Human hiringat machine speed.

Squad compiles referrals from thousands of elite recruiters and sends you a shortlist of high quality candidates.

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Hires for 100+ companies.

Cut through the noise.

The candidates worth hiring are becoming harder to reach.

  • Top candidates get flooded.

    The best people get dozens of recruiter messages a week, so they stop answering.

  • Candidates auto apply.

    AI tools send applications by the hundred, burying the right fit in inbound noise.

  • Hiring limited by your network.

    Referrals only reach the people your team already knows.

Backed by Afore Capital, Outsiders Fund, Crossbeam

“Squad is the best recruiting marketplace we’ve used, and it isn’t close. We opened an AE role and hired the fourth profile they sent. Every other platform we tried had us sifting through stacks of resumes.”

Jimmy McDermottFounder, Rubie

Squad turns a network ofthousands of expert recruiters into a single point of contact.

Senior SWE

United States

$250–500k

  • Go
  • Rust
  • Blockchain

Layla Haddad

8 senior SWE placements this year

Leo Brandt

Ex-Stripe engineering recruiter

Dana Cole

Backend and infra specialist

Senior SWE

United States

$250–500k

  • Go
  • Rust
  • Blockchain

Layla Haddad

8 senior SWE placements this year

Leo Brandt

Ex-Stripe engineering recruiter

Dana Cole

Backend and infra specialist

  • Tapping into pre-existing networks.Recruiters reach out to candidates who already trust them. Every candidate is vetted and opted in.

  • Curated.Strict quality control. Only the best recruiters make the cut, and we never optimize for volume.

  • Less overhead.No juggling dozens of recruiters across fragmented channels, and no agencies to manage one by one.

  • “Squad is the best recruiting marketplace we’ve used, and it isn’t close. We opened an AE role and hired the fourth profile they sent. Every other platform we tried had us sifting through stacks of resumes.”

    Jimmy McDermott
    Founder, Rubie

  • “Our company has a notoriously high bar for candidates and Squad’s system of aggregating recruiters has enabled them to send us only high quality applicants which has meaningfully sped up timelines. Our average time to hire can be weeks but one Squad candidate had an offer 30 minutes into her first call.”

    Julia Westphal
    Head of Startups, Macro

  • “Hiring is always painful, but partnering with Squad has been amazing. Every single candidate we are matched with is high quality and a good fit. We needed to scale hiring quickly and with Squad we were able to make multiple hires in less than 1 week.”

    Matt Delacour
    CTO, CoinList

  • “Squad scaled with us from New York to Singapore without missing a step. Engineering, data science, BD, 2 continents, 1 partner. For a 30-person team that’s a superpower.”

    Caroline Kerr
    Talent Acquisition Lead, Fun

  • “Squad is a game-changer for hiring. Incredible speed and unmatched quality. They are at the forefront of revolutionizing the future of recruiting, and will be indispensable for any company that wants to scale effectively. There’s a reason every search we open now goes straight to them.”

    Fabrice Grinda
    President, Midas

  • “Squad let us scale hiring seamlessly. Within 48 hours of opening a role, we were reviewing high-quality candidates. 95% of them moved forward to interviews. That kind of speed and consistency is extremely unique.”

    Evan Palmer
    Talent Lead, Lazer Technologies

  • “Squad is hands down one of the best hiring partners in the space. They filled the seat that presented the biggest blocker for our growth, and when we needed to expand our international team we didn’t even think about it, we just put it on Squad. Every serious team should be using them.”

    James Friel
    VP, Head of GTM, Plume Network

  • “We opened 4 very different roles at once and had real candidates in front of us within a day on most of them. The pace was something we couldn’t get anywhere else.”

    Phil Jacobson
    CBO, Altitude

  • “Squad is the best recruiting product out there, and it’s not even close. One shortlist, one hire, and that hire is now helping us screen the next ones. I tell every founder I know to use them.”

    Austin Diamond
    Co-founder and CEO, Universal

  • “This was the hardest role we’ve ever had to fill, and Squad made it look routine. We opened a second search on Squad before the first one was even done. Nobody else in this market gets those profiles.”

    Bella Raftis
    Co-Founder, NetcoreNetwork

  • “Squad matched us with a Head of Smart Contracts in under 24 hours and closed the hire in 10 days flat—an almost mythical speed for Web3 recruiting. Even more impressive, the exact same lightning-fast process repeated for two additional mission-critical roles. That kind of consistency proves Squad’s results aren’t luck; they’re engineered.”

    Vikram Arun
    Co-founder & CEO, Superform Labs

  • “Easily the best hiring resource out there. We’ve interviewed 100% of the matches we received and would have hired them all if we could.”

    Leandro Schlottchauer
    Founder, Fuul Protocol

Squad AI continuously learnswhat you’re looking for and only surfaces candidates who meet your bar.

Senior Backend Engineer

Squad AI accuracy score

64%

    Jordan Lee

    5 years of experience

    • OpenAIBackend Engineer3 years
    • StripeSoftware Engineer2 years
    • Ships fast
    • Strong product sense

    Senior Backend Engineer

    Squad AI accuracy score

    64%

      Jordan Lee

      5 years of experience

      • OpenAIBackend Engineer3 years
      • StripeSoftware Engineer2 years
      • Ships fast
      • Strong product sense

      Hands-off hiring that streamlinesworkflows and minimizes admin.

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      Squad just now

      Three best-fit candidates for Senior Backend Engineer:

      • Paula MorenoEx-Stripe · 6 years in GoApproveRejectApproved
      • Marcus HalePayments infra at CoinbaseApproveRejectRejected
      • Layla HaddadDistributed systems, ex-MetaApproveReject
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      Squad just now

      Booked Paula for Tuesday at 2pm. I’ve let Marcus’s recruiter know.

      • Your Squad partner is always a call or Slack away.

      • We schedule calls and follow up with candidates.

      • We manage your relationships with recruiters to save you time.

      • No new platform to log in to. We work in your Slack.

      Get started with Squad.

      1. Intake

        A quick onboarding call to align on the role and what “great” looks like. Our AI digests it all and keeps learning from you as we start working.

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        Jordan Lee just now

        We need a Senior Backend Engineer who’s shipped payments infra.

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        Squad just now

        • Job descriptionPDF · 2 pages
        • Team backgrounds6 engineers
        • Onboarding call notes32 min call

        On it.

      2. Routing

        We route your role to a curated subset of the best-fit expert recruiters.

        Senior Backend Engineer

        New York, NY

        3 of 1,000+ recruiters · top backend placers in NYC
      3. Delivery

        We deliver only the best-fit candidates directly into your workflow (e.g. Slack or your ATS), so delivery happens where you already work.

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        Squad just now

        New best-fit candidate for Senior Backend Engineer:

        Daniel Gretzke

        Smart Contract Engineer

        Strong match
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      4. Get a demo
      1. A quick onboarding call to align on the role and what “great” looks like. Our AI digests it all and keeps learning from you as we start working.

      2. We route your role to a curated subset of the best-fit expert recruiters.

      3. We deliver only the best-fit candidates directly into your workflow (e.g. Slack or your ATS), so delivery happens where you already work.

      Get a demo

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      Jordan Lee just now

      We need a Senior Backend Engineer who’s shipped payments infra.

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      Squad just now

      • Job descriptionPDF · 2 pages
      • Team backgrounds6 engineers
      • Onboarding call notes32 min call

      On it.

      Our average time to hire is 23 days, and 9 out of 10 candidates we send get interviewed.

      Start hiring with Squad.

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