Service
Technical Talent Acquisition
Specialist recruitment for the disciplines where a keyword-matched CV is not enough. We source, screen and technically assess engineers so your team only spends time on candidates who could genuinely do the job.
What's included
What you actually get
Full-stack, backend and frontend engineering
Senior individual contributors through to engineering leadership across web, mobile, distributed systems and product engineering.
DevOps, platform and infrastructure
SREs, platform engineers, cloud architects and IaC specialists across AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes ecosystems.
Data, AI/ML and analytics
Data engineers, analytics engineers, ML engineers and applied scientists — from pipeline builders to production-grade model owners.
QA, security and reliability
QA leads, test automation engineers, application-security engineers and reliability specialists — the roles that keep shipped software honest.
Structured technical assessment
Format follows the role: timeboxed async problem, live pair-programming, or system-design session. You see the rubric before we run it and the transcript after.
Who it's for
You will recognise yourself in one of these
If none of them describe you, this probably is not the service you need — and we would rather say so on the first call.
Engineering leaders scaling a team
You know the shape of the role you need, you just do not have another twenty hours a week to run the search yourself.
In-house recruiters needing depth in one function
Your talent team covers the whole business; you want a specialist partner for the engineering roles nobody internal has hired for before.
Founders making a first senior technical hire
The first staff-plus engineer, VP or CTO — where a poor match resets your roadmap by a year and you need the process taken seriously.
Our process
How we deliver technical talent acquisition
- 01
Kickoff and technical brief
60-minute call with the hiring manager to pull the role, the stack, the team and the compensation band apart. If the brief cannot be filled at that number in this market, you hear it in the first hour.
- 02
Sourcing and rubric-scored screen
Outbound to the companies where the skills concentrate plus a walk of our own network. Every profile is scored against the rubric we agreed with you — engineers you would consider only.
- 03
Technical assessment
Async take-home, live pair-programming or system-design — whichever format fits the role and seniority. You receive the transcript and our scoring, not a single-word verdict.
- 04
Shortlist and offer support
Three to five profiles, each with the assessment evidence attached. We handle the negotiation and counter-offer risk to signature, then check in at 30, 60 and 90 days.
Why us
What makes this different
Specific to this service, not the usual agency boilerplate.
Recruiters who have shipped code
Every profile is read by someone with an engineering background. No keyword filters standing in for judgement.
Assessment evidence, not verdicts
You receive the raw assessment output alongside the shortlist so you can judge our reasoning rather than trust our score.
Confidential outreach
We approach passive engineers with a message about your team and your problem, not a job-board blast under our name.
90-day replacement guarantee
If a placement leaves inside the first ninety days, we rerun the search at no additional fee.
Next step
Ready to get started with Technical Talent Acquisition?
A 30-minute call, no pitch deck. We will tell you what this would cost, how long it would take, and whether it is the right service for the problem you described.