SENIOR ENGINEERS.YOUR TIMEZONE.

YOU'RE NOT HIRING. YOU'RE WAITING.

A senior hire, the normal way: two weeks of sourcing, three interview rounds, a take-home half the candidates ghost, an offer, a counter-offer, a notice period. Call it a quarter if everything goes right. Meanwhile the roadmap slips another sprint every screening round.

Tiltely does the slow part first: the bench is already vetted, senior, and ready. You interview a real, named engineer this week; they're in your standup in about two. No discovery phase. No statement of work. A calendar invite, two conversations, and a teammate.

NOTHING WAITS FOR TOMORROW.

Buenos Aires runs about four hours ahead of San Francisco and one ahead of New York. Close enough that a question you ask at lunch is answered before your coffee's cold; far enough that they're already deep in the codebase before your standup. Forget the '4 hours of guaranteed overlap' fine print you've read elsewhere; this is the same working day, end to end.

By the second week it's just your team.

THE INTERVIEW YOU'D RUN. ALREADY RUN.

This is where agencies paste a logo wall. We're early enough to be honest instead: here's the entire bar, published. Judge it, or steal it for your own hiring funnel.

SELECT YOUR ENGINEER.

Every profile we actually send is this specific: real name, real references, real code, and a paired-interview recording if you want it. If nobody on the bench fits your stack, we say so instead of forcing a fit.

AI-NATIVE. NOT AI-DEPENDENT.

'AI-native' is doing a lot of buzzword duty right now, so here's what we actually mean, and what we test for in the pair-shipping run. One: they're fast. Agents scaffold, migrate, and backfill tests while the engineer designs. Two: they don't trust it. Every AI-written diff gets the same scrutiny they'd give a junior's first PR, because their name is on the commit.

In week one, your conventions, lint rules, and architecture notes get encoded into their agent config, so the speed compounds inside your codebase instead of against it. What you're buying is senior judgment with a bigger lever.

HUMAN.IN.LOOP // ALWAYS

LET'S DO THE WORST CASE FIRST.

YOU WROTE 'NO AGENCIES.' GOOD.

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PEDRO · GMT-3

I've read a lot of startup job posts this year, and half end with 'no agencies.' Honestly, fair. You've been burned before: forty CVs with zero context, a 'senior' who needs a spec to build a button, the candidate who aced the interview replaced by someone you never met.

Tiltely isn't that. Leo and I run a small software factory in Buenos Aires. I know every engineer on the bench: most were referred by another engineer I trust, all of them shipped inside our own products before they ever met a client, and every one passed an interview loop I'd be happy to be judged by. We don't do volume, and we'd rather tell you 'we don't have your fit right now' than stretch a maybe.

One more thing I'd want to know if I were you: no lock-in isn't generosity, it's the business model. If the engineer stops earning their seat, you leave. So the only way Tiltely works is if they never stop. Your exit rights are my quality control.

If you need senior hands inside your timezone, send me two lines: your stack and the first problem you'd hand a new engineer. I'll tell you straight whether we can help.

— Pedro · cofounder, Tiltely · pedro@tiltely.com▊

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