2026 SALARY SURVEY - NOW AVAILABLE
ROLES WE HIRE
BUILD
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Backend engineers
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Frontend engineers
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Full stack engineers
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Mobile engineers (iOS, Android)
RUN
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Platform engineers
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DevOps and SRE
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QA and test engineers
LEAD
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Founding engineers
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Tech leads and staff engineers
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Engineering managers
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Heads of engineering and CTOs
WHO WE WORK WITH
We work with startups hiring their first engineers and scaleups growing their engineering teams fast.
Early on, your first engineers shape the codebase, the way the team works and who you hire next, so we look for people who can own a problem from start to finish. As you scale, the challenge shifts to hiring quickly without lowering the bar, and to finding leads who can grow a team as well as write code.
Either way, we start by understanding what you're building and where the team needs to be in a year, not just the role in front of us.
OUR PROCESS
01
TODAY.
Getting to know each other.
We ask why the role exists, what problem the hire solves and what good looks like in six months.
02
24-48 HOURS.
What does good look like?
We'll share example profiles to gather comprehensive live feedback about what you like/dislike about each.
03
48-72 HOURS.
Search officially starts.
We longlist and assess candidates against your brief, beyond what's on their CV.
04
END OF WEEK 1.
Candidates introductions.
Your first hand-picked shortlist lands, with our notes on every candidate.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN EVERY ENGINEER
Technical depth - Their experience against your stack and the problems you're solving.
Ownership - Have they taken something from idea to production, not just worked on part of it?
Pace and ambiguity - How have they handled shifting priorities or incomplete specs?
Fit with your stage - Do they want the pace of a startup or scaleup, or just like the idea of it?
LEVEL
LOWER
MEDIAN
UPPER
MID
15,000
21,500
28,000
SENIOR
26,000
33,000
40,000
LEAD
30,000
35,575
41,150
HEAD
40,000
47,000
54,000
DIRECTOR
50,000
57,500
65,000
VP/C-SUITE
52,500
62,750
73,000
Monthly basic in AED. Source: Nameless Ventures 2026 Salary Survey, UAE.
YOUR DESK LEADS
ELLIE DYER
Senior Talent Partner II
AI & Software Engineering
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JENA KFOUZI
Senior Talent Partner I
Software Engineering & Product Design
HIRING DONE RIGHT, SO YOU CAN BUILD FASTER
We help startups scale by matching them with the right people - not just by skillset but by culture and ambition.