Case Study: Liquid builds its core engineering team with Contrario

Liquid builds a core engineering team in 4 days with Contrario

Liquid, a fintech startup building a unified trading platform, faced the challenge of hiring its first pivotal in-person engineer. The company needed a rare, high-agency individual contributor who could build its initial infrastructure with little oversight and help define its engineering culture from the ground up. They partnered with the vendor Contrario to find this specific talent.

Contrario leveraged its network to source and calibrate candidates who met Liquid's steep technical bar, sending only a trusted shortlist. This allowed Liquid to move quickly, hiring its first engineer within four days. Contrario placed five hires in total, including the core engineering team that built much of Liquid's product and drove the user growth that helped the company secure an $18 million Series A round.

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