Talent·By Seniority·Senior
Hire Senior Engineers.
Experienced engineers who own the work end to end.
Senior engineers embedded in your team through staff augmentation. Senior engineers, selected for judgment and delivery. Median tenure in the network is 8 years, with at least one production system as primary author. This is the profile most clients embed first.
What they do
Feature ownership end-to-end: schema to UI, spec to rollout.
Feature ownership end-to-end: schema to UI, spec to rollout. Fluent with AI tooling, autonomous inside your rituals, and productive in week one, matched to your stack and time zone.
The senior bar
What they bring to the table.
End-to-end feature ownership8+ years medianAI-amplified workflowCode review cultureTesting as habitProduction debuggingTime-zone overlap ≥ 6h
Why hire through Lateral
Three reasons engineering leaders choose us.
- 01Top 1%, vetted by engineers, not recruiters. Every Senior candidate is reviewed by a senior in the same discipline. No keyword matching, no leetcode.
- 02Matched in 7 days, in your time zone. We don't place engineers more than ~4 hours off your business day.
- 03Transparent pricing. 60/25/15: most of what you pay reaches the engineer. See the breakdown.
FAQ
Honest answers, common questions.
What does "senior, never swapped" mean?
The engineer you interview is the engineer who ships, for the life of the engagement. No bait-and-switch, contractually.
How fast can we start?
You interview matched candidates within 7 days; most placements are shipping inside two weeks.
What if it isn’t working out?
Replacement guarantee: we re-match at no fee, and the transition is handled by us, not by your calendar.