Hiring mistakes in software engineering are expensive and slow to correct.
The cost appears later—in missed delivery, team drag, and decisions that compound quietly.
We’re Crossley Staffing ,a technical executive search and software engineering recruitment firm. We reduce hiring risk across software engineering, from senior individual contributors to architect-level leaders and executive search for Director through C-level roles.
Hiring outcomes are driven by judgment. When the judgment is right, progress follows. When it isn’t, teams spend months correcting course.
Talent Acquisition
Software Engineering Hiring (Individual Contributors)
Most organizations reach us when a role carries more weight than expected.
The team is blocked. The bar is high. The margin for error is small.
We recruit senior software engineers and technical leads who operate effectively in real environments—shipping, collaborating, and making decisions under constraint. The work begins with context: the codebase, the team, and the tradeoffs the role must navigate.
Clarity up front produces cleaner signal, fewer interviews, and hires that last. Speed without judgment is how near-misses happen.
Strategic Leverage
Software Architecture Recruitment: Architecture as a Lever, Not a Title
As teams mature, leverage matters more than output.
Architecture decisions carry weight. Coordination costs rise. Headcount stops being the constraint.
We work with architect-level engineers whose influence extends beyond individual tickets—shaping technical direction, guiding teams, and translating constraints into durable systems. These roles sit between senior IC hiring and leadership search and require fluency in both.
Architecture here is responsibility, not status.
Executive Search
Software Engineering Executive Search
Some hiring decisions reshape an organization.
Others destabilize it.
We support executive search for senior software engineering leadership, including Engineering Directors, Heads of Engineering, VPs of Software Engineering, CTOs, and architect-level leaders with organization-wide influence.
These searches are targeted and relationship-driven. Many leaders we engage are not actively seeking change. Fit is determined by the organization’s needs in that moment and the leader’s capacity to meet them.
Because we also recruit senior individual contributors, leadership is assessed in context—systems, people, and delivery.
Operating from our headquarters in Marietta, Georgia, we support national software engineering leadership searches.
The Continuum
One Continuum, Not Separate Services
Software teams are built through connected decisions.
Senior engineers expect capable leadership. Leaders rely on dependable builders. Architecture choices determine who will succeed next.
Working across this continuum allows patterns to surface early and prevents mistakes that are costly to reverse.
Execution
Perspective
Our approach reflects years spent alongside software teams and more than a decade recruiting engineers and engineering leaders.
Small decisions compound. The right hire changes trajectory.
That perspective shapes how we work: selectively, deliberately, and with a long view.
