We're hiring engineers who want to help build Jakib and ship software that runs inside real businesses.
The era of generic vertical SaaS is closing. AI is dissolving what used to be defensible. The good engineering work has moved inside the businesses that actually run the economy, alongside the operators running them.
That's where we work. A model in a demo is easy. A model that holds up inside a business with thirty years of legacy systems and real customers on the line is the actual frontier of applied AI. Our team has spent the last three years there: debugging production systems, sitting with customers, shipping the boring software that makes the difference.
We use AI where it's a superpower. We use Python and SQL where they're the right tool. Rather than jamming AI into our engineering culture, we're building a culture that knows when to reach for which.
You build, and you own it. You identify the problem, decide what to build, write the software, and stay close to the client you're building it for. That's more range than most engineering jobs, and more responsibility. You are not a cog handed a ticket.
Every engagement is a different business. Logistics one quarter, manufacturing the next. And nobody here tracks your billable hours. We don't manufacture artifacts to look busy; we ship things that move a real number in a real business.
[ ship over perfect · evidence over ambition · customer over roadmap ]
We work hard. We're not going to pretend otherwise, and if hard is a dealbreaker this isn't the place. But there's a specific way we mean it. Hard when it matters: a deadline, a launch, a client on fire. A real step back when it doesn't.
The pace is individual. What we don't do is 996, or all-nighters as a badge, or measuring people in hours logged and tokens burned. None of that is the work. It's a performance about the work.
Jakib is built to be a long term home for builders.
The best reason to work here is the people you sit next to. We hire against a specific standard, and we hold it whether we're hiring a friend or a stranger. The person beside you is a self-directed adult who finds a way through hard problems, tells you the truth, and genuinely loves the work.
The bar is the same for everyone. The paths to it aren't. Founders, CTOs, big-company veterans, people on their second act and people early in their first. The common thread is the standard, not the résumé, which means the person you're learning from knows something you don't.
No passengers, no assholes.
We don't post job descriptions. We hire when someone shows up that we want to build with. Send us your name, your LinkedIn, and a few sentences about something you've built, ideally something you shipped that nobody asked you to.
We don't run a CRM. Your note goes to a single inbox we read every morning.