CAREERS / EAST BAY PROJECTS

Experienced people.
Useful work.

Join a family-led business and a network of senior engineers across the U.S. and around the world. Work with customers, take responsibility for what you build, and help get it into production.

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THE STANDARD WE WORK TO

Good judgment.
Work you can stand behind.

We’re a family-led business with a network of senior engineers in the U.S. and around the world. Clients work with us because they need experienced people who can understand the problem and finish the job.

Own the outcome.

Understand the business goal. Agree on the scope, raise risks early, and follow the work through release and handoff.

Make the details hold up.

Review your work, test meaningful behavior, and make failures understandable. Leave code, systems, and documentation another person can use.

Use AI with judgment.

Use the tools that help you work well. You remain responsible for understanding, reviewing, and verifying what you deliver.

WE’RE HIRING

Find your place on the team.

We’re open to employees and contractors. Tell us where you’re based, your availability, and the kind of work you want to take on.

ROLE / 01

Forward-Deployed Engineer

Own the path from a customer’s problem to software their team can depend on.

You work directly with owners, operators, and the people using the software. You need to understand the business well enough to challenge an assumption, narrow an overgrown scope, and choose a practical implementation. You also need the engineering depth to build it, deploy it, and diagnose what happens afterward.

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What you’ll own

  • Lead discovery alongside an operations or product partner. Observe the workflow, identify constraints, and agree on what a successful first release should accomplish.
  • Review existing applications and AI-generated prototypes. Explain what to keep, repair, or replace, with a clear account of the tradeoffs.
  • Build across APIs, data, interfaces, and integrations. Work through authentication, permissions, error handling, and the less obvious paths a real user will take.
  • Connect customer systems with respect for their access policies, data, vendor limits, and deployment requirements.
  • Demonstrate working software, communicate changes to scope early, and carry the project through testing, launch, documentation, and handoff.

Experience we’re looking for

  • A record of taking applications from an ambiguous brief into production and supporting them once people rely on them.
  • The ability to debug across a stack, read unfamiliar code, and make progress without a perfectly prepared backlog.
  • Clear written and spoken communication. You can explain a technical decision to an owner and discuss its implementation with another senior engineer.
  • Good judgment about when to build custom software, use an existing service, or simplify the workflow.

What good looks like

The customer understands the plan, the release handles the agreed workflow, and the team can operate what you delivered. Your handoff makes the next engineer effective.

Show us your work

A project you delivered directly with a customer: the starting problem, a decision you changed after learning more, and what happened after launch.

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ROLE / 02

Operations Expert

Turn an understanding of how a business works into changes its team can actually use.

You are the connection between the business and the delivery team. You learn where time, money, and attention go, separate symptoms from causes, and help the customer choose work worth doing. You stay involved as the solution is built and adopted.

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What you’ll own

  • Work with owners and frontline teams to map daily processes, responsibilities, exceptions, and handoffs.
  • Establish a baseline using the information available: time spent, rework, capacity, service quality, costs, or revenue. Make uncertainty explicit.
  • Turn observations into a clear problem statement, prioritized scope, and acceptance criteria that an engineer and customer can both use.
  • Coordinate decisions, access, subject-matter input, and testing so the delivery team can make progress.
  • Prepare rollout and training, check whether people are using the new process, and assess results against the original goal.

Experience we’re looking for

  • Substantial hands-on experience in operations, business ownership, product delivery, or a role where you were accountable for how work got done.
  • Comfort with process analysis, spreadsheets, financial tradeoffs, and incomplete data. You can distinguish a measured result from an estimate.
  • The ability to earn trust with both leadership and the people doing the work, including when their accounts of a problem differ.
  • Experience helping a team adopt a change and following through when the first approach did not work.

What good looks like

The team agrees on the problem, decisions reach the engineers in time, and the customer can see whether the change improved the work.

Show us your work

An operation you improved: the baseline, what you changed, how you secured adoption, and the evidence of the result.

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ROLE / 03

Senior Backend Engineer

Build the services and data foundations that keep a useful product reliable.

You take responsibility for behavior beyond the happy path. The work may involve strengthening an existing codebase, connecting business systems, or building a service from the ground up. You choose architecture that fits the workload and leave a system other engineers can understand.

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What you’ll own

  • Design APIs, service boundaries, and data models around real product requirements and access patterns.
  • Implement authentication and authorization, validate input, and protect sensitive data through the application lifecycle.
  • Build integrations and background jobs that handle timeouts, retries, duplicate events, partial failures, and vendor constraints.
  • Plan schema changes and data migrations with validation and recovery in mind. Investigate query performance and resource use when evidence calls for it.
  • Write meaningful automated checks, review code, add useful diagnostics, and work with product and infrastructure engineers through deployment and production support.

Experience we’re looking for

  • Deep experience with a backend ecosystem and relational databases, plus the ability to work effectively in an unfamiliar stack.
  • Production experience with APIs, transactions, asynchronous work, and the failure modes of distributed systems.
  • A record of making sound security and reliability decisions without adding architecture the project does not need.
  • The ability to explain a design, review someone else’s implementation constructively, and investigate incidents using evidence.

What good looks like

Data stays consistent, failures can be understood and recovered from, and the application remains maintainable as the product changes.

Show us your work

A backend system you owned: its constraints, a difficult data or reliability decision, and how you verified the design in production.

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ROLE / 04

Senior DevOps Engineer

Make deployment, operation, and recovery dependable parts of the product.

You own the path from a developer’s change to a running service. You work in client-controlled environments, improve existing infrastructure, and build operating practices that fit the size and needs of the team. Cost, access, and the ability to recover are part of the engineering work.

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What you’ll own

  • Design and maintain cloud infrastructure and reproducible environment configuration, using infrastructure as code where appropriate.
  • Build delivery pipelines with useful checks, controlled releases, environment separation, and a tested way to roll back.
  • Configure identity, least-privilege access, secret management, networking, domains, and certificates.
  • Establish logs, metrics, health checks, and actionable alerts. Help teams define what needs attention and who responds.
  • Implement and verify backup and recovery procedures, investigate incidents, manage capacity and costs, and write runbooks the client’s team can use.

Experience we’re looking for

  • Experience operating production workloads in a major cloud environment and a strong grounding in Linux, networking, and troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience with automation, deployment pipelines, infrastructure configuration, and access controls.
  • Evidence that you have restored services or data, handled production incidents, and improved the system afterward.
  • Judgment about the appropriate level of orchestration and automation. You can explain the operational cost of a technical choice.

What good looks like

Releases are repeatable, the team can see when something is wrong, and recovery steps work. The customer has access to and understands the infrastructure they are paying for.

Show us your work

An environment you operated: the deployment process, a failure you worked through, and a reliability or cost improvement you made.

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ROLE / 05

Senior Product Engineer

Take a customer need through the product and engineering details required to ship it well.

You combine strong implementation skills with attention to how people use software. You can shape an incomplete idea, work across the stack, and finish the details that make a feature feel coherent. You care about adoption and usefulness after the release.

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What you’ll own

  • Work with customers and the team to define user journeys, product behavior, and a focused release scope.
  • Build complete features across interfaces, application logic, APIs, and data as the project requires.
  • Handle loading, empty, error, and permission states. Make responsive behavior and accessibility part of the implementation.
  • Turn prototypes into maintainable applications, reviewing generated code and preserving what is useful.
  • Test complete workflows, review implementation with peers, ship in manageable increments, and use customer feedback to guide improvements.

Experience we’re looking for

  • A portfolio of shipped products or substantial features for which you can explain your own decisions and contribution.
  • Strong web application skills and enough backend depth to follow a workflow from the interface to persistent data.
  • Careful attention to usability, visual consistency, accessibility, and performance under real conditions.
  • The ability to work through ambiguity, question unnecessary scope, and collaborate directly with customers and other engineers.

What good looks like

The feature solves the intended problem, works across its important states, and fits the rest of the product. The next person can change it without having to rebuild it.

Show us your work

A feature you took from idea to release: the user problem, the tradeoffs, and what you learned once people started using it.

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