Four engineers gathered around one screen reading through a change together. Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.

Life at Cupola

We build for the patient tinkerers. The stubbornly curious and quietly ambitious. The people who finish what they start. These are the minds we hire and grow at Cupola.

Working in cycles

Every eight weeks we pick the small number of things that actually matter and set the rest down. Teams form around them, choose their own pace, and write up what they learned when the cycle closes.

Reading widely

Most of what we know now was learned on the job. Thursday teardowns, a monthly reading group and a lot of unpolished demos keep the questions coming.

Protecting focus

Attention is the scarcest thing we have, so meetings are the exception rather than the default. Everyone shapes a schedule around the hours they genuinely think well in.

Growing in public

Nobody here is finished. We take career conversations seriously and spend real effort on the trust it takes for candid feedback to land the way it was meant.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity from day one
  • Private medical and dental cover
  • Sixteen weeks parental leave
  • Monthly wellbeing allowance
  • Home workspace setup budget
  • Phone and broadband covered
  • Six weeks of paid holiday
  • A yearly budget for learning
The studio floor on a quiet afternoon: shared desks, task chairs and daylight through full-height blinds. Photo by Kampus Production on Pexels.