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For startups and scale-ups

Hire your next engineer.

We headhunt software engineers for Seed to Series B teams, reaching the 0-to-1 builders who aren't applying.

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Three ways to hire.

Choose the model that fits your team.

Direct hire

Permanent software engineering hires.

Contract

Experienced software engineering contractors.

Scale up

Fixed-fee support for multiple engineering hires. Can be more cost-effective at scale.

Who we work with.

We work with founders, engineering leaders and internal talent teams from Seed through Series B. At that stage, every hire matters and the wrong one can set you back.

The engineers we place are 0-to-1 builders. They have owned work end-to-end, found a way without a playbook, and helped small teams grow.

Our team has successfully placed talent at:

  • Monzo
  • incident.io
  • Trainline
  • Just Eat
  • MoonPay
  • Brellium
  • Miter
  • Millennium
  • Aqua
  • 1Fort AI
  • N26
  • Flix
  • Zip Security

Meet Tom and James.

Between us, we have 30+ years of experience building engineering teams for startups and scale-ups.

A better first conversation

Send a spec, or let's shape one.

Have a spec? Send it over. If not, tell us what you're building and we'll help put the brief together.We'll cover the route, market, salary, interviews and who we'd approach.

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What you'll get back

  1. 01An honest take on the role and the best route: direct hire, contract, or fixed-fee Scale Up.
  2. 02A market map of the relevant talent pool, with our view on availability and how challenging the search will be.
  3. 03Salary guidance for the experience and market you're hiring in, plus practical advice on interview steps that might slow the search.
  4. 04Where possible, a relevant example profile we can share or a shortlist of people we'd approach.

Let's look at your next hire.

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