“By the end of 2012 we have to double the number of employees, to 80. 80% of our staffing needs are for technical personnel, we are targeting the position of senior web developer, especially skilled in PHP and MySQL technologies (programming languages – editor’s note),” says Claudia Ionescu, HR manager of ePayment.
Recruitment plans come amid PayU’s international expansion, with PayU to open ten offices in Europe by the end of next year, for which technical support will come from Romania.
Although they are some of the best-paid employees in the economy, Romanian programmers are still cheap compared with those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, who earn up to EUR4,000-EUR5,000 per month. An experienced programmer can earn up to EUR1,500-EUR2,000 in a multinational in Romania.
PayU is held by media multinational group Naspers, which in 2010 acquired an 83% stake in GECAD ePayment International from Radu Georgescu.
(English version by Daniela Stoican, Editing by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)