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Buffer (http://bufferapp.com http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 12 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Austra
by sunils34 13y ago
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 12 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 have just under 1 million users and are on a $2m annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we're just about to pass 1 million users (any day now). We are expecting even faster growth as we focus on Buffer for business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.
* Backend/DevOps Engineer
* Front-end Engineer
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.
- we have over 150k monthly active users.
- 6000+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper
- 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, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
More stats and stack details here: http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2013/ 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:
- work closely myself on technical architecture and Joel on product.
- ship to thousands of users 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 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 totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have 1 million users and generate $160k/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
Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency 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 http://jobs.bufferapp.com
- Sunil (CTO)
thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
- nawitus 13y agoInteresting that location affects salary. If you move to a location with lower living costs, is your salary cut?
- vladimirralev 13y agoI would usually agree with you, but in this case the difference between high-low is not that big and they give fixed equity. They are upfront about it. I would still encourage this company to not take location into account for salaries. Why should the company take the benefit from your choice(or lack of) to live in a cheaper place? You live there, you took the risks and the tradeoffs, but the company is taking the benefit from it... Some companies pay 3-10 times lower salaries and even if they give you stock options you can't afford to buy the shares when the time comes. This is not the case here, but it may become an issue in the future.
- pkj 13y agoNothing wrong. This is standard industry practice. Check out glassdoor salaries for companies in diverse locations.
- zerr 13y agoFace-less industry BigCo's is another thing. Startups are more personal, small teams, that once in a while all of them, including the "boss", gather together to drink a beer or soda, and you know that on that table, people with same responsibilities have same compensations. It feels fair.
- eps 13y agoIf anything, it would seem un-fair to pay a US-based programmer the same salary as to someone working from India. Just look at it from the US guy perspective.
- zerr 13y agoFrom US guy PoV: Gee, this guy does the same work as I do, but he's paid 5 times less... something is wrong with our company. There are reasons US guy won't want to live in India, right? So the salary should compensate at least some part of those reasons (I mentioned in another comment here). Most people with jobs from poor countries have to support way many family members or relatives than that US guy.