3 months to hire a senior Nest.JS full-stack developer

About Elmut

Elmut is a brand reinventing pet food by offering fresh, home-style meals tailored to each animal. Through a personalized questionnaire, every plan is adjusted to the pet's specific needs.

In 3 years, Elmut has grown its revenue tenfold. Rapid growth, driven by a deeply committed but still very small team.

www.elmut.fr

A team still being built

The current team is 9 people:

• 2 founders
• 5 in marketing
• 3 in customer success
• 1 fractional CTO (part-time)

No HR, no structured tech team yet, but plenty of work to ship fast.

The need

In this context, Elmut was looking for a developer who could take ownership of the entire tech stack, with a high degree of autonomy and a strong product instinct.

Someone able to:

• Take a business need and translate it into tech
• Ship new features and improve what's already there
• Handle bug fixes, refactors, and topics like payment management, third-party integrations, and so on

In short, a solid generalist, comfortable in a startup environment and able to thrive in a company where tech is a support function, not the core product.

The kind of challenge we love at Bluecoders

At Bluecoders, we love working with deeply tech-driven companies, but also with teams like Elmut whose core product isn't tech.

It's challenging, because many devs are drawn to the deeptech startups of the moment.

But it's also a great opportunity to find truly passionate candidates, curious people with the right business instincts.

And in this case specifically, the search was tough:

• We were competing with other agencies
• And we were on a highly contested hunt: the profile (senior Nest.js full-stack developer) is in high demand on the market.

We had to be ultra-responsive, source intelligently, and adapt our pitch to align the project's vision with candidates' expectations.

With this kind of client, we don't just evaluate hard skills.

We dig into soft skills, autonomy, adaptability, and the ability to make the right calls in a loosely structured environment.

And often, these are clients who count on us to go beyond recruitment: advice on processes, offers, methods, organization…

Because they don't have HR yet or any prior experience scaling a team.

By the numbers

In 3 months:

• 12 candidates submitted
• 7 candidates interviewed
• 1 hire closed

What we take away from this engagement

A very healthy, very clear partnership where trust was there from day one.

A human-scale, ambitious client with strong values and a genuinely useful product.

And a tailor-made hire, at the right time, in a competitive environment, to support their growth.

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