Careers

Small team, async-first, building from London and Dubai.

Sweatty is a partner-matching platform for sport. We're early. We're profitable on a tight runway. We hire people we'd happily train with at 7am. No commute, no open-plan office, no standups that should have been a Loom.

How we work

· Async-first. Two synchronous touchpoints a week, max. Everything else is written.
· UK + UAE timezones. Overlap of 4–5 hours daily. Hires outside these bands considered if the overlap still works.
· Ship in a week, not a quarter. If something can't be shipped in five working days, we're scoping it wrong.
· Founder pay, founder responsibility. Early hires take risk; they get equity that reflects it.
· No bullshit roles. If a job posting exists, it's because we're hiring for it now. No "talent pipeline" theatre.

Open roles

Full-stack engineer

Astro + Node + mobile (React Native / Expo). Remote, UK or UAE timezone.

Open

You'll own the matching engine end-to-end — web onboarding, the mobile app, and the API that joins them. Most of the codebase is plain JS/TS, Postgres, and small Cloudflare Workers. If you've shipped a real product before and prefer typing to meetings, you'll be fine.

Write to jobs@sweattyapp.com →

Community + trust lead

Verification ops, report-handling, community standards. Remote, UK or UAE timezone.

Open

You'll own the human side of safety — reviewing verification edge cases, triaging in-app reports, writing the policy documents that govern what gets a user suspended. Background in trust & safety, community ops, or content moderation at a marketplace. Calm under fire is non-negotiable.

Write to jobs@sweattyapp.com →

Compensation

Salary band: [TBC — Jordan to confirm per-role band before role goes live].

Equity: early hires (first 5) get meaningful options — we'd rather pay less salary and share more upside than the other way around. Vest over four years, one-year cliff, standard.

What we ask in return: commitment to the launch window (Q2 2026) and a willingness to wear three hats at once until the team is bigger.

Why work here

1. A problem with a clear, measurable outcome — helping people stop quitting on themselves.
2. A small enough team that one person's work moves the needle, every week.
3. No commute, no perf calibration, no "career framework" PDF.
4. A founder who writes the code and reads every support ticket.
5. Equity that's worth something if we get this right, and zero if we don't — we won't pretend otherwise.

Sweatty is probably not for you if

× You want big-company benefits and a defined ladder.
× You want to specialise narrowly. Everyone here does three jobs in year one.
× You need a manager to set your next two weeks of work.

Apply

No portal, no eight-stage interview loop. Send a short note to jobs@sweattyapp.com — tell us which role, what you've shipped, what you'd want to ship here. Link to one piece of work you're proud of.

Reply time: under five working days. Yes, even if it's a no.