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It has one of the largest developer pools in Eastern Europe, sits within the EU, and runs more cheaply than Poland, Estonia, or anywhere further west.\n",[1936],{"start":1937,"end":1938,"type":57,"data":1939},207,214,{"link_type":59,"url":1940},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002Fblog\u002Fhire-developers-in-estonia",{"type":24,"text":1942,"spans":1943,"direction":20},"This covers what Romanian developers charge, the work they're genuinely strong in, how to pay them without setting up a local entity, and how they stack up against Poland, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. 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More than 200,000 developers, strong English proficiency, and rates well below those in Poland or Estonia.\n",[],{"type":77,"text":1970,"spans":1971,"direction":20},"Budget $34,000 to $50,000 per year for a mid-level developer and $52,000 to $72,000 per year for a senior, in USD. That runs roughly 50-60% below US salaries.\n",[],{"type":77,"text":1973,"spans":1974,"direction":20},"To hire the best developers in Romania for your specific use case, it is best to work with an expert development recruiting agency, such as Remote Crew, that hires senior developers across Europe and Latin America. You don't pay if you don't hire the candidates they found for you.\n",[1975,1979],{"start":1976,"end":1977,"type":57,"data":1978},94,130,{"link_type":59,"url":105},{"start":1980,"end":1981,"type":57,"data":1982},140,152,{"link_type":59,"url":1983},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002F",{"type":77,"text":1985,"spans":1986,"direction":20},"Hire on a B2B basis and skip the payroll. Developers invoice through their own PFA or micro-company, so there are no employer taxes on your side.\n",[],{"type":77,"text":1988,"spans":1989,"direction":20},"Its deepest benches are specific: automotive and embedded software, cybersecurity, and enterprise automation, on top of a broad web and mobile pool.\n",[1990],{"start":36,"end":1503,"type":130},{"type":77,"text":1992,"spans":1993,"direction":20},"Know that the market runs hot. 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Continental, Bosch, and a cluster of suppliers have run large R&D centers in Timișoara, Iași, and Cluj for two decades, building a deep bench of engineers who write low-level C and C++ code for real hardware. If your product touches devices, firmware, or anything automotive, few places in Europe match it.\n",[],{"type":24,"text":2040,"spans":2041,"direction":20},"Cybersecurity is the second. Bitdefender grew up here and anchors a real security scene, and it shows in how local engineers reason about hardening and data protection.\n",[],{"type":24,"text":2043,"spans":2044,"direction":20},"Enterprise automation is the third. UiPath's rise pulled a generation of engineers toward large-scale process and enterprise work, so senior people who have shipped serious systems aren't hard to find.\n",[],{"type":24,"text":2046,"spans":2047,"direction":20},"Under those specialties sits a broad, conventional pool. 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Bucharest and Cluj sit at the top of the local range; the smaller hubs come in lower.\n",[],{"type":24,"text":2258,"spans":2259,"direction":20},"One recent shift matters here. Romania ended its long-standing income-tax exemption for IT workers in January 2025, so developers now pay the standard 10% income tax like everyone else. 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