About the role
The Advisory team runs technical due diligence for investors and acquirers. A lead spends about a week with a company's codebase, infrastructure and engineering team, then reports what the software is really worth, what it would cost to change and where the risks sit. The report has to be fast, specific and honest about what the review could not see.
Diligence sits at the point where Consulting's first-principles engineering meets capital decisions. Findings often shape what a venture should build next, so the Advisory team shares patterns with the ventures and with the Architecture group, and it reports to the parent company's finance and legal teams under the same confidentiality rules as every other deal.
What you’ll do
- Lead a week-long review of a target's codebase, covering architecture, test coverage, dependency health and security posture.
- Estimate the cost and risk of the target's roadmap, including rewrites, migrations and key-person dependencies.
- Interview engineers and product leads, and check their answers against repository history and incident records.
- Write findings in a diligence report that ranks issues by impact, with evidence and a suggested remediation for each.
- Brief investment committees and deal teams in plain language, and answer questions on cost, risk and timing.
- Keep a reusable checklist of review patterns, and update it after each engagement with what the review missed.
What you’ll bring
- Experience as a senior software or platform engineer who has reviewed or inherited large, unfamiliar codebases.
- Working knowledge of software architecture, security basics, cloud operations and common dependency risks.
- Ability to read code in several languages quickly, and to judge quality from structure, tests and history.
- Experience writing for executives and investors, with findings that are clear, ranked and short enough to act on.
- Comfort working to a fixed deadline with incomplete information, and stating limits without hedging everything.
Nice to have
- Experience with technical due diligence, M&A integration or post-acquisition engineering.
- Background in software security reviews, penetration test scoping or secure development lifecycle work.
- Familiarity with cost modelling for engineering teams, including hiring plans and cloud spend.
- Experience with static analysis, dependency scanning and code metrics used as evidence rather than verdicts.
Work you might take on
- 01
Run a two-week diligence sprint on a mid-size codebase, producing a ranked risk register and a one-page summary.
- 02
Build a dependency-age and licence scan for a target's repositories, and explain which findings matter to the deal.
- 03
Write a rebuild-cost model for a legacy service, with three scenarios and the engineering time each one needs.
- 04
Create a diligence checklist for infrastructure access, backups and disaster recovery, reusable across all engagements.
Compensation
$210K – $320K
The US base salary range for this role. Every offer also includes equity in Clexerl and, when it spins out, in the venture you help build. We tell you the reasoning behind your number.
Benefits
Health, fully covered
Medical, dental and vision for you and your dependants, premiums paid in full.
Two kinds of equity
Equity in Clexerl, plus a stake in the venture you help build when it spins out.
22 weeks parental leave
Fully paid, for every parent, however your family arrives.
Rest that sticks
Flexible time off with a four-week minimum we actually check on, plus a company-wide week in December.
Learning and compute
A yearly budget for courses, conferences and books, and compute credits for side projects.
401(k) with a 4% match
Matched from your first paycheque and vested immediately.
How we hire
Apply 5 minutes
Send links to what you have built and a few lines on why this role. No cover letter needed.
Intro call 30 minutes
A conversation with the hiring manager about the work, the team and what you want next.
Work sample 2–4 hours
A paid take-home or a pairing session on a real-shaped problem. You pick the format.
Studio day One day
Meet the team, go deep on your work and ours. Remote or in person.
Offer Within 5 days
A written offer with the full range, the equity and the reasoning behind both.
Opens an email with a short template. Links beat résumés.