Donnish
§ 01Careers

Join the team that ships.

Donnish runs a senior-led, AI-tooled software practice across Australia's East Coast and Manila. Aussie hours. Direct working relationship with clients. No agency markup, no rotating contractors.

We hire seniors and the experienced engineers training to be seniors. If you have shipped production software, you can run an AI agent in your terminal, and you want to do real work with people who care about the outcome, you are in the right place.

§ 02Why Donnish

Four things that shape every role here.

Senior-led delivery, Aussie hours.
You will not be a contractor on a billable hour clock. You will be a senior on a small team that ships, with Australian leadership making the architectural calls and the client-facing decisions.
AI-tooled by default.
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot in your terminal from day one. We hire engineers who can run a fleet of agents and apply senior judgment to what they return. Pure typing-of-code is not the job.
Direct working relationship.
No agency markup. No rotating contractors. You drop into the client team, you join the standup, you ship the PR. The reviewer is a senior on our side, not a project manager in the middle.
Real work, real outcomes.
Production code in production environments. Greenfield builds, headless CMS migrations, mobile apps shipping to the App Store. The kind of work that ends up in case studies, not slide decks.
§ 03Open roles

No live roles right now.

We hire continuously when the work justifies it. Tell us about you and we will keep you on the list when the next role opens.

§ 04What it's like to ship here

Two voices from the team.

No. 01
The thing I tell people considering joining is that you actually get to ship. There is no handler in the middle. You are in the standup, you are in the PR, you are the one merging the change to main.
Senior React engineer
3 years on the team · Manila
No. 02
I have worked agency-side and big-four consulting. The difference here is the senior-reviewer ratio. We staff for judgment first. The output multiplier from AI tooling is real, but only because the seniors are there to catch what the agents get wrong.
Delivery lead
5 years on the team · Brisbane

Anonymised by request. Real people, real tenure, real locations. We can put you in touch under NDA if you want to talk to a current team member before applying.

Always interested

Don't see your role? Tell us about you.

We hire continuously. Send us a CV and a one-line note about what you want to be working on. We will reply within one business day.