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Engineering the Future of Technical Hiring
A specialist search firm built for high-growth teams and world-class technical talent
UK
New York
Chicago
Paris
Amsterdam
San Francisco
Austin
Boulder
Seattle
Boston
Bangkok
Singapore
Hong Kong
Sydney
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Zurich
Warsaw
We place engineering talent globally across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Our Story
Oakland was built on a simple belief: the best engineering teams deserve a search partner who understands the craft, the technology, and the pace. After years working with some of the most innovative trading, ML/AI, and software organisations, we saw how broken traditional recruitment models were. Too generic, too slow, and too surface-level for deeply technical hiring.
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We set out to change that. Today, Oakland partners with high-growth startups, hedge funds, market makers, and leading engineering teams to deliver exceptional talent with precision, pace, and insight.
Our Mission
Precision Over Volume
We prioritise depth over volume, focusing on highly qualified, well-matched engineers rather than long, unfocused shortlists.
Partnership, Not Agency
We work as an embedded partner to your business, aligning with your goals, culture, and hiring roadmap rather than chasing one-off placements.
Technical Fluency
We speak the same language as your teams, understanding the systems, tools, and environments that matter to high-performance engineering.
Confidentiality & Trust
We handle sensitive searches and candidate conversations with care, discretion, and long-term relationship thinking.
Roles We Focus On
Software Engineering
We work with engineering teams where code quality, ownership, and scale matter. Our searches focus on high-impact roles with real technical depth, not volume hiring or generic pipelines.
Data & Machine Learning
We support teams building data platforms and ML systems that directly influence decision-making, pricing, and automation. Roles are typically senior, research-adjacent, and tightly scoped.
Infrastructure & SRE
We partner with teams running mission-critical systems, where uptime, performance, and reliability are non-negotiable. Many of these searches are confidential and sit close to the core of the business.
Quant Development
Our work in quant development is deeply embedded with trading and research teams. These are highly selective searches require strong technical fluency, discretion, and an understanding of performance-driven environments.
Security Engineering
We handle security hires where trust and discretion are critical from protecting trading infrastructure to safeguarding proprietary systems and sensitive data environments.
Technical Leadership
We place leaders who can scale teams, set technical direction, and operate credibly with founders, traders, and senior stakeholders. Often during periods of rapid growth or transformation.
Where We're Based
London
Dubai
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