Flexibits careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Flexibits makes Fantastical, the calendar app known for its natural language parser (type "Lunch with Sara on Friday at noon" and the event just appears), and Cardhop, its contacts companion. Fantastical launched on the Mac in 2011 and iPhone in 2012, moved to a subscription model with Fantastical 3 in 2020, and by 2022 had millions of registered users. In October 2024 the company shipped Fantastical for Windows at full feature parity with the Mac app, its first product outside the Apple ecosystem. Flexibits Premium bundles Fantastical and Cardhop across devices, and the company also sells scheduling features (Openings) to teams.

The company was founded in 2011 by Michael Simmons and Kent Sutherland and has stayed small and independent for its whole life; no funding rounds have ever been announced. It is a fully remote team working across the US, Europe (UK, Germany, Italy and Greece), Canada and South Africa, and its jobs page says it welcomes people from around the world while preferring time zones between US Pacific and Central European Time.

Michael Simmons, Co-founder and CEO. Nearly 15 years in the Apple software world before starting Flexibits in 2011, with earlier positions at Apple itself, Ambrosia Software and Cultured Code (makers of Things). He has been the public face of Fantastical since the first Mac release and still runs the company as CEO.

Kent Sutherland, Co-founder. The engineer behind Flexibits' natural language parsing engine, the technology Fantastical was built around; Simmons has said the idea for Fantastical came directly from Sutherland's parser work. Co-founded the company in 2011.

You work on an app people genuinely love: Fantastical has been a critics' favorite for over a decade, and the jobs page pitches the role plainly as "working on an app lots of people rely on and love (and you can make them love it even more!)". The team is small, so the current Android opening is not a seat on a large org chart; it is bringing Fantastical to Android, from the natural language parser to the user interface, largely as your own project.

Flexibits is remote by default and trust-based: postings ask for people who are self-motivated and able to work on their own ("we're remote, and we trust you to do an awesome job!"), effective at both real-time and async communication. The team still meets in person, with occasional travel to "a fun place" for team meetings. Full-time positions include reimbursable health insurance plan expenses, plus a 401(k) for US employees.

The company's about page frames the product philosophy as removing frustration: "We're users too, so we know what a good user experience should be." That carries into hiring; the Android posting wants a critical eye for UI/UX detail, a desire to always improve things for the user, and the judgment to weigh "getting it done" against "doing it right". Loving the apps already is explicitly a plus.

Expect a small-company rhythm rather than process: Flexibits has shipped at its own pace since 2011, spent four years polishing Fantastical across Apple platforms before deciding to build the Windows version, and founder Michael Simmons has told press the product's edge is simply that the team sweats quality. Communication is in English, written proficiency required, across a team spread from the US Pacific coast to Central Europe.

There is no ATS and no application form. The jobs page asks you to email the team telling them a bit about yourself, your salary expectations and why you want to work at Flexibits, with your resume attached. As of October 2026 there is one opening, Software Engineer (Android), a full-time 40 hours a week remote role.

The Android posting is specific about requirements: experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, experience with large screen development on Android, comfort with Git including on the command line, self-motivation for remote work, and working reading and writing proficiency in English. Flexibits does not publish pay bands; salary expectations are part of your application email. No interview process is published.