Full-stack engineer
TypeScript, Next.js, Node, Postgres and Supabase. You have shipped and operated production applications and can show them.
Small core. Senior bench.
We keep the studio deliberately small and grow through a bench of senior specialists we bring onto engagements as the work requires. There are no open-ended job postings. If you ship production work in one of the disciplines below, we would like to know you before we need you.
Who we bring onto engagements.
Contract, per engagement, in Pacific time. Southern California is a plus for client-facing work but not a requirement.
AI engineer
LLM applications in production: retrieval, tool use, evaluation, cost and latency control. You know when a model is the wrong tool.
Product designer
Editorial web and commerce design that engineers can build. Systems thinking, motion with restraint, accessibility as a default.
Commerce engineer
Shopify (Liquid, Hydrogen) and headless storefronts, Klaviyo and Stripe integrations, catalog and inventory operations.
Growth specialist
Technical SEO, local search and CRO with an engineering mindset: fixes that land in the codebase and get measured in Search Console.
Infrastructure & security
DNS, email deliverability, Cloudflare, security headers, monitoring, and migrations executed without downtime.
How it works
Introduce yourself with shipped work.
We do not run a formal application. Send an email with links to two or three things you built that are live, a sentence on what you did on each, and your availability. If there is a fit, we set up a short conversation and keep you in mind for the next engagement in your discipline.
Subject line: Bench: [your discipline]
- Fixed-scope, clearly briefed workEvery engagement has a written brief, a defined finish line and one accountable lead. You know what done means before you start.
- Written-first collaborationDecisions in Slack and docs, few meetings, async across Pacific hours.
- Real constraintsUptime, compliance and customers who notice. The work is production, never a prototype that stays a prototype.
- Credit and portfolio rightsWhere clients allow it, you can show the work you did.