Step 01
Send us the work
No CV-first applications. Send a system you have shipped and a paragraph on what broke. We read every one.
Careers · The bench
We don’t hire CVs We hire operators
Two hundred of us, across three studios, hold one bar. If you’ve shipped systems that earned the right to keep running — read on.
ScrollHow we hire, in six acts
Act I · The bar
We look for operators who have already done the work —
who can read a system, find the joint that breaks under load,
and ship the fix on the architects’ line.
Who disagree well. Who write code that other people can read on a Tuesday.
Who stay until the in-house team ships faster than us.
That is the bar. We hold it without exception.
Act II · How we work
Four commitments, held without exception
- 01
You ship into the operator’s desk
Engagements begin with a week of sitting next to the people who will use the thing. The first artefact is not a deck — it is a list of workarounds.
- 02
You answer the phone in eighteen months
We measure ourselves on adoption six quarters past handover. If the in-house team has reverted to the old way, we did not ship — we delivered.
- 03
You write code other operators can read
Tactics change every quarter; clarity does not. We optimise for the engineer who inherits the system, not the one who wrote it.
- 04
You disagree well, and on the record
Strong opinions, weakly held, in writing. The architects’ line is a meritocracy of arguments — not seniority, not volume.
Act III · The path in
Three steps, no theatre
Step 02
A working session
A two-hour conversation with two operators on the line. We bring an open problem from a live programme. You bring how you would think about it.
Step 03
A two-week embed
Paid. Inside a real engagement. You meet the team, the cadence, and the bar. If it is mutual, you are on the bench.
Sign-off
Send us the work, not a CV
A system you’ve shipped. A paragraph on what broke. A sentence on what you would do differently. That is the shape of every application we read carefully.