Small studio.
Senior people.
Shukudai Labs was founded on a simple belief: every business deserves technology built around its own vision. Not a template, and not a junior team learning on your budget.
shuku
to stay, a lodging
dai
a subject, a question
Why “shukudai”?
宿題 is Japanese for homework: the work you take home, do properly and hand in finished. That is the whole promise. You bring us the hard, unglamorous engineering problems; we bring them back working, documented and easy to keep running.
- Reading
- shu · ku · dai
- Means
- Homework
- In practice
- The work you take home, do properly and hand in finished
- 01
Senior hands only
The engineers you meet on the first call are the ones who write the code. No bench, no substitutions.
- 02
Handed in finished
Done means running in production with tests, dashboards, runbooks and a handover, not a demo.
- 03
Show our working
Decisions, trade-offs and diagrams are written down as we go, so your team can pick things up without us.
Four stages, one team.
The same people from the first call to the last deploy, with no hand-offs between stages.
- 01
Discover
Understand the domain before the code.
- 02
Design
Architecture and UI, sketched and agreed.
- 03
Build
Small increments, reviewed and tested.
- 04
Run
Observed, on call, handed over properly.
Tell us what needs doing.
We take it on, hand it in finished and show our working along the way. A senior engineer reads every message.
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