PHM recruits the software engineers who build products, platforms, and the systems behind modern industry — full-stack and backend to mobile, DevOps, and embedded. Specialist, sector-fluent search for technology companies and the firms digitizing around them, on an exclusive, fee-on-hire basis.
Statistics Canada’s payroll numbers show professional, scientific and technical services down about 7,500 jobs over the year to May 2026. Its household survey shows the same sector up 17,000 in July. Both are official, both are correct, and they measure different things. Employers reading whichever headline they saw are calibrating offers and urgency against a market that is not the one they are hiring in.
A weak senior engineering hire is not visible in sprint one. It appears as technical debt, a rewrite, and the two strong engineers who left rather than maintain it.
Our software engineering recruiters read the market from live searches rather than headlines, and assess people on decisions owned and systems run — with technical conversations that go past the framework list.
Genuine depth across the software engineering and development disciplines — we understand the roles and the work they answer for, not just the titles. A sample of where we place:
Levels from developers and intermediate engineers through senior and staff engineers, architects, engineering managers, and directors and VPs of engineering.
Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →
Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive software mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Product and platform engineering for software companies — the teams shipping to customers.
Application development and modernization for enterprises building and integrating their own systems.
Embedded, firmware, and industrial software for the engineering, manufacturing, and hardware companies PHM knows well.
The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.
Yes — and embedded/industrial too. We place across technology and product companies, enterprise and digital teams, and the embedded software behind engineering and manufacturing firms.
Exclusive contingency. Nothing is invoiced until someone is hired, which puts the delivery risk on us rather than on the company that already has the problem.
Yes. We provide real-time compensation insight for the specific stack, region, and seniority you’re hiring for — so an offer is competitive without overpaying.
Across Canada and the United States. We’re headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and remote-fluent by design.
Often not. Many of the strongest engineers are passive — reached through direct search, into vacancies the open market does not carry.
An advisory conversation about the software hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.