Aldergrove House is a small UK practice building digital work for firms whose standards sit outside the usual tempo of the industry — websites, operating systems, and bespoke software, often for the same client…
Aldergrove House is a small UK practice building digital work for firms whose standards sit outside the usual tempo of the industry — websites, operating systems, and bespoke software, often for the same client over several years. This role writes the surfaces of that work: the pages a client’s customers see, the forms they fill in, the interactions that make a product feel considered.
We’re a polyglot practice. Most of our client-facing work ships in Next.js + React 19 + Tailwind, but a given month might also involve Phoenix LiveView or a Rust → Wasm component embedded in an otherwise JS surface. Specialists are welcome; adaptable generalists are more useful.
What you’d do
- Own user-facing features end-to-end, from reading the brief to shipping into production
- Partner with the designer on tokens, motion, and systems that outlive one project
- Review code in writing; keep accessibility and performance budgets honest
- Pick up Elixir, Rust, or whatever a specific project calls for — we don’t expect fluency, we expect the attitude
What we’d expect
- 5+ years of production TypeScript and modern React (Server Components comfortable)
- A visual eye strong enough that your engineering reviews turn up design issues too
- Reading comfort in at least one non-JS language (Elixir, Rust, Python, Go — any one is fine)
- Written-first disposition — we review in prose, not emoji
Nice to have
- Published OSS, writing, or case studies we can read
- Figma fluency enough to open the file and make the point
Stage 1 of 6
II
The first reading
Every application is read by a partner, not screened out by a filter.
A partner reads what you sent. You hear back within five working days — either an invitation to speak, an honest refusal with a short reason, or an ask for a specific thing we need to decide.
Duration
Within one week
Stage 2 of 6
III
The conversation
A proper meeting, not a screening call.
Two partners, you, a shared agenda sent twenty-four hours in advance. We talk about the work you have done, how we would work together, and the questions you have brought with you.
Duration
Thirty minutes, by video
Stage 3 of 6
IV
A short piece of work
Role-dependent. If it looks like work, we pay for it.
For technical and craft roles, a short brief returned in your own time. The brief is representative of what the house actually does — no synthetic puzzles. If the task reads as commercial-length work, we pay you a day rate for the time.
Duration
Two to four hours · paid when commercial-length
Stage 4 of 6
V
The final sitting
You meet all three readers of the house.
The three partners who run the practice sit with you. The decision is usually made in the room; where it is not, we tell you when to expect a reply.
Duration
Sixty minutes · video or in Cambridge
Stage 5 of 6
VI
The offer, in writing
Written terms, standard form, countersigned.
A short offer letter — role, start date, salary, holiday, notice. Signed by both sides. First day is usually within three weeks.
Duration
The same week
Stage 6 of 6
When you are ready
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