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Careers that compound. Because the people, the clients and the work all stay.

We're a senior, employee-owned commerce team. The architect who joined in 2014 is still on the brief in 2026, and so is the client. Careers here build on themselves, year on year, on systems that are still around to take credit for.

01 · Why people stay

The same team, on the same problem, for long enough to matter.

Most consultancies hire quickly, churn faster, and replace seniority with sales. We don't. We hire slowly, weight the team towards architects and principals, and run the company as an Employee Ownership Trust so the people doing the work share its long-term return.

The result is a quietly unusual place to spend a career: projects that compound for ten years, clients you get to know properly, and colleagues still around to take credit, or accountability, for the decisions they made in 2018.

11 yrs
Average engineer tenure
UK consultancy benchmark ~2.4 yrs
100%
Employee-owned
EOT structure since 2022
62
Engineering staff
Senior-weighted, 40+ engineers
9
Average client tenure
Top-10 accounts, in years
02 · How we work together

Six commitments. The same in year five as in week one.

Not values on a wall. The working rules that keep a 31-year-old consultancy a place senior people still actively want to work, and stay.

01
Senior, in-house, deliberately
No farming out to a partner network. The people on the brief are the people on the build. Every project has a named principal engineer and a named architect who stay with it end to end.
02
Three UK offices, by design
London, Bristol and Stafford. One country, one timezone, three rooms with their own character. We don't pretend distributed work is solved by Slack. We hire seniors who don't need real-time supervision, and we co-locate quarterly.
03
Calm under pressure
Most of our work is operationally critical: trading systems, ERP integrations, replatforms that can't pause trading. We hire for the kind of person who gets quieter when things get harder. There is no hero culture here.
04
Continuous learning, on the clock
Every engineer has a budget, time and a named accountability partner for learning. Platform certifications, conferences, technical writing, paid for and scheduled in, not pushed into evenings and weekends.
05
Simplicity over cleverness
The best system is the one the in-house team can maintain after we've gone. We optimise for the second year, not the launch week. Cleverness for its own sake is, quietly, embarrassing.
06
Expertise without ego
We hire for craft and disagreement, not certainty. Strong opinions, held loosely, written down. The architect on the call is not the only architect in the room.
03 · A year here

The rhythm of twelve months.

Most "what's it like to work here" pages are written by someone who doesn't work there. This one is written by people who do, and walks through the actual cadence, in order, month by month.

Jan - Feb
Annual planning
Project reviews with each client lead. Engineers shape the roadmap, not only the delivery scope. Personal learning plan for the year, set with your accountability partner.
Mar
Company week
Whole company on-site in Stafford, the founding office. Two days of project retros, two days of internal R&D, one day off. The only mandatory travel in the calendar.
Apr - Jun
Steady delivery
Most projects run a Q2 release cadence. A quiet, focused stretch. Two protected no-meeting weeks reserved for deep work, held firm.
Jul
Mid-year review
60-minute conversation with your principal. Written, not formal. Pay is reviewed annually against role band, by the principal who works with you, not by HR who don't.
Aug
Slow month
Reduced hours by default. Most of the team takes two weeks. Anyone on a critical project rotates cover, never the same person twice in a row.
Sep - Nov
Big shipping season
Replatforms, peak-trading hardening, AI pilots. The work that matters most happens here. Calm, no heroics. We staff to capacity, not to aspiration.
Dec
Close-out
One-on-one with the MD. Yes, every engineer. Yes, every year. Annual writing prize (£2k, voted by peers). Two weeks off, properly off.
04 · In their words

Three colleagues, unprompted.

01 · Head of Development
"I joined as a senior engineer in 2016. I'm still on the same client. The integration layer we built then now does £140m of trading a year. There aren't many places you get to watch one decision keep paying off for a decade."
Tom
Head of Development · 10 years
02 · AI Solutions Specialist
"It's the only place I've worked where 'no, you shouldn't do that' is an acceptable answer to a client. The day you stop being able to say it is the day the relationship is finished anyway."
Ricki
AI Solutions Specialist · 8 years
03 · Head of Operations
"Three offices in one country has worked because we hire seniors who don't need real-time supervision, and because we don't pretend distributed work is solved by Slack. Quarterly on-site is non-negotiable. The rest is async, in writing, and calm."
Bas
Head of Operations · 17 years
05 · Open roles · 11

Eleven open roles. All senior, all permanent.

We don't run a graduate scheme. Every role here is for someone with five years or more of practised craft, because we don't have juniors to learn beside, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Engineering

5 open roles

Design

2 open roles

Strategy

3 open roles

Delivery

1 open role
Nothing fits, but you think you'd belong here?
Speculative applications are read by a senior engineer or architect, not a recruiter. Brief is fine. Bring work.
Write to us
06 · How we hire

Four steps. Two weeks, end to end.

You won't be passed through a chain of recruiters, then a hiring panel, then a take-home you do unpaid on a Saturday. The person you talk to on day one is the person you'd be working with on day one.

01
Email
A senior in the discipline reads every application. Brief is fine. Bring writing or code if you have it. You'll get a reply within five working days, even if it's a no.
Five working days
02
A conversation
Not an interview. A conversation with the principal you'd actually work with. Run by that person, not by a recruiter. We talk about the work, recent and real.
60 minutes
03
A piece of work
A small, representative task. Paid at your day rate. We discuss it together on the call. No leetcode, no whiteboards, no take-home weekends.
Two hours, paid
04
A decision
A written offer with a named principal, a named pod and a written learning plan for year one. Or a written, specific no. Either way, you hear inside five working days.
Five working days
Accreditations & assurance
Gold Commerce Partner
Specialised in Commerce & AI
ISO certified
27001 · 9001 · 42001
Cyber Essentials Plus
Independently verified security
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility embedded by design
Employee-owned
The same team, long term
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