Technical recruitment
Developers and CTOs screen every candidate in your stack. Your team only spends interview time on people worth a final round.
£5,000 fixed fee for your first role. See what's included
Whoever owns the hire, the outcome they need is the same: a shortlist engineering accepts the first time.
Corporate engineering and HR teams hire through us, and so do startups and scaleups.
What HR and recruitment leads told us
Our October 2026 survey of HR and recruitment leads. Metamindz survey of 134 HR and recruitment leads at companies of 20 to 250+ staff, run on Prolific, 5 to 7 October 2026. Agency questions were answered by the 71 who use agencies now.
What we did for eLocker
Read the eLocker case studyIf you run engineering
Every CV that reaches you gets screened again, by you, on top of the day job. A CV that lists Postgres cannot tell you whether the person can diagnose a slow query, so you find out an hour into the interview.
With us:
Our engineers ask those questions before you see the CV. You meet the people who could answer them.
If you run hiring
You send engineering the CVs that look right, and they reject most of them late. Leadership wants the role filled faster, engineering wants better candidates, and you are the one in between.
With us:
You send engineering a shortlist an engineer has already checked, so it holds up in their interview.
Founders and engineering leaders we have hired for.
“Metamindz helped us recruit our now CTO, reviewing CVs as they came in and then putting the CTO through a thorough 90-minute live 360 technical test. Feedback from our now CTO of the test was glowing and comms from Metamindz throughout the entire process were excellent. Highly recommend!”
Rupert Boddington
Co-Founder, Pockla
“Worked with Lev and Max. We worked with MetaMindz to help us interview and assess software engineering candidates. They were professional and great from the outset and throughout, great speed too. Would 100% recommend and we will be working with them again.”
Alexander Bushe
CEO, Fuller Focus
“We found it really easy working with Lev and the team to hire for our lead developer role and despite it still being early days, our new hire is making an impact already!” source
Billy Whiffen
Google review
What we did
It started with a fractional CTO audit that set out the problems and the fixes plainly, without creating a dependency. From there, Metamindz reviewed around 90 candidates and ran the technical interviews, and that judgement is what gave eLocker the confidence to hire.
Brought a collaborative management style across departments, and a sales background that helps with both commercial and technical decisions.
Launched a new platform and made eLocker's leadership more confident in architecture conversations.
Built the AI front end, set up a design system that removed the need for Figma, and architected analytics properly.
Described by eLocker as fast and methodical.
Working on a complex, mobile SDK that combines software and hardware, on a tight timeline and with multiple partners.
Impact as described by Billy Whiffen, eLocker.
“We've worked with Lev and Metamindz for several months, both in a fractional CTO role and on recruitment. They've been excellent throughout, responsive, easy to work with, and highly capable. I couldn't recommend them enough.”
Jacob Hinson, eLocker · May 2025Both start the same way. The difference is who runs the deep technical interview.
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Step 1
Send us the role
A job description or a link, and how many people you need.
Step 2
Intro call
Your product, stack, team and roadmap, so we know what to test for. We start sourcing the same week.
Step 3
Screened CVs
About 3 to 5 a week, per role, each one approved by a CTO.
Step 4
You interview and hire
We stay involved through final interviews and the offer.
Global talent pool, wherever you need to hire from.
£5,000
Fixed fee for your first role
15% to 17%
Commission on each further hire
Deep technical interview (Route 2)£300 an hour
A 1.5 to 2 hour live-coding and technical grilling session per final candidate.
All fees exclude VAT.
Tell us about the roleSame goal, to hire great people. A different process, fee and number of CVs.
| What matters | Metamindz | Typical recruitment agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | £5,000 fixed fee for the first role, then 15% to 17% on further hires. Technical screening included. | UK agencies typically charge 15% to 25% of first-year salary for each hire.1 |
| Who reads the CV first | A developer or CTO who works in your stack screens every candidate. | Usually a non-technical recruiter, matching the CV against the job description. |
| CVs that pass | About 3 to 5 screened CVs a week per role, each approved by a CTO. | 87% of HR leads who use agencies say half or fewer agency CVs pass the first technical interview.2 |
| Deep technical interview | Optional: a 1.5 to 2 hour live-coding and architecture interview. | Left to your engineering team. |
| Exclusivity | Not required. We want you to hire well, even if another recruiter finds the person. | Often asked for, which ties the role to one agency whatever the results. |
Hale House, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT
We work on site anywhere in the UK and have done so for clients in London (central, east, south and north), Leamington Spa, Hertfordshire, Daventry, Brighton and Surrey, among others.
Remote for clients in Europe, the US and the Middle East.
You want a large volume of CVs.
We send about 3 to 5 screened CVs a week per role, on purpose: each one has been checked by an engineer. If you want dozens of CVs to screen yourself, a volume agency suits you better.
The role is outside tech.
Our screening is run by developers and CTOs, so it adds value for engineering and product roles. For sales, finance or operations hires, use a specialist agency in that field.
Tech recruitment by tech people is a technical hiring service where developers and CTOs source, interview, and vet engineering candidates. Every candidate gets a technical screen from an engineer before their CV reaches the client, so the shortlist holds up in the engineering interview. Pricing is £5,000 for the first role, then 15% to 17% commission on further hires, with technical screening included.
Metamindz is a tech recruitment agency run by engineers: developers and CTOs screen every candidate in your stack before you see a CV. We hire for corporate engineering and HR teams as well as startups and scaleups, from our London office, across the UK and remotely for Europe and the US. £5,000 fixed fee for the first role.
Give us a few details about the role and your hiring plans. We'll assess your needs and get back to you with a practical next step.
The first role is a £5,000 fixed fee. Further hires are at 15% to 17% commission. Technical screening is included. The optional deep technical interview is £300 an hour. All fees exclude VAT.
Yes. Every hire comes with a 3 to 6 month guarantee, depending on the seniority of the role.
On Route 1 we source and screen every candidate, a CTO approves every CV, and your team runs the deep technical interview. On Route 2 we also run that interview: a 1.5 to 2 hour live-coding and architecture session with your final candidates, at £300 an hour.
The first person to read a candidate is an engineer who works in your stack, not a recruiter matching keywords. They screen for what the CV cannot show, such as whether someone can reason about indexes and transaction boundaries or diagnose a slow query.
About 3 to 5 screened CVs a week, per role. We send fewer CVs on purpose: each one has been checked by an engineer, so your team spends its interview time on people worth a final round.
We start sourcing the same week as the intro call, and you usually get the first screened CVs within a week. The time to hire depends on the role and seniority.
We have a global talent pool, so we can hire from wherever you need, to fit your budget and working hours.
Yes. Corporate engineering and HR teams hire through us as well as startups and scaleups. Companies we have hired engineers for include Hargreaves Lansdown and eLocker.
Yes. Our office is at Hale House, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT. We work on site anywhere in the UK when needed, and have done so for clients in London (central, east, south and north), Leamington Spa, Hertfordshire, Daventry, Brighton and Surrey, among others. We work remotely for clients in Europe, the US and the Middle East.
No. Exclusivity is negotiable and never a condition of working with us.
Yes. The first role is a £5,000 fixed fee and further hires are at 15% to 17% commission. We run the searches in parallel and agree priorities with you.
Explore the roles, frameworks and production requirements we have recruited for. Every shortlist is screened against the actual work.
All fees exclude VAT.