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Our platform gives teams private artifact registries and policy enforcement, so they can trust what goes into their software supply chain. Our open source tooling is already in developers’ hands, and we’re working closely with design partners on what comes next.\nWe’re a small, remote team, growing deliberately. \nWe build our product in Rust for the guarantees it gives us: memory safety and a strict type system by default, and formal verification where security matters most. We define the quality metrics, the compiler and proofs provide the evidence.\nOur infrastructure runs on GCP and Cloudflare. There is never a perfect tool for every job; expect the languages and platforms you work with here to grow as we build.\nIf you’re energized by learning new skills, working across boundaries, owning problems end-to-end, and helping shape how a team builds software in the agentic era, keep reading.\nThe role\nYou won’t just write code. You’ll own outcomes end to end: take an epic from proposal to the customer, prototype ideas and show their value, and help shape the architecture they fit into. You’ll work directly with leadership, ship features that customers use immediately, and have a real voice in technical and product decisions. Much of your leverage will come from directing agents well: breaking problems down, setting technical direction, and holding the quality bar on everything that gets merged.\nWhile this is a technical role on a team with deep technical expertise, we expect great engineers to show the same qualities as great leaders. Those who bring passion, curiosity, helpfulness and humility are best equipped to succeed. \nWhat you'll do\nBuild and maintain features across our CLI, backend, and frontend, with AI coding agents as a core part of your workflow\nTake ownership of projects from idea through deployment and beyond\nMake architecture and design decisions that keep a fast-moving, increasingly generated codebase coherent, maintainable, and secure\nReview, test, and take full responsibility for the code you ship, whether you wrote it or an agent did\nCollaborate closely with teammates including product management, sharing context, asking questions, and giving thoughtful feedback\nOperationalise quality. If you know what good looks like, build a deterministic check for it and run it on everything we produce, rather than hand-tweaking each change. \nUse Minimal to build Minimal. Find the rough edges in your daily work and fix them\nTell people before a change lands, not after, and write a proposal when your work affects other systems or teammates\nTake your turn running the weekly release\nContribute to a culture where people feel supported, heard, and excited about the work\nWhat we're looking for\nA genuine enthusiasm for AI-accelerated development. You already build with coding agents day to day, and you’re excited (not just comfortable) working with generated code at scale\nSharp judgment about code you didn’t type yourself. You can read, trace and judge code even when it’s obscure, catch subtle correctness and security issues, and know when to throw agent output away and redirect\nYou interrogate a spec: spot early when it’s incomplete, and ask the questions that simplify it, not just clarify it\nExperience managing code at scale with strong habits around testing, CI, code review, and keeping architecture clean as the volume and pace of change increase\nStrong programming fundamentals and professional systems-level experience, ideally in Rust. 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Our technical interviews are designed for you to use coding agents the way you would on the job, and we’ll be paying attention to how you direct them, how you evaluate what they produce, and the decisions you make along the way, not whether you can write code from memory.\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive base compensation \nEquity stake in the company \nHealth, dental, vision and life insurance plans\nRetirement plans with employer matching \nRemote-first work environment\nUp to 5 weeks of PTO\nOpportunities to travel and work with your team in person \nPay range\nSee our approximate salary range below that represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on a multitude of non-discriminatory factors including final role leveling decisions, a candidate’s relevant work experiences/skills, and geographic location. Salary is one component of our total compensation package.\n$170,000 - $220,000 CAD \nCandidate location \nWe are open to candidates who are authorized to work in Canada or the USA for this role. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship.\nEqual opportunity \nMinimal is an equal opportunity employer. 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