About Haystack
Why Haystack exists
Haystack is an AI-native full-service provider for business and technology solutions. We blend recruitment sprints, outsourcing capacity, and a nearshore delivery hub to help ambitious teams build and scale with conviction.
Swiss engineering roots
Years spent alongside Lausanne and Zürich engineering teams across consultancies, product launches, startup labs, and late-night debugging sessions shaped how we work.
Embedded networks
EPFL, ETH Zürich, HSG incubators, and the clusters across Romandy and Zürich are our home turf. We stay close to the labs, founders, and technologists building what’s next.
Global network, unsaturated talent
Swiss-led relationships follow alumni into leadership roles across Europe, the US, and Asia. While traditional hubs are saturated, our network opens new capacity without the churn.
Outsourcing IT Services + Nearshore Delivery Hub
We are a Swiss full-service partner for business and technology solutions. Alongside recruitment sprints we deliver managed engineering, data, and platform services from our Tirana, Albania hub, located inside the freshly opened Durana Technology & Science Park to stay close, multilingual, and secure.
Traditional nearshore hotspots are crowded, expensive, and prone to turnover. Albania’s ecosystem is scaling fast without the saturation: a young workforce paired with seasoned specialists, plus incentives that keep delivery teams stable rather than cycling through churn.
- Nearshore office inside Durana Technology & Science Park, Albania’s flagship innovation campus linking global investors, academia, and startups.
- 3,500+ engineering graduates a year and a tech sector growing 12.7% CAGR (2020–2027).
- Average labour costs 30–50% below saturated EU hubs, with 85% of professionals holding globally recognised technical certifications.
- Tirana is a two-hour flight from major EU capitals, enabling real-time collaboration and low attrition.
- Multilingual delivery across Italian, English, German, and French, built into every squad.
Durana Technology & Science Park
Durana Tech Park is Albania’s first dedicated technology and science park, a hub where big tech companies, startups, universities, and research centres co-create new products and transfer knowledge across the region.
Our nearshore office sits inside this campus so Haystack squads plug into shared labs, mentoring, and investor networks while staying minutes from Tirana International Airport.
Explore the parkHow we evaluate talent
We don’t chase every CV or push people into roles that don’t fit. We look for substance: engineers who take responsibility for what they ship and can explain how they think.
That lens keeps teams focused and compounds the global network we activate for every search.
- How candidates have built things, not just what they list.
- Why they made specific technical or product choices.
- What impact the work delivered and who relied on it.
- Whether you’d want them next to you when something breaks at 3 AM.
Principles
Signal first
Quality evidence over volume. Every shortlist is benchmarked against hands-on delivery and practical context.
Transparency
Clients see what we see: clear dashboards, straightforward expectations, honest readouts.
Momentum
Hiring has to match product velocity. Our sprints compound progress and keep talent engaged.