.

  3. The bottleneck moves

    When AI writes part of the code, the value shifts to decisions, specs, review and evals.

What it changes for your hiring

  • Hire fewer people, but more senior ones.Each person covers a wider scope.
  • Look for profiles that job descriptions do not describe yet.Product and code, data and AI, platform and agents.
  • Assess differently.Judgement and the quality of specs and reviews count as much as the code.

Emerging roles

  • AI Engineer
  • Applied AI Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Evals & AI Quality
  • AI Platform Engineer
  • Product Engineer
  • Head of AI
Talk about a hire ↗

In defence and industry, the shift is slower: clearance, safety and certification keep teams more structured. We recruit for both.

Contact

A hire in mind? Let's talk.

Describe what you need. The person in charge of your sector calls you back within 24 business hours.