How we helped Hacken scale their Smart contracts auditor team by 45% over 3 months
Client:
Hacken
Industry:
Cybersecurity
Country:
Lisbon, Portugal
Service:
Pay-Per-Hire
Background
Hacken is a successful cybersecurity company that focuses on blockchain security and provides a wide range of cybersecurity services to enterprises across the blockchain, DeFi, and NFT ecosystems. As one of the leaders in the Web3 Cybersecurity industry, Hacken supplies knowledge and support to help businesses protect themselves in the rapidly evolving crypto landscape.
The company's team believes that security should be the top priority for any business. To sustain their rapid growth and expand their service offerings, Hacken needed to significantly strengthen their smart contract auditing capabilities with top-tier talent in an extremely competitive and specialized market.
Challenges
Hacken's rapid growth created an urgent need to scale their smart contract auditor team to increase business capacity and deliver new services. The talent market presented significant obstacles that threatened to slow their expansion.
Extreme scarcity of highly skilled Solidity and Rust smart contract auditors
Urgent need to fill 15 specialized positions simultaneously
Highly competitive Web3 talent market with limited qualified candidates
Complex technical requirements demanding deep blockchain expertise
Need to maintain quality while scaling at speed
Solution
OnHires implemented a comprehensive pay-per-hire recruiting strategy, deploying 9 specialized recruiters to work on the project simultaneously. We conducted extensive market research, studied the target talent pool, and executed an intensive multi-channel search strategy.
Our Approach:
Deployed 9 dedicated recruiters to handle 15 parallel vacancies
Conducted intensive search across 30+ social media resources including LinkedIn and GitHub
Performed extensive market research and targeted only candidates who could make a meaningful difference
Conducted predefined technical questions and provided introduction to work processes
Delivered first candidate CVs within 3 days and maintained permanent communication throughout
Results
The partnership enabled Hacken to scale their smart contract auditing team rapidly while maintaining exceptional quality standards. All hired specialists passed probation and continue contributing to the company's success.
16 days average time-to-hire per specialist
15 hires across Solidity, Rust, and Blockchain Research roles
45% department headcount increase in 3 months
$100K saved on empty seat costs
100% success rate with all hires passing probation
Accelerated business growth and service expansion capabilities
OnHires successfully delivered a comprehensive hiring solution that addressed all of Hacken's critical needs. By deploying 9 specialized recruiters and leveraging an intensive multi-channel search strategy, we built strong pipelines for every specialized role and maintained consistent quality throughout the process.
Positions Filled:
Rust Smart Contracts Auditor
Blockchain Researcher: L-1
Blockchain Researcher: L-2
Within three months, OnHires successfully closed all 15 positions, delivering rare, highly specialized talent that enabled Hacken to expand their service offerings, increase profitability, and strengthen their position as a Web3 cybersecurity leader. The 100% retention rate through probation demonstrates the quality of talent and cultural fit achieved through our rigorous selection process.
It is hard to find a highly skilled professional in Blockchain/Crypto. But their team provided a very professional service, and they got to the heart of the brief very quickly, taking into account both the cultural fit and the functional demands of the roles.
Dyma Budorin, the Hacken CEO
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