Careers — Tessvik

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We hire slowly and keep people for a long time. Six roles are open across Vancouver, Porto and remote.

6 open roles · salaries listed

(02) — Why people stay

The small print, printed large.

Average tenure is 4.6 years. These are some of the reasons people give.

Four-day weeks in August

Every August the studio runs Monday to Thursday. Clients know; nothing ships on Fridays.

▸ Since 2019

Salaries on the job ad

Every role lists its range. Everyone at the same level earns the same.

▸ Reviewed every January

CA$3,000 learning budget

Courses, conferences, books. Spend it on anything that makes you better at the work.

▸ Per person, per year

Work from either studio

Spend a month in Porto or Vancouver each year. We cover the flight.

▸ 38 of 38 have used it

On-call that's fair

Paid on-call, one week in six at most, and the day after a page off.

▸ Median 0.4 pages a week

Parental leave, topped up

Six months at full salary for every parent, however they became one.

▸ On top of statutory leave

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(04) — How we hire

Four steps, about two weeks.

01 · 30 min

Intro call

A conversation with the lead you'd work with. Ask us anything, including salary.

02 · 4 hours

Paid take-home

A small, real problem. We pay CA$400 / €300 for your time, whatever the outcome.

03 · 90 min

Pairing session

Walk us through your take-home, then extend it together. No whiteboard puzzles.

04 · 60 min

Meet the team

Coffee (or video) with the people you'd ship with. Decision within three working days.

(05) — Team

Who you'd work with.

38 people in Vancouver and Porto. Every project gets a named team that stays from the first sprint to the on-call rota.

Maren SolvikVancouver

Co-founder · Engineering▸ Now: Ledgerline 3.0 sync engine

Duarte LealPorto

Co-founder · Product▸ Now: Harbrook waitlist flow

Ines VargaPorto

Staff engineer · Platform▸ Now: Orbitra ARM migration

Laptop with a colourful wallpaper on a stone desk

Theo AchterbergVancouver

Design lead▸ Now: Mapleform dark-mode tokens

Priya RamanVancouver

ML engineer▸ Now: Quillmate eval suite

Laptop showing code on a desk by a plant

Kofi MensahPorto

iOS engineer▸ Now: Tidewell offline tickets

Aiko Brandt

Frontend

Beatriz Couto

QA lead

Cal Whitaker

Backend

Dara Quinn

Delivery

Emil Sørbye

SRE

Farah Idris

Product design

Gus Moreau

Android

Hana Koval

Data

Isak Lund

Backend

Joana Reis

Frontend

Kai Tanaka

Security

Lena Obi

Research

Marc Duval

DevOps

Noor Haddad

ML

Olek Wisniewski

Frontend

Paula Serra

Delivery

Rui Matos

Backend

Sade Adeyemi

Design

Tomas Hel

Platform

Uma Patel

iOS