Growing here

Who we hire

This is the bar you were held to. It's now the bar you hold others to.

Attitude over credentials

We've hired from everywhere and grown people up. What you can learn matters more than where you studied.

Learning speed

The tools change constantly. We hire people who teach themselves — and who are fluent with AI.

Ownership instinct

People who finish things. Who see a problem and fix it before anyone asks.

Clear communicators

People who can explain their work simply — to a teammate, and to a client who isn't technical.

Every single person who joins CodeNicely meets a founder before they're hired. Not to check their code — to check that they'll fit here, and that here will fit them.

How you grow

No secret. No politics. Four things earn you more responsibility, more trust, and more money.

• You deliver what you committed. Consistently. On time. At quality. Reliability compounds faster than brilliance.
• You make other people better. Mentoring juniors. Unblocking teammates. This is what turns a good engineer into a lead.
• You earn client trust. The client asks for you by name. There is no stronger signal in this company — and no faking it.
• You take on more before anyone gives it to you. Nobody is handed leadership here. You grow into it by behaving like a leader while you're still not one.

You are spending the most valuable years of your career with us, and we know it. Our job is to make sure that whenever you leave, you leave worth far more than when you walked in.

Your first week

You'll get a buddy

One person whose actual job is to make sure you're okay. There is no such thing as a stupid question to ask them, and no limit on how many.

You'll get your kit

A diary, a CodeNicely bottle, and everything you need to actually do the job on day one.

A standup on day one

You won't understand most of it. That's completely normal. Let it wash over you for a week.

You'll meet a founder

You already did, in your interview. You'll keep meeting them. You can walk up to the CEO and disagree with him.

One ask, for your first month: tell us what looks broken. You will never again see this place with fresh eyes. The things that puzzle you now are almost certainly things the rest of us have stopped noticing.

How we celebrate

We celebrate festivals as a team, to celebrate difference. These are the days we actually keep.

• Women's Day — 8th March. One of the days this office is at its best.
• Holi — together, and messily.
• Independence Day — 15th August.
• Our birthday — 31st August. The company was formed in 2017.
• Diwali — the big one.
• Men's Day — 19th November.
• Secret Santa — December. Take it seriously.
• Sports Day — where the org chart stops mattering for a while.

And the small ones that matter just as much. Every birthday gets a cake. Every farewell gets a proper goodbye — we gather, we cut a cake, and we send them off well. Because they were ours, and they always will be.