engineersdoing recruitmentfor you.
We are a recruitment agency built and run by engineers and hiring managers. Backed by AI tools we built ourselves, we help startups and technology companies find, assess, and hire top technical talent. Every candidate, placed or not, gets honest feedback.
The product is alignment.
Engineers hiring engineers.
Our recruiters have shipped production code. They can tell a real staff engineer from a senior who's been around a while — and they can talk to candidates as peers, not as gatekeepers.
Technical hiring managers supporting engineering managers.
On the leadership side, you're talking to people who have built and run engineering orgs. They know what a healthy interview loop looks like, and where yours is leaking.
Our own AI tools and agents.
We built our stack in-house: sourcing agents, calibration models, scheduling and feedback automation. It compounds — every search makes the next one faster and more precise.
Brand, reputation, feedback.
We are an extension of your hiring team. We protect your reputation in the market. Every candidate gets honest feedback, every time — placed or not. That's not a policy, it's the product.
Three ways to engage.
Recruitment & Headhunting
Find specific people for specific roles.
Success-based Recruitment
Pay only when you hire.
A risk-free model where you only pay once a candidate has been successfully hired. Calibration, sourcing, screening and offer support — with no upfront commitment.
- +Engineer-led calibration
- +Targeted, AI-assisted sourcing
- +Technical pre-screens
- +Offer coaching & close support
Retained Search
Dedicated effort for critical or hard-to-fill roles.
A hybrid model with a smaller upfront commitment and a reduced success fee on hire. We commit search hours, weekly reporting, and a named senior recruiter on your account.
- +Named senior recruiter
- +Guaranteed weekly shortlists
- +Market mapping included
- +Off-limits & exclusivity clauses
Stealth & Discreet Headhunting
Replacements and moves that can’t go public.
Direct, off-market approaches for technical and executive hires that need to stay quiet. No job ads, no public footprint — a named partner runs the search end-to-end and reports to you only.
- +NDA-protected outreach
- +No public job ads
- +Candidate-side anonymisation
- +Direct CEO / board reporting
Embedded Recruitment / RPO
Run our recruiters inside your team.
Embedded Recruiter / Fractional Team
Recruitment support inside your team.
Ongoing recruitment support inside your team, from sourcing to pipeline ownership. We sit in your Slack and ATS, run your loop, and report into your hiring manager or Head of Talent.
- +Embedded in your ATS & Slack
- +Multi-role pipeline ownership
- +Hiring manager training
- +Monthly hiring health report
Talent & Hiring Consulting
Improve how you hire.
Discreet Project Based
Hiring process design, scorecards, talent mapping, and candidate experience.
Discrete projects for teams who want to understand a market before they hire, qualify a pipeline they already have, or improve how they hire — without committing to a full search.
- +Talent mapping by role & geography
- +Candidate screening & shortlisting
- +JD, scorecard & loop design
- +Candidate experience audits
Need contractors or project delivery?
10Files — our sister company — provides freelance specialists, staff augmentation, and project-based engineering teams.
A loop you can audit.
Calibration call
An engineer-recruiter and a hiring-manager-recruiter sit in the kickoff. We rewrite the JD with you, agree on the bar, and define non-negotiables vs. nice-to-haves before we touch the market.
Targeted sourcing
Our AI agents run continuously against private graphs we've built — open-source contribution patterns, paper authorship, prior team networks. A human reviews every shortlist before it reaches you.
Technical screen
Screens are run by engineers who've shipped what you're hiring for. Not a quiz, a conversation. We send you the transcript with our reasoning, so you can disagree.
Offer & close
We coach on comp ranges, brief candidates on counter-offer dynamics, and stay on the call until ink dries. Every candidate — placed or not — gets specific, written feedback.
We built our own tools. They compound.
Maps the engineering talent market against your hiring bar.
Atlas helps us identify, organize, and prioritize relevant engineering talent based on your role requirements. It surfaces who is reachable, who may already be warm, and who is more likely to consider a move in the next 90 days.
Protects the fairness of technical pre-interviews.
A proprietary algorithm flags suspicious signals during technical pre-interviews, helping us detect possible cheating, abnormal behaviour, or inconsistencies in the assessment process. It is designed to support human review, not automatic rejection, so candidates are assessed with both structure and fairness.
Clear, specific candidate feedback — reviewed by humans.
Echo turns interview data, recruiter notes, and hiring decisions into structured, defensible written feedback for candidates. Every draft is reviewed by a human recruiter before it is sent, helping companies provide thoughtful feedback quickly, usually within 24 hours of a decision.
Runs structured AI interviews at scale.
Noder Studio designs and conducts AI-powered pre-interviews based on the role, hiring criteria, and company context. It helps rank candidates using tailored suitability criteria, so recruiters and hiring managers can focus their time on the strongest profiles.
Currently representing.
A senior opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
A senior opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
A senior opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
A engineer opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
A engineer opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
A cto opening at 10Folders we are currently running an exclusive search for. We've calibrated the bar with the hiring team and screened a curated shortlist already.
Voices from both sides of the loop.
From hiring teams
Leaders and managers we've recruited for.
Victor says what he does, and does what he says.
He is a man of his word: reliable, effective, and always committed to delivering.
A recruiter who consistently brings real value.
Victor brings everything I need in a recruiter: speed, judgement, and outstanding candidate insight. Every time he asked me to reconsider a discarded candidate, he was right. Helpful, available, and a true master of his craft.
Their support was crucial to scaling my team.
10Folders helped us scale the team on time and on budget, with the quality and reliability we needed.
Quality, speed, and professionalism.
We have been working with 10Folders for two months, and the experience has been defined by quality, speed, and professionalism.
Team-building masters.
10Folders understands how to turn individual strengths into robust, cohesive, high-performing teams.
A leader with technical depth and team-building talent.
Victor combines strong technical understanding with excellent team-building skills — a rare and valuable mix.
From candidates
Engineers we've placed, advised, or rejected — they all heard back.
His advice gave me confidence when I needed it.
I wasn’t a fit for the position, but I reached out to Victor for quick advice on landing a job in Europe, the U.S., or Canada.
He booked a free one-hour coaching session with me. His tips were constructive, practical, and encouraging. That conversation gave me a real confidence boost.
A few weeks later, I received two offers and landed a new job.
One of the best hiring experiences of my career.
Victor quickly understands your profile and sees your value. His support throughout the interview process is excellent.
He guides you through every stage with clear communication, preparation, and honest feedback, helping you feel confident and ready.
Transparent, supportive, and professional — one of the best hiring experiences of my career.
I appreciated being told why — politely and personally.
Although I was not a fit for the role, Victor took the time to explain why.
I really appreciated not only receiving feedback, but receiving it in a respectful and thoughtful way.
In a world of automation and AI, it is rare to get a personal response to an application.
One of the best recruiters I’ve ever encountered.
Victor was incredibly helpful in explaining the company, the job description, and the responsibilities of the role.
He was not only friendly, but also highly professional.
Undoubtedly, one of the best recruiters I’ve ever encountered.
Supportive through every stage of the process.
The team was incredibly attentive and supportive throughout the interview process.
They helped me prepare, stay confident, and move successfully through every stage.
Let's talk about your hardest hire.
30 minutes with an engineer-recruiter. We'll tell you whether we can help, whether you should hire in-house, or whether to wait. No pitch.