We are not hiring right now. The door is still open.

How we work

Principles, not slogans.

• Ship something true, not something loud.

  We publish what we can defend with public sources, then make it useful. Marketing claims have to match what the product actually does.

• Small team, full ownership.

  Everyone here owns a vertical end-to-end — backend pipeline, frontend surface, customer conversation, runbook. No throw-it-over-the-wall.

• Boring stack, sharp instincts.

  Python + asyncio + Postgres + Next.js. Nothing exotic. We optimise for owner-operator readability over framework novelty.

• Customer-paid before VC-paid.

  We charge real money for real work and let customer revenue dictate the roadmap.

• Operate in public.

  Public changelog, public roadmap, public security policy, public status. The same document customers see is the document we work from.

What we look for

When the door opens, this is the signal.

• You have shipped something that real strangers paid for — open-source or commercial — and can talk about the trade-offs you made.
• You write code that another operator can read at 3 a.m. during an incident without needing you online.
• You have a strong opinion about either (a) scraping resilience at scale or (b) frontend information density, and you can defend it.
• You can hold a one-hour technical conversation in writing without burying the point.
• You are comfortable working asynchronously across timezones, with deep-work blocks and minimal meetings.

Role archetypes

The roles we expect to open first.

These are not active requisitions — we are not hiring today. They are the role archetypes the team has agreed map to the next stages of the company. Cold inbound that maps clearly onto one of these gets faster signal back from us.

How to reach out

Skip the resume.

• Email careers@pulsesignal.co with the subject line "Cold inbound · <your-name>". One paragraph on what you want to build and one link to the most interesting thing you have shipped.
• No resumes required. We will read a GitHub profile, a long-form essay, a take-home you already wrote, or a product you sell — whichever shows the most signal.
• We respond to every cold inbound within 7 days, even if the answer is "not right now". A polite no is still a reply.
• If we are interested we move to a paid, scoped take-home (8 hours, paid at market rate) before any structured interview loop.

Interview process

Five stages, ≤14 calendar days end-to-end.

Every stage tells you why it exists. We share the rubric we are scoring against before you walk into it. If we miss an SLA we send you a status update with the new ETA before the deadline lapses.

1. 1

   Stage 1 · Written intro (async, 24h ack)

   You email careers@pulsesignal.co. We acknowledge within 24 hours and reply with a substantive yes/no/maybe within 7 calendar days. A polite no is still a reply.

   Candidate time: ~30 minutes (one email)

2. 2

   Stage 2 · 30-minute video conversation

   A working session — not a behavioural interview. You walk us through a problem you have solved and we talk trade-offs. We tell you what we are working on now and where the work would fit.

   Candidate time: 30 minutes

3. 3

   Stage 3 · Paid scoped take-home

   An 8-hour, real-shape problem from the surface you would own. Paid at market rate ($150/hr) regardless of outcome. You own the IP; we own a single read-only review pass. Submission window is 7 days so you can fit it around your existing job.

   Candidate time: ~8 hours over 7 days

4. 4

   Stage 4 · Take-home review + system-design conversation

   90 minutes. First half: we walk through your submission together and you defend the trade-offs. Second half: a system-design conversation grounded in something adjacent to what you would build here.

   Candidate time: 90 minutes

5. 5

   Stage 5 · References + offer

   Two reference conversations (someone who has shipped code with you + someone you have managed or been managed by). Written offer within 5 business days of references clearing. Two-week consideration window, no exploding offers.

   Candidate time: ~1 hour (you make the intros; we do the calls)

Our commitments to candidates.

• Total time from first email to offer is ≤14 calendar days. We do not slow-roll candidates.
• Every stage tells you why it exists. If you ever do not know why we are running a particular step, ask — we owe you a clear answer.
• No trick questions, no whiteboard algorithms in front of an interviewer, no "tell me about a time" behavioural rounds. We optimise for "would this person ship what they say they will ship?".
• We share scorecard rubrics with you before each stage. The same rubric you saw is the rubric we score against.
• Anti-ghosting commitment: if any stage exceeds its SLA, we send you a status update with the new ETA before the deadline lapses.

Equal opportunity

We hire on demonstrated work.

PulseSignal does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire on demonstrated work, written reasoning, and ability to operate with autonomy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, email careers@pulsesignal.co and we will work with you.