First engineering teams
Building out the founding technical team, where every hire sets the bar for the next ten.
Sectors & specialisms
Deep in tech.
Not spread across everything.
We recruit across the technical org and nowhere else — engineering, data, product, DevOps, QA. Permanent and contract, IC through to leadership. Here's what that looks like, with example roles in each lane.
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Engineering
- Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
- Frontend Engineer (React / TS)
- Full-stack Engineer
- Mobile Engineer (iOS / Android)
- Platform Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Distributed-systems Engineer
- Tech Lead / Staff IC
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Data & Machine Learning
- Data Engineer
- Analytics Engineer
- Data Platform Engineer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- MLOps Engineer
- Data Scientist (applied)
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DevOps & Platform
- DevOps Engineer
- Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer
- Kubernetes / Platform Engineer
- Reliability Engineer
- Build / Release Engineer
- Security-adjacent Platform roles
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Product
- Product Manager
- Senior / Group PM
- Technical Product Manager
- Product Owner
- Platform / Infra PM
- Growth PM
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QA & Test
- QA Automation Engineer
- SDET
- Test Lead
- Performance / Load Engineer
- Quality Engineering Manager
- Manual → Automation transition roles
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Engineering Leadership & Contract
- Engineering Manager
- Director of Engineering
- Head of Platform / Data
- Contract specialists (time-boxed)
- Contract-to-hire
- Migration / launch squads
Who we partner with
Startups scaling up. Product companies filling the hard roles.
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// product cos
Niche & leadership roles
The specialist and senior roles that generalist agencies quietly give up on.
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Contract specialists, fast
A squad for a migration or launch, or a gap covered while the perm search runs.
Don't see your exact role?
If it's technical and hard to fill, it's ours.
Tell us the role and what "good" looks like — we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit.