We help product startups build their core engineering team.
And we help global companies set up and scale their India team — from first hire to scaled team, across India's six tech hubs.
Track record
Our founders' careers in IT recruitment span placements at companies most engineers in India would recognise immediately.
Over the past two decades, our founders have placed talent for global product MNCs, ride-sharing platforms, e-commerce leaders, mobile ad-tech companies, and India-headquartered unicorns, through their work at previous staffing and in-house TA roles. That experience now goes into every D4hire search.
EdTech SaaS
Digital campus management for higher-education institutions.
Legal AI
Generative-AI research and drafting tools for lawyers.
AI-native engineering
Forward-deployed Engineers and Fractional CTO services for startups.
E-commerce
Online retail platform and digital commerce solution.
The problem
The senior engineers you need are not on job boards. They are employed, building, and only move for the right opportunity — pitched the right way.
Most agencies send resumes by keyword match. You then spend hours filtering people who can't actually do the work.
Every hour you spend sourcing is an hour not spent on product. But the first 20 hires define your company forever.
How we work
Every search starts with a conversation between our founders and yours, not a junior account manager reading a JD. We understand what you are actually building before we approach a single candidate.
Two decades of combined IT recruitment experience, at firms including CareerNet, InterviewBit, Rippling, Carousell, Sequoia Consulting Group, Paytm Money, PharmEasy, Airstack, and ECC. We are recruiters who understand the work, not generalists pivoting into tech.
You will not get 40 resumes for one role. You will get 3 to 5 candidates we genuinely believe can do the work — with our notes on each one.
First shortlist within 5 to 7 working days for most roles. Most placements close in 2 to 4 weeks. Executive search timelines vary by mandate.
The D4 promise
D4hire stands for four commitments we make on every search.
Understand the work first — your product, your stack, your team — then map the real market, not just active job-seekers.
Calibrate every search to your specific role and standards. No templates, no spray-and-pray.
3 to 5 candidates we genuinely believe in — with our written assessment of each. Not a resume flood.
Stay with the search through offer, counter-offer, notice period, and joining. We close hires, not just present them.
What we do
Pan-India coverage
We source across India's six major tech hubs — and we know what each one is genuinely good for.
Deepest senior engineering talent pool in India. Strong in SaaS, AI, fintech.
Product engineering, cloud, and growing AI ecosystem. Competitive cost vs. Bangalore.
Strong in mid-senior engineering, automotive software, and product startups.
Enterprise software, backend engineering, and rising deep-tech presence.
Fintech, e-commerce, and product leadership.
B2B SaaS, govtech, large enterprise hubs, and a strong mid-senior supply.
Recent placements
Hyderabad
Outcome
15 days to placement
Pan-India
Outcome
Founding-team build
Bangalore + Hyderabad
Outcome
First 10 hires in 4 months
Meet the founders
Two founders. Two decades of combined IT recruitment experience. Every search runs through us — not a junior account manager.
Has placed engineers for Amazon, Flipkart, Uber, Walmart Labs, Myntra, Meesho, Paytm, PharmEasy, Inmobi, Mindtickle, Navi, Rupifi, Metamap, and Carousell. Built India teams from first hire to scale.
7th employee at Rippling. First HR hire in India for Carousell, the Singapore-headquartered marketplace. Four-plus years leading India engineering hiring for Sequoia Consulting Group.
We don't hand searches to junior account managers. When you work with D4hire, you work with the founders — every search, every shortlist, every close.
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The next step
Book a 30-minute call with the founders. No pitch deck, no junior account manager — just a conversation about what you are building and whether we are the right partner.