Senior engineers,
not just coders
KStar Capitals was founded in 2024 by engineers who were frustrated with the agency model. Bad code. Junior-heavy teams hidden behind senior account managers. Engagements that optimized for billable hours over outcomes.
We built KStar Capitals on a simple premise: every person on your project is a senior engineer who has shipped real products to real users. No bait-and-switch. No handoffs to cheaper teams offshore. Just excellent engineers doing excellent work.
How we think and work
Not a poster on the wall — principles we actually use to make decisions.
Engineering Craft
We care deeply about code quality, architecture, and the craft of building software. Clean abstractions, thoughtful APIs, and maintainable code aren't optional — they're the minimum.
Radical Transparency
No vanity metrics, no spin. We communicate clearly about progress, risks, and tradeoffs. Bad news delivered early is a feature, not a bug.
Long-term Thinking
We optimize for the 3-year outcome, not the demo. Shortcuts that create technical debt are rarely worth taking. We'd rather argue for more time than ship something fragile.
People Over Process
Great software is built by great people working well together. We invest in hiring, mentorship, and team culture because the quality of the team determines the quality of the output.
Who you'll work with
Real engineers with real production experience. No juniors, no bait-and-switch.
Alex Chen
Co-Founder & CTO
Previously Staff Engineer at Stripe. Distributed systems obsessive.
Sarah Kim
VP Engineering
Former Engineering Director at Vercel. Next.js contributor.
Marcus Webb
Principal ML Engineer
Ex-Google Brain. PyTorch contributor. LLM deployment specialist.
Priya Sharma
Principal Database Engineer
PostgreSQL internals expert. Previously at Supabase.
Tom Rivera
Staff DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes contributor. Built internal platforms at Cloudflare.
Jordan Lee
Head of Security
OSCP certified. Previously penetration testing at Mandiant.
Join the team
We're always looking for senior engineers who care about craft, enjoy complex problems, and want to work on a wide variety of interesting systems.