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Talent·By Discipline·Software

Hire Software Engineers.

Frontend, backend, full-stack, senior across the board.

Senior software engineers embedded in your team through staff augmentation. The volume hire. We see more software engineering candidates than every other discipline combined, and accept fewer than 1%. The result is a network of engineers who’ve shipped product before, in real teams, on production systems that mattered.

What they do

Lateral software engineers build APIs, frontends, backends, mobile, the full stack.

Lateral software engineers build APIs, frontends, backends, mobile, the full stack. They’re fluent with AI tooling, comfortable in a monorepo, and have opinions about CI. Most have 7+ years and at least one production system they’re proud of in their last role.

Common stacks

What they bring to the table.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonGoRust.NET / C#Java / KotlinSwiftPostgreSQLRedisgRPCGraphQLtRPC

Sample profiles

Real engineers. Anonymised.

Profiles below are from current network members, anonymised to protect their next move.

Mateo R.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer · 9 yrs

"Rebuilt a B2B checkout flow that handles $1.4B / yr."

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQL

Medellín · UTC−5

Sofia M.

Senior Frontend Engineer · 7 yrs

"Owned design-system migration across 14 product surfaces."

TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind

Madrid · UTC+1

Valentina C.

Staff Backend Engineer · 11 yrs

"Designed the event log behind a 99.98% uptime dispatch core."

GoKubernetesPostgreSQLgRPC

São Paulo · UTC−3

Why hire through Lateral

Three reasons engineering leaders choose us.

  • 01Top 1%, vetted by engineers, not recruiters. Every Software 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.

How "senior" is senior on your network?
Most have years of production work behind them, with at least one system they were primary author of and can walk through end to end. We select for talent rather than tenure, so the answer is less about a number than about whether they are exceptional at the work.
Do they work in our time zone?
We match for it. The network spans the US, LATAM, Western and Eastern Europe; we don’t place engineers more than 4 hours off your business day.
Can they own a feature end-to-end?
That’s the bar. If they need hand-holding through API design, they don’t make the cut.

Hire Software talent.

Tell us the role. Shortlist by next week.

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