— PROFILES WE COVER

The technical profiles we recruit — and the network they come from.

We recruit across the full technical stack: engineering, data, ML, DevOps, security, IT and technical leadership. Every profile we put in front of you is sourced from a private network of practitioners across the UK and Spain who have shipped real systems, operated real production environments and passed a serious technical bar.

Our network is not a job board. It is a curated, continuously refined group of senior practitioners — sourced through proprietary AI, engineer referrals, and direct technical conversations. Below is what we cover, the seniority ranges we typically place, and the kinds of teams we hire for.

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— 01 · GEOGRAPHY

UK & Spain, in depth.

Two of Europe's strongest technical markets, with deep candidate density, direct relationships and local recruiting knowledge in each. We cover hybrid and remote roles, and cross-border hiring between the two.

— 02 · SENIORITY

Mid through CTO.

We focus where the technical bar matters most — senior individual contributors, staff and principal engineers, founding engineers, and engineering leadership up to CTO. We do not run high-volume junior funnels.

— 03 · QUALIFICATION

Engineer-assessed.

For Atelier searches, senior engineers on our team interview candidates live — systems design, code reasoning, architecture — before they reach you. You receive the transcript and a scored assessment with every shortlist.

— THE PROFILES

Nine technical profiles. One standard.

01

Backend engineers

Mid · Senior · Staff

Engineers who design and operate production services: APIs, distributed systems, queues, databases, and the boring-but-critical infrastructure that keeps revenue moving.

GoJava / KotlinPythonNode.jsRustPostgreSQLKafkagRPC
Typical hires — Payments platforms, fintech cores, marketplace backends, B2B SaaS APIs.
02

Full-stack developers

Mid · Senior · Lead

Product-minded engineers who can own a feature end-to-end — from schema to UI — and ship it without needing a committee. Strong front-end taste, real backend depth.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLtRPC / GraphQL
Typical hires — Early-stage product teams, growth-stage feature squads, founding engineers.
03

Platform engineers

Senior · Staff · Principal

Engineers who build the internal platform other engineers depend on: CI/CD, developer experience, observability, internal tooling, runtime platforms.

KubernetesTerraformGoAWS / GCPBackstageArgoCD
Typical hires — Scale-up platform teams, infra-heavy product orgs, DevEx initiatives.
04

Data engineers

Mid · Senior · Lead

Engineers who turn raw data into reliable, queryable, governed pipelines — and care about lineage, cost, and freshness rather than just moving bytes.

PythonSQLdbtAirflowSnowflakeBigQuerySpark
Typical hires — Analytics platforms, customer data infra, finance and risk pipelines.
05

ML engineers

Senior · Staff

Engineers who ship models into production — not just notebooks. Comfortable with evaluation, retrieval, serving infrastructure, and the realities of LLM applications.

PythonPyTorchLangChain / LlamaIndexRayvLLMVector DBs
Typical hires — AI-native startups, applied ML teams, RAG and agent product builds.
06

DevOps & cloud specialists

Mid · Senior · Staff

Operators who own reliability, deployment pipelines, and cloud cost. They run change safely and know when to push back on bad designs.

AWSGCPTerraformKubernetesHelmDatadogPrometheus
Typical hires — SRE practices, regulated infra, multi-region deployments.
07

Cybersecurity specialists

Mid · Senior · Lead

Application, cloud and infrastructure security people who can read code, threat-model real systems, and lift the bar across engineering — not just file tickets.

AppSecCloudSec (AWS/GCP)SAST/DASTIAMDetection & response
Typical hires — Security functions inside fintech, healthtech, B2B SaaS and regulated platforms.
08

IT infrastructure professionals

Senior · Lead · Head of IT

Operators who run the systems that businesses actually rely on: identity, networks, endpoint, internal services. Senior, calm, accountable.

Identity (Okta / Entra)NetworkingMDMM365 / Google WorkspaceZero Trust
Typical hires — Scaling internal IT, IT leadership hires, consolidation and migration projects.
09

Technical leaders

EM · Staff · Principal · Director · VP · CTO

Engineering managers, staff engineers, principals, heads of engineering, CTOs. People who have already taken a team or system from one stage to the next.

Org designArchitectureHiringDeliveryStakeholder management
Typical hires — First engineering leadership hires, scale-up restructures, founding CTOs.

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