What we do
recruiting, minus the noise.
We read each company’s own board and surface software engineering roles the moment they post, Seed to Series C, often before they are live anywhere else. Then we read your CV and put you forward only when it fits. Engineers get found. Founders get a shortlist, not a flood.
Live · scanning the company boards
Senior engineer paired to a role that fits
We reach out, confirm interest, and make the introduction
We read the source, not the job boards.
Most roles reach the aggregators a week or two after a team decides to hire, if they reach them at all. We read each company’s own careers page instead, every day, so the roles land here fresh and real, often before they are anywhere else.
Read the source
We pull roles straight from each tracked company's own job board, every day. Nothing reposted, nothing stale, often before it reaches LinkedIn or the aggregators.
Check the fit
We read your CV the way a hiring manager would, then line it up against what a role actually needs: stack, level, stage. A real read, not a keyword match.
Make the introduction
When a role fits someone in the pool, we don't wait for them to find it. We reach out, confirm they want it, and make the warm introduction, on their terms.
Funding is one of the signals we watch. A team that closed a round last week is hiring with urgency and budget, so it shows up fresh on the board. But the lead is always the role, caught at the source, and whether it fits. Not who raised loudest.
One agency, two sides
Engineers get found. Founders get a shortlist.
For engineers
You decide who sees you.
- Nothing reaches a company until you say yes. You go forward by name only when you want to.
- We reach out when a specific role fits what you actually want. No spam, no scraping, no being shopped around.
- Always free. We’re paid by companies when a hire happens, never by you.
For founders
A shortlist, already represented.
- Three to five engineers per role, read against your stack and your stage. People who already want the conversation.
- You meet every candidate through roles.cc, with our read on why they fit. No retainer. Full terms are on the founders page.
- Until there’s a hire, you’re spending interview time, not budget.
How the introduction works
From shortlist to first conversation.
We find the fit, make the warm introduction, and stay in it through the offer. An engineer only goes forward to a company once they’ve said yes to that specific role.
Every conversation between an engineer and a company that we started, started through roles.cc. That’s the whole model. We do the finding, the vetting, and the warm intro, and we stand behind it.
- 1We line up the fitA company sees a working profile: level, summary, skills, while we line up the right introduction.
- 2The engineer says yesWe confirm interest in the specific company before anything moves. Nothing happens until you're in.
- 3We make the introductionWe send the warm intro and brief the company on why they fit. The engineer came to the company through roles.cc.
- 4The conversation beginsFounder and engineer talk directly, with our brief in hand and our working terms already in place.
Our focus
Startups and scaleups. Seed to Series C. Nothing past it.
That’s the stage where a single engineer still changes the trajectory: broad scope, real ownership, a team small enough that the right hire is felt across the whole company. We focus on SF and New York, with strong coverage across other major US hubs, and we track venture-backed companies through Series C, stopping there on purpose. No late-stage, no public, no big-co noise on the board.
Questions
Why only up to Series C?
Seed through Series C is the window where one engineer still moves the trajectory. The work is broad, the ownership is real, and the team is small enough that the right hire matters. Past Series C the work changes and so does the room, so we stop there. We never surface big-company roles.
Where do people come in?
The watching is automated, since more roles land each day than a person could track by hand. After that, a person makes every call that matters: the read on your CV, the judgment on fit, the introduction. Software finds the leads. We decide what to do with them.
Is it free for engineers?
Always. The board, the CV check, and the pool cost engineers nothing. Companies pay us, never the people we represent.
How do you reach out without spamming?
We only contact an engineer when a specific role fits what they told us they want, and we ask before any name moves toward a company. No mass blasts, no scraping, no shopping you around.