We're building a unified developer experience to help software teams move faster and stay focused on achieving their goals. Over the past decades, software development has grown in importance inside organizations and with it there has been a Cambrian explosion of tooling. While each tool is great at what it does, they live in their own silos and weren’t built to work together. These silos lead to disconnected workflows, context switching, and difficulty finding information. Our vision is to build a better way to get work done. Summon brings together your tools and data into one blazingly fast, native experience. We’re just getting started and our ambition is bold: build the best platform for software teams to get their work done. We love what we do and are motivated by working on a product we love using ourselves. You would have an immediate impact as a builder to influence engineering and the direction of the product. You join as a founding engineer and have full ownership working closely with our founders and a team of super talented developers.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for a full-time backend engineer. Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building event driven microservices or service oriented architectures and has built most facets, if not all, in a "twelve-factor" app. Preference is for real experience (2+ years) in our primary language of Golang, but other languages are considered when able to quickly pick up new technologies. Additional experience in integrating with 3rd party systems, event-driven architecture, databases, and cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc) are important.
You will directly influence how and what to build, and must be comfortable collaborating on the architecture, code, product, etc as we have a strong culture of devops as well as being technically curious, thoughtful and purposeful in what we build. We value deploying frequently with well-written, maintainable, instrumented and tested code to a kubernetes cluster.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Why join us?
We love what we do: designing and building great products. But our work isn't the only thing that defines us. We're not trying to create some semi-cult to get people to work here. We simply enjoy working together and building useful and beautiful software for our customers. We’re a venture-backed startup and are looking for someone who is excited about the early stages of building a product and having a tangible impact on the company’s success. You would join a group of repeat founders. We have founded startups backed by top Silicon Valley VCs. While getting huge amounts of venture capital has its advantages, it also puts a company on a very narrow success path. We want to do it a little differently this time. Where raising money and growth is balanced with the goal of being default-alive and capital-efficient. Which gives us optionality and lets us build the company we want to build over the long run.
**Who are Tyk, and what do we do? **
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
The role
You will be responsible for designing and building out compelling and quality solutions for our Universal Data Graph (UDG) product. You will work closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Engineers, QA experts, and UX Designers to shape and deliver high quality and high efficiency solutions for Universal Data Graph. You will be expected to input into UDG strategy, and be a keen advocate of continuous improvement concepts in our software engineering lifecycle – continuous testing, continuous integration, linting etc.
You will be a talented line manager, with experience in running teams, mentoring junior engineers, and leading a culture of empowerment and constant process and standards improvement. https://tyk.io/docs/universal-data-graph/
Here’s what you’ll be getting up to: * Contributing to strategic direction of UDG, working with the Senior Product * Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy * Developing our event driven GraphQL (GQL) subscriptions product * Building data connectors and resolvers to myriad datasources and which can be transformed into a GQL end point * Working with our UX team to create highly efficient and beautiful solutions which leverage no-code principles and ‘drag and drop’ ease of use * Iterating and improving our federation solution for dividing GQL implementation over multiple back end data sources * Designing and delivering analytics solutions for GQL and UDG * Advocating and driving a continuous improvement agenda for how we engineer – driving continuous testing, continuous integration, test coverage, linting etc and driving your teams to adopt the same mindset * Responsible for ensuring your teams feature to debt ratio remains healthy * Working with the Product Manager to architect solutions to future roadmap items or new capabilities, using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling * Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers * Takes responsibility for the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by your team * A leader of ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix and ensure this culture permeates. * Have a clear focus on creating , coding, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix * Driving your teams adherence to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge * Driving your teams adherence to Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, documentation first etc * Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement * Play an active part in our Scrum process, helping to ensure tickets are well groomed and planned for the next sprint * Line management of a small team – mentoring, improving, leading performance reviews, assisting in objective setting, and reviewing progress against our progression matrix * Leads the drive to embed and run a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Experience:
Skills:
Here’s why you should join us:
Everyone has unlimited paid holiday. We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all. Generous maternity and paternity leave Company retreats
We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? – to make what we do even better!
Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:
It’s ok to screw up! We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!
The only stupid idea, is the untested one! It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!
Trust starts with you – make it count! Trust is a two-way street – instil it from day one!
Assume best intent! We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.
Make things, better! Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.
What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
You can see more about us here https://tyk.io
Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
The role
You will be responsible for designing and building high quality and customer centric solutions within our platform team. You will work with Senior Product Managers, Technical Leads, UX Designers, QAs, and a team of talented engineers to bring our vision for the platform enablement team to life. This role also will play a key part in our continuous improvement journey, building out high levels of pipeline automation, great unit testing, and ensuring we live up to our engineering policies, processes, and standards.
Our platform team looks after enabling capabilities which other product teams consume – for example, our Tyk Identify Broker, back end plugins, Tyk Sync, Tyk Pump, and our multi datacentre bridge
We’d love it if you had line management experience, and are keen to impart some of your knowledge in managing and growing junior engineers.
It’d be great if you had some line management experience, but this is not essential.
Here’s what you’ll be getting up to
Occasional input into strategic direction of platform enablement, working with the Product Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy Focusing on creating great quality , low technical debt, and optimal experience solutions for our our customers Being an advocate and driver for continuous improvement and operational excellence – increased automation, safer pipelines, more disciplined code merge, better unit testing etc Code with care to ensure your feature to debt ratio remains healthy Code using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers Pair programming with more senior engineers to drive up your skill set Consider the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by you and improve this over time with mentorship with more experienced engineers Be focused on ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix Have an understanding on creating, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix. Work with experienced engineers to build your knowledge and approach here Be an advocate of adhering to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge Learn, adopt, and input into our Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, good quality ticket creation, input into grooming etc Be an input to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement With guidance from experienced engineers, learn, live and adopt a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation
Here’s what we’re looking for
Experience needed
Competencies
Nice to have
Benefits
Here’s why you should join us:
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:
It’s ok to screw up! We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!
The only stupid idea, is the untested one! It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!
Trust starts with you – make it count! Trust is a two-way street – instill it from day one!
Assume best intent! We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.
Make things, better! Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.
What’s it like to work here?! check it out: https://tyk.io/worklife/
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
What’s my job title? Senior Software Engineer (Go) Where in the world? You can work remotely from anywhere within the EMEA regions Working hours? For this role, you will operate within any EMEA timezones What language(s) are required? Fluency in English
The Role
Senior Software Engineers play a key role in our product engineering squads. You’ll be responsible for helping design, develop and maintain our communication products and related services. This will enable our customers to send out millions of SMS messages per day; place voice calls via our REST API; gain real-time insights using our Dashboard; and reach out to consumers via IM platforms like WhatsApp.
Our product engineering squads have the freedom and authority to create impactful products to empower both our internal and external customers. We use an agile development methodology, meaning we deploy code multiple times per day while ensuring our applications are rigorously tested and statically analyzed.
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
LIFTOFF! 🚀
Life at MessageBird:
We call ourselves Birds!
We work fast, grow fast, build fast and focus on impact. We’re go-getters, industry leaders and roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people.
Ready To Fly?
Our cloud communications solutions make it possible for over 25,000 businesses to instantly connect with billions of devices worldwide, allowing them to speak with their customers in the same ways they talk to their friends.
Headquartered in Amsterdam, we’re proud to be a “Work Anywhere” company. Our unique and united culture is rooted in our team: a diverse flock of over 750 Birds who represent 55 nationalities and counting. We’re smart, fast, and hungry.
MessageBird is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
What You’ll Gain
Come join the revolution as we help developers and enterprises build and move their databases to the cloud. The IDC estimates the database market will be $119B by 2025 and the fastest growing segment is DBaaS. Be part of this titanic shift, be part of the revolution, come join Severalnines and make a difference.
A career at Severalnines means working alongside some of the smartest and most talented people in the open source database world. We’re headquartered in Kalmar, Sweden, and all work remotely from our home offices. Join us and be part of a company that's building the next generation cloud services and automation for SQL and NoSQL open source databases - be it on-premises or in the cloud.
Must-have Skills and Experience:
Nice-to-have Skills and Experience:
Our stack:
Who we are:
What we offer:
As a reflection of our customers' needs we're building a Kubernetes-based PaaS solution with the focus on on-premise and hybrid-cloud deployments. Our vision is to build a cloud-agnostic solution that would be easy to consume by the masses. As we're not a big player yet, this gives us much more technical possibilities in building the right product.
Our stack is built on go, grpc, K8s and terraform. We deploy across GCP, AWS, Azure, other public cloud providers and on-premise. The team is small and very much focused on the task. With us, you'll truly shape the overall delivery. We're a fully-remote company and we require some overlap with UTC+0200.
Our values are: transparency, quality before quantity, encouragement to experiments and continuous learning.
For more info about this job, please check www.berops.com/career For more information about the life at Berops, please see https://github.com/berops/culture
Please note that we can only accept applications from those based in Europe at this time.
Let us introduce ourselves
Humn is transforming the insurance industry by connecting data to make insurance smarter. We apply machine learning to traditional insurance models to create data-driven solutions for real world fleet manager, driver and automated vehicle challenges. Humn creates accurate risk models that evolve in real-time and are driven by our mission to create safer roads worldwide. In fact, we have already reduced client accidents by up to 65%.
When we say flexible, we mean it
If you are sick of the always-on culture, come and join a next-gen company who was named the 4th most flexible work environment globally by Flexa.com. Some of our humns live and travel in campervans, others ski in the mornings and work in the evenings...You do whatever works for you as long as you can support your team’s goals. You have a monthly health and wellbeing fund to spend as you like, 16-weeks paid parental leave (and flexible return-to-work paths), unlimited personal leave, a global remote-first structure with co-working, dog friendly, comfortable spaces. Can even design your own home workspace through our Hofy app.
The Opportunity
Are these some of your potential superpowers?
You’ll be willing to learn or develop:
So… are you ready to become Superhumn?
Are you ready to solve problems that have never been solved before? At Humn, you’re empowered to let your talent drive change. Take your place in the pioneering team transforming and disrupting the dated insurance industry by connecting data to make insurance smarter.
We’ll invest in and nurture your personal and professional growth, so you can focus on being curious and creative. Bring your unique perspective to the table and challenge the biases by egolessly seeking diverse and clever ways to solve hard problems. It’s your time to become Superhumn!
Next Steps
We have a maximum 4 step, faster than most interview process, the first step starts with a simple chat. So, what are you waiting for?
Juni who? 👋
We’re Juni. The fastest-growing FinTech in Europe. We’re born remote, built for remote, and busy building the future of banking for digital entrepreneurs.
What we do 🤔
Think of us as the world’s best financial companion for ecommerce entrepreneurs. We build products that help our customers sell smarter and understand their business better. We even finance their working capital so they can smash their goals and dream up new ones. See for yourself at https://demo.juni.co/demo. If you are curious about upcoming features and what you will help build, you can also find our public roadmap at https://www.juni.co/roadmap
How & why we do it 🚀
We give our people the same thing we’re building for our customers: freedom. Freedom to work wherever there’s good WiFi. Freedom to be 100% yourself. Freedom to explore your potential and what’s more – make the most of it. We truly believe we’re making the world a better place for small businesses, and we want you to be a part of that mission.
Your role 🙋
Beyond being just a manager of the engineering team, you will be a key team player. Being hands on with the code, but with the skills and experience to discuss solutions, evaluate code and having the capacity to assist the team when needed. You will balance everything related to code quality, time to market and ensure the team delivers top quality software following best practices.
Your responsibilities 💪
In this role you’ll:
Your qualifications 👨🎓 * What we need to see: * Experience at developing, mentoring and growing a high performing team * A desire to spend a significant percentage of your time close to the code * Excellent communication skills * A proven track record of successfully leading teams and delivering new products, preferably in complex and high transaction fintech and/or banking environment
What we’d love to see: * Golang expertise * Experience from high growth fintechs * Experience from the ecommerce space
Your tool stack 💻 Mac. Chrome. Even… Windows. Choose the hardware that helps you work best. We’ll also support whatever software you need. From Miro to Slack and everything in between.
Tech stack * * React, Javascript/Typescript * * Go * * gRPC (Protocol buffers) * * PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Redis * * Kafka * * Kubernetes, AWS
Your people 👥 Forget office-based culture. This is people-first culture. We’re real. We never wait. We care deeply. About building better for our customers and each other. About doing something that’s never been done before. Here, you can work with people at the top of their game, who didn’t get there by playing games. You can help us change business, change banking, change the world – wherever in the world you may be.
Your benefits 😍 We’re born remote-first. Transparent. Caring. Empowering. So our benefits are too. The good stuff: * Hello work. Meet freedom. Join us anywhere within 6 hours of Sweden. * Swap 2D for 3D. Meet the team IRL at fun onsites every quarter. * Work with the best people for the job. Not the best people within 1 hour’s commute. * Diversity is at our core. We’re part Swedish. Part British. Part French. Part Italian. Part Hungarian. Part Canadian. Part Spanish. You get the idea. * Great players can stay great players. Progress your career whether you choose to manage people or not. * Get support to switch things up. People change. Careers can too.
The really good stuff: * Happiness stipend. The best things in life are free. But money can buy you a herd of puppies. Get €8,500 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy. * Work al desko. Get €500 a month towards a co-working space. * Stock options. We can’t promise you’ll make a fortune. But we’ll give it our very best shot. * Vacation days. At least 30 per year as standard. Awesome. * Global health insurance. You know. Just in case. * Get sick? No stress. Feel better with unlimited sick leave.
Free your nine to five 🤘 Hit apply and help us be the financial companion of choice for digital entrepreneurs.
The process 📅 CV screening > Get to know us call > CTO interview > Tech interview > Values interview > Offer (for some roles we’ll include a task, but we’ll notify you if this is the case)
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**WHO WE ARE? **
Our mission started in the UK and we're currently one of the top startups to work for in the UK and Europe.
We’re now looking for outstanding Senior Software Engineers to join our new engineering team that we will be building in Canada. As one of our first Canada-based engineering hires you will have a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the product and the team we hire, you'll be working 100% remotely and cross-collaborating with our engineers based in the EU and UK. This will enable us to diversify our talent distribution and bring in some of the world's best engineers to build Form3's revolutionary payment technology platform.
THE TEAM
All our engineers work within small, agile, self-managed teams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility. They favour collaborative development and leverage open-source tools and communities, whilst making sure to share their know-how back up stream.
**THE ROLE **
At Form3 you will have the opportunity to design, develop and deploy backend cloud-native services within a containerised microservices architecture. The work is cutting edge, constantly changing and focused on building and operating critical, highly available, low latency, scalable solutions.
Play an active role in introducing new technologies and ways of working to stay ahead of the competition, without ever compromising on quality. Contribute and collaborate with other engineers on technical and architectural decisions. Enjoy end-to-end ownership from concept to deployment, including building and operating infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines. Develop your skills, work on cool projects with the latest tech, all whilst working with a talented, diverse and friendly group of people.
Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:
**WE’RE LOOKING FOR ENGINEERS WITH **
BENEFITS
Please note that all our engineering teams are currently based in the EU and UK. Due to time-zone differences and working practicalities, we’re only able to hire Engineers based in Canada East timezones or based in Canada and able to work close to GMT-4. However, this may change in the future as we start streamlining some of our internal structure and recruitment processes in Canada.
**ABOUT US **
We are an award-winning cloud-native payment technology provider for financially regulated institutions. Launched in 2016, we've doubled in size year on year as we continue to redefine what a truly instant payment experience means.
We celebrate diversity, promote entrepreneurialism and are committed to giving everyone a say in shaping our business. Here you will grow as a person and accomplish incredible things. A career at Form3 is empowering, inspiring and fun. Join us and help shape the future of payments.
**EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES **
At Form3 we embrace equal opportunity and are committed to building a diverse team of exceptional individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status and it is our strong belief that the more inclusive we are as a business, the better our work will be
Our mission is to help software teams get more done. Over the past decade there has been an explosion of specialized tooling in the enterprise. It’s putting the burden on each of us to jump between different apps and tabs to get our work done and at the end of the day we’re wasting valuable time. We believe there is a better way. Our ambition is bold: build the best platform for software teams to get their work done.
We’re just getting started and are looking to grow the team to help us accomplish our mission. We love what we do and are motivated by working on a product that we enjoy using ourselves. You would have an immediate impact as a builder and user influencing product. You would join the early team as a founding engineer and have full ownership working closely with our founders. Come join us!
Who we’re looking for We are looking for a full-time backend engineer. Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building event driven micro-services or service oriented architectures and has built most facets, if not all, in a twelve-factor app. Preference is for real experience (2+ years) in our primary language of Golang, but other languages are considered when able to quickly pick up new technologies. Additional experience in integrating with 3rd party systems, event-driven architecture, databases, and cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc) are important.
You will directly influence how and what to build, and must be comfortable collaborating on the architecture, code, product, etc as we have a strong culture of devops as well as being technically curious, thoughtful and purposeful in what we build. We value deploying frequently with well-written, maintainable, instrumented and tested code to a kubernetes cluster.
**Responsibilities: ** * Develop new products and features in a small team * Collaboration with the team to solve technical problems and help shape the product direction * Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features * Review other software engineers' code for correctness, style, and completeness * Support your team's production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report * Write integration tests and work with our product team to ensure the operation and correctness of new features
Requirements: * 5+ years of backend engineering in a distributed systems * 2+ years in Golang or 5+ using several languages you were able to quickly pick up * Strong knowledge of a variety of database systems (Graph, relational etc.) * Experience working with 3rd party APIs and OAuth * Comfortable with strong dev ops culture * Strong communication skills in English and experience working as part of a remote team * Need to be located in timezones UTC-4 through UTC-8 (The Americas) * Excited to travel internationally for company retreats (twice a year) * Favorite Ted Lasso quote
Who Are We? We love what we do: designing and building great products. But our work isn't the only thing that defines us. We're not trying to create some semi-cult to get people to work here. We simply enjoy working together and building useful and beautiful software for our customers. We’re a venture-backed, pre-launch startup and are looking for someone who is excited about this stage of building a product and having a real impact on the company’s success.
You would join a group of repeat founders. We have founded and worked at startups that raised a bunch of money from top VCs. While that has its advantages (hire lots of amazing people, spend money on ads and cool perks…) it also puts a company on a very narrow success path. It's very binary, since venture investors have a binary return profile (they succeed if their investments sell for billions). So we decided to do it a little differently this time. Where growth isn't the only goal of a company. Where it's balanced with the goal of being default-alive and capital-efficient which leaves doors open and avoids the trap of forced binary outcomes.