Melza

Melza is a boutique headhunting and recruitment firm based in Barcelona that places technical and strategic talent with high-growth startups and established organisations across Europe. Its work spans three lines: end-to-end talent acquisition for technical and strategic roles, the scaling of engineering teams at startups, and the placement of executives and senior leaders in established companies.

For engineering scaling, the firm identifies hard-to-find technical talent through what it describes as deep technical understanding of the roles it fills. Its methodology, refined over more than five years, evaluates candidates beyond the CV, with an emphasis on fair and transparent processes and on the person behind the qualifications.

Melza operates as a boutique practice, with a Barcelona-based team working on agility, transparency and collaboration. The firm states that its approach is human-centred and aimed at building lasting connections rather than filling single vacancies, simplifying hiring complexity and anticipating client needs in advance.

• Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain; operations across Europe
• Focus: technical and strategic roles, engineering team scaling, executive placement
• Methodology refined over more than five years