Software & Product Engineering
Two engineers can share the same stack and be nothing alike. One has shipped and owned product under real constraints; the other has only touched tickets. Reading that difference is the whole job.
Positioning
The difference is context.
Difficult hiring problems need more context, not more CVs.
Most engineering searches fail on context, not on keywords. A candidate who thrived in a large, well-resourced org can stall in an early-stage team that expects ownership, ambiguity and breadth — and the reverse is just as true.
Frameworks and languages are the easy signal to filter on, which is exactly why they mislead. The harder questions — how someone reasons about trade-offs, how they behave when the spec is unclear, whether they have actually shipped and maintained what they claim — are the ones that predict success.
We hire for the shape of the problem you are solving, not the shape of the job description.
Roles we recruit
A representative sample, not a fixed menu. If your role sits between these, that is usually a sign it needs a context-led search.
Individual contributors
Product & specialist
Common hiring challenges
The failure modes are predictable once you have run enough of these. Naming them is the first step to avoiding them.
The résumé lines up perfectly and the hire still fails, because the environment they succeeded in bears no resemblance to yours.
Titles have drifted. A "senior" label can mean a decade of ownership or three years of guided work. The gap only shows up later.
The engineers you most want are rarely applying. Reaching them takes a credible, specific conversation, not a job post.
Processes over-index on puzzles and under-index on how someone actually builds, decides and communicates.
Our search approach
A specialist process built around understanding before outreach — the same principles applied to the specifics of this market.
Before we source anyone, we understand your architecture, roadmap and the specific problem this hire must own — so we can screen for context, not just syntax.
We identify the real market of engineers who have done comparable work at a comparable stage, and approach them directly with a specific, honest pitch.
We probe decisions, trade-offs and ownership — not trivia. You see a shortlist that is already filtered for depth and fit.
Beyond the CV
The résumé gets a candidate into the conversation. These are the signals that decide whether they reach your shortlist.
Evidence of carrying something from decision to production and living with the consequences.
The slope of growth matters more than the current title on the CV.
How they reason when the spec is thin and the trade-offs are real.
How they raise the engineers and decisions around them, not just their own output.
Related expertise
Critical hires rarely sit in one discipline. These are the areas that most often overlap with this one.
Data, AI & Machine Learning
Data, ML, applied AI and platform roles across a fragmented market.
View expertiseCloud, DevOps & Platform Engineering
Platform, SRE and infrastructure engineers building for scale.
View expertiseTechnology Leadership & Executive Search
Confidential search for CTO, VP and director-level leaders.
View expertiseRelated insights
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Read the full insightA strong technology search begins by defining the business and technical problem the hire must solve. The job title comes later.
Read the full insightQuestions
No. We start from the problem and the environment, then find engineers whose experience genuinely maps to it — across backend, frontend, mobile and full-stack.
Yes, and the distinction matters to us. We calibrate for the stage you are actually at, because context is what determines whether a strong engineer will thrive with you.
These are context-heavy searches where seniority inflation is common. We assess for genuine ownership and trajectory rather than title, and engage passive specialists directly.
Start here
Tell us about the system, the stage and the problem. We will tell you honestly how we would run the search.
