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IT RPO Services

Your engineering recruiting team, run by people who understand how to hire great engineering talent.

X-Team runs or supplements your engineering recruiting function, from sourcing through offer, matching candidates to your stack and your culture.  The result is a pipeline built for fit and longevity, with the retention outcomes that matter most to engineering leaders. 

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98%
engineer retention
20+
years building remote teams
18,000+
applicants per month

Why X-Team

X-Team runs your engineering recruiting like a team that hires engineers every day, optimizing for hires who stay.

  • Built for Fit

    We match candidates to your stack and your culture, because a hire who fits is a hire who stays and keeps your roadmap moving.

  • Real Pipeline Depth

    A continuously vetted engineer community gives us real pipeline depth, so we source from scale rather than starting each search from zero.

  • Recruiting That Knows Engineering

    We evaluate engineers on the things that actually predict success in your environment, not keyword-matched resumes.

How Does IT RPO Work?

You focus on evaluating and hiring. We run the recruiting.

  1. Share
    Your
    Needs

    We start with a deep-dive discovery call to understand your hiring goals, the roles and skills you’re recruiting for, your timeline and volume, and the technical and cultural fit your team needs.

  2. Meet
    Your
    Talent

    We present a handpicked shortlist of vetted candidates matched to your stack and culture, so your team spends its time interviewing people worth hiring instead of filtering resumes.

  3. Hit the
    Ground
    Running

    We run sourcing and screening as an embedded part of your recruiting function, working in your process and ATS, and under your brand so candidates experience one hiring team, not an outside agency.

  4. Keep
    Moving
    Forward

    We keep the pipeline moving against your hiring goals and adjust as your needs change, so recruiting stays consistent instead of stalling when a specialist role is hard to fill.

RPO Services That Scale Your Hiring

  • Scale Engineering Hiring During a Growth Surge

    Add sourcing and recruiting capacity to fill a wave of engineering roles without expanding your internal talent team.

  • Source AI and ML Engineers Your Internal Recruiters Can't Find

    Reach specialized engineers through X-Team's network when the roles are too niche for your usual channels.

  • Backfill Multiple Open Engineering Roles Faster

    Run several searches in parallel through an embedded sourcing partner instead of one-at-a-time agency handoffs.

  • Build a Nearshore Engineering Team Through Embedded Recruitment

    Stand up a nearshore team by embedding X-Team’s recruiting into your hiring process, matched to your stack and culture.

  • Replace an Agency Relationship With an Embedded Sourcing Partner

    Trade transactional agency placements for a partner that works inside your process and optimizes for hires who stay.

We Work With Your Tech Stack

X-Team engineers cover a wide range of modern stacks. Whatever your team is building on, we have engineers who've shipped on it.

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Frontend & Full-Stack

  • React
  • Angular
  • Vue.js
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Python
  • .NET
  • PHP
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Golang
  • C/C++
  • Scala
  • Erlang
  • Elixir
  • Rust

Data & AI/ML

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • R
  • LLM
  • NLP
  • OCR
  • Statistics
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Data Visualization
  • Machine Learning
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • dbt
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Redshift
  • Spark

DevOps, Cloud & QA

  • SRE
  • DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Monitoring/Logging
  • Shell Scripting
  • Selenium
  • Cypress
  • Jest
  • Mocha
  • TestNG
  • Appium
  • JUnit
  • Tosca
  • SAP ECC

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X-Team in Action

  • X-Team's developer brings a level of collaboration skills and experience that is measurably injecting energy into our velocity.

    Instil
    VP of Engineering

  • You were incredibly responsive, easy to deal with, and your developers were unquestionably better than the others.

    Riot Games
    Engineering Manager

  • They've provided us with a team of incredibly dedicated and intelligent developers. It's helped us avoid the inevitable team turnover from hiring on our own.

    Kaplan
    Product Director

  • We've worked with other vendors, but X-Team stands out the most; they're outperforming their competitors.

    Fox
    Tech Leader
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Frequently Asked Questions About IT RPO Services

  • How is X-Team's RPO different from a staffing agency?

    A traditional staffing agency is transactional, filling a role and moving on. RPO is a process. X-Team embeds recruiting expertise into your engineering hiring function, operating as an extension of your team using your brand, your process and your ATS, rather than sending over resumes from the outside. The goal is a repeatable hiring engine, not a one-off placement.

  • Does X-Team embed recruiters with our team or work independently?

     X-Team's RPO model embeds recruiting into your engineering hiring function and operates as an extension of your internal team, working in your process and systems toward your hiring goals. The engagement is built around your pipeline rather than run at arm's length. 

  • What does X-Team commit to in an RPO engagement?

    In an RPO engagement, X-Team takes accountability for the parts of the engineering hiring process you hand off, from sourcing through offer, and reports against the hiring goals you set together. The specific scope and service levels are defined for your engagement based on your roles, volume, and timeline.

  • How is RPO priced?

    RPO is typically priced as an ongoing engagement rather than a per-hire fee, most often a monthly management fee for the dedicated personnel, recruiting capacity and process X-Team runs for you. The structure depends on your hiring volume and the scope of the function you hand off.

  • Which types of engineering roles does X-Team recruit for through RPO?

     X-Team recruits across the engineering roles its community already covers, including software engineers across modern stacks, along with specialized areas such as AI and machine learning, DevOps, and cybersecurity. RPO fits medium to large sized teams requiring ongoing hiring support for engineering roles at volume or filling specialized roles that internal recruiters have struggled to source. 

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Tell us about the roles you're hiring for and your timeline. We'll set up a time to walk you through how X-Team would run your engineering recruiting.

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