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PostHog is open-source, developer-friendly product analytics.

We had the most succesful b2b software HackerNews launch since 2012, we've got 1.7K stars on our repo right now, hundreds of users and deployments at large companies.

This is a super exciting time to be joining PostHog. We're growing like crazy and we need your help.

Our culture

In reality, as one of our first hires you'll have a large hand in shaping this, but some keywords:

• Remote first
• "Write things down"
• Prefer making things transparent and public
• No need for crazy hours. Work hard when you're working.

Your role
As first engineer, you'll be key to building a lot of the core functionality of PostHog. We encourage you to take a look at our repo (issues and PRs) to see the type of things you'd be doing. Our stack is Django/React/Redux/Postgres.

Hiring process

• You'll have a 30 minute phone-call with our CTO Tim
• You'll meet our CEO James
• We'll pay you a normal contracting rates for anywhere between 1-5 days to do some work on PostHog. This will give you a chance to learn how we'd work with you, and for us to see how you work. You'll also end up with some open-source contributions.
• We make a decision.

Our backers

We're backed by YCombinator, Solomon Hykes (ex-founder/CEO Docker), David Cramer (Founder/CEO Sentry), Adam Goldstein (Founder Hipmunk).

Apply now and work remotely at PostHog

Alloy is where you belong!

What You Will Do

Alloy's product can be roughly divided into two sides—a Django/React web app and a Node.js API. We're looking for help maintaining and building out features for the former (and really the latter, too, but that's a different job, and if that sounds fun then you should talk to my colleague Jeff).

• Design new features!

  • Talk to users, understand their requirements, and work with our full-time designer Rachelle to spec out beautiful new user experiences.

• Build them!

  • Starting with the database design and finishing with the final UX and style touches, write good code that brings your features to life. Once they're tested, peer-reviewed, and QA'ed, they'll be deployed to our production environment.

• Bugfixes!

  • What went wrong? How can we make sure it never happens again? We live for the root-cause analysis after getting things back up and running for our customers as soon as possible!

• Support the team!

  • Keep the customer success crew in the loop for a feature timeline. Run a SQL query for operations to determine this month's billing amounts. Help out where you can!

• You decide! It's a small team—the definition of the role is somewhat flexible and will grow to reflect your own strengths and interests!

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years real-world experience working as a software developer on code in production.

• While we like to think of ourselves as "platform-agnostic" in our hiring process, we expect that someone in this role will be familiar with or willing to learn our existing stack:

  • Python 3, Django - Serves as the back end for our dashboards.

  • ES6 React - Most of our complex front end logic, compiled to browser-agnostic Javascript by Webpack and Babel.

  • SCSS, Bootstrap 4 - Compiled by Webpack and Babel.

  • PostgreSQL - Our main data store.

  • Elasticsearch - For quick full-text searching.

  • Git/Github - Version control

  • AWS infrastructure tools

  • Unix command line

• Teamwork experience!

  • We're open to people whose experience is mainly on personal projects and/or contracting but we'd really like someone who has experience working with a team.

• College degree in computer science is helpful, but not necessary

How to Apply

Apply right here! You've found the application!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Us

Simon Data was founded in 2015 by a team of successful serial entrepreneurs. We're a data-first marketing platform startup, and we approach our work seriously; we tackle problems in a scrappy and disruptive fashion, yet we build for scale to support our clients at big data volume.

We are the first and only enterprise customer data platform with a fully-integrated marketing cloud. Moving beyond the limitations of both categories, Simon’s platform empowers businesses to use enterprise-scale big data and machine learning to power customer communications in any channel. Simon’s unique approach allows brands to develop incredible personalization capabilities without needing to build and maintain massive bespoke data infrastructure.

Our culture is rooted in organizational transparency, empowering individuals, and an attitude of getting things done. If you want to be a valuable contributor on a team that champions these core values we would love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Simon, you will be collaborating with passionate engineers every single day. Our full stack engineers are responsible for our entire web application, our massive integrations platform, and our real-time API service. Our clients rely on Simon to engage with hundreds of millions of customers -- sending over billions of messages annually. Successful engineers have a readiness to tackle complex problems; build fault tolerant, highly available systems; and pivot as our business continues to 10x in scale.

What You'll Do

• You’ll be involved in pushing our Django application to its limits and design new architecture to scale it to 10x the traffic

• You’ll develop code modules that elegantly scale to power projects like joining massive distributed identity events or expertly delivering millions of deeply personalized messages in minutes

• You’ll have the chance to help drive the evolution our front-end stack onto the newest tech (TypeScript, GraphQL)

• You’ll own real-time marketing integration from end-user action to third-party engagement like Push Notification, Email, In-app Messaging with any provider

• You’ll collaborate with our elite data science team to perfect a seamless predictive experimentation framework

• You’ll participate in team-wide discussions ranging from architecture to developer productivity to security to the best IDE

• You’ll get to promote our technical brand through contributing to Open Source Software and promoting and sharing it at conferences locally and nationwide

• You’ll be involved in our mentorship program, whether that’s helping your coworkers expand their skill set or learning from them to expand your own

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of in depth software development experience designing, deploying, and owning several substantive projects with company-wide impact

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with various functional owners in your company (spanning product management, program management, as well as Dev/Tech Ops)

• Proficiency with at least one mainstream programming language (Python, Java, Scala, C#, Ruby, etc.)

• Value rapid iteration over extended debate

Diversity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.