Catalyst
We Fill the Roles Your Internal Team Can't Close.
Backend engineers. Platform architects. DevOps leads. Staff-level and above.
Catalyst is the embedded recruitment engine for tech companies where an empty senior engineering seat costs more than the hiring budget. We close the roles generalist agencies can't — in weeks, not quarters.
Trusted by 60+ engineering leaders
Series B · Mid-Market · Enterprise SaaS
"We'd burned six months trying to close a Staff Backend Engineer and a Platform Lead through our internal team. Catalyst had both offers accepted inside 11 weeks. Not just filled — the right people, at the right level, who've now been here 14 months."
Marcus Webb
VP Engineering
Driftline (Series B, 130 eng)
Roles Closed
11
Roles Closed
hires
23
Time to Fill
days avg
94%
Offer Accept
Pipeline Quality Score
"Opening an APAC engineering office while maintaining our US roadmap velocity was genuinely impossible with the team we had. Catalyst ran two parallel pipelines — Singapore and Austin — and we had our first five APAC engineers in seats before the office lease even started."
Priya Raghunathan
CTO
Vaultex SaaS (Mid-Market, 280 total)
Parallel Pipelines
18
Engineers Placed
total
16
Time to First Hire
days
89%
Retention (12mo)
Pipeline Quality Score
"Three agencies. Eighteen months. Zero senior DevOps closes. I was starting to think the talent just didn't exist. Catalyst sourced four qualified Staff DevOps candidates in the first 30 days — we extended two offers, both accepted. The difference is they actually understand infrastructure roles, not just job descriptions."
Jonathan Osei-Bonsu
Director of Talent Acquisition
Meridian Enterprise Software
Roles Closed
8
Days to First Slate
days
4
Qualified Candidates
in 30d
100%
Offer Accept Rate
Pipeline Quality Score
Your next senior engineering hire
shouldn't take 6 months.
Every week a Staff engineer seat stays open, your backlog compounds. Let's talk about what Catalyst can close for you.
A pipeline that moves
like your backlog depends on it.
Four phases. No black-box ATS updates. You see every candidate, every screen result, every offer conversation — in real time.
Role Architecture Session
We spend 90 minutes with your eng lead mapping the exact technical profile, team context, and failure modes of previous searches. Most clients say this alone is worth the call.
Role Architecture Brief
Embedded Pipeline Build
Our sourcers — who have written production code — go deep into GitHub, conference talks, and engineering blogs to build a slate of 15–20 pre-vetted candidates before you see a single name.
Technical Qualifier Screen
We run a structured technical screen aligned to your actual stack. You only meet candidates who've cleared the bar — no resume-to-interview-room wasted afternoons.
Offer Close & Onboard
Catalyst manages the offer process including competing-offer navigation. Our 94% average offer-accept rate is the result of managing this phase the way most teams don't.
Two ways in. Zero pressure.
Start a conversation with a strategist, or grab the scorecard first — either way, you'll know exactly where your hiring stands.
Tech RPO Readiness Scorecard
A 12-point framework used by VP Engineering and TA Directors to benchmark whether their current hiring motion is built for staff-level technical roles — or optimized for volume and hope.
Work email only. No sequences. No SDR follow-ups.
Talk to a Tech Recruiting Strategist
Takes 90 seconds. No pitch. Just clarity.