Careers
We design, build, ship and operate our own products, and we build and grow products with partners. If you work the same way, introduce yourself.
Who fits here
Skill is made, not given, and it is made by hand. That belief has run under everything we have built since 2021.
We are an independent studio. We do not bill by the hour to fill a pipeline. We design, build, ship and operate our own products, and we build and grow products with partners on terms that pay out when the product does. We stay with what we build after launch.
The work is real and real people use it. Matryoshka carries live VPN traffic. Butobe holds real funds. Waterfy and Habitrex sit on home screens and get opened every day. Nothing here is a demo.
We are a small team, and everyone owns their work end to end, from the first sketch to the server that has to stay up while everyone sleeps. If that is the kind of ownership you want, you will fit here.
How we work
Own the whole thing
You carry a product from the first sketch to the running server, and you keep it up.
Build it, then operate it
The person who ships the code answers for it in production.
Precision over persuasion
Say what is true, name the protocol, give the real number, and let it stand.
Fewer things, done properly
A short list built with care beats a long list built halfway.
Trust before we ship
We would rather ship later than ship something we do not trust.
How hiring works
We do not keep a public list of open roles, and we will not invent one to look busy. We hire slowly, one person at a time, when the work calls for it. So the door opens the other way. Tell us what you build, show us something you have shipped, and if it lines up with where the forge is going, we will talk. If your discipline is not listed but you can see where it fits, say so.
Native apps
The apps behind Waterfy and Butobe, and the apps we build for partners. HealthKit, widgets, Apple Watch, iCloud sync and on-device key handling.
Backend and infrastructure
The servers that hold accounts, sync data and run the VPN estate. We set them up, operate them and keep them alive.
Network and VPN engineering
The systems behind Matryoshka. WireGuard, AmneziaWG, VLESS (Reality), Hysteria2, Shadowsocks and Outline, running on 10 Gbit/s servers with no logs.
Frontend
The web in front of the products, this site included. Hand-authored HTML and CSS, precise and fast.
Product design
How each product looks, reads and behaves. Restraint over decoration, specs over adjectives.
Growth and ASO
Store launches, App Store Optimization and product growth, for our own apps and for the partners we work with.
- Open roles
- None fixed. Applications always open.
- How to apply
- One email to partners@fotg.net
- What to send
- What you build, and something you shipped
Introduce yourself
One email. No form, no portal, no recruiter in the middle. Tell us what you build and point us to something you have shipped. We read every message and reply to the ones that fit.
- Applications
- partners@fotg.net