Build the desk we’d trade on.
Sage runs Nexural himself today. We hire only when a real person is the bottleneck on the desk — never to fill a quarter. If we’re not hiring, this page will say so. Receipts beat résumés here.
Six things we won’t flex on.
Read these before applying. If any feel wrong to you, this isn't the room — and that's a useful signal for both of us.
Smaller than you think.
Sage runs Nexural himself today. We hire only when a real person on the desk is the bottleneck — not because a quarter ended.
Trader-aware, not trader-required.
You don't have to trade to work here. You do have to respect that everyone reading the screen has skin in the game and zero patience for shipped-broken work.
Receipts over résumés.
Send work, not a CV: a repo, a Notion doc, a teardown of something we shipped, a research note. We'll read it. We won't ask for a referral.
Asynchronous by default.
We do most thinking in writing. There are no daily standups. There are weekly written reviews. If you need to be in a Zoom to think, this isn't the room.
We retract in public.
When research doesn't hold up, we say so on /research. Same expectation internally — no quiet revisions, no silent rollbacks, no political cover.
Pay is stated up front.
When a role opens, the posting states the pay. There is no 'we'll figure it out at the end.' If we can't tell you the number up front, we're not ready to hire.
Nothing is open. And what we won’t pretend is open.
We're not hiring right now. When a role opens, it will be listed here with its pay.
Not hiring right now — reach us at the contact page.
The desk doesn’t have a person-shaped bottleneck right now, so there are no open roles. If you’d like to reach us, use the contact page. We read every message.
The fastest way to stay close: ship work where we’ll see it — a PR on /open-source, a research note on /research, or a long thread of clear thinking inside the Discord.
Three ways to get our attention.
None of them involve a recruiter. All of them involve work we can read.
- path 01
Open the source.
Read /open-source. Open an issue, send a PR, or fork a primitive. Real contributions get written-up credit and, sometimes, an offer.
→ /open-source - path 02
Publish a research note.
Write up an edge with a falsifier. If it survives our review, we'll cross-publish it on /research with attribution.
→ /research - path 03
Show up in the room.
Members who explain trades clearly, push back on us in Discord, and share their trade reviews in public are the people we keep an eye on.
→ /pricing
One inbox. No funnel.
No tracker, no ATS, no auto-responder. If you write, a person reads it. We answer the ones we can do something with.
- →A repo, a notion doc, a research note, a teardown of something we shipped — in that order of usefulness.
- →Two sentences on which role you’d shape into. We read shapes faster than CVs.
- →A timeline. Are you available now, in three months, or “keep me on file when you’re ready”? All three are useful answers.