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Two kinds of opportunity

Roles on our own team, and roles we place people into at client organisations. They are different things, so we keep them clearly separated.

Join our team

Most technical roles here include teaching

It is the mechanism that keeps our curriculum honest, and it makes people markedly better engineers. If that sounds like a distraction rather than a draw, we are probably not the right fit.

  • Delivery and teaching, both

    Most technical roles here include teaching a cohort. It is the mechanism that keeps our curriculum honest, and it makes you a markedly better engineer.

  • Small senior teams

    Engagement teams are two to five people. You will be in the client conversation, not receiving instructions from someone who was.

  • Learning budget that gets used

    An annual budget and dedicated days to spend it. The time is the part most companies leave out, and the reason most budgets go unspent.

  • Health, dental and vision

    Employer-contributed cover for employees and dependants, with an HSA option. Exact contributions are confirmed in the offer.

  • Retirement matching

    Employer match with immediate vesting. No cliff, because a vesting cliff is a retention mechanism rather than a benefit.

  • Genuinely flexible hours

    Evening teaching means unconventional schedules are normal here rather than tolerated. Remote and hybrid both fully supported.

Open roles

  • Senior Cloud Engineer

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Lead migration and platform engagements for enterprise clients, and teach one DevOps cohort a year. Both are part of the role, not an optional extra.

    • Dallas, TX · Hybrid
    • Full-time
    • Senior
    Apply
    What you would do
    • Lead cloud migration and platform engineering engagements end to end
    • Design landing zones, IaC modules and deployment pipelines
    • Teach one DevOps cohort per year and contribute to curriculum
    • Mentor engineers on client teams and internally
    What we are looking for
    • 6+ years infrastructure engineering, 3+ in a major cloud
    • Production Terraform and Kubernetes experience
    • Ability to explain a technical decision to a non-technical sponsor
    • Willingness to teach — we will help you get good at it

  • Data Engineer

    Data, AI & Analytics

    Build data platforms for clients across financial services, healthcare and manufacturing, with an emphasis on quality testing and lineage.

    • Remote (US)
    • Full-time
    • Mid to Senior
    Apply
    What you would do
    • Build batch and streaming pipelines with quality tests built in
    • Model warehouses and lakehouses for analytical use
    • Implement lineage, cataloguing and access control
    • Work directly with client analysts to agree metric definitions
    What we are looking for
    • 4+ years data engineering with strong SQL and Python
    • Production experience with dbt, Airflow or equivalent
    • Dimensional modelling and a view on when to break the rules
    • Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders

  • Technical Instructor — Java Full Stack

    Training

    Teach the Java full stack track and spend part of your time on client delivery. The delivery half is what keeps the teaching honest, so it is required.

    • Dallas, TX · Hybrid
    • Full-time
    • Senior
    Apply
    What you would do
    • Deliver live evening and weekend sessions to a cohort capped at 18
    • Review assignments with the depth of a professional code review
    • Keep curriculum current against what delivery work actually requires
    • Spend roughly 40% of your time on client engineering work
    What we are looking for
    • 7+ years building production Java systems
    • Spring Boot, JPA and modern testing practice
    • Demonstrated ability to explain hard things clearly
    • Patience with people learning something genuinely difficult

  • Placement Lead

    Training

    Own placement outcomes for two cohorts at a time — from résumé work through to signed offer, with no end date on the support.

    • Dallas, TX · Hybrid
    • Full-time
    • Mid
    Apply
    What you would do
    • Run résumé and profile sessions one to one
    • Conduct and debrief recorded mock interviews
    • Submit candidates into client requirements and manage the process
    • Report placement outcomes honestly, including the ones that stall
    What we are looking for
    • 3+ years in technical recruiting, placement or career coaching
    • Enough technical literacy to represent a candidate credibly
    • Willingness to give direct feedback candidates would rather not hear
    • Genuine care about outcomes past the point of the fee

  • Principal Consultant

    IT Consulting

    Lead assessment and advisory engagements for CIO-level clients. You will be in the scoping call and on the engagement — we do not separate those.

    • Dallas, TX or Remote (US)
    • Full-time
    • Principal
    Apply
    What you would do
    • Lead technology assessments, architecture reviews and roadmaps
    • Present findings to executive sponsors, including unwelcome ones
    • Shape delivery approach for follow-on engagements
    • Act as fractional technical leadership where clients need it
    What we are looking for
    • 10+ years engineering with time in an architecture or leadership role
    • Track record of shipping systems of the kind you would advise on
    • Written communication that an executive can act on without translation
    • Comfort recommending that a client does nothing, when that is right

Our hiring process

Five steps, roughly three weeks end to end. No unpaid work, no take-home longer than two hours, and an answer either way.

  1. Application review

    Read by an engineer on the relevant team, not filtered by keyword. You get an answer either way within a week.

  2. Introductory call

    Thirty minutes on what you have built and what you want next. Bring questions — this runs in both directions.

  3. Technical conversation

    Ninety minutes discussing your work and working through a realistic problem together. No whiteboard algorithms, no take-home longer than two hours.

  4. Team conversation

    Meet the people you would work with, including someone from a different practice. For teaching roles, this includes a short teaching sample.

  5. Offer

    Within three business days of the final conversation, with the salary band stated. We do not negotiate against other candidates.

Questions first

Not sure which of these applies to you

If you are considering a career change, start with an admissions conversation. If you are an experienced engineer looking at our own openings, apply directly — we read every application.

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