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Help us build the next decade of localization software.

We're a small, remote-first team in the UK, building one translation dashboard for the whole localization pipeline — and we're hiring across engineering, design, language operations, and go-to-market.

14open roles
4teams hiring
Remote-firstsince day one
Equityfor every hire
See open roles ↓How we work
Why work here

Four honest reasons.

We've tried to write these without the recruiting clichés. If anything here feels off when you talk to us, say so.

01

You'll work on a thing from the ground up.

You'll help build and ship the features the first wave of teams will ever use. The feedback loop is short, direct, and personal — straight from early users to you.

02

Small team, large surface area.

A tiny team where everyone touches the product. Engineers ship their own design. Designers write copy. Everyone talks to early users. Nobody owns just one slice — and nobody is fenced out of one, either.

03

We ship every week, calmly.

No hero culture, no all-nighters, no surprise pivots. We've shipped to production every week for 47 of the last 52 weeks. The other 5 were Christmas, Lunar New Year, and Daniel's wedding.

04

Languages matter here.

Eighteen of us speak more than one language at home. We translate the product into 18 languages ourselves. If you've ever felt that localization is treated as a footnote — you won't feel that way here.

How we work

Calm software, on purpose.

A few of the operating rules that make this a place people stay. Most of these we figured out the hard way.

Remote-first, three hubs

London, Berlin, and Lisbon are our gathering points. About half the team lives within commuting distance of one; the other half is fully remote across the EU, UK, US East Coast, Japan, and Brazil. We require an overlap with 10:00–14:00 CET.

Async by default

Two scheduled meetings per week, max, for most roles: a Monday kickoff (45 min) and a Friday demo (30 min). Everything else is a written doc, a Loom, or a thread. We hold pairing time and 1:1s as opt-in.

Ship every week

Every team ships something visible to customers every week. Not a sprint, not a stretch — a default. If you can't ship this week, that's a flag we work on together, not a reason to push harder.

We meet in person twice a year

One off-site in Lisbon every spring (one week, optional family-friendly). One smaller team-level retreat in autumn. Travel and lodging covered, including from anywhere remote.

Six-hour Fridays

Standing rule: Friday afternoons are no-meetings, no-Slack-expected, and end at 16:00 local. We use the time to write, read, learn, or stop.

Open salary bands

Every role has a published band, every band is the same for the same level worldwide (adjusted only for tax and cost-of-living, not for negotiating skill). New hires start mid-band by default.

What we offer

The benefits, on one page.

Remote-first across the UK. The things we think every team should offer as standard — plus a few we're proud of.

Pension, matched

Workplace pension with employer contributions matched up to 5% — well above auto-enrolment minimums, from day one.

Real equity

EMI share options for every hire, with a 10-year exercise window. We share the cap table with the team twice a year.

25 days + bank holidays

25 days' annual leave on top of all UK bank holidays. We genuinely expect you to take it, and we'll nudge you if you don't.

Private health cover

Private medical insurance including dental and optical, plus mental-health and therapy support — no cap, no questions.

Remote-first

Work from anywhere in the UK. Drop into our London space when you want a desk, or stay fully remote — we hire for output, not hours at a desk.

£1,000 home-office budget

Renewable every two years on top of your laptop and kit. Desk, chair, monitor — whatever makes working from home comfortable.

£1,500 / year to learn

Books, courses, conferences, language lessons. Plus 5 paid days a year for learning that isn't tied to a project.

Enhanced parental leave

Well above UK statutory: six months' full pay for the primary caregiver, three for the secondary, with a phased, flexible return.

Open roles

14 positions, four teams.

If you don't see your exact role, write to us anyway. We track future hires for at least 12 months.

Team
Location

Engineering

5 roles

Senior Product Engineer

TypeScript, Postgres, the whole stack. Owns one of: editor, projects, integrations.

London · Remote-friendlyFull-time€140–180k

Senior Backend Engineer

Distributed systems, queues, the translation memory engine. Loves a hard correctness problem.

Remote (EU)Full-time€140–180k

Localization Engineer

File-format wrangler. XLIFF, ICU MessageFormat, every CMS export quirk. Ours is the canonical version.

Berlin · Remote-friendlyFull-time€120–160k

Senior Platform Engineer

AWS, Terraform, observability. Owns the runtime our SOC 2 auditors keep asking about.

Remote (EU)Full-time€140–180k

Engineering Manager, Editor

Lead the team behind the side-by-side editor. Player-coach, 4 reports.

London / LisbonFull-time€160–200k

Design

3 roles

Senior Designer, Editor

The CAT editor — keyboard-first, density-conscious, ultra-detailed. Bring a portfolio of complex tools.

Lisbon · RemoteFull-time€110–150k

Product Designer, Workflows

Project setup, reviewer flows, glossary tools. Visual and systems-thinking, equal parts.

Remote (EU)Full-time€100–140k

Brand & Marketing Designer

Owns the marketing site, illustration system, and conference presence. Loves a typographic challenge.

Remote (EU / UK)Full-time€90–125k

Language Ops

3 roles

JP–EN Reviewer Lead

Native JP, professional EN. Picks and supervises freelance reviewers for our JP customers.

TokyoFull-time¥12–16M

Localization Quality Manager

Define QA processes, sample reviews, run the linguist-of-the-month program. Three languages minimum.

Remote (EU)Full-time€95–125k

Freelance Translator Network Manager

Recruit, vet, and grow our network of 400+ freelance translators. Vendor management at heart.

Remote (any)Full-time€90–120k

Go-to-market

3 roles

Account Executive, EMEA

Mid-market deals. ICP is heads of localization at €100M+ businesses. You've sold tools like ours before.

LondonFull-time€110–140k OTE

Customer Success Engineer

Owns onboarding for our top 50 accounts. Half technical, half human.

New York · RemoteFull-time$130–170k

Content Marketer

Owns the blog, the Languages page deep dives, customer case studies. Strong opinions on em-dashes.

Remote (EU / UK)Full-time€85–115k
Interview process

Six steps, three to four weeks.

Same process for every role. No surprise rounds, no panel ambushes, no take-home tasks pretending to be evaluations of "passion."

01

First call — 30 minutes

With our recruiter Mara. Not a screening test; a two-way conversation about whether we're worth your time.

02

Hiring manager — 45 minutes

Talk through your past work, the role, what would make it a great fit. You get to ask the hard questions back.

03

Practical exercise — async

A short, take-home task that mirrors actual work. We cap it at 4 hours and pay you for your time. You keep what you produce.

04

Team conversations — 2× 45 min

Two video calls with future teammates. One focused on craft, one on collaboration. We share the questions in advance.

05

Founder chat — 30 minutes

With Chris. Mostly about what would make Rush Studio the best decision you make this year — for both sides.

06

References, offer, hello

We reach out to two of your past collaborators. Offer goes out within five working days of the last conversation.

Nowhiteboards or trick questions
5 daysfrom last interview to offer
Alwaysa written response, even when it's a no
A note from us

We spent fifteen years watching localization tools treat translators as a cost line and PMs as an interruption.

Rush Studio is our attempt to build the opposite. If that resonates — whether you ship code, ship copy, ship deals, or ship words from one language to another — we'd love to talk. The page above lists the formal roles. The list below is everything we wish we'd have known before joining a startup.

You will not be the smartest person in the room. You will also not be the dumbest. The point is the room.
The product is unfinished. It is meant to be. The interesting work is what's missing.
The thing you're best at probably isn't your job title. We'll find it.
Chris Rush
Chris RushFounder

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