Fastest time-to-hire achieved for Founding Engineer role.
5 days
Software engineering recruitment that’s built to raise the bar
The engineers who'll define your next chapter aren't actively looking for their next role. That's where we come in. We help founders, CTOs, tech leads, and talent teams scale with confidence - reaching the engineers others can't, through market knowledge, relationships, and recruitment marketing that makes the top 5% stop and pay attention.
Recommended by the founder community
70% of our referrals come directly from founders who trust us with their most critical hires, and we earn it every time.
Specialist, domain-led engineering recruiters
We live inside talent communities, across the UK, US, and Germany, with the domain knowledge to open doors that others can't.
Recruitment campaigns that get attention
The best engineers are hard to reach and quick to disengage, we'll help you stand out with compelling, targeted recruitment marketing.
Fern get access to sought after engineers in NYC
NYC's engineering talent doesn't come easy. For Fern, we made it look that way - seven placements since March 2025, a 100% fill rate, and four weeks average time to hire, with a search sharp enough to land an 8:7 onsite-to-offer ratio.
"They took a detailed and holistic approach."
"Stott and May looked at the bigger picture. With their help, we were able to create a more comprehensive view of our ideal candidate profile and stand out effectively in the market."
Every type of software engineering hire, handled
Permanent hires. Contract scale-ups. End-to-end project delivery through a statement of work. Whatever your engineering team needs, we cover it, without asking you to compromise on quality or pace. We partner with ambitious companies at every stage, from pre-product seed businesses making their first critical engineering hire, to scaling Series B teams and enterprise organisations building out global engineering functions.
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