Small team. Real ownership. Mentoring on the clock.
We hire for judgement, communication and evidence of learning in public — not for the logo on your résumé, the name of your university, or where in the world you happen to live.
Open roles.
Senior and above, part time, open worldwide. A small pod only works if everyone in it can be trusted alone with a client from the first week, so communication is the first thing we assess — then depth. Bands are published up front, and we don’t ask what you currently earn.
- Communication — assessed first
- English that reads and sounds native, written and spoken. You will run client workshops, write the documentation their team inherits, and push back on a scope while the call is still happening. We judge this in the intro call and on the written work sample — never from where you learned it.
- Experience
- 10+ years building and shipping production software — enough history that you can walk through the decisions you got wrong as well as the ones you got right.
- Where you are
- Anywhere in the world. We are distributed and hire on demonstrated ability, not location — no relocation, no sponsorship, no preferred passport. The only constraint is enough daily overlap with US hours to pair, review and join a client call the same day.
Nothing fits but you think we should talk? jobs@nexa.courses. We read every message.
The parts that aren’t in the salary line.
Genuinely flexible hours
Core overlap of four hours, the rest is yours. We measure shipped work, not presence.
Learning budget, unconditional
$3,000 a year and five days off for conferences, courses or a book habit. No approval theatre.
Mentoring time is paid time
Four hours a week ring-fenced for mentoring, and it counts toward your delivery expectations.
Health, dental and vision
Fully covered for you, 80% for dependants, from your first day rather than after ninety of them.
Real equity
Every full-time employee holds equity, with a ten-year exercise window so leaving is never a penalty.
Four-day sprints, five-day weeks
Fridays are for demos, review and learning. No client work is scheduled into them.
Four steps, about two weeks.
No unpaid take-homes, no algorithm trivia, and a decision within three working days of the final conversation.
- 01
Intro call — 30 min
A conversation with someone you would actually work with, about what you want next.
- 02
Paid work sample — 3 hrs
A realistic slice of our work, done on your own schedule, paid at contractor rate.
- 03
Pairing session — 90 min
We extend your work sample together. No whiteboard algorithms, no trick questions.
- 04
Team conversation & offer
Meet the wider team, ask us anything, and get a decision within three working days.
We are an equal opportunity employer. If any part of this process would be difficult for you for any reason, tell us at the intro call and we will adapt it — that request has never counted against a candidate and never will.
No role that fits?
Tell us what you’d want to build here.
We have created roles for the right people before. If you can show us how you learn and what you have shipped, we would rather hear from you than not.
Or email hello@nexa.com · Austin, Texas · United States