This page welcomes you to join Dwarves Foundation, a team crafting innovative software with a focus on quality and community. Learn about open roles, perks, and how to apply to become part of our woodland crew.

👋 Join the Dwarves

Join the Dwarves

Thanh Pham leads blockchain initiatives at Dwarves Foundation with a focus on building web3 products. His mentorship emphasizes the importance of logical thinking and long-term value creation in blockchain development.

Thanh Pham

Meet mentor Thanh Pham

Tuan Dao is a Senior Frontend/Blockchain engineer with 4+ years of experience known for his technical expertise in React. His mentoring approach focuses on creating a supportive environment where apprentices receive personalized guidance to develop their technical and professional skills.

Tuan Dao

Meet mentor Tuan Dao

The Apprentice program is a six-month earn-and-learn training experience for aspiring software developers to gain professional skills working on real projects. Participants receive mentorship, develop technical and professional capabilities, and learn state-of-the-art engineering practices through hands-on work.

Apprentice program

Spring Internship 2019

Quality exists in every piece of work. We thrive to deliver the best because we can.

Manifesto

We're a team combining tech skills, problem-solving, and clear communication. We help businesses overcome challenges by finding root causes, creating practical solutions, and working closely with clients to implement them effectively.

💼 Consulting team

We helped Aharooms create a suite of digital tools that enables small hotels in Vietnam to improve operations, increase bookings, and boost revenue, especially during the challenging COVID-19 period when adaptation was crucial.

Aharooms

Building a complete tech system for small Vietnamese hotels

We built AirWatt's system that uses artificial intelligence to track how businesses use electricity, helping them save money and prevent equipment problems.

AirWatt

Creating a smart system to monitor electricity Use

We helped Droppii upgrade their e-commerce platform with a new user-friendly version that makes dropshipping easier for businesses. Working together, we built Droppii for Business v3.0 with a better dashboard, simplified content management, and improved business tools that led to positive user feedback and stronger market position.

Droppii

Helping Droppii build a better dropshipping platform that users love

We helped Momos, a pre-seed startup in Singapore, build their first MVP, a centralized data hub that simplifies online operations for food and beverage businesses through third-party integrations and data analytics.

Momos

Building a central hub for food and beverage businesses in Singapore

We helped Mudah.my switch from an outdated system to a modern, faster one that can handle more users and grow with their business.

Mudah

Upgrading Malaysia's largest online marketplace

We helped Setel expand their fuel payment app into a full-featured platform that makes refueling simple for Malaysian drivers. Our team built the conversion features that bring new users to the platform through deals, vouchers, and targeted marketing.

Setel

Building Setel's fuel payment super-app for Malaysian drivers

We helped Tokenomy create a robust web platform and Android app that allows users to easily invest in cryptocurrency. Our work enabled them to launch on schedule, reach more customers, and establish themselves in the competitive crypto market.

Tokenomy

Building a modern crypto investment platform for Tokenomy

We helped CJC create Voconic, a cloud platform that makes it easy for financial companies to deploy complex systems with just a few clicks, reducing manual effort and errors while working across different cloud providers.

Voconic

Building Voconic's cloud platform with Google for financial services

guidelines for project collaboraton DF and Client

Collaboration Guideline

Fixed-Budget, Scope-Controlled (FBSC) is applied at Atomic Object.

Fixed Budget Scope Controlled

What skills that an engineer should have in order to work with client effectively?

How to work with clients

Partnering with Dwarves is not just a collaboration, it's a strategic investment in trust, network and business growth. Being our partners mean sharing opportunities, resources, connections and scaling up together.

Partners Network

Service feedbacks

The concept of the adjacent possible originates from Stuart Kauffman and his work on biological evolution.

The Adjacent Possible

Home

A collection of thoughts, principles, and experiences that define our culture beyond what's written in the handbook. These articles explore different aspects of how we work, make decisions, and build a community of exceptional engineers.

Notes on our culture

Strategic guidance on purposeful hiring - hire for actual needs rather than scaling, understand the role deeply before posting a job, and recognize when additional help is truly needed to maintain quality.

A tips of hiring - Do & Don't

Effective client relationship management through flexible planning, thoughtful communication, service quality, and balancing toughness with empathy to build lasting partnerships.

Account management strategies

Burnout happens like burning the candle at both ends. But you get to select what time to pull the plug and replace with a new one.

Avoid burn out

We want to make impacts or influence people in some ways. That doesn't happen if we wait for the right moment because there isn't. Taking the shot means opening the door to mistakes and failures, and that's a good thing. We learn from them.

Beyond the title

Practical tips to find focus in our constantly connected world, including spending time alone, removing background noise, embracing quiet moments, and creating productive morning routines.

Blocking distraction

It's in human nature to instantly lose their mind when things get hard, and somehow they split nasty things that can't be undone. So, to reduce the ratio of unnecessary conflicts, let's make the feedback great again.

Constructive feedback

For the past 5 years, we didn't have something called 'Culture Book'. Whenever a newbie steps in, it's natural to pick up the job and go with the flow. We hardly force them into other periodical office traps like team-bonding activities or late night drinks.

The Dwarves culture handbook

Here's the culture test created during the market challenges of late 2024. It is designed to highlight and reinforce the cultural values at Dwarves Foundation. It’s a chance to reflect, share, and show how you fit into our team.

The culture test

Delegating work does not absolve you of responsibility. In the case of a failure, the blame is all yours. Investors will go after the CEO, even if an intern made the mistake that hurt the company.

Delegate work, not responsibility

We can't always make things (or everything) on our own. If that somehow truly happens, then Inc, Corp, Enterprise or Group won't stand a chance with Freelancers. So why delegating?

Delegation and believe it will work

Focus on shipping when you are struggling with what to do next to be better as a software engineer. When you ship something new, users will try out your build and give you feedback.

Focus on delivery

A couple days ago, I was asked if I were ever a product person, what would I do to make the best out of it. It took me a while. I mean, I've never walked in this shoe before. Wth is a product person? I wondered. And I started digging. Here it is, "Making sure your product/ thing shipped out flawlessly." A perfectionist mindset.

Go the extra mile

Growth Is Our Universal Language

Sustainable growth companies are built by teams of shining constellations rather than just several bright stars. It all starts with recruiting.

Building a solid high performing team

I would like to introduce to you our new initiative called **OGIF**, Oh God It's Friday. Moving forward, our Friday Showcase will have a broader range of topics to discuss and share.

OGIF - Oh God It's Friday

People thrive when they believe in what they create, not from fake happiness programs. We value individual contributions, hire based on skills rather than background, promote knowledge sharing, and focus on meaningful work.

How people matter should work

These red flags are things we don’t want to see in our peeps. Even when you think they are improper, don’t waste your time with a wrong group of people.

Red flags

The concept of an "inner circle" within a company is not a new one, and at Dwarves, a software company founded by a group of engineers, this idea holds a significant value.

The inner circle

Productivity

Software Quality

Open Source

Liquidity

It all started when us, a couple of product people realized with our expertise in technology, our passion for outstanding software, we have the ability to uplift like-minded founders by helping them build and launch their startups. The idea became clearer when our network of makers, industry experts and investors broadened steadily.

Dwarves Ventures Fund 0

In a span of over 2 years, we tested multiple models of investment with 8 portfolio companies.2021, we are finally confident and ready. Dwarves Ventures is officially on the map with our Fund 1.

Dwarves Ventures Fund 1

A comprehensive guide to who we are, how we work, and what we believe

📔 Handbook

Dwarves Handbook

How we blend software consulting with an open learning community where tech enthusiasts share knowledge, collaborate, and grow together.

As a community

Dwarves as a community

Since most Dwarves Foundation employees work in Saigon, this section is written with that as the default. Some benefits don't make sense in other countries. We will try our best to provide comparable benefits and perks as it makes sense, though...

Benefits & perks

Discover how ICY, our community token, rewards contributions and builds engagement within the Dwarves ecosystem. Learn how you can earn, use, and benefit from this innovative web3 experiment.

🧊 ICY Token

Memo is where we share everything we learn, build, and think about product craftsmanship, engineering, and our culture. It's our commitment to learning in public.

Memo

Memo Handbook

Our commitment to ethical standards and compliance

Compliance

Every team member embodies our values and represents our brand in every interaction.

You are Dwarves Foundation

Common questions (and answers) about working with us

FAQs

From day one to finding your purpose, your journey with Dwarves Foundation starts here.

💎 Getting started

Meetings are important, but they need structure to be productive. This guide covers the essentials for running meetings smoothly, respecting everyone's time, and getting things done.

How to conduct a meeting

A step-by-step guide to setting up your @d.foundation email alias to send and receive mail directly within your personal Gmail account.

Configure your company email

To make working together flexible and productive, we follow a few simple rules for meetings and group work. Here's how we keep meetings effective.

Effective meetings

A guide to the Non-Disclosure, Non-Solicitation, and IP agreements you signed when joining Dwarves.

NDA & Agreements

Understanding your NDA & other agreements

Strong relationships are core to our culture, and 1-on-1 meetings are how we build them. Managers meet with direct reports regularly (usually weekly) to connect. Here's how we do 1-on-1s and tips to make them count.

1-on-1 meetings

Hiring means we need help. We only hire people who tell us what to do, not the other way around. We always look for long-term teammates that why we want to ensure the new hire is a value fit and culture fit.

How we hire

We do the business to provide engineering capabilities to help customers on their business. A part of the benefits package is the Stock Option Plan, and the money is the sensitive topic in most companies, but we want you to understand so you could commit your best to make Dwarves Foundation a right place to work.

How we spend money

We organize our work in 8-week cycles with a focus on autonomy and craftsmanship. This framework helps us deliver high-quality software while maintaining flexibility and work-life balance.

How we work

How we balance remote and office work at Dwarves

Hybrid Working

This page explains our knowledge base, which is basically our team's shared brain where we keep important stuff. Using it helps us work smarter together and makes sure we don't lose good ideas or lessons learned.

Knowledge base

Our second brain

Forget the typical tech industry churn. Here's how you can actually build a lasting career and master your craft at Dwarves Foundation.

Making a career

Marketing assets

We measure what matters at Dwarves through MMA (Mastery, Meaning, Autonomy). This framework helps us evaluate growth while creating a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute meaningfully.

We support your growth through side projects while ensuring they don't conflict with your work at Dwarves Foundation. This policy helps you balance outside work with your primary responsibilities.

Moonlighting

We serve a single purpose, to empower innovations and co-create the next big things.

Purpose

Our purpose

How we structure our time to maximize creativity, productivity, and balance

Work routine

Keeping laptops and phones secure is vitally important. We're a software company and many of us have access to secure systems (both our own and our customers). The following guidelines apply to how we physically secure our laptops and mobile devices that may contain customer or user data.

Security rules

Tools and systems

How we invest in and build the future through our ventures initiatives

Ventures arm

How we empower innovation through software craftsmanship and build products that matter

What we stand for

Our core values guide our strategies and individual actions so that we create a company whose character is as radical as our work.

What we value

Figuring out who to ask about a specific issue or question shouldn't be a guessing game. This guide outlines our main areas of focus and who helps lead them.

Who does what

Playbook

Dwarves Playbook

We use the AARRR framework to measure and optimize every phase of a product by optimizing it through the insane focus on one metric at a time.

aarrr

Design sprint mostly applied to the Exploration phase. Friday is usually Education event or Lab projects at Dwarves Design, learning and continuous professional and personal development are in the core of our DNA. No one wants to settle, everyone wants to take the next step forward.

Design Sprint

Lean Canvas is an adaptation of Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder which Ash Maurya created in the Lean Startup spirit (Fast, Concise and Effective startup). Lean Canvas promises an actionable and entrepreneur-focused business plan. It focuses on problems, solutions, key metrics, and competitive advantages.

Lean Canvas

Our path with Basecamp didn't cross by accident. Years ago, we embarked on the Slack community and had it applied for internal communication. And project management on another tool, where documents & files are in G-suite.

Adjust The Way We Work In Basecamp Style

Simple operational guidelines for efficiency - outsource what we're not great at, automate repetitive tasks, avoid bottlenecks through broad access, and use existing solutions before building custom ones.

Bric A Brac

This checklist is for administrators and employee to manage company's assets.

Assets

This checklist illustrates the process of billing approval.

Billing

The checklist will show how to evaluate a candidate.

Candidate

The checklist presents the process of contract evaluation.

Consulting Contract

The checklist presents how the hiring is proceeded.

Hiring

The process when an employee offboard from the team.

Offboarding

What we have to do when a new employee come to our team.

Onboarding

The checklist shows the process of project handover

Project Handover

The checklist shows the process of project initialization

Project Initialization

The checklist of unemployment, social, health insurance

Unemployment, Social, Health Insurance

Vietnam Invoice

Hire people who tell us what to do, not the other way around.

Hiring Approach

Operations is a very sensitive area of the company, so be very picky. A great ops person can dramatically improve the way your company works and make your life a lot easier.

Hiring For Operations Team

Performance is a final value that will be calculated from other metrics. This value will help to indicate how good all the activities we've done to make the company could grow.

tieubao

Contributions