Join the DOGE Team
The people we need don't work at Deloitte.
Government spends billions on technology. Most of it fails. Not because the problems are hard — but because the wrong people are solving them.
The builders. The fixers. The people who actually ship software that works — they're at startups, scale-ups, open source projects. They would never consider government work. And honestly? Who can blame them.
We're changing that.
What is DOGE?
DOGE is a team of young builders and investigators dedicated to fixing the biggest failures in European government — from the inside out.
We don't write reports. We don't run workshops. We don't bill hours.
We investigate what's broken. We build what's needed. We ship it.
A department that runs like a startup.
Why would you work for government?
Seriously. Here's why.
Distribution is solved.
Every startup dreams of millions of users. Government already has them. Build a court case tracker? 11 million Belgians need it. Fix a tax portal? Every citizen uses it. You don't need product-market fit — the market is everyone.
The problems are real.
No one is asking you to optimize ad clicks or build another SaaS dashboard. Citizens can't check their court cases online. Teachers spend more time on paperwork than teaching. Police still use systems from 2005. These are problems worth solving.
Your work matters.
Not “we increased engagement by 3%” matters. “My mom uses this to check her pension” matters. “This saved the government €50M” matters. Impact you can point to.
You'll actually ship.
No 3-year procurement cycles. No death by committee. DOGE operates with startup speed and government scale. You investigate, you build, you deploy.
What we're looking for
Builders
Full-stack developers, designers, data engineers who ship fast. You've built things people use. You're tired of building things that don't matter.
Investigators
Journalists, researchers, data analysts who dig deep. You follow the money. You find what others miss. You make the complex understandable.
Fixers
Product people, ops people, anyone who sees broken systems and can't help but fix them. You've turned chaos into something that works.
What you won't find here
- ✕No bureaucratic frameworks
- ✕No 47-page tender documents
- ✕No subcontracting chains where accountability disappears
- ✕No Powerpoint culture
- ✕No burning out in silence
What you will find
- ✓Ownership — Your project, your code, your impact
- ✓Speed — Investigate Monday, prototype Wednesday, ship Friday
- ✓Mission — Work that genuinely affects millions of people
- ✓Autonomy — We trust you to figure it out
- ✓Open source — Everything we build is public. Your work speaks for itself
- ✓A team that gives a shit — People with moral ambition, not career ambition
How it works
Apply
Tell us what's broken and how you'd fix it
Investigate
Pick a case, dig in, understand the problem
Build
Prototype a solution in weeks, not years
Ship
Deploy to real citizens, measure real impact
Repeat
Next problem. Keep going.
Current investigations
These aren't hypotheticals. This is real money, real failure, real citizens affected. And we're building the alternatives.
The pitch
You're 25. You can build. You want your work to matter.
Option A: Join a consulting firm. Bill hours. Make slides. Watch your “deliverables” collect dust on a SharePoint nobody opens.
Option B: Join DOGE. Investigate a €75M failure. Build the replacement. Ship it to 11 million people. Put it on your GitHub.
We know which one we'd pick.
Apply
Tell us:
- What's the most broken thing in government you've seen?
- How would you fix it?
- Link to something you've built.
That's it. No CV. No cover letter. No “tell us about a time you demonstrated leadership.”