Superposition for Dev Tool Startups
Hire engineers the way dev tool founders actually evaluate talent.
Dev tool hiring needs code-level signal
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Dev tool founders don't care about polished resumes. They care about what someone has shipped, contributed, and written. The engineers who will thrive at your company are visible in their GitHub history and technical writing, not their LinkedIn headlines.
Traditional recruiters miss this pool entirely. They filter on titles and years of experience and send you candidates whose best work is wrapped in a big-company NDA.
You need sourcing that evaluates the same signals you would: code, open source contributions, and voice in the community.
How Superposition works for dev tool startups
Code-level evaluation
Our agent reads GitHub, evaluates open source contributions, and surfaces community voice, the same signals you trust.
Community-aware sourcing
We source from open source maintainers, technical bloggers, and conference speakers, not LinkedIn title filters.
Founder-level intake
Our voice agent speaks the language. You don't need to translate 'dev experience' into something an account exec can pitch.
Proven in AI infra hiring
Plastic Labs hired their Platform Engineer through us. 43,802 candidates researched, 15 high-conviction matches, signed in 5 weeks.
Questions.
Answered.
By reading what they build in public. People who write tools, contribute to developer libraries or blog about their workflow are visible, and that enthusiasm is the strongest signal for this category.
Often the best source there is, and the agent can read your community and network alongside the open web. Users who already build on you need no convincing about the problem.
Only once there is a product worth advocating and a community to serve. Before that, the founders doing it directly is usually more convincing.
More than at most startups. In dev tools your buyers are engineers, so sales, marketing and support hires all need enough depth to be credible, which the agent screens for.
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Source the way developer founders actually evaluate talent.