A small senior engineering studio. We work with founders and product teams who already know what to build — and need it built right.
We're deliberately small — eight senior people, no juniors, no account managers. Every project is staffed with the same partners who pitched it.
End-to-end build of your web or mobile product. TypeScript, React, Swift, Kotlin. We embed with your team for 8–16 weeks and ship working software.
The last 20% of polish that no one else will touch. Motion, micro-interactions, density, fit-and-finish — written in production code, not Figma.
We've shipped 11 production AI products. We know where chat fails, where canvases shine, and how to ship evals that actually catch regressions.
Inherited a codebase that's slowing you down? We pair with your team for 4–8 weeks, write the audit, then do the work alongside you.
When your product hits real load and the seams start showing — we re-architect for the next 10×. Database scaling, caching, observability, and the unglamorous infrastructure work that keeps things up.
We keep the team small, the surface area small, and the standards high. Build with care, leave the place better, and don't make a fuss about it.
We start by understanding your business, your customers, and the constraints you can't change. No discovery theater.
We propose the smallest meaningful slice. One screen, one flow, one demo. Clarity before scope.
We design and engineer in parallel, in the same room. Prototypes are real code by week two.
We hand over running software, not Figmas. We stay involved through launch, then for 30 days after.
Kirin is a senior-only software engineering studio based in Munich, Germany. The team is eight senior engineers and designers — no juniors, no account managers — building product engineering, design engineering, AI interfaces, audits, and scale work for founders and product teams who already know what to build.
Three differences. First, no juniors — every project is staffed entirely by senior people. Second, no account managers — the partners who pitch the work do the work. Third, one client at a time — Kirin embeds rather than juggling a portfolio.
Product engineering and design engineering engagements run 8–16 weeks. Audit and refactor engagements run 4–8 weeks. Build-for-scale work varies with scope.
Design engineering is the last 20% of polish — motion, micro-interactions, density, fit-and-finish — written in production code rather than Figma. A frontend engineer implements specs; a design engineer makes design decisions in code.
TypeScript and React on the web, Swift on iOS, Kotlin on Android. For AI products, Kirin has shipped against most major LLM providers and orchestration frameworks across eleven production AI products.
Email hello@gokirin.com or submit the contact form below. Kirin replies within two business days.