A boutique team. Work that matters.
We're a small team of senior engineers shipping real software for fintechs, educators, and energy operators across six countries. No cubicles, no filler work, no pretending our way into competence.
100+
Businesses served
35+
Engineers in-house
6
Countries shipped to
5+ yrs
Median client tenure
What working here is actually like
Read the clichés on LinkedIn. Then read this.
Real engineering, not tickets
You own modules end-to-end — architecture, code, deploys, production. No handing off to "another team" that doesn't exist.
Work with global clients
Fintech in Canada, EdTech in India, telecom messaging, institutional portfolio backtesting — ship to real users across six countries.
Grow faster than you would anywhere else
Boutique consultancy means you see 10 stacks, 10 industries, 10 constraint sets in your first two years. Most engineers take 5+.
Your name on what you ship
We publish case studies with the engineers who actually did the work. Your portfolio grows with your tenure.
No BS culture
Flat decisions. Honest feedback. No performative standups, no politics, no "synergy." If it doesn't help clients ship, we don't do it.
Senior-led from day one
Every engagement has a senior engineer on it — including yours when you're learning. We don't throw juniors at clients alone.
The people already here
What engineers, SREs, and consultants at Qilin Lab say about the work.
“I've shipped across five industries here — payments, messaging, fuel retail, crypto, lending. You don't get that range on a single product team anywhere else.”
Amit Bhosle
Head of Engineering
Qilin Lab
“We run real production workloads for real businesses. When something pages at 2 AM it's because a customer's payment flow is down, not because a dashboard turned red. That sharpens you.”
Bhanu Mittal
Head of DevOps
Qilin Lab
“Senior-led from day one is not a slogan here. I shadowed real engagements before I led one, and nobody got thrown into a client call they weren't ready for.”
Himatej Kumar
Pentest & Compliance
Qilin Lab
Where we hire
We hire for capability and shipping record, not exact titles. If your strongest work fits one of these areas, send it.
Engineering
Full-stack, backend, and frontend. Node, Next.js, Java, Python, Go, React Native. Build production systems for fintech, edtech, and SaaS clients.
DevOps / SRE
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP. Migrate legacy infra, automate deploys, run on-call for production workloads, cut cloud spend.
Security
Pentesting, code review, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness, secure-by-default architecture reviews. OSCP / eWPTX welcomed.
Design
Product design for real client apps — financial dashboards, LMS portals, internal tools. Figma-fluent, systems-thinker.
Product
Turn client ambiguity into shippable scope. Run discovery, write specs, track delivery, keep engineers focused.
Business / Sales
Inbound-first consultative sales for technical founders. You can read a proposal, understand engineering tradeoffs, and not oversell.
Don't see your exact role? Apply anyway — we also hire opportunistically.
Send your applicationTell us about yourself
A CV plus a few lines on what you've shipped is all we need to start. Applications go to hr@qilinlab.com.