Become a senior engineer
by working like one.
Bring your own code. Eleven AI engineers run your work cycles, review your code changes, and certify how far you've come — on real software, not toy exercises. A job, not a course.
Two ways to start. One standard to meet.
Bring your own codebase, or clone one of ours. From there the week is the same — and so is the team holding the bar.
Choose where you build
No project of your own yet? Clone one of ours, built to professional standards, and ship real features on software made like the real thing.
Work the week with the team
Kickoff calls, real tasks, code changes, reviews. Eleven specialists plan the work and hold you to a senior standard.
Earn your level
Every win is logged against your level and tied to the exact code change that earned it — Level 1 to senior, provable on your own GitHub.
Watch one sprint, Monday to Friday.
The product in motion — a kickoff call on Monday, a clean review by Thursday, and a level you actually earned by Friday. Click any day to jump in.
You don't get a task. You get a conversation.
A real voice kickoff. The team scopes the work with you and pushes on the hard questions before a single line is written — the way good engineering actually starts.
3 engineers on the call · 12 min · sprint 04Nobody hires junior engineers anymore.
AI took over the entry-level work — the simple, repetitive parts of writing code — and the first step on the career ladder quietly disappeared. But every senior engineer was once a junior. Pull out the bottom step, and in ten years there's no one left who can reach the top.
So we rebuild the first rung.
You can't get hired without experience — and you can't get experience without being hired.
We give you the experience first. A real team, real reviews, real proof — so you arrive already trained.
Eleven specialists. The whole team, on your side.
Every role a real engineering team needs — leadership, product, design, build, security and quality. Hover or tap anyone to hear how they talk, and what they'll hold you to.
Adaeze
"What are we shipping this week — and what does done look like?"
Runs your standups and keeps scope honest. She's the one who logs the observation when you've earned a level.
And one more seat: yours. You bring the code; they bring the standard.
From day-one junior to senior, verified.
Five levels, each earned through ability and tied to real work. Hover or tap a level to see what it takes — and the evidence that proves it.
Senior · verified
You direct the work and the AI. Your judgment holds up, and anyone can check the whole record.
It's fair to be skeptical. Here's why it holds up.
You work on real projects — your own or one of ours. Real work cycles, real code changes, real ships. The proof that comes out the other end is proof on real software.
Eleven specialists that review code with depth, run a four-person voice call, and stand by their position on a plan. Eleven roles, eleven voices, eleven standards.
A structured record tied to specific code changes, reviews, and team decisions — one any senior engineer could open, read, and trust.
Walk in aspiring.
Walk out verified.
Not a certificate from a school. A body of real work, a record tied to evidence, and the instincts you only get from being held to a standard.
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A real GitHub track record on software you can show anyone.
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A verified Level 1 → Level 5 backed by the exact work that earned it.
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The experience of a real team that held you accountable.
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Judgment that took five to seven years — compressed into months.
The step is rebuilt. Start climbing.
Blacksmith Experience is free to start. Bring your own project or clone one of ours, and work at your own pace. No application, no gatekeeping — just open it and start your first work cycle whenever you're ready.