Work With Us
Marchenco makes complicated product work feel simple. Companies hire us to cut through complexity and ship one clean, focused product — product, backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure with clear ownership.
Senior product and engineering ownership across the whole stack: fewer handoffs, fewer meetings, and a clean path from framing to production.
What We Do
- Define and manage the product — Discovery, scoping, roadmap, and delivery. We decide what to build with you, cut what doesn't earn its place, and keep the plan honest as the work lands.
- Build the v1 — Turn an idea into a working product in production. Architecture, data model, backend, frontend, infra, deploy. Real users, real load, real numbers.
- Cut through complexity — Sprawling system, tangled product, stalled migration, data nobody can untangle. We find the real problem, narrow the scope, and ship something clean in its place.
- Be your fractional founding engineer — own the product and technical arc with a founding team through the next milestone. A few days a week, async, no standups. Set the bar, ship the hard parts, hand off cleanly.
- Data and geospatial systems — Postgres, PostGIS, H3, DuckDB, large spatial workloads. SQL-first, years of production scars.
Engagement Shapes
- Project build — Fixed scope, fixed end date, working software at the end.
- Sprint — One to three weeks. A working proof, not a deck.
- Embedded — A few days a week, ongoing, treated as part of the team, with a defined scope per month.
- Advisory + hands-on — Product and system design, with us in the codebase when it matters. Cadence depends on the problem.
Sprints and project builds are scoped upfront, so the work is clear before it starts.
Who We're a Fit For
- Operators with a product or system that has grown messier than the business needs it to be.
- Founders pre- or post-PMF who need a real builder on the v1 — not a team to manage.
- Companies between hires who need work shipped, not another seat to fill.
- Teams with a hard, narrowly scoped problem — messy real-world data, scale, geospatial, performance.
Who We're Not a Fit For
- Pure architecture roles with no code.
- IC seats with no ownership.
- Layers of approval before anything ships.
- Maintenance with no room to simplify.
What You Get
- Someone who treats the work like an owner, not a contractor.
- Working software, fast. A POC same-day where it makes sense; production quality on the timeline we agree.
- Collaboration that matches your team. Async-first to keep your meeting load and costs down — written updates, demos, SQL, and data samples carry the work — with calls, pairing, or daily check-ins whenever they move things faster. (One engagement has run entirely in writing for two years and kept shipping; we flex to your cadence, not the reverse.)
- A clean handoff. Code, docs, and decisions in a state your team can actually run with.
- References from current and recent engagements available on request.
Start a Project
If you have a product to build, a system to simplify, or a data layer that needs to actually work — send a short note covering:
- The problem and what "done" looks like
- Rough timeline and any hard deadlines
- What's already in place (stack, data, team, repos)
A few sentences is enough. We'll write back with whether it's a fit, what an engagement would look like, and the next step.