Open roles.
Pagelove is web infrastructure for the AI era. We're a VC-backed team of infra veterans building a DOM-aware server where HTML documents work as complete web applications — no database, no API layer, no backend. Small, deliberate team. If one of these roles fits, we'd love to hear from you.
How we hire.
We think the best way to know if we'll work well together is to actually work together. So the last step of our process is a paid trial project.
The shape of it
- CV screen. Always done in pairs to reduce bias as best as possible.
- 30-minute competency interview + 5 minutes for you to ask us about Pagelove. The "tell us about a time…" conversation. We want to hear how you've handled real situations, not how you'd handle hypothetical ones.
- A one(ish)-hour skills session. Shaped around the role. If you'd be presenting, you present. If you'd be writing code, we work through a technical problem together. Nothing artificial, just the thing you'd actually do. There might be some prep needed before the conversation – apologies in advance for this, we know it's a pain!
- Meet the rest of the team. They'll ask the questions that relate to their role (and how it relates to yours), as well as whether you live our values day-to-day.
- A paid trial project. Real work, scoped to a few days, paid at the rate of the role you're applying for. We want to find out whether we enjoy collaborating with you, and whether you enjoy collaborating with us.
Then a decision, quickly, in both directions.
Why we do it this way
Interviews reward people who are good at interviews. Working together rewards people who are good at the job. That gap has always existed, but AI has widened it. Anyone can produce a polished answer now. What matters is how you actually work.
It also gives you a real look at us, which matters, because you're making a bet on us as much as we are on you.
On AI
We want you to use it. We're not going to pretend otherwise or ask you to work with one hand tied behind your back.
Show us how you use it, where you push back on it, and where you decide it's the wrong tool. That's the job now.
Two things we're firm on
- We always pay for the trial, even if you offer to do it for free.
- We keep the whole process tight, because we know you probably have a job already. If the timing is hard, tell us and we'll work around it.