CAREERS
We are looking for people who like to build
We do not always have an opening. But we read every CV that reaches us, and we remember the people who stayed with us.
We do not post adverts listing ten mandatory technologies. We would rather see how you think through a problem, and whether you care about the person who will use what you build.
What matters to us
01
Curiosity, ahead of experience
How you arrive at a solution interests us more than the number of years on your CV. Technologies can be learned; the way you think, less easily.
02
Care for whoever uses it
A good piece of software is not the one that impresses other programmers. It is the one someone opens in the morning without swearing.
03
Being able to explain simply
We work with people who are not technical. Anyone who can explain something complicated in plain words helps us enormously.
04
Honesty when something goes wrong
We would rather have someone who says “I do not know, but I will find out” than someone who hides a problem until it gets expensive.
Who we especially want to hear from
Codebreaker is a social enterprise and we have committed to creating jobs mainly for people in vulnerable situations. If you are starting out, changing career, living with a disability, long-term unemployed or from a disadvantaged background — tell us. Here that is not a disadvantage in the conversation, quite the opposite.
We recruit on ability and potential, without regard to age, gender, ethnicity or social status.
STEP BY STEP
How to apply
01
Send us an email
Attach your CV. It does not need to be designed — it needs to make clear what you have done so far.
02
Write us a few lines
Not a formal cover letter. Tell us what made you write, and if you have one, show us something you built: a personal project, some code you are proud of, anything.
03
We reply
Within two weeks, whether we take it further or not. A clear no is more useful than silence.
04
We talk
A conversation, not an interrogation. We want to understand how you work, and you get to find out what the job actually involves.
05
A real problem
If we go further, we work through an actual case from our own work, not textbook questions out of context.
What we do not ask of you
- To know every technology on a list. We do not know them all either.
- To work for free to “prove” something. Real work gets paid.
- A degree, before we take you seriously. What you can do is what counts.
- To pretend you know something you do not. We find out anyway, and it goes worse.
Send us your CV
Even if you do not see an opening. We look at all of them and come back when something fits.