what we do

A specialist talent partner. Built for the companies defining what comes next.

We connect top-tier engineering and systems talent with quantitative trading companies to venture-backed startups — through search, embedded teams, or scoped delivery.

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Infrastructure & Cloud

staff · principal · lead infra

The engineers who own how compute, networking, and storage are organised at scale. AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem and hybrid. Cost models that don't quietly run away with the budget.

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SRE & Reliability

senior · staff · principal sre

The people who own production for a living. SLOs that mean something, observability that surfaces the real signal, incident response that doesn't burn the team out, capacity planning that holds.

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Platform Engineering

platform leads · ides · ic7+

Internal developer platforms, golden paths, CI/CD that engineers actually want to use. Kubernetes done with intent — not because it was on the slide deck.

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Core Systems

staff · principal · distinguished

The layer underneath the API. Distributed systems, databases, message brokers, query engines, the things that fail in interesting ways at 3am. Engineers who can read a write-ahead log and a Raft paper.

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Data Platform

data infra · lakehouse · ml infra

Lakehouses, streaming, batch, governance, ML infrastructure. The engineers who keep data infrastructure honest as the analyst and ML teams grow underneath them.

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Adjacent & emerging

case-by-case

Security engineering, performance engineering, edge / runtime work, AI infra. We take selective briefs in adjacent areas where our network gives us a real advantage. We say no when it doesn't.

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at places like
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The work happens before the brief.

The engineers who matter most rarely answer InMails. We reach them by starting years earlier, in the places they actually spend their time, and building real relationships before there's anything to ask for.

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We track engineers before mandates

We map deep technical talent markets long before any search begins. By the time a brief lands, the longlist already exists.

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Primary sources, not job boards

Mailing lists, commit histories, conference programmes, community forums — the places senior infra and platform engineers actually spend their time.

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Relationships, not cold pitches

We become trusted contacts long before there's a vacancy. The first message isn't from a stranger.

say hello

Hiring, scoping, or just kicking the tyres — same inbox.

A 30-minute call to scope the brief, the gap, or the role. No deck, no pre-qualification form.