About HookStep

The platform. Companies publish open roles on HookStep, manage applications in one place and move each one through Applied, Shortlisted, Interview, Hired or Rejected. Job seekers keep one profile and resume, apply to any open listing, and track their applications from their own dashboard. Using the platform as a candidate costs nothing.

Engineers on contract or permanent placement. If you would rather not run the search yourself, share a brief and HookStep puts forward India-based engineers, remote from India or on-site at your office in India. You interview them, and nobody starts until you approve. Read about IT staff augmentation in India, or see every role we supply.

Junior to lead and architect level, in these areas:

• AI / GenAI: LLM applications, RAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, evals, MLOps (Python, LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, vector databases)
• Data engineering: Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, SQL
• Full stack: React, Angular, Next.js, Node.js, Python/FastAPI, Java/Spring Boot, .NET
• Backend: Java, Python, Go, Node.js, microservices, API development
• Frontend and mobile: React, Angular, TypeScript, React Native, Flutter
• Cloud and DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, SRE
• QA: manual testing, automation (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium), API testing, performance testing (JMeter)
• Enterprise platforms: Salesforce, ServiceNow

For anything outside this list we say so on the first call rather than send profiles we cannot stand behind.

• Profiles go out only against a specific requirement, with contact details masked until you shortlist.
• You run your own interviews. Nobody starts until you say yes.
• Contract and contract-to-hire: we take roles budgeted at ₹2 lakh a month or more. The rate is agreed per role, against your brief.
• Permanent placement in India: 6% of the hire's annual CTC, invoiced only after the person joins. Nothing is charged before that.

What other employers and staffing firms budget for the same roles is in our IT staffing rates guide, from the requirements we received.

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  Saraswati, CEO

  Visionary CEO guiding HookStep's mission to connect world-class talent with AI-native companies.

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  Mohan, COO

  Operations leader scaling HookStep's hiring engine—process, partnerships, and delivery excellence.

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  Sakshi, Head of Sales

  Building lasting client relationships and helping companies hire exceptional tech talent, fast.

• We do not charge candidates. The product has no payment step for them.
• We do not publish testimonials, client logos or client case studies that our own records cannot back.
• We do not list stale roles: every listing shows its posting date, and a role leaves the job list at 90 days.
• We do not employ people on another company's behalf, so we are not an employer of record.

The same team also builds three other products. They are separate products with their own sites.

Tablamigo is a solo-travel app for meeting people nearby. Solo travelers and digital nomads post plans such as dinner, drinks, day trips or coworking on a map, and others nearby join with one tap and talk in the plan's group chat. It is on Google Play for Android, and works in the browser on any phone.

Hookpost is a social media scheduler: one visual calendar for posts to several social networks, with AI drafting.

Bird on Perch is a free focus timer: a cozy pomodoro and study timer where a hand-drawn bird keeps you company. It runs in the browser, installs to the home screen and works offline.

Employers can share a requirement; the form then offers a 30-minute call. For anything else, email support@hookstep.in or see the contact page. We are in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, India.