Remote-first, overlap-light
Two core hours with your team, the rest is yours. We hire across US and EU time zones and write things down.
Company
Build infrastructure people forget about.
The best thing anyone says about Vantafold is that they stopped noticing it. If that sounds like a compliment to you, we should talk.
How we actually work.
We are a small team running infrastructure that other teams depend on at three in the morning. That shapes everything: we favour written decisions over meetings, boring technology over novel technology, and reversible changes over clever ones.
Nobody is on call alone, and nobody is on call for a system they did not help build. Every incident gets a written review, and the review is about the system rather than the person who pushed the button.
Our interview process is four conversations and a paid work sample that resembles the job. No whiteboard puzzles, no take-home that eats your weekend, and a decision within a week of the last conversation.
The hiring process
- Intro call, 30 minutes. What you have built, what you want next, and what the role actually is.
- Technical conversation, 60 minutes. A real problem from our backlog, discussed the way we would discuss it internally.
- Paid work sample. Four to six hours, scheduled to suit you, compensated at a senior contractor rate.
- Team conversations, 2 × 45 minutes. People you would work with weekly, plus time for your questions.
- Offer within five working days of the last conversation, with the compensation band stated up front.
What we offer.
Time that is actually off
Unlimited leave with a four-week minimum that your manager is measured on, plus a company-wide week off in August.
Real equipment budget
Whatever you need to work well, refreshed on a schedule, plus a home-office allowance that does not require a receipt safari.
Learning budget
An annual budget for courses, conferences, and books, and one paid conference talk or paper per year if you want it.
Health and family
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision cover, plus 18 weeks of parental leave for every parent.
Open by default
Our SDKs and much of our tooling are public. Contributions you make on our time stay yours to point at.
Ten roles, three teams.
Do not see a fit? Write to us anyway — we open roles when the right person appears more often than on a schedule.
Engineering
Security and Infrastructure
Go to market
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No role that fits?
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