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Chanova Labs

Careers

Build software that ships and then keeps running

We are a small engineering team operating eight production products. If you want scope, ownership, and the discomfort of being on call for your own code, this is a good place to work.

Open roles

What we are hiring for

No open roles right now

We are not running an active search at the moment, and we would rather say that than keep an evergreen listing open. We still read speculative applications, and we keep good ones on file — if you have shipped something you are proud of, send it.

The work

What it is actually like

You own things end to end

The person who writes the feature deploys it, watches it, and answers for it. There is no separate ops team to hand it to.

Small team, real leverage

Eight products with a team this size only works because we invest hard in shared infrastructure. Improving that layer is the highest-value work here.

Breadth is the point

In one quarter you might touch genomics tooling, a music generation pipeline, and a multi-tenant workspace. It is not a monoculture.

Written over verbal

Decisions get written down. It is how a small team stays coherent across eight codebases without living in meetings.

Hiring process

Short, and mostly about real work

No whiteboard algorithms. We look at what you have built and then build something small together.

  1. 01

    Send your work

    A repo, a shipped product, a write-up. Whatever best shows how you think.

  2. 02

    Conversation

    45 minutes on what you have built and what you want to own next.

  3. 03

    Paid work sample

    A small, scoped, paid piece of real work on a real codebase.

  4. 04

    Decision

    A yes or a no within a week, with reasons either way.

What we look for

Signals that matter to us

  • You have shipped something people actually use
  • You can explain a tradeoff you got wrong and what it cost
  • You write clearly — decisions, docs, and commit messages
  • You are comfortable owning a system in production
  • You would rather delete code than add an abstraction

No listing that fits? Write anyway.

We hire when we meet the right person, not only when a requisition is open. Tell us what you would want to own here.