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Engineering practice

Hire engineers who ship.

Full-stack, backend, and frontend engineers for software companies that measure output in releases. Sourced from our network, screened to a shortlist worth your calendar.

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Roles we place

Full-Stack EngineersBackend EngineersFrontend EngineersFounding EngineersDevOps & Platform

How the search runs

01
JD co-writing
We co-write the JD until it describes the person you actually need.
02
Sourcing
We reach out directly to proven people in our network and beyond, instead of waiting for applications.
03
Psychometric screen
Tests and culture mapping, included free. Fit is measured, not guessed.
04
Panels
Technical and cultural rounds with your stakeholders. High signal only.
05
Signed offer
We handle the offer and the close. You get a signed acceptance and a start date.

Why FPT

People who ship
We look for engineers with shipped products behind them, and we reach them directly.
Panels that respect engineers
Technical rounds designed with your stakeholders. High signal, no whiteboard hazing.
Retention built in
Culture mapping on every candidate. 82% of the people we place are still in seat at 12 months because fit is the whole system.
−29% time-to-hire on mid to senior roles
82% of placed candidates still in seat at 12 months
9 days median from first call to first founder interview

Questions founders ask

The three we hear most, answered straight.

Which stacks do you cover?

The modern web and cloud mainstream: TypeScript, Python, Go, React, Node, and the infrastructure around them. If your stack is unusual, we tell you up front whether we can search it well.

Do you place founding engineers?

Yes. Founding-engineer searches get the same treatment as leadership searches: equity-literate candidates, stage-fit screening, and founder references.

How technical is your screening?

We run structured technical interviews before you ever see a candidate, then coordinate your own panel rounds. You interview three great people instead of thirty resumes.

Further reading

Hiring playbooks Writing a JD a senior engineer will actually answer 4 min read
Hiring playbooks An engineering hiring process that actually closes 5 min read
Hiring science Why engineering hires fail by month six 4 min read
Hiring playbooks Hiring engineers when you can't review the code yourself 4 min read

Let's build your engineering team.

A short call is enough to scope the search.

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