Saturn
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Build Saturn with us.

Small team. Weekly ships. Public release notes. The product is the portfolio.

What we're building

Saturn ships web products. You describe the thing; Saturn writes the spec, ships the code, and runs the operations layer after deploy — customers, errors, payments, email, env. The challenge is taste: making the surface feel less like a tool and more like a thoughtful collaborator.

We ship every week. The release notes are public. The brand is locked. The infra is small, fast, and observable. We're a long way from finished — most of what we'll build hasn't been written yet.

What we look for

Five qualities, in order:

  • Taste. The instinct to remove a layer when something feels clever instead of good. The ability to read Linear, Vercel, and Anthropic surfaces as design references rather than just products.
  • Velocity. Ships small things often, not big things rarely. Comfortable with autopilot writing the first draft and a human polishing the last 10%.
  • Specificity. Every claim has a number or a name. "Saturn shipped 14 projects to live URLs this week" beats "Saturn helps you ship faster."
  • Restraint. Knows when not to add a feature, not to refactor, not to abstract. Three similar lines is better than a premature abstraction.
  • Voice. Writes the way the brand reads — confident, sparse, specific. No empty hype words, no exclamation points.

Open roles

We're not actively hiring as of the date below. Saturn has shipped to launch with a tight team and we want to see usage data before we add seats. When we do open roles, they'll be listed on this page and announced in the changelog.

If you'd be a clear fit even before we open a role — a designer with Linear-tier UI work, an engineer who has shipped autopilot systems in production, a writer who works in the Anthropic / Stripe register — write us. We keep a short list of people we'd reach out to first.

How we hire

Three steps, in this order:

  • Intro call. 30 minutes. We talk about what you've shipped, what you'd want to ship at Saturn, and what you'd want to know about us. No coding, no whiteboard.
  • Paid trial. One paid week, 10–20 hours, on a real project. We pay $250/hour for the trial and $500 for the writeup at the end. You ship something useful or kill the idea — both are fine outcomes.
  • Reference call. We talk to two people you've shipped with. Reference quality is the strongest predictor we've found.

How we work

Async-default. Most coordination happens in writing. Synchronous time is reserved for the things that genuinely need it (calibration, design crit, post-mortems). Don't expect Slack to be the work — the work is in the repo, in the changelog, in the surfaces that ship.

Remote-first. We're distributed across timezones. We don't track hours. We track shipped surfaces and the quality of what shipped. Living near a Saturn engineer is a coincidence, not a perk.

We don't run perks-as-recruitment. No catered lunches, no on-site climbing wall, no 'we're like a family.' The compensation is the compensation; the work is the perk.

Compensation

Salary is benchmarked against the upper quartile of the role's market rate (Levels.fyi for engineering, Pave for design, Built In for product). Equity is meaningful — we publish the option pool and the strike price as part of every offer.

Health, dental, and vision are covered. We don't run a 401(k) match yet — the math says it's better to convert that line item into salary at our stage. We'll revisit when headcount justifies the program.

PTO is unlimited and we mean it. Our most prolific shippers take three weeks off a year. The implicit contract: take what you need, don't burn out, don't game the system.

Where to write

Open application: careers@saturnos.app. Tell us what you've shipped, link to two surfaces you're proud of, and one sentence on why Saturn specifically. We read every email and reply within two weeks.

If you're a candidate Saturn is already actively recruiting, ignore the above and reply to the recruiter who reached out.

Send your work.

careers@saturnos.app. Two surfaces, one sentence on Saturn. We read everything.