Work that compounds.
Our software shows up in the operating rooms of consequential institutions. The work is real and it lasts.
We are hiring people who want their work to matter.
Raven is a small team building software for institutions that carry weight. We are looking for engineers, analysts, designers, and operators who want to work on systems with real consequence — under your jurisdiction, with European discipline.
Why Raven
Discipline as default.
Provenance, auditability, and explainability are non-negotiables. We work to a standard most teams admire and few maintain.
Operator-grade autonomy.
Engineers ship in production from week one. Forward-deployed teammates are partners, not gatekeepers.
Long horizons.
We hire people who want to build something that endures. Our roadmap is measured in years, not quarters.
Life at Raven
How the work feels day-to-day.
Pace: ship-then-iterate.
Engineers ship to production in their first week. We make changes small, fast, and reversible — and we treat reverts as a normal part of the cadence, not a failure mode.
Discipline: every change reviewed.
Code review, design review, and security review apply to every change without exception. The bar is high because it has to be — what we ship runs in production at consequential institutions.
Travel: forward-deployed across Europe.
Forward-deployed engineers travel ~30% across Iberia, DACH, France, and the Benelux. Platform engineers visit customers a few times a year — close enough to feel the work, not enough to lose focus.
Culture: senior, low-ego, opinion-strong.
We hire experienced engineers and operators who can disagree well. Strong opinions, defended in writing, change-able when the evidence warrants. No politics.
Hiring process
Five steps. No tricks.
~3 weeks end-to-end.
We aim for a decision within three weeks of your first conversation. Faster if both sides know quickly.
- Step 01Apply
Application.
A short note about who you are and what you've built. CVs welcome but optional. We respond to every application within five business days.
- Step 02First call
30-minute conversation.
A first call with the hiring partner: who you are, what you're looking for, what we're hiring for. No tricks, no whiteboarding.
- Step 03Domain
Working session (60 min).
A real problem from your future team. We work through it together. We're trying to learn whether we'd enjoy working with you on hard things — and you with us.
- Step 04Team
Team round.
Three to four conversations with future colleagues, scheduled in a single day or split across two. One of them is always a candid conversation about what you'd want to be different about Raven.
- Step 05Refs + offer
References both ways.
We talk to your references. You talk to people we choose for you, plus anyone else you want. Then we write the offer.
Benefits
What you get for working here.
Competitive base + meaningful equity.
Top-of-band base salaries for European software companies. Material equity for senior hires. We share the cap table on offer.
30+ days paid time off.
Plus public holidays of your country. Plus sabbatical eligibility after four years.
Hybrid by default, remote-friendly across the EU.
Most teams operate hybrid out of Barcelona, with core hours overlapping the EU working day. Fully-remote roles are explicitly marked.
Annual offsite.
One full week, somewhere in Europe. Last one was in Mallorca. The next one is being argued about.
Health and wellness budget.
Country-appropriate health coverage plus a personal wellness budget for whatever keeps you well — gym, therapy, gear, books.
Learning budget.
An annual budget for conferences, courses, and books. We expect senior people to keep learning, and we pay for it.
Parental leave that respects parents.
Six months fully paid for primary carers, three months for secondary, regardless of legal minimums in your country.
Equipment and tools you choose.
Within reason: pick the laptop, pick the chair. We don't audit your setup.
From the team
The bar is high and the trust is higher. I shipped three meaningful things in my first month — every one reviewed seriously, none of them blocked by politics.
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