Real ownership
You own systems, not tickets. From the architecture call to the on-call page, the thing is yours end to end.
// CAREERS
Senior people, real ownership.
We hire roughly two engineers a year, and only at staff level. It's a small, deliberate team — which means the person who joins owns real systems from the first week.
There's no junior tier to hand the hard parts to, and no one managing you into the ground. You get high autonomy, senior peers who've shipped before, and the boring discipline of doing the work properly. If that sounds like the job you've been missing, read on.
// WHY WORK HERE
What you actually get.
No ping-pong tables, no mission posters. The things that make a senior engineer's day better are simpler than that.
Senior peers only
Ten-plus years average across the team. No junior hand-offs, no teaching on the job — just people who've shipped this before.
High autonomy
Async by default, weekly demos, no theatre. We trust you to pick the right problem and we stay out of your calendar.
Honest terms
Transparent senior pay, profit-share, and a sane workload. We don't run on crunch — sustainable is the only pace that ships.
// OPEN ROLES
3 open positionsWhere we're hiring right now.
Staff Backend EngineerDistributed systems, payments, and the unglamorous reliability work.staff.backendSenior AI EngineerEvals, RAG, and tool-use that survives contact with production.senior.aiSenior Platform EngineerCloud, CI, and SRE — making other engineers' weeks shorter.senior.platform
[OPEN INTRO]
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// SAY HELLO
Think you'd own something here?
No cover letters, no take-home gauntlet. Send a short note and a link to something you're proud of — we read all of them.