for software engineers · seattle not an engineer? see the general site

Stop applying. Start shipping interviews.

WeApply4U for SWEs sends up to 300 tailored engineering applications a month. Real engineers read every JD, write every resume from your actual shipped work, and log a proof artifact you can show your hiring manager. Backend, frontend, full-stack, distributed systems, ML infra, cloud, security.

tailored from your shipped PRs no LinkedIn easy-apply spam base / equity / sign-on tracked local-first, then remote

Built around the stacks engineers actually live in.

We don't tailor for "tech roles." We tailor for the language, framework, system, and infra stack a specific JD asks for. Every chip below is a tailoring axis our engineers map your verified work against. Bold chips are the ones we're tuning for hardest in 2026 because that's where the JDs are.

languages

typescript python go rust java kotlin swift c++ scala elixir ruby

frameworks

react / next.js node / express fastapi django spring rails flask nest.js gin actix svelte

cloud / infra

aws k8s terraform gcp azure docker helm argocd pulumi nomad cloudflare workers

data / storage

postgres redis mysql mongo dynamodb kafka snowflake bigquery clickhouse elasticsearch cassandra

ml / ai infra

pytorch llm serving rag tensorflow jax vector db fine-tuning evals inference triton vllm

observability / sre

datadog prometheus grafana opentelemetry sentry splunk pagerduty incident response slo / sli chaos eng load testing

system design

distributed systems event-driven microservices graphql grpc websockets cdc sharding consensus stream processing queues

security / compliance

app sec cloud sec iam oauth oidc zero-trust soc2 hipaa pci-dss secrets mgmt sast / dast

If your stack is missing, ask. We've never refused a tailoring axis a real customer needed.

What we tailor, by role family.

Each row is a real role family from the pilot cohort. The skills column is what our engineers pull from your verified experience to emphasize. The right column is the median Seattle base + sign-on we're seeing on signed offers in the cohort. Comp ranges are observed, not promised.

Backend EngineerL4 · L5 · staff
service ownership postgres scaling aws lambda + rds grpc apis incident postmortems migration playbooks
$185 - 295kbase · seattle
Frontend / Full-stackreact · next.js · ts
design systems perf budgets a11y compliance ssr / edge component libs analytics instrumentation
$170 - 260kbase · seattle
Distributed SystemsL5 · L6 · principal
kafka / kinesis consensus protocols multi-region failover cdc pipelines throughput modeling capacity planning
$220 - 360kbase · seattle
ML / AI Infrastructurellm + classic ml
llm serving retrieval pipelines eval frameworks training infra gpu scheduling fine-tune workflows
$210 - 380kbase · seattle
Cloud / DevOps / Platformk8s · terraform · aws
iac at scale k8s operators internal dev platforms cost reduction stories ci / cd release engineering
$180 - 290kbase · seattle
Security Engineerapp sec · cloud sec
threat modeling secure sdlc iam hardening incident response red team compliance evidence
$190 - 300kbase · seattle
Mobile (iOS / Android)swift · kotlin · cross
swiftui / compose offline-first app store ops perf profiling push infra auth + biometrics
$170 - 280kbase · seattle

8 months as an engineer between jobs.

Two paths. Same calendar. Same skill stack. Same Seattle market. Different operator.

without w4u
0
applications shipped
  1. M14 apps shipped. Spent 11 hours fighting Workday's resume parser. Got 1 reply from a recruiter who asked if you'd "consider a contract role."
  2. M27 apps shipped. Recruiter screen #1: "What's your salary expectation?" You low-balled. Round 2 ghosted. You opened HN/Who's Hiring 14 times this week.
  3. M39 apps shipped. Coding round at a Series B. Solved it. They picked an internal candidate. You started checking levels.fyi compulsively.
  4. M412 apps shipped. Drank too much coffee. Wrote 3 cover letters explaining a 2-month gap. Started a side project to "have something to show."
  5. M510 apps shipped. System design round went well. They moved on with someone with "more direct domain expertise." You contemplated a bootcamp.
  6. M68 apps shipped. Lowered your target band by 15%. Recruiters now reaching out about "great opportunity" at companies you wouldn't have applied to at month 1.
  7. M75 apps shipped. Burnt out. Networking events feel transactional. Considering staying at current job and "trying again next year."
  8. M83 apps shipped. 0 offers signed. You took the recruiter call out of resignation, not enthusiasm.
with w4u
0
tailored apps shipped (300/mo · 8 mo)
  1. M1300 apps shipped. Engineer reviewed 40 of your shipped PRs. Built 4 resume variants by stack. 22 recruiter replies. 6 first-round screens.
  2. M2300 apps shipped. 9 phone screens, 4 take-home assignments completed (we coordinate). 2 onsite invitations. You declined one on principle (poor team match).
  3. M3300 apps shipped. 3 onsites. 1 offer at $185k base. Used as a benchmark. Let it expire because the slate kept loading. Negotiation muscle warming up.
  4. M4300 apps shipped. 4 onsites. 2 offers in hand: $215k Series C fintech, $235k public retail. Both with sign-on bonuses. Started running parallel offer negotiation.
  5. M5signed. $248k base · $35k sign-on · 0.18% equity · L5 backend at a public co. Started on the 1st. We archived your live pipeline.

What the SWE pilot cohort actually shipped.

Eight engineer cohort, observed Q4 2025 - Q1 2026. Numbers are medians (not averages, not cherry-picked). Comp is what was signed and started, not what was offered. Cohort is small and Seattle-skewed; we publish the next cohort numbers when they sign.

0weeks median time from first w4u application
to signed offer letter
$0k median accepted base salary
seattle metro · L4-L6 SWE
$0k median sign-on bonus
negotiated alongside the base
0 tailored applications shipped
across the pilot cohort, 8 months

Real engineers. Real signed offers.

Names redacted because comp is private. Companies generalized one tier (Series C → "growth-stage", FAANG → "trillion-dollar public"). Everything else is verbatim from the post-signing recap call.

  1. "I had been at the same company for 5 years. I knew the market had moved on but I couldn't find the bandwidth to even start. Three weeks in, w4u had logged more applications on my behalf than I had submitted in my entire career. I went from zero momentum to a signed offer in ten weeks."

    L5 backend engineer · 5y at same co.
    signed: $228k base · $30k sign-on · growth-stage fintech
  2. "What I didn't expect: w4u tailored each resume to the actual JD. Not keyword stuffing. They emphasized the right shipped projects per role. The recruiter at one of my onsites asked me about a specific PR I'd led, by name. The bots can't do that."

    staff frontend engineer · ex-startup
    signed: $245k base · $40k sign-on · 0.1% · trillion-dollar public co.
  3. "I was scared to share my resume because I had a 4-month gap. They tailored around it without lying about it. I had two offers in week 8, used one to push the other up $24k. The proof ledger thing is the part nobody talks about - I genuinely could show my hiring manager what we'd been doing."

    distributed systems engineer · returning from leave
    signed: $265k base · $50k sign-on · public infra co.

Ready to ship interviews, not applications?

Pricing is the same as the general plan. Your search is run by an engineer who reads code, not a bot that reads keywords. Cancel or pause anytime. Your first weekly report lands inside seven days.

hello@weapply4u.com · backend · frontend · distributed · ml infra · cloud · security · mobile