Pelagram

Careers

Culture at Pelagram.

Join a culture that is designed to help you learn and grow — with a focus on learning in the flow of the work, feedback that runs in every direction, judgment developed under real pressure, and access to the room where your work lands.

Pelagram builds business-critical software, and independently assures software built by others. This is where critical software earns trust, and it earns it through the judgment of the person doing the work — which is why the whole practice is arranged around developing it.

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How we help you grow

Learning in the flow of the work.

Development here happens on live engagements rather than in a classroom. You are placed beside the people accountable for the system, trusted with responsibility earlier than you would be at a larger firm, and coached by whoever reviews what you produced. The measure we hold ourselves to is that you should leave Pelagram able to take on a role we could not have offered you.

Range that's difficult to acquire elsewhere
Cloud estates, data platforms, recovery paths and security models — and the contracts, tenders and governance wrapped around them.
The room, from your first engagement
Our work goes to CIOs, boards and audit committees, and you present your own. That access usually takes fifteen years to earn.
Judgment that holds under pressure
Holding a correct position while it is challenged, and conceding quickly when the facts move, is among the rarest senior skills there is.
A body of work in your name
What you delivered and what you concluded stays on the record — a professional reputation that travels with you.

Life at Pelagram

A culture built around the judgment of the person doing the work.

A small practice, a published standard, and no layer between the person who did the work and the executive who acts on it.

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    How we care

    We care about our people. It's the driving motivator for how we plan the work, how we staff it, and how we back the person who signs it. Care here is more than benefits and perks — it's being surrounded by people who want to invest in you, and it shows up when a conclusion is unwelcome: the position is Pelagram's, and not yours alone.

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    How we work together

    Flexibility is the norm. We're remote by default and on site when the work is there — an evidence session, a go-live, a board sitting — and the interesting decisions stay with the people doing the work rather than moving up a layer.

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    How we make a difference

    We encourage our people to close the distance between what a delivery claims and what is true, on the systems people have no choice but to depend on: payments, patient records, claims, freight, public services. A backup nobody has restored is a claim; the work turns it into a fact or a finding.

  4. 04

    How we reimagine the possible

    Just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean it will work today. The Rules are amended by the people doing the work, and evidence that satisfied us last year does not automatically satisfy us now.

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    How we act with integrity

    Acting with integrity is part of the everyday conversation here, because it is also the product. The standard is public and is not relaxed when the delivery is our own, and the independence policy binds you personally — no stake in a builder you may assess, and no side work for a party to a delivery you assure.

Both documents are published, and worth reading before the first conversation: The Rules · Independence policy

What we look for

What we look for at Pelagram.

At Pelagram, the essence of who we are and how we work is encompassed in what we call the Pelagram Professional. Whatever the discipline, we look for the same two things — and the combination is what defines the people we hire.

Proven Delivery

Owning, Operating, and Proving It Holds

Ownership
Have you owned something end to end, and been there when it went wrong?
Evidence Mindset
Can you produce proof that a commitment was met, without being asked twice?
Capability Transfer
Do you leave the people who own it able to run it without you?

Independent Judgment

Forming a View, and Holding It

Technical Insight
Can you say something specific and correct about work you didn't do yourself?
Candour
Will you tell a senior person what they don't want to hear, in writing?
Proportion
Do you change your position when the facts move, and only then?

No consulting background, degree, or certification is required for any role here. The work is a poor fit for anyone who would rather move quickly than have to show it worked.

Open roles.

2 open roles

We open a role when there's work for it, not on a calendar. The list stays short, and everything on it is live.

If neither role fits

Send us the same note anyway, and tell us the kind of work you'd want here. We read every one, and we reply. hello@pelagram.com

Our hiring process.

It mirrors the work: we ask for evidence, we tell you what we concluded, and we tell you when.

  1. 01

    Send us a note

    Two paragraphs on what you have delivered and owned.

  2. 02

    A conversation

    Forty-five minutes. You get the compensation band here.

  3. 03

    A working session

    About three hours on a real artifact, paid at our standard rate.

  4. 04

    Terms

    What independence asks of you personally, and the offer.

You'll have a decision, with the reasoning behind it, within ten working days of the working session — either way.

Find out more about us.

Tell us what you've done.

Two paragraphs on what you have delivered and owned, and one thing you'd want checked on a delivery you've seen. That's the application.

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