Seed
Hiring your first engineers, the ones who lay the foundations.
A start-up's first three or four engineers shape its architecture, its culture and its future hires. We look for profiles who have lived a start-up's early days, and help you build an offer that stands up to scale-ups.
Right now
Fullstack TypeScript Product Engineers open to offers, with AI experience.
Hiring a Founding Engineer
They code while laying the foundations of the architecture and the team. Often the future CTO or VP of Engineering: we choose them as much for their ability to ship alone as to grow a team.
Hire a Founding Engineer ↓Completed hires
- Founding Engineer · FullEnrich
- Founding Engineer · Tango
- Founding Engineer · Konvu
- Founding Engineer · Crown
Role guide
Hiring a first CTO
Co-founder or first tech leader, they carry the technical vision with investors and hire the next ones. Profile, salary and equity are decided together, before the first approach.
Hire a CTO ↓Completed hires
- CTO · Aerix Systems
- CTO · Les Sherpas
Role guide
Hiring Product Engineers
At this stage, every engineer must understand the user and ship end to end. We look for fullstack developers, often TypeScript, comfortable with uncertainty and more and more with AI.
Hire a Product Engineer ↓Completed hires
- 2 Full-Stack JS Devs, 1 Staff Fullstack Engineer, 1 Staff Mobile Engineer · Joko
- Staff Product Engineer (TypeScript) and 2 Node/React Fullstack Developers · Nopillo
- Staff Engineer TypeScript · Albert
Role guide
FAQ
Hiring at seed stage, your questions.
Which hire comes first?
Most often a founding engineer who can ship alone, or a co-founder CTO if the founding team has no technical profile. We discuss it in the first call, based on your product and your next round.
Should you offer equity?
For a founding engineer or first CTO, equity is usually part of the offer. We help you build a credible offer against scale-ups hiring the same profiles.
How much does a hire cost at seed stage?
Nothing before the candidate starts: on success, fees are based on their gross annual salary, with a replacement or refund guarantee during the trial period.
How long does it take to hire a first engineer?
At seed stage, the deciding factor is the offer: salary, equity, project. An offer that stands up to scale-ups shortens the search more than anything else. We give you an estimate for your role in the first call.
Our other expertise
- Developer recruitment firm
- AI and data recruitment firm
- Hire an AI Engineer or an LLM Engineer
- Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
- Hiring a CTO: tech executive search firm
- Embedded engineer recruitment agency
- Electronics, RF and radar recruitment agency
- Cybersecurity recruitment agency
- Structuring your tech team after a round
- Hiring the tech leadership of a scale-up
- Defence, Industry & Hardware
- AI, Data & Science
- Business & Tech Solutions
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