Recruitment agency forTech
Full-Stack Engineer, Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, DevOps, Software Architect, Lead Developer…
The best Tech candidates don’t apply for jobs. We approach them directly.
0 trial periods ended early in 2025
- 129
Tech hires since 2022
- 80,000+
candidates in our network
- 90%
of candidates accept our clients’ offers
Our approach
Why trust us with your Tech hiring
The French tech market remains tight for senior, lead and C-level profiles. The best candidates don’t read job ads: they are currently employed and choose their next project. Our approach combines direct outreach on LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack Overflow with our network of qualified candidates.
Targeted search
We approach the best tech profiles on the market directly: people who build, not people who apply. Each candidate is selected for their technical skills, their ability to ship to production and their impact on the product.
Our sourcing channels
Assessment
We build a clear scorecard with you based on your tech needs: command of languages and frameworks, software architecture, ability to work in an agile team and fit with your product culture.
Sample Tech scorecard
Long-term partnership
We share our market insights (stack trends, salaries, regulation) and our search reports to help you build a strong team.
What we deliver
Tailored search report
Up-to-date salary benchmark
Tracking of candidates open to a move
Closing and onboarding follow-up
Our process
6 steps to hire the right person
Role definition and scorecard
Targeting and search strategy
Screening and assessment
Candidate presentation and reports
Support through to the signed offer
KPI review and continuous improvement
Role definition and scorecard
Targeting and search strategy
Screening and assessment
Candidate presentation and reports
Support through to the signed offer
KPI review and continuous improvement
Our Tech expertise
Roles we cover, stacks we know, salary ranges and seniority levels.
Full-Stack Engineer
Builds the product independently, on both frontend and backend, in a startup or scale-up tech team.
iOS Engineer
Builds the product’s native iOS app, often paired with an Android developer.
DevOps Engineer
Automates deployments and cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes, AWS or GCP for the whole tech team.
Data Engineer
Builds the data pipelines and models used for analysis, reporting and the product’s data features.
AI Engineer
Designs the product’s AI features: LLM integration, RAG, agents and evaluations.
QA Engineer
Designs the automated and exploratory tests that check quality before every production release.
Product Manager
Owns the product vision, sets roadmap priorities and connects business needs with the engineering team.
Engineering Manager
Manages engineers and is accountable for the team’s delivery: organization, hiring and each person’s growth.
CTO
Sets the technical strategy, structures R&D and hires the team’s first engineers.
Companies that trust us with Tech hiring
A dedicated expert, client testimonials and completed hires to back it up.
Tech client testimonials
Saad FILALI
Head of IT Digital Factory · Lacoste
« We called on LITY to support us on several strategic hires, especially digital and tech profiles. I was particularly impressed by the quality of the follow-up and their detailed understanding of our needs. The LITY team managed to move fast while maintaining a very high bar in selecting candidates. »
David Bouba
CO-CEO & Founder · Swaap
« Lity has been supporting us on our web3 profiles for 2 years now. The team quickly understands our needs and the flow of candidates is very high quality. The results are there: we were able to hire several strong profiles (5+ years of experience, ex-unicorns) in a relatively short time! »
Gwendal Delaunay
Project Director · SisID
« A real pleasure to work with Lity. They’re very responsive and persistent. Having been through it both as a candidate and as a recruiter, I find there’s a good balance between defending the interests of the company and those of the candidates, so that everyone comes out ahead. »
Nitsan Seniak
CTO · Mee6
« Super competent and responsive, nice people too, the first firm I turn to when I have a hire to make. »
Charles Gwinner
CTO & Co-Founder · Revolt
« Second hire with Lity, second flawless one, on a rare 3D profile recruited in 11 days. A big thank you to Arthur and the Lity team for their top-notch support from start to finish. »
Ben Chevallereau
CTO & Builder · Waltio
« An excellent experience with Lity! We brought them in to hire our Head of Engineering and the support was perfect from start to finish. A big thank you especially to Maissane for her professionalism, her responsiveness and the highly relevant profiles she proposed. We’re thrilled with our new hire. I highly recommend them! »
Benoit Cordesse
CEO · Senoee
« We’re delighted and really appreciated how smooth the process was and how responsive LITY was. Well done! »
Léo Pons
Co-founder · Bubblemaps
« Lity supported me in hiring Bubblemaps’ first tech employee. Thanks to Léo for the follow-up! »
Geoffrey Bereyziat
Co-founder & CRO · Hedg
« The recruitment firm Lity is very responsive and professional, and offers high-quality sales, finance and tech profiles. I recommend them! »
Vincent Larroque
Engineering · Swikly
« Lity was a great help with our tech hiring this year. The profiles they sent us were carefully vetted and high quality. Thanks to them for their rigor. »
Florent Chenebault
Staff Engineer · Lifen
« It’s a real pleasure to work with Lity. Their ability to really understand our needs and expectations has saved us an enormous amount of time on our hiring. I highly recommend them! »
Vincent Larroque
CTPO · Swikly
« Lity was a great help with our tech hiring this year. The profiles they sent us were carefully vetted and high quality. Thanks to them for their rigor. »
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Your Tech recruitment consultant
More than 10 years recruiting Tech talent
The French tech market has been tight since 2021. Hiring a Lead Developer, an Engineering Manager or a scale-up CTO in-house takes months, with no guarantee of a signed offer.
Tommy has more than 10 years of experience in tech recruitment, from early-stage startups to large groups. He now runs the Tech & Engineering practice at Lity.
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In tech, we have worked in every setting: early-stage startups, Series A to D scale-ups, mid-sized tech companies, large groups going through an AI transformation. The rarest profiles (Lead Developer, Engineering Manager, CTO, AI/ML Engineer) stay unfilled for months when the search is run in-house.
Tommy knows the stacks (Node, Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Postgres), the working culture of modern product teams (agile, CI/CD, post-mortems, ownership) and actual salary scales. Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes: we have reliable benchmarks for each city.
Our method relies on 4 complementary sources. Our LinkedIn Recruiter license for direct outreach to currently employed candidates. Our pool of tech candidates, updated continuously. Referrals from our network of top performers. And our presence at tech community events. We build the scorecard with you. For timelines and concrete results, our case studies document each search.
We work with companies of every size
Startup, scale-up, SME or large enterprise: we adapt our methods to your stage of growth and your hiring needs.
Startup
1 to 30 employees
You are launching a tech startup. We headhunt your CTO, your founding engineers or your first Lead Developer through our network of founders and passive candidates. Your roadmap stays confidential.
Scale-up
30 to 300 employees
You are building out a Series A to D scale-up. We recruit your Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers and first specialists (DevOps, Data, Security) to grow your teams.
SME
50 to 500 employees
You run a tech SME or mid-sized company. We handle your strategic hires: CIO, Lead Developer, Engineering Manager, for stack modernization and technical debt reduction.
Large companies
Mid-market companies and large groups
You lead tech at a large group or CAC40 company. We run confidential searches for VP Engineering, Head of Data and cloud architect roles, and for large-scale AI transformations.
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Answers to your questions about recruiting in Tech.
What are tech salaries in Paris in 2026?
The Paris tech market remains tight, even though it has stabilized since 2024.
Gross annual salary ranges in Paris in 2026:
- Mid-level software engineer (3-5 years): €50K to €65K depending on the stack
- Senior (5-8 years): €65K to €85K
- Tech Lead: €70K to €95K
- Engineering Manager: €80K to €110K
- Staff Engineer: above €110K
Outside Paris (Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse), expect salaries 10-15% lower.
Freelancers charge a daily rate between €500 and €950, depending on seniority and stack.
Tech, engineering, IT: what’s the difference when you hire?
Three different areas to tell apart before you hire:
- Tech: product-oriented profiles in scale-ups (software engineers, DevOps, data engineers, AI engineers)
- Engineering: management and technical leadership (Tech Lead, EM, VP Engineering, Staff Engineer)
- IT: corporate IT functions in mid-sized companies and large groups (system administrators, network engineers, IT project managers)
Salary ranges and assessment processes are very different across these three areas.
How do you assess a tech candidate without getting it wrong?
Combine three criteria to assess a tech candidate:
- Technical depth: live system design, code review of a past project or pair programming on a real case
- Production track record: size of the team they led, scale-ups they worked at, incidents they handled, technologies used in real environments
- Soft skills (behavioral interview): conflict management, mentoring, ability to push back on a Product Manager
Always ask for references from a former direct manager.
A good tech candidate talks about outcomes and business impact, not only the features they shipped.
Is the French tech market still tight in 2026?
Yes, for senior and specialized profiles.
The market for junior and bootcamp developers has shrunk since 2024, and hiring standards are stricter again.
On the other hand, these profiles are still in very high demand, especially at Series B/C scale-ups:
- Tech Leads
- Staff Engineers
- AI Engineers
- Engineering Managers
AI productivity tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) are changing what interviewers expect: engineers who master them gain 30-40% in velocity and a clear advantage on the market.
Which stacks lead the French tech market in 2026?
The stacks that lead the French tech market in 2026:
- Frontend: React and Next.js strengthen their lead with Server Components; Vue, Nuxt and Svelte keep their niches
- Backend: TypeScript and Python remain dominant, and Go and Rust are growing for performance-critical services
- Data: Snowflake or BigQuery + dbt + Airflow make up the standard Modern Data Stack
- Cloud: AWS still leads in startups, GCP in data-heavy companies, Azure in large groups
Agentic AI (LangChain, LangGraph, vector DBs) is emerging as a stack of its own.
What career paths are open to a tech engineer in France in 2026?
Two main career paths for a tech engineer in France in 2026:
- Management: Senior Developer → Tech Lead → Engineering Manager → Director of Engineering → VP Engineering → CTO
- Individual Contributor: Senior → Staff Engineer → Principal Engineer → Distinguished Engineer
Other paths attract more and more engineers:
- Founding Engineer at an early-stage startup: for senior engineers who want equity and autonomy
- Customer-facing roles: a move to Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer or Developer Relations
- AI Engineering: a specialization path that is now highly valued
Trust us with your hiring in Tech.
A hands-on approach for hires that last.
Intro call (30 min)
A video call to understand your needs and walk you through our approach.
On-site visit
We meet you on site to get a detailed understanding of your culture and your hiring plans.
Targeted search
The search starts. We present only the candidates who match your requirements.