Employer of Record
Hire across the region. In 15 days. Without opening a company.
We become the legal employer. You keep full control of the work. Contracts, payroll, taxes and labour law handled by a Swiss company that has been employing engineers in this region since 2014 — 400+ of them, for our own teams and for our clients.
No entity required · First hire live in 15 days · Flat monthly fee
What will this person cost you?
Employee takes home approximately €2,424 net
Time to onboard: 15 days
Estimates for planning purposes. Final figures are confirmed in your quote.
Trusted by 200+ companies across Switzerland, Germany, the UK and the US
- Planted
- MOVU
- Helvetia
- Yokoy
- Oviva
- Aktiia
- Smallpdf
- Skribble
- Nissan
- employing in the region since
- 2014employing in the region since
- people employed under our entities
- 400+people employed under our entities
- companies served
- 200+companies served
- average time to first payroll
- 15 daysaverage time to first payroll
- GDPR compliant
- ISO 9001 certified
- ISO 27001 certified
- Cyber Essentials
Three mistakes companies make while hiring offshore
Contractor misclassification
You pay a great developer in Belgrade as a freelancer. Two years later a labour inspection reclassifies them as an employee. You owe back contributions, penalties and interest — calculated on every month since day one.
Opening your own entity
Registration, a local director, a bank account, an accountant, a certified payroll provider, a rulebook on systematisation. Three to six months and €15,000+ before the first person starts. Then you carry it forever, even for two employees.
A platform that subcontracts
Most global EOR platforms don't own an entity in this region — they resell a local partner. Your question goes into a ticket queue, then to a partner you've never met, then back. Simple things take days.
There is a fourth option. Holycode EOR — the one we built for ourselves first.
What we take off your desk
Everything below is included in the monthly fee. No per-item charges.
Compliant employment contracts
Drafted under local labour law, in the local language plus English, with your IP assignment and confidentiality terms built in.
Payroll, run locally
Salary calculated, taxes and contributions filed and paid on time, every month. Payslips in the employee's language.
Taxes and social contributions
Registered, calculated, filed and remitted. When a rate changes, we change it. You find out in your invoice, not from an inspector.
Onboarding and paperwork
Registration with the tax and health authorities, employment records, medical checks where required. Done before day one.
Benefits your engineers actually want
Private health insurance, additional leave and a learning budget. We know the local market rate because we pay it ourselves.
Time off, sick leave, parental leave
Tracked, approved through you, filed and reimbursed where the state reimburses. You see a clean calendar, not a legal problem.
Terminations, done properly
Notice periods, severance, mutual agreements, documentation. The part everyone forgets to ask about until they need it.
A named person, not a queue
One account manager in your time zone who knows your team by name and answers the same day.
From signed to onboarded in 15 days
- Day 0
You tell us who and where.
Send us the person, the role, the salary and the start date. If you don't have the person yet, we can find them.
- Day 1
We price it, exactly.
A full cost breakdown: gross, employer contributions, our fee, total. Fixed. No percentage of salary, no surprise line items.
- Day 2–3
Contract to the employee.
We issue a compliant local employment contract with your terms. The employee signs digitally. You approve everything before it goes out.
- Day 4–5
Registered and live.
Tax authority, health fund, payroll system. The employee starts. First payslip lands on the local payday.
- Ongoing
You manage the work, we manage the employment.
Monthly invoice, one line per person. When the law changes, nothing lands on you.
Where we employ
Our own entity, our own HR team
- Serbia (RS)
- Romania (RO)
Here we are not a middleman. Our entity, our payroll, our people. Fastest onboarding, lowest fee, and answers in minutes rather than days. Serbia and Romania give you senior engineering talent at a fraction of Western European cost.
Also available through our vetted network
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)
- North Macedonia (MK)
- Montenegro (ME)
- Croatia (HR)
- Slovenia (SI)
- Bulgaria (BG)
- Poland (PL)
- Greece (GR)
- Albania (AL)
We employ here regularly through partners we have worked with for years. Slightly longer setup, same single contract and single invoice.
Anywhere else, on request
Need someone in Portugal, Brazil or the Philippines? Ask us. We'll arrange it — and we'll tell you honestly when someone else is the better fit.
Honest comparison
Global platforms are excellent at breadth. We're built for depth. Here's the real difference.
Holycode
- Entity in Serbia and Romania
- Our own
- Who answers your question
- Named account manager, same day
- Time to first hire
- 15 days
- Local salary benchmarking
- We pay these salaries ourselves
- Can also source the candidate
- Yes — recruiting since 2014
- Office space and onboarding day
- Available in Belgrade
- Security certification
- ISO 9001, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials
- Best when
- You're building a real team
Global EOR platform
- Entity in Serbia and Romania
- Usually a local partner
- Who answers your question
- Ticket queue → partner → back
- Time to first hire
- 6–8 weeks in this region
- Local salary benchmarking
- Generic market data
- Can also source the candidate
- No
- Office space and onboarding day
- No
- Security certification
- Varies
- Best when
- You need 20 countries at once
If you need one hire each in fifteen countries, use a platform. If you're building a real team, you want people who live there.
Simple pricing
A flat monthly fee per employee. Not a percentage of salary — because your senior engineer doesn't cost us more work than your junior one.
Standard
€459/employee/month
Get your cost breakdownThe full employment stack, handled locally:
- Compliant local employment contract in local language + English
- Monthly payroll, taxes and social contributions
- Registration, onboarding and all paperwork
- Time off, sick leave and parental leave administration
- Terminations, notice periods and severance under local law
- IP assignment and confidentiality built into every contract
- One monthly invoice, one line per person
- Most popular
Plus
€659/employee/month
Get your cost breakdownEverything in Standard, plus:
- Private health insurance
- Benefits administration
- A named account manager in your time zone
- Local salary and benefits benchmarking
- Same-day priority support
- Recruiting and candidate sourcing
Build
Custom
Get your cost breakdownEverything in Plus, plus:
- Team lead and team setup
- Office space in Belgrade
- No setup fee
- No deposit for the first hire
- Month-to-month, 60 days' notice
- Volume pricing from 5 employees
Don't have the person yet?
Most EOR providers start working after you've found someone. We've been recruiting engineers in this region since 2014 — for our own teams and for our clients'.
Tell us the role. We'll shortlist candidates, you interview, we employ whoever you pick. One contract, one invoice, one partner from job description to first payslip.
- Sourcing
- Screening
- Employment
Holycode recruits at warp speed: our fastest hire with them was done within two weeks. Their recruiting processes are lean, efficient and straightforward.
Why our clients trust us
In today's intricate tech industry, the demand for a reliable, efficient, and innovative partner is paramount. Holycode has consistently proven to be exactly that for our organization. Holycode is more than a vendor; they have become our trusted partners.
Dennis JustCEO of Smallpdf Working with a software team from Holycode has helped us focus on the important aspects of scaling our product and worrying less around the administration & recruiting.
Lea von BidderCo-Founder & CEO of Ava Swiss standards of quality and domain expertise combined with the availability and flexibility from Holycode are another reason our products continue to be loved by real estate agents.
Yves StuderCOO of Casasoft AG
Questions people actually ask
Tell us who you want to hire
Twenty minutes. You describe the role and the country, we tell you the exact cost, the timeline and whether we're the right fit. If we're not, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
We reply within one business day. No sales sequence.