Alex McLeod

Founder and CTO @getserval

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

Starting today, every engineer who joins Serval begins with a weeklong, $10,000 paid vacation. We’re building the next generational company. We need generational talent to see it through.

Our mission has always been to empower people across every team to turn their understanding of a problem into working, trustworthy automations. Making that function inside the largest enterprises takes world-class engineering.

That’s what you’d be joining us to do. There are foundational decisions still to make, and the engineers making them will shape the future of how big we can build this company.

We want you to arrive rested and ready to do the best work of your life. So your first week is a chance to get away.

And if a @getserval employee refers you, both you and that employee receive $30,000, on top of the vacation.

Come build with us: https://t.co/OjUgQgjeM0

[Kaz Hishida @khishida]

https://t.co/cv0iZfRYGx

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

We plan to hire hundreds of people over the next year, many of them engineers. Hiring at that pace only works if every person raises the bar somewhere that matters. So before we hire anyone, we ask: where are they better than 50% of the team in a critical area?

The answer looks different at every stage of a career, and we need all of them. Senior engineers matter, and so do early- and mid-career engineers, who are often the most creative in how they use AI to get leverage.

What we look for has also shifted. We’re hiring fewer specialized roles and more founder-shaped people who bring together technical thinking, product thinking, and the ability to work directly with customers.

The one trap I’d flag, especially early on, is skipping the fundamentals. Agents are mostly order takers, so what they build is only as good as the judgment directing them. If you don’t understand the systems you’re building on and the trade-offs being made, quality slips over time.

So where do you beat half the team?

If you have a good answer, I’d like to hear it. We have plenty of hard technical problems to solve → https://t.co/Cafz2hRzJL

I shared more about @getserval and some of our philosophies on Substrate, Transcenda’s show on engineering leadership → https://t.co/saaUuWDF1H

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

One of our core beliefs when starting @getserval was that code is the right foundation for automation.

But before AI, too few people could write high-quality code fast enough to make automating a task worth the effort.

Codegen removed that bottleneck.

@saranormous and @eladgil, two of the best in the business and Serval investors, hosted @jakeserval to talk about what that opens up for enterprise software.

Full conversation → https://t.co/Nv8Dh8BSbm

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

Every company wants to automate more of its work, but a single workflow can take months to build and configure with legacy platforms.

Yesterday I joined @NYSE to talk about how we’re changing that at @getserval and using our $150M Series C to double down on Catalyst, our automation agent, and grow ProServal, our new professional services arm.

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@HarryStebbings @jasonlk @rodriscoll Appreciate the support, Harry. We’re just getting started.

[Clara @cleverett506]

We take onboarding pretty seriously at Serval.

So seriously that every new engineering hire gets a luxury vacation in their first week (up to $10K).

We're also growing incredibly quickly and looking for great engineers to join the team.

Refer a friend and you both get $30K.

[Carlos Lezama @calezama_]

Every engineer who joins Serval spends their first week on a luxury vacation with their own concierge, because we want you to start recharged. Not only that, but if you're referred, you'll each get $30k on top of the trip.

Let's build! https://t.co/NGy5w6r1UH

[Feli Binz @felixwithoutx]

we need you in your prime and SO well rested

real fun starts in week 2. lfg

[Ryan Draper @ryanmakesdrapes]

Easier decision than ever. Join Serval!

[Derek Zheng @derekzhenggg]

your first week at @getserval could be PTO in Hawaii 🏝️

Serval is taking off, and we need more exceptional engineers! not only are we doing a 30 + 30, we're now sending all new eng hires on a $10K luxury vacation!

quick highlights:
- we just raised a $150M Series C @ a $3B valuation, backed by Sequoia, Elad Gil, Conviction, GC, Redpoint, and more
- we're growing rapidly in a huge market (3x'ed ARR last quarter), working on cool problems across code gen, agent systems, browser use, and more

if this interests you, DM me and check out https://t.co/gct1YP3IMe!

[Adnaan Sachidanandan @adnaansach]

We’re serious. Every eng referral at @getserval gets $30k and a fully paid luxury vacation up to $10k in value.

If you’re a cracked engineer who wants to work with one of the strongest teams in the world, my dms are open.

[Jake Stauch @jakeserval]

Every engineer who joins Serval now starts with a paid, week-long vacation. Up to $10,000.

We’re building toward a simple idea: every team should be able to build the way engineers do.

There’s a generational opportunity in front of us.

Come build where it’s still wild.

https://t.co/fd5rvQHlwf

[Pablo @semantic_mess]

There has never been a better time to be an engineer at @getserval. At serval we believe product is everything and great teams build great products.

Every eng hire gets a $10,000 paid vacation along with a $30,000k joining bonus. This has gotta be nuts.

If you’re an engineer looking to solve the hardest problems at the best and fastest growing startup in SF. This is your calling.

JOIN. US. NOW.

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@svpino Salary ranges are on our open roles: https://t.co/ADNar5b68a

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

Starting today, every engineer who joins Serval begins with a weeklong, $10,000 paid vacation. We’re building the next generational company. We need generational talent to see it through.

Our mission has always been to empower people across every team to turn their understanding of a problem into working, trustworthy automations. Making that function inside the largest enterprises takes world-class engineering.

That’s what you’d be joining us to do. There are foundational decisions still to make, and the engineers making them will shape the future of how big we can build this company.

We want you to arrive rested and ready to do the best work of your life. So your first week is a chance to get away.

And if a @getserval employee refers you, both you and that employee receive $30,000, on top of the vacation.

Come build with us: https://t.co/OjUgQgjeM0

[Kaz Hishida @khishida]

https://t.co/cv0iZfRYGx

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@pmitu It's never too late

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@dantrappx If you're referred by a Serval employee, you each get $30K (and the vacation)

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@jakeserval Australia is also heating up this time of year

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

Two years ago, we were a few people in a WeWork. @getserval has now raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation, led by @sequoia.

When @jakeserval and I started Serval, our bet was that LLMs would make code cheap enough to create and maintain that companies could automate far more of their operations, including the long tail of rare, messy, company-specific workflows that were too hard to automate before.

We chose code as the source of truth for workflows. Models are good at writing it, and code is deterministic: teams can read the logic, test how it behaves, and know it will run the same way every time against their systems.

We designed Serval around that review process, with security built in from the start. Catalyst, our automation agent, is available only to admins to build and test workflows before publishing them to the rest of the org. The employee-facing team help agent can call published workflows, but it can’t create new ones or change what they do. Permissions and approvals live inside each workflow, and audit logs record what each one did.

This round lets us double down on Catalyst. When we started, we wanted anyone in a company to be able to automate their work. That’s already happening. Now we’re building what comes next.

More in @FortuneMagazine: https://t.co/Bu8334XqPc

P.S. We're hiring engineers. You’ll work with smart, low-ego people, own difficult problems, and ship to some of the world’s largest enterprises. If that sounds fun to you, we’d like to talk.

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@dougleone Thank you, @dougleone! Appreciate the support!

[Alex McLeod @AlexAtServal]

@HarryStebbings @jakeserval @MattEvantic Excited to have you on board @HarryStebbings!