A small studio, built to do serious work.
Smiling Boy is a software studio. We help SaaS teams build and ship their product — and the integrations, payments and data systems behind it. We also work with established organizations modernizing systems that have been running for years, where what's needed is a technical counterpart you can talk to directly. We keep the work senior and the team small on purpose, and we're growing deliberately, one great engagement at a time.
No handoffs. You work with the engineers doing the work.
- Focus
- SaaS, integrations & data
- Experience
- Senior engineering · 10+ yrs
- Engagements
- Fixed-scope · Retainer
- Based
- United States · working worldwide
The studio's engineering comes from over a decade of building and shipping software products — SaaS platforms and the integrations behind them (payments, third-party APIs, webhooks), plus data and ML systems inside large-scale fintech, semiconductor and electronics-distribution companies.
We also build and ship our own SaaS products, so we know the full path — from a rough idea to something real people use in production, with the messy integrations and edge cases that come with it.
Every engagement is run by the senior engineers doing the work. No account managers in the middle, and no handoff to a junior team once the contract is signed.