Currently not hiring
We're a small team and we don't have open roles right now. No "we're always looking for great people" copy here — if we're not actively hiring, we're not actively hiring.
If that changes, this page will change with it. No mailing list, no "talent community", no recruiter follow-up sequences.
How we think about hiring
When we do hire, this is the shape of it:
- Small, focused team. We'd rather stay under twenty people for as long as we can. Most CRM companies get worse after fifty. We've watched it happen.
- Async-first. We use writing more than meetings. If you need to be in a Slack huddle to do your job, this is probably not the right place.
- Paid trial weeks instead of whiteboards. We pay candidates for a week of real work on a real problem. You see how we operate, we see how you operate, and nobody pretends a hash map question predicts anything about the job.
- No leetcode, no take-homes that take a week. The trial week is the take-home. You get paid for it.
- Hire for taste and judgement, not keywords. We don't care which framework you used at your last job. We care whether you can tell when something is shipping in a bad state and stop it.
- Reference checks matter more than interviews. We'll talk to people you've worked with. That conversation tells us more than four rounds of panel interviews ever will.
Roles we'd consider for the right person
We're not currently hiring, but the shapes of roles we'd open first when we do:
- Backend engineer — Rails or Django background. Comfortable in Postgres, opinionated about migrations, allergic to magic.
- Frontend engineer — Hand-written CSS, semantic HTML, considered JavaScript. If your first instinct is to reach for a framework before reading the requirements, we're probably not aligned.
- Designer-engineer hybrid — Can take a vague problem to a shipped interface without a thirty-step Figma handoff. Rare, valuable, please write to us anyway.
- Growth or content writer — Specific, honest, allergic to hype. You'd be writing the kind of posts that already live on our blog.
How to reach out
Email careers@tonicdesk.com. One paragraph about what you'd want to work on and a link to something you've made or written is plenty. No cover letter needed.
We won't reply quickly, but we read everything. If we open a role in the next twelve months that matches what you sent us, we'll come back to your email before we post it anywhere.