Leverage open source
to hire the best engineers

Algora is an open source tech recruiting platform.
We use granular GitHub contribution data to help you
hire the perfect engineer for your role,
fast and affordably.

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Hire with confidence

Highlight your applicants' OSS contributions
and match with the top developers on Algora

High Signal Only

Your Algora job board automatically
screens and ranks applicants

Save Time & Money

0% placement fees and efficient matching process

Avoid Bad Hires

Trial candidates with real paid projects
to assess role fit and job performance

Massive Reach

Reach 50K+ devs with unlimited job postings

Top Talent

Access top 1% users matching your
tech, skills, seniority and location preferences

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Embed 1-click apply on your website
and add custom branding to your job board

"Algora helped us meet Nick, who started as an open source contributor, and after being contracted a few months, joined the Trigger founding team full-time.

It was the easiest hire and turned out to be very very good."

Eric Allam
Eric Allam
Co-founder & CEO
Trigger.dev (YC W23)

"We met Gergő from his open source contributions on Algora and contracted him to help us at Firecrawl. He's been working full-time with us for over a year now and is a key contributor to our product.

I think you realized this by now, but you have such a powerful sourcing/hiring engine in your hands!"

Nicolas Camara
Nicolas Camara
Co-founder & CEO
Firecrawl (YC S22)

Frictionless
contract work

Complete outcome-based contract work with your contributors and Algora matches

Instant Matches

Top 1% developers in your tech stack
available to hire now

Track Time & Pull Requests

Log hours worked and PRs submitted every week

Escrow Payments

Pay only for outcomes

120+ Countries

Global payments, invoices, compliance, 1099s

What You See is What You Pay

Hourly rate quotes include developer, payment processing and Algora service fees

Scale On Demand

Contract individual contributors or entire flex teams

"I've used Algora in the past for bounties, and recently used them to hire a contract engineer. Every time the process has yield fantastic results, with high quality code and fast turn arounds. I'm a big fan."

Drew Baker
Drew Baker
Technical Partner
Funkhaus | Notes.fm

Paid trials with
GitHub bounties

Use bounties and contract work to trial your top candidates before hiring them full-time.

Tushar Mathur

Bounties help us control our burn rate, get work done & meet new hires. I've made 4 full-time hires using Algora

Tushar Mathur
Founder & CEO at Tailcall

Fund GitHub issues

Add USD rewards on issues and pay when work is merged

Fund any issue
in seconds
Help improve the OSS you love and rely on
Pay when PRs are merged
Pool bounties with other sponsors
Algora handles payouts, compliance & 1099s
No credit card required

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You can tip your favorite open source contributors with Algora.

Tip contributors instantly

Support the maintainers of your favorite projects

Send tips directly to GitHub usernames
Algora handles payouts, compliance & 1099s
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Trusted by open source YC founders

Tal Borenstein

Keep has 90+ integrations to alert our customers about critical events. Of these, 42 integrations were built using bounties on Algora.

Tal Borenstein
Co-founder & CEO at Keep (YC W23)

Build product faster

Use bounties for outcome-based contract work with full GitHub integration.

Louis Beaumont

I posted our bounty on Upwork to try it, overall it's 1000x more friction than OSS bounties with Algora.

Louis Beaumont
Co-founder & CEO at Screenpipe
Josh Pigford

Let's offer a bounty to say "Hey, someone please prioritize this, who has the skillset for it?" I think long term I'd like to make it a very consistent part of our development process.

Josh Pigford
Co-founder & CEO at Maybe
John A De Goes

We used Algora extensively at Ziverge to reward over $115,000 in bounties and introduce a whole new generation of contributors to the ZIO and Golem ecosystems.

John A De Goes
Founder & CEO at Ziverge

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