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QuantmHill

About QuantmHill

Small by design, senior by default.

QuantmHill is a remote-first consultancy built on one observation: software projects rarely fail on talent. They fail on seniority, ownership, and writing things down — so that’s the whole company.

Founding story

How we got here

QuantmHill started when two engineers met on opposite sides of the same failing replatform — one the consultancy’s delivery lead, the other the client’s principal engineer. The project had plenty of talent, no architecture owner, and a demo that had been “two weeks away” for most of a year.

They wrote down the rules that project broke — seniors only, one accountable owner, every decision in writing, working software every week — and built QuantmHill around them. The first engagement was a payments migration that came through a former colleague; it shipped on schedule, and the client stayed on retainer for years afterwards.

Growth since then has been deliberate: senior engineers across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, no bench, no juniors billed as seniors, no sales team between you and the people who build. The rules from that first project are still how every engagement runs — most of this site is just those rules, written out.

Read the rules — how we work

Values

Four rules we actually enforce

Not aspirations for the wall — operating rules with consequences. Each one has ended an engagement or a hire at some point.

01

Seniority is the product.

Everyone who touches your codebase has shipped and operated systems like yours before. We don’t hire juniors and bill them as seniors — there are no juniors to bill.

02

If it isn’t written down, it doesn’t exist.

Decisions, trade-offs, and status live in documents you can read before your standup, whatever timezone that standup is in. Meetings are for deciding, not for informing.

03

Bad news travels fastest.

If the deadline is wrong, the architecture won’t hold, or we’re the wrong fit for the job, you hear it in week one — not in the retrospective.

04

Working software is the only status report.

Every week ends with something you can click, not a slide about it. Progress that can’t be demoed goes on the risk register, because that’s what it is.

Leadership

The people accountable to you

Three people own every engagement between them — and one of them reads your first email. We hire slowly and deliberately; see open roles

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Co-founder & CEO

Our CEO started as a backend engineer and moved into delivery after one rescue project too many. Owns client outcomes and still writes the diagnostic report for most new engagements.

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Co-founder & CTO

Our CTO was a principal engineer on high-volume payments infrastructure. Sets the technical bar, chairs every architecture review, and interviews every engineer we hire.

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Head of delivery

Our head of delivery spent a decade managing distributed teams across US and EU timezones. Keeps every engagement on cadence — weekly demos, ship notes, and status reports that say the uncomfortable thing.

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Timezones, not offices

Where we operate

We’re remote-first with no headquarters to point at. What matters isn’t where the desks are — it’s that your working day is covered live, and guaranteed working-hours overlap is written into every statement of work.

Client hub

San Francisco

West Coast mornings land in Europe’s late afternoon — that shared window is where demos and pairing sessions happen live.

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Client and delivery

London

A full working day shared with our EU engineers, with afternoons that reach the US East Coast before it logs off.

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Delivery

Berlin

Core engineering hours for our EU team. Decisions made in this window are written up before the US comes online.

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Delivery

Singapore

Overlaps Europe every afternoon and hands off to the Americas overnight, so your mornings never start cold.

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Security

Practices your auditors can check

We work with fintech and healthcare clients, so every engagement runs on controls designed for audit — documented, reviewable, and shared under NDA on request.

  • SOC 2-aligned controls
  • GDPR by default
  • NDA-first engagements
  • Least-privilege access

Work with the people on this page

No handoff to a sales team — a founder reads every inquiry and replies within one business day.