Top 29 Benefits of Working at Full Scale

Full Scale has been building engineering teams in the Philippines since 2018, and a lot of our team has been here almost as long. Here are 29 reasons our team members love working for us!

Real Work, Real Growth

1. You work on real projects for real U.S. companies. Full Scale places engineers directly onto client teams like AMC Theatres and SOTA Cloud, building software that ships to actual users. Get the opportunity to work for some of the best startups and enterprise accounts.

2. Our founder is actually a software developer at heart. Matt Watson spent 20+ years as a hands-on CTO before starting Full Scale, including co-founding VinSolutions, which sold for around $150 million. Our leadership understands how to build software at the most technical of levels.

3. Every team is trained on the Product Driven mindset. Full Scale doesn’t just want engineers who take a ticket and write code. Teams are trained to think like product owners: understanding why a feature matters, pushing back when a spec is wrong, and owning outcomes instead of just output. It’s exactly the skill AI cannot do for you.

4. The Spartan Training Academy keeps you current on AI trends. Full Scale runs the program through a live Claude Masterclass series, held multiple times a month. It keeps engineers sharp on modern AI tools even when a client’s own stack moves slowly. Matt’s reasoning is blunt: “I don’t want to get a year down the road and have clients give back half our developers because they never learned AI and now they’re behind the times. We refuse to be in that position.”

5. A Customer Success Manager is actually watching your back. Every engagement has a dedicated CSM whose job includes making sure the team, not just the client, is doing okay. That means catching friction early instead of leaving an engineer to sort out a rough client relationship alone.

Getting You Set Up to Work Your Way

6. Full Scale hands you a company laptop and equipment before you start. No waiting around for gear or working off a personal machine that was never built for the job. We have brand new Macbook Pros for everyone.

7. You get a monthly work-from-home allowance. One of the perks of working at Full Scale is working from home. We also realize that requires fast internet and power. We provide an allowance to help out.

8. You can choose regular employment or independent contractor status. Some engineers prefer contractor status for their own potential tax situation. Full Scale lets you pick the structure that fits your circumstances.

Time Off and Health Coverage

9. You get 10 vacation days and 10 sick days a year. Use them to travel, to recover, or to do nothing at all. Nobody is tracking which one you picked.

10. You get 5 more vacation days after 5 years. Fifteen vacation days a year is the reward for sticking around.

11. You get about 17 paid holidays a year. That includes the standard Philippine public holidays, plus 1 to 2 floating holidays added to that. (This varies year to year.)

12. Maternity and paternity leave follow DOLE requirements. Mothers get 105 days of paid maternity leave under the Expanded Maternity Leave Law, and fathers get 7 days of paid paternity leave under the Paternity Leave Act. We follow what DOLE requires, not a reduced version of it.

13. Health insurance and life insurance start on day one, with unlimited dependents. That means your spouse and every one of your children are covered, not a capped number you had to choose between.

14. You get optical reimbursement. Up to ₱5,000 every two years toward eligible vision expenses.

15. You get medicine reimbursement. Up to ₱5,000 a year to help cover prescribed medications.

16. You have access to a real Mental Health Assistance Program. A confidential Employee Assistance Program, plus counseling and wellness resources through our partnership with the Philippine Mental Health Association, Cebu Chapter. Asking for help here is not something anyone has to hide.

17. You get an annual flu vaccination, on the company. A small thing, run company-wide every year.

18. Full Scale covers a free annual physical exam. A full checkup every year, in addition to the optical and medicine reimbursements above.

Support When Life Gets Hard

19. The Employee Financial Assistance Program is there for emergencies. A cash-assistance loan for employees who run into a genuine financial emergency.

20. Bereavement Financial Assistance helps when the worst happens. If an employee loses an immediate family member, a spouse, child, parent, or sibling, Full Scale provides financial help. Grief is hard enough without a budget spreadsheet on top of it.

Milestones and Celebrations

21. Every employee gets a birthday incentive. A small treat from the company, because birthdays are worth marking even at work.

22. Reach 3, 5, or 10 years and you receive a Service Milestone Award. Real recognition plus a cash gift. Ten years is a long time to keep showing up for the same company, and we are not letting that pass quietly.

23. You get a ₱25,000 bonus for referring someone we hire. Full Scale fills a lot of roles through employee referrals, and if someone you refer gets hired, we pay you for making the introduction.

A Culture Built Around Actually Getting Together

24. You’re part of company-wide events all year long. The Year-End Party, the Cebu Marathon, Wellness Day, Summer Party & Family Day, Sports Fest, and CSR Day, where the whole company shuts down, paid, so employees can run their own volunteer projects across the Philippines. Read the full rundown of our company events.

25. You can join an employee-led club with its own budget. From basketball and running to esports and free diving, every accredited employee club gets an annual budget to actually do things, not just exist on a Slack channel.

26. Full Scale covers a travel subsidy so distance doesn’t keep you out. The team is spread across the Philippines, so eligible employees flying in from outside Cebu for major events get help with the cost, plus reimbursement for approved work travel.

Surprises and Perks

27. You might win tickets to a concert you have wanted to see for years. There is no contest to enter or quiz to pass. The ticket goes to a real fan who actually wants to be there. Employees have gone to see Maroon 5, BLACKPINK, Secondhand Serenade, BINI, and SB19 at Aurora Music Fest, plus a staging of Shrek the Musical. See the full list of concert and show giveaways.

28. You could win a dream vacation just for taking your vacation days. Every employee who uses vacation time during Q3 gets entered, and the winner is announced live at the Year-End Party. It is Full Scale’s way of making sure people actually use the time off instead of banking it and never resting.

29. You might get sent to a developer conference. Full Scale has sponsored employees to attend events like DEVCON and Singapore Tech Week, because staying sharp technically is worth the plane ticket.

Supporting More Than a Career

A great employee experience is more than a paycheck and a line on a benefits sheet. It is the tools to actually do the job, the room to keep learning, and people who notice when something in your life gets hard, not just when a sprint is behind.

That shows up here as a laptop waiting on day one, a marathon finish line with your teammates, a seat at a tech conference, or a text saying you just won tickets to see your favorite artist. All 29 of these point at the same thing. People who are taken care of do better work, and they stick around to keep doing it.

If that sounds like a place you would want to show up to, view our open roles and apply directly. Every position is remote, permanent, and open to candidates anywhere in the Philippines.