Work on sites that have to earn their keep.
MANDER is a small remote studio building websites and Android apps for small businesses across Canada and the United States. Every project is fixed-scope and fixed-price, which changes what the work feels like day to day more than anything else on this page. Read more about the studio before you apply.
No specific vacancy open this minute. We hire in bursts rather than continuously — applications for every discipline below are read and kept on file.
A small studio, run deliberately.
Four things that are true of the work here, all of them downstream of how the studio sells rather than how it likes to describe itself.
Fixed scope, not open-ended crunch
Work is quoted against a written scope before it starts. That discipline exists for the client, but you get it too: the deadline was agreed by someone who knew what the job was, and nobody is absorbing an invisible overrun on a Friday night.
Small team, visible work
There is no layer between what you make and the person paying for it. You will talk to the business owner, hear what actually broke, and see your work carry real traffic instead of disappearing into a backlog.
Remote across two countries
The team works from British Columbia and Massachusetts. Overlap matters more than location — a few reliable hours against Pacific time is worth more than sitting in a particular city.
Craft is the product
Clients come to us because the work looks considered rather than templated. That only holds if the people making it care about typography, performance and the details nobody is asked to fix.
We pay for the test project. Asking people to work for free filters for who can afford it, not who is good.
What we hire for.
These are the four disciplines the studio is built on. Apply against one of them, or send an open application if you do something adjacent and think we should know about it.
Web Designer
- Type
- Contract or full-time
- Location
- Remote — Canada or U.S.
Design small-business sites that look authored rather than assembled, and hand them over in a state a developer can actually build.
- Take a business from a discovery call to a designed, build-ready site
- Set type, layout and motion inside an existing design system
- Write or shape the copy when the words are the problem
- A portfolio where the typography is the strongest thing in it
- Comfort designing to a fixed scope instead of an open brief
- Figma fluency, and opinions you can defend without a deck
Front-End Developer
- Type
- Contract or full-time
- Location
- Remote — Canada or U.S.
Build the sites in Next.js and Tailwind, and keep them fast on the mid-range Android phone most of our clients’ customers are actually holding.
- Build responsive marketing sites in Next.js, React and Tailwind
- Hold a performance budget and a clean Core Web Vitals pass
- Wire up forms, bookings, CRM and analytics integrations
- Production React and Next.js, App Router included
- Semantic, accessible markup written on purpose rather than by habit
- The instinct to reach for less JavaScript, not more
Android Developer
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote — Canada or U.S.
Build the native Android side of the studio — custom apps shipped to Google Play under the client’s own developer account.
- Build native Android apps from a designed spec
- Stand up the backend, auth, payments and push a build needs
- Take a release through Play Store review and the listing setup
- Shipped Android apps you can point at on Google Play
- Kotlin, and comfort owning the backend a small app needs
- Patience with store review, because it is half the job
SEO & Local Search Specialist
- Type
- Part-time or contract
- Location
- Remote — Canada or U.S.
Make sure the sites we build actually get found — local search, Google Business Profile, and the technical work underneath it.
- Keyword and local research for a specific town, not a category
- Google Business Profile, Search Console and indexing setup
- Technical SEO: schema, metadata, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals
- Local SEO results you can describe honestly, ranking claims included
- Comfort in Search Console and a real analytics stack
- Allergy to tactics that need explaining to a client twice
The hiring process, in four steps.
No take-home marathons, no rounds of panel interviews, and no silence at the end of it.
You apply
One email, to a person, with whatever you have got. No cover letter, no portal, no account to create — and nothing sitting in front of us filtering it.
We reply
Within one week, either way. A no is a no rather than silence, because being left hanging is the worst part of applying anywhere.
A conversation
A call about the work you have already done and the work we have on. Not a whiteboard, not a trivia round on framework internals.
A small paid project
One real, scoped piece of work, paid at your rate. It tells us more than any interview, and you find out what working here is like before either of us commits.
Send us an email.
That is the whole process. No form, no portal, no account to create — just a message to a person who reads it.
One promiseA person reads every application and replies within a week — including when the answer is no.
- Where you are and what you do, in a sentence
- The role you are after — or "open application" if none of them fit
- Links: portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn, a CV if you have one
- One thing you have made, and why you think it is good
Before you apply.
For employed roles, yes — that is where the studio operates and pays. For contract work we are more flexible, but we need a few dependable hours of overlap with Pacific time, so a timezone far outside the Americas rarely works well for either side.
Yes. We are a small studio and we hire in bursts rather than continuously, so most of the disciplines above sit at "applications open" for long stretches. A strong application gets kept and revisited when work lands — that is genuinely how most of the team arrived.
No. Email is the whole process — attach a CV if you have one, or just send links. A portfolio or a live site tells us more in thirty seconds than a form does in twenty fields, and you should not have to fill in boxes to start a conversation.
Yes, at your quoted rate, on a scope agreed in writing before you start. Asking people to work for free is the same thing as asking them to subsidise our hiring, and it filters for who can afford it rather than who is good.
It goes to one inbox and stays there. We keep applications on file so we can come back to them when something opens up, and if you would rather we did not, say so in the form or email us and it is deleted.
Not sure you fit? Apply anyway.
Most of the team arrived through an application that did not match an opening at the time.
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