We are eleven people. The product is used by people who are counting on it to work on a day they will not be able to complain about, which shapes how we hire more than anything else.
Own the scheduler that decides when a window has closed and which rung fires next. Distributed systems work where the correctness bar is uncomfortably high and the traffic is not.
The check-in has to work in four seconds on a five-year-old handset with one bar of signal. That constraint is most of the job.
Our hardest tickets are the ones we cannot fix — lost passphrases, bereaved recipients, people asking us to release a vault early. Judgement matters more than volume.
Mail careers@lifevault.example with the role in the subject line. Tell us about something you built that had to be right rather than fast, and what you would have done differently.
We reply to everyone. The process is a screening call, a paid take-home you keep the rights to, and two conversations — no whiteboard algorithms, and nothing that requires a weekend.