CMBAbout
World-class software, built from Cameroon.
CMBYTES exists to show something that shouldn’t need showing: that the products people depend on — anywhere in the world — can be designed and engineered here.
01Why we exist
Good software for the problems in front of us.
Cameroon has extraordinary engineering talent, and a long list of problems software should already have solved: savings groups run from notebooks, exam preparation from photocopies, freight booked through a chain of phone calls. Too often, the software that does exist was designed elsewhere — for someone else’s networks, languages and habits.
We started CMBYTES to close that gap from both ends: to build for African realities with the rigour of the best teams anywhere, and to build for clients anywhere with the perspective of engineers who’ve learned to make things work under real constraints.
Constraints are a good teacher. A system that works on a weak network in Bafoussam works everywhere.
02Origins
From Cameroon, for anywhere.
We’re proud of where we’re from, and we don’t ask for allowances because of it. The products we build here are held to the same standard as software built in London, Lagos or San Francisco — and increasingly, they’re used there too.
- Base
- Douala, Cameroon
- 4.05°N 9.77°E
- Time zone
- WAT · UTC+1
- A full working day in common with Europe; mornings with the Americas.
- Languages
- English · Français
- Cameroon is bilingual. So are our products, our docs and our meetings.
- Delivery
- Remote-first
- Written decisions and weekly demos make distance a detail.
03Principles
What we hold ourselves to.
Five ideas we use to settle arguments, review code and decide who to hire.
- 01
Craft
We care how things are made, not only whether they work: clear interfaces, careful words, code we're proud to hand over.
- 02
Ownership
We own outcomes, not tickets. If something we built misbehaves at 2 a.m., it's our problem too.
- 03
Simplicity
The simplest design that meets the requirement wins. Every layer of complexity has to earn its place.
- 04
Reliability
We build for a system's third year. Predictable, boring production is the goal — and the compliment.
- 05
Continuous learning
Reviews that teach, time to go deep, and the habit of writing down what we learn so the next person starts ahead.
04Careers
Do the best work of your career. From here.
We hire engineers, designers and product people who care about craft and want hard problems. We look less at which frameworks you know and more at how you think.
Small, senior teams
Three to six people who own an outcome end to end, with the client, from discovery to production.
Decisions in writing
Short design docs for anything hard to reverse. Anyone can catch up in an afternoon.
Working software, weekly
Every week we demo something that runs. No slideware, no surprises at the end of a phase.
Reviews that teach
Every change is reviewed, and reviewers explain the why. It's how juniors become seniors here.