Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 13 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)
I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We just crossed 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead to scale Buffer as we start to focus on Buffer for business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.
* DevOps Engineer
* Backend Engineer
* Front-end Engineer
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.
- we have over 150k monthly active users.
- 6700+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Zapier
- we release changes several times a day
- we have an entirely data-driven process, with Einstein and Buffer-Metrics, our custom built a/b testing and metrics tracking framework.
- Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk/Auto scaling, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.
If you're interested in coming on board, you will:
- work closely myself on technical architecture and Joel on product.
- ship to hundreds of thousands of people who use Buffer and iterate quickly
- work with our metrics team to make smart changes
- be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers on issues and features
- be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing with others
- be a Buffer user
- be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you'll have help and support from us to move to where you want to be
- have experience working with another startup or building side projects before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:
- we are entirely transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have 1 million users and generate $175k/mo. Ask me anything else!
- within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we have a formula for the distribution.
- we're all very focused on self improvement - we have daily standups where we discuss our current improvements. This could be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging, exercise, learning a language, etc.
- here's our culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03
If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): http://jobs.bufferapp.com
Applied long ago but never heard from your team. If someone spends time writing a letter to join your team other than just attaching a resume, it would be nice to let the person know if you are interested or not.
Sorry this has happened, that's not good at all. I know that a lot of effort goes into getting in touch with us (or anyone else). There was a time when I was personally handling all the hiring, and I struggled to get back to everyone on top of everything else I was doing. We have a much better hiring process now and we've committed to responding to every email. Sorry again that you had a bad experience here.
Sorry about that awful experience we caused there. We definitely had a period where we simply struggled to respond to everyone. We honestly get about 100 emails from this HN listing. When we were just a few people, it was hard to keep on top of. It's a poor excuse, and we're fixing it now (we genuinely get back to everyone now). We didn't handle this well for quite some time, though.
Use resumator or one of the other cheap apps for handling this. For most people a canned response is absolutely fine, it's the no-response that ticks people off.
We do make sure to respond (and provide feedback if asked) to everyone who applies. The issue that we're working on is our response usually comes 2-3 weeks after the initial submission.
Thanks a lot! We really try to be as transparent as possible, especially with revenue, salary, funding and growth figures. If you have any questions, let me know :).
I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We just crossed 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead to scale Buffer as we start to focus on Buffer for business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.
* DevOps Engineer
* Backend Engineer
* Front-end Engineer
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.
More stats and stack insights here: http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2...We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.
If you're interested in coming on board, you will:
Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different: Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency)Equity: 0.5-1%
If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): http://jobs.bufferapp.com
- Sunil (CTO) thenexthacker@bufferapp.com