Python, tool design, retrieval and evaluation, with production experience rather than notebook experience.
TypeScript with Next.js or Laravel, comfortable owning a feature from schema through interface.
AWS, Terraform, pipelines and on-call, with a bias toward removing services rather than adding them.
Interfaces for dense operational tools, review queues and AI workflows, working directly in your process.
Short cycles, visible progress and a scope you can change. You see working software every week rather than a status report.
The repository, the infrastructure code and the documentation. In your accounts, under your licence, from the first commit.
We describe who is genuinely available and what they have shipped. If we do not have the right person we say so.
Your tools, your standups, your code review. Our engineer is a team member, not a ticket queue.
Progress lives in your tracker, and our lead handles quality, cover and escalation on our side.
Notice periods, documentation and handover so a rotation off is a non-event.
Typically three months, because anything shorter spends most of its value on onboarding.
India-based with several hours of daily overlap for US and EU teams, and written-first communication for the rest.
We will talk about it openly rather than block it. Good outcomes matter more than a clause.
We replace the engineer quickly and we do not bill for the ramp-up of the replacement.