Maximor needed to build most of its core engineering team, with a focus on remote international engineers who could meet an exceptionally high technical bar. That talent is scarce, concentrated in a handful of top schools and companies, and difficult to reach.

Before Contrario, Maximor had worked through the field of recruiting agencies and come away frustrated. The problem was not effort or volume. It was that every agency optimized for quantity over fit, and the recruiters did not listen closely enough to source against a bar this specific.