ENGINEERING SEARCH
Engineering search, from founding engineers to CTO
Mission-critical engineering hires for venture-backed technology companies. We run searches across the full range of seniority, from the first technical hire to the executive who owns the function.
The hire that sets the ceiling.
Engineering hires compound. An early technical hire shapes how the product gets built and sets the standard for everyone who follows. The leader who owns the function determines how quickly the team can move a year from now.
Both deserve a real search rather than a list of available candidates.
Where we search.
Founding engineers and early technical staff
The first hires who set technical direction and establish the bar for everyone after them.
Senior and staff software engineers
Individual contributors with the judgment to own critical systems and the influence to raise the work around them.
Data engineering
The people who build the pipelines and platforms the rest of the business makes decisions on.
Directors and Heads of Engineering
Leaders who turn a group of engineers into a team that ships predictably.
VP Engineering
Executives accountable for delivery, hiring, and how the organization holds together as it scales.
CTO
Technical leadership at the level where architecture and business strategy are the same conversation.
What an engineering search requires.
Engineering searches fail in specific ways. A brief written in job-description language attracts people who match keywords rather than the problem. A process that moves slowly loses the few candidates who were worth moving for.
We build the market from the ground up, approach people with a credible account of the problem rather than a pitch, and assess for context and judgment against what the role actually has to deliver. You see the landscape, not just a shortlist.
At the leadership end, the work draws on the same practice we bring to C-suite and board mandates, where the question is rarely who is available and almost always who can carry the next stage of the business.
Selected engineering placements
Deeptune
Founding Member of Technical Staff
Caesars Digital
Senior Software Engineer
Search experience also spans Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, and CTO mandates.
Tell us what the team needs to build next.
Share the role, the stage, and what it has to accomplish. We will come back with a candid read on the market.