Careers

Small on purpose.

We would rather add one person who raises the standard than five who keep it where it is.

What we are building

Xallar began as an alarm that does not give up and became a full set of tools for running a serious day — tasks, money, routines, notes, meetings, habits. Every element sits in one app, under one design language, built for people who have to actually execute rather than feel organised.

It is a real product on real phones, not a prototype. That makes the work unglamorous in the right ways: a divider that lands a pixel off, a dialog that loses what you typed, a number that reads a day early because of a time zone. Those are the things that decide whether people trust software, and they are most of the job.

How we work

Small scope, shipped. Work goes out in pieces that are genuinely finished, not in large pieces that are nearly done. Something half-built is worth nothing until the last part lands.

One way to do each thing. If a pattern already exists in the product, you use it. Second versions of solved problems are how software quietly becomes inconsistent, and inconsistency is the thing people feel without being able to name.

Nothing is done until it is verified. Not “it should work” — checked, on the device, in the state a real person will be in. If a check fails, that gets said out loud.

Say the hard part first. If something is broken, late, or turned out worse than expected, it goes at the top of the message, not buried at the bottom.

What we look for

You finish things: Most people can start. The rare thing is carrying something all the way to the state where a stranger can use it without being told anything. That last ten percent is the job.
You have taste, and you can defend it: A great many small decisions about how things look and feel add up to whether the app reads as serious. Having an opinion is the baseline. Being able to say why — and change your mind when someone says why better — is the actual skill.
You measure before you guess: When something is wrong, the fastest route is almost never the first idea. It is finding out what is actually happening. One person who reaches for evidence is worth several who reach for a fix.
You write clearly: Everything here gets written down — what changed, why, and what it cost. If you can explain a hard thing in plain language to someone who is not in it with you, you will do well here.

Open roles

None posted right now. That is not a formality — when there is a role it will be written here, with what it pays and what it involves, and not before.

If you are the person described above, write anyway. We would rather know who you are before we need you than run a search afterwards.

How to reach us

Email careers@xallar.com. Tell us what you have built and point us at it — something we can open and use is worth more than a CV. If it is a thing you finished, say what the hardest part was and how you got through it.

We read everything, and reply to the people we want to talk to. If you do not hear back, it is not a verdict on your work.