San Francisco
San Francisco: senior engineering for startups, at a distance from Bay Area costs
San Francisco and the Bay Area are the densest concentration of software companies and venture-backed startups in the world, alongside a major biotech cluster and a strong design culture. Engineering talent is abundant and extremely expensive. Many founders and small teams here look for senior engineering they can trust without a Bay Area salary, and a partner who writes code they would be happy to show an investor.
What Bay Area teams ask a remote partner for
Senior work, without the Bay Area price
The cost of hiring in San Francisco pushes small teams to delay features, skip internal tools and postpone the marketing site. A remote partner changes that arithmetic: engineering available on a project basis, without recruiting or equity.
We work the way Bay Area engineering teams expect: pull requests with clear descriptions, tests, documentation, and code reviews on your side. What we build is yours, and it is written so that your next engineer understands it.
Beyond software startups
- Biotech and life sciences. Secure portals, data entry tools and document pipelines for labs and companies that handle sensitive information.
- Design studios and agencies. Sites that honour a careful design to the pixel, and tools that track client work.
- Small businesses. Fast websites and simple tools for shops, clinics and services that cannot afford a local agency.
- Investors and accelerators. Portals and tools for applications, portfolio tracking and events.
Working across time zones
Your morning
Meetings and decisions are scheduled in your morning.
A written handover
Updates are written so you can pick the work up where it stands when your day starts.
Asynchronous by default
Written updates, recorded demos and pull requests you review when it suits you.
Remote, in practice
We work with San Francisco and the Bay Area remotely, with no office in California. Meetings happen on video calls in your morning, the rest of the collaboration is asynchronous and written, and the product is demonstrated as it is built.
Common questions
Can you work in our existing codebase and process?
Yes. We follow your conventions, submit pull requests for your review and ship in small increments, so the handover to your team is continuous rather than a single event.
Is the time difference workable?
Yes, with a short daily overlap for meetings and written communication for everything else. Many Bay Area teams already work this way with contractors abroad.
Let’s talk about your project
Tell us what you need in a few lines and we will reply directly.