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Build close to the problem.

The work sits where payments meet real counters, imperfect networks, regulated responsibilities and businesses that cannot pause while a system catches up.

Working here

What it is actually like.

We would rather tell you the shape of the job honestly and lose the wrong candidate than sell it and lose the right one three months in.

Wide-scope ownership

Strong operators understand the neighbouring disciplines and can carry a problem across hand-offs instead of protecting a narrow title.

Built for the hard case

Patchy signal, older Android handsets, a queue that will not wait. We design for the difficult end of the market first, which is more interesting engineering than the easy end.

Regulated seriously

This is money. Compliance, risk and security are part of everybody’s job here rather than a department that says no at the end.

The deal

What joining early actually means.

Written as the trade it is, rather than the version that only lists the upside.

What you get
  • Ownership of a surface, not a ticket queue — the thing you build is the product.
  • Direct access to every decision, because there are not enough people for it to work otherwise.
  • A market where the problem is real and visible from the street, not inferred from a dashboard.
  • Range. Small teams do not let anyone stay in one lane.
What you give up
  • A fully mapped path. Ambiguous problems require you to create structure as well as execute.
  • Structure — there is no ladder, no formal levelling, and no established process to lean on.
  • Specialism. You will do work outside your title regularly.
  • Big-company compensation. We are honest about that in the first conversation, not the fourth.

Hiring

How the process runs.

Four steps, roughly two weeks, and you get a decision with a reason at every stage.

01

A note

Tell us what you have built and what you want to own. A CV is optional; a link to real work is better.

02

A conversation

Forty-five minutes on the problem and whether the stage suits you. Both directions.

03

Real work

A short, paid, scoped piece of actual work. No unpaid take-homes and no whiteboard algorithms.

04

Decision

A yes or a no with the reason, inside three days. Silence is not a response we use.

No open roles listed? Write anyway. At this size the useful hires are usually people who described a job we had not written down yet.

Think you should be building this with us?

Apply through the candidate route