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— Work with us

Build with
the studio.

We're a small, high-output studio. Every person we work with is a practitioner — someone who ships real things and cares about the craft. We take on contract collaborators for specific client engagements.

— How we work

Not a job.
A collaboration.

01
Project-based contracts
We bring you in for specific client engagements — a build, a launch, a production problem that needs solving. You're not on the bench waiting for work.
02
Remote-first
We work async-first with clear briefs. No daily standups unless the engagement calls for it. We trust our collaborators to own their slice.
03
Principal-led
Every engagement is overseen by a senior engineer. You'll get context, clear direction, and meaningful feedback — not just a Jira board.
04
Craft over speed
We move fast but we don't cut corners. Quality code, clean interfaces, systems that last. We expect the same standard from everyone we work with.
— Open roles

Contract Backend Engineer

Contract · Remote

Django/Python engineers who've shipped production APIs. You'll work alongside the principal on client builds — integrations, platform architecture, data pipelines.

Python Django PostgreSQL REST APIs Docker
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Frontend / Full-Stack Engineer

Contract · Remote

Engineers comfortable owning the full UI layer — ideally with experience in vanilla JS, Alpine, or React. We build fast, clean interfaces. No bloat.

HTML/CSS JavaScript React or Alpine Git
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DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Contract · Remote

Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or Railway/Fly.io). CI/CD, Terraform, container orchestration. We provision serious systems for serious clients.

Linux Docker CI/CD AWS or GCP Terraform
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Technical Writer / Content Strategist

Part-time · Remote

You write clearly about engineering and systems. You'll contribute to Insights — our premium technical publication — and help shape studio content.

Technical writing Engineering background Markdown
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Don't see your role?

We're always interested in exceptional engineers and writers. Send a note with what you do and why.

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— What we value

Craft over
volume.

Ownership
We want people who see a problem and fix it without being asked. If it's broken and you notice it, it's yours to surface.
Clarity
Write clearly, communicate early, ask before you assume. Ambiguity compounds fast on small teams.
Depth
We'd rather you know one thing exceptionally well than six things superficially. Specialists ship better software.
Honesty
If a deadline is unrealistic, say so. If the architecture is wrong, say so. We make better decisions with real information.