Canada
Direct Hire
Local talent, expertly delivered.
Hire full-time talent in Canada faster with DevEngine. We recruit across the whole delivery team — developers, data, cloud and DevOps, architects, product, project management, business and systems analysts, support, and marketing. You hire, we handle sourcing, screening, and candidate care, so you focus on selection and onboarding.
DevEngine supports
Up to 180-day prorated guarantee: full refund in first 30 days, then sliding partials. Mid- to senior-level placements across Canada with speed and fit.
End-to-end candidate sourcing and engagement
Peer-led technical interviews
Coordination support throughout the hiring process
Structured placement guarantee aligned to retention outcomes
Role-specific screening with technical and soft skill alignment
Shortlisted candidate presentations with context
Direct Hire in Canada
Hire for the long term, not the quick fix. Direct hire is permanent recruitment in Canada: your organization employs the person full-time in a role that's core to your roadmap, whether in engineering, product, delivery, or support, and they stay on your payroll.
Direct hire compared with contract-based engagement
The key difference comes down to who employs the person and how long the engagement is intended to last. With a direct hire, the person joins your organization as a permanent employee, and you take ownership of the employment relationship from the offer onward. In a contract-based engagement, DevEngine holds the contract, and the engagement stops when the project ends.
| Direct hire | Contract-based engagement | |
|---|---|---|
| Who employs the person | Your organization | DevEngine |
| Talent location | Canada | Canada or Latin America |
| Horizon | Permanent | Project-based, or ongoing but scalable |
| Best suited for | Core roles driving your technical roadmap | Defined deliverables or peak-capacity needs |
| Knowledge retention | Retained permanently within your internal teams | Maintained throughout the project life cycle |
| Placement protection | 180-day prorated guarantee | Two-week guarantee |
Not every role fits a permanent Canadian hire. If the work has a clear end date, contracting is the better route, and IT Contract Staffing covers it in Canada. Need senior direction rather than another pair of hands? Fractional IT Leadership brings that in part-time. And for the same permanent role from a wider talent pool sourced from Latin America, see Permanent IT Recruitment.
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When a direct hire is the strategic choice
Direct hire is the right model when the role is permanent, central to your roadmap, and expensive to get wrong.
The role anchors your product roadmap.
Platform architects, product owners, and engineering leads need long-term ownership and continuity, not a fixed-term contract.
Knowledge has to stay in-house.
When deep domain context and proprietary architecture matter more than short-term flexibility, a permanent hire keeps that knowledge on your team.
You are filling several permanent roles at once.
DevEngine runs the searches in parallel. When the hiring volume is sustained rather than one-off, Recruitment as a Service scales the whole function.
A senior mistake is expensive to reverse.
Replacing a senior hire costs months of roadmap progress and a second search. Peer-led screening and the 180-day prorated guarantee move that risk to DevEngine, not you.
How the search runs
Peer-led screening before any profile reaches your desk, and a guarantee that runs from the start date.
You brief us
on the role, the stack, what has to ship, and how long you need it.
We source for your role,
not pulled off a bench of whoever is free.
A senior peer screens each candidate,
someone who does the same work, not a recruiter skimming keywords.
You choose
who to interview and accept.
You extend the offer.
The hire joins your payroll and reports directly to you as a permanent employee, rather than as a contractor administered by DevEngine.
If the placement is not working,
we replace the candidate within a 180-day prorated guarantee that runs from the start date.
Direct hire questions
Should we hire permanently or bring someone in on contract?
Hire permanently when the role is core to your roadmap, and you want the person on your own payroll long term. Bring someone in on contract when the work has an end date or you need a specific skill for a set stretch. In that case, IT Contract Staffing is the Canadian route, and DevEngine holds the contract while you direct the work.
How is DevEngine different from a traditional recruitment agency?
The technical screen is run by senior engineers in the candidate's own field, not by recruiters matching keywords, so a shortlist reflects who can do the work rather than who has the right words on a resume. DevEngine also works as an embedded extension of your hiring process rather than throwing resumes over the wall, and every placement is backed by a 180-day prorated guarantee tied to retention.
Which roles does DevEngine recruit on a permanent basis?
DevEngine covers the full delivery team, not only engineers. On the build side: software developers, data engineers, cloud and DevOps engineers, and solution architects. On the delivery side: product owners, project managers, and business or systems analysts, plus support and marketing roles. Placements run mid- to senior-level, across Canada. If your stack or role is unusual, DevEngine sources to it rather than sending the nearest match.
How long does a permanent technical search take?
A permanent search typically takes longer than a contract placement, depending on the role's seniority and how specialized the skills are. Once a candidate accepts, their notice period also affects the start date. You'll get a realistic timeline on the first call, tailored to your role.
Should we choose an exclusive or non-exclusive search?
An exclusive search lets a recruiter invest more deeply in one role and coordinate the full process end to end. A non-exclusive arrangement suits lower-risk roles where speed to a first shortlist matters most.
How does DevEngine charge for a direct hire?
A direct hire is billed as a one-time placement fee rather than an ongoing rate. The fee is confirmed during scoping and reflects the seniority of the role and how scarce the skill is. Every placement is backed by the 180-day prorated guarantee, so the fee is protected if the hire does not stay.
What happens if a permanent hire does not work out?
DevEngine's placement guarantee for permanent hires runs up to 180 days and is prorated. A departure inside the first 30 days triggers a full refund, and partial refunds apply on a sliding scale after that.
What's your interest?
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