Senior engineers. Every seat.
Not juniors being supervised. Not contractors hired by the week. Not offshore capacity disguised as local. Every engineer at Empyreal has 5+ years of production experience. Every team has at least one 10+ year veteran. Founder sits on every project review. That is how we stay sharp.
12 engineers. 6 specialties. Average tenure 9.5 years. We hire for production judgment, not resume length.
Why seniority first.
Early in a codebase, a junior makes fast progress. They build features. They hit velocity targets. Then the design debt compounds. Performance stumbles. Scale hits a wall. By year two, the cost of that 'fast' ramp-up is paid in refactors, rewrites, and departed customers.
Senior engineers see the wall coming. They slow down to think. They over-engineer boring scaffolding. They seem slower at first because they are planning for the second act.
We hire for the second act. Your product's first 10,000 users are not your real test. Your product at 100,000 users is.
Architecture over features
We spend week one on system design. Most teams start building week one. We are slower at first.
Depth over breadth
Each engineer owns a system end-to-end. Not rotating through tasks. Not learning during production incident.
No bench pressure
When someone is between projects, they write tools and improve the foundation. We do not pump them onto live work to boost billable hours.
12 engineers. 6 specialties. Every project gets 3–4 heads and at least one 10+ year veteran.
Priya Chakraborty
React, Node.js, PostgreSQL. Led platform scaling at Series C fintech. Owns database architecture at Empyreal.
Rohan Desai
Go, Python, distributed systems. Ex-Stripe infrastructure. Empyreal's performance audit lead.
Sofia Reyes
TypeScript, accessibility, design systems. Built component libraries at scale. Now owns UI architecture.
Marcus Chen
Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS. Ex-Uber infrastructure. Runs Empyreal's deployment and monitoring.
Jessica Larson
React, Rails, mobile. Founded and sold SaaS product. Now leads greenfield architecture projects.
Akshay Patel
Python, LLMs, embeddings. Ex-OpenAI. Leads AI integration and model optimization work.
Elena Kowalski
Test automation, performance testing, chaos engineering. Owns code review and QA standards.
Vikram Rao
Java, microservices, database optimization. Ex-LinkedIn. Leads infrastructure modernization.
Claire Beaumont
Vue, state management, animation. Built interactive tools at scale. Now heads UX implementation.
Dmitri Sokolov
Python, Node.js, rapid prototyping. Ex-early-stage startup. Leads 48-hour audit projects.
Yuki Tanaka
React Native, Swift, Kotlin. Built apps to 1M+ users. Owns cross-platform architecture.
Amara Osei
TypeScript, GraphQL, real-time systems. Ex-fintech. Leads complex data flow and API design.
We hire for production judgment, not credentials.
We do not optimize for resume length or university prestige. We optimize for production judgment. That is harder to screen. It takes longer. It is worth it. Every engineer at Empyreal has shipped production code that survived contact with real users. Most have led architecture decisions. All have owned their mistakes in production and learned.
5+ years of production experience
Minimum floor. Non-negotiable.
Shipped at meaningful scale
100K+ users or high-throughput. Real production.
Articulate architectural choices
Decisions and consequences, in plain language.
Deep in one area
Data, UI, infrastructure, performance, or real-time systems.
Can explain what they'd change
Past decisions, with hindsight, in their own words.
Product thinking, not resume-padding
consistently interested in how products work.
We are not building for headcount. We are building for staying sharp.
That means small, honest teams. Turning down work that does not fit. Paying fairly. Real ownership. If that sounds like a place you want to work, come talk to us.
careers@empyrealinfotech.com