We the people
Inside the Studio
Shaping the future should be fun. We believe in transparency, quality and innovation doing our best to reflect these values in our work, customer relations and working environment.
Backtick founders Michal Stypa and Oskar Handmark.
Nurturing great talent
When engineering teams are happy, they ship better code. Happiness is hard to quantify, but it correlates strongly with autonomy, quality, self-ownership and having well defined long term goals.
At Backtick, we don’t put our work into processes, we put the right processes around our work. We let teams decide how they want to work. From project management to tooling.
And it works wonders.
Enjoying the journey
Culture & Activities
Great engineers need breaks. During the year, we organize multiple activities and events.
Training & Fitness
Running, swimming, HIIT, climbing, orienteering, biking, gym, kitesurfing. The list is long.
Fika
Lots of fika! Don't worry, you only have to bake once a year.
Games
Board games and Office LANs where we play old favorites as well as the latest and greatest together.
Mandatory Fun
Mandatory Fun is a day off every once in a while. We hang out and work on something fun that improves our everyday life at Backtick, such as Harold, our Slack bot.
Autumn Adventure
Yearly forest adventure. Over the years, we've picked up a few fun skills like blacksmithing, woodworking, mountaineering, climbing, orienteering mountain biking, hiking, skeet shooting, outdoor cooking and more.
Backtick Summit
Our own summit where we invite speakers and present a few topics ourselves to share skills and experiences.
Milestones
We take time to celebrate releases and deadlines to improve our overall life quality and longevity.
Events
Whether it’s gaining insights from industry leaders, networking with like-minded professionals, or discovering the latest innovations, we encourage you to explore events that inspire you.
What we offer
Perks & Benefits
What you can expect working at Backtick.
Modern salary structure
Company wide transparent pay levels. Salary bumps every six months.
Flat organization structure
Come as you are. We trust our employees. We're not much for hierarchy and titles.
Equity
Transparent, recurring options program that gives you shares inour holding company.
Varied work
We do more than just consulting - from advisory services to product launches.
Engineering freedom
You and your team have freedom to explore and choose tech stacks for the things you build.
Collaboration
We work in highly efficient and humble teams that produce quality software.
Flexible schedules
We understand that people have different schedules. That's why we offer the flexibility to choose a schedule that works for you.
Grow by learning
Great engineers learn from other great engineers. That's why we hand pick our customers and only hire the best.
At the core
Our values
The things we value the most as we progress towards reaching our vision.
Quality
We are here to make things better. From our products and services to our internal work, we deliver quality technology with sound engineering principles.
We take pride in our attention to detail and commitment to tirelessly making things better.
Innovation
We care for the fact that engineering is as much a creative process as it is skill and competence.
Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Backtick and we strive to be innovative not only in our new products and technical work, but also how we think about running and shaping the business.
Transparency
We are open and honest with our customers and team members.
We strive to create a culture of transparency that allows everyone to focus on actual work and having fun, not billable hours, salaries & hierarchy.
