A small crew.
A great adventure.
We’re building tools that help people make software worth shipping. We intend to stay small. Each person here owns a meaningful part of the work.
Find your placeGood company for the journey.
Already on board
- Paul BakausFounder & CEO
- Abdul WahabMTS · Full-stack
A place for you
Five or six open places to help shape what comes next.
Deep in something.
Curious about everything.
That’s our kind of renaissance geek.
Every opening is for a senior individual contributor. You bring senior-level judgment and a track record of owning work from an ambiguous problem through a shipped result. You set priorities, make sound tradeoffs, and know when to involve others.
You have a craft you’ve gone deep on, and interests that don’t stop at its edges. You see what needs doing, make a thoughtful decision, and follow it through.
You use AI to extend what you can do. You still question the output, bring your own judgment, and take responsibility for what ships. Around here, ownership grows with the work you take on.
What we’re building
Better ways to make things.
Better judgment about what ships.
Find your place.
San Francisco, strongly preferred.
US remote considered for an exceptional fit.
Frontend Engineer
Build the interfaces that make AI a better creative collaborator. Own the code, the craft, and the release.
$190–235kUS base / year0.33–0.88% equityCommunity & Advocacy Lead
Bring builders together. Help them get more from our tools, from a useful reply to a room full of people.
$130–175kUS base / year0.15–0.40% equityBackend Engineer, AI Systems & Evals
Make automated design reviews useful enough to trust. Own the pipeline, critique quality, reliability, and scale.
$190–235kUS base / year0.33–0.88% equityForward Deployed Engineer
Ship alongside customers. Turn real codebases, difficult workflows, and field experience into better products.
$190–215kUS base / year0.33–0.50% equity
Community building is essential. If your strengths lean toward events and relationships or toward teaching and content, tell us. We’re open to two complementary people.
The practical things,
up front.
- Build together in San Francisco
- We strongly prefer working together in SF. We may make exceptions for an exceptional person based elsewhere in the US. Tell us where you are and whether you’d consider relocating.
- Clear compensation. Real ownership.
- The bands above are annual US base salary in USD, with equity shown separately as a total initial grant. We use the same pay bands across the US, including approved remote exceptions. Scope, experience, and demonstrated impact determine placement within the band. We discuss cash and equity at the start of the conversation.
- Some work happens in the room
- Community and forward deployed roles require availability for at least 2–3 trips a month as needed. For frontend and backend engineering, expect approximately one trip per quarter.
- A working relationship, from the start
- Meet Paul first. If there’s mutual interest, complete an unpaid exercise capped at two hours, recording your task workspace. AI and your usual tools are welcome. Then work through your submission together and have a final conversation. Plan for about four hours in total; each role explains the process.
- Room to do good work, and rest
- We offer health, dental, and vision coverage, plus flexible time off.
Your interests don’t
fit a job title?
That sounds familiar. Tell us what you’ve made, what you care about, and what you’d want to own here.
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