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Buffer (http://bufferapp.com http://bufferapp.com) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 11 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney). I'd
by joelg87 13y ago
Buffer (http://bufferapp.com http://bufferapp.com) - Anywhere in the world (we're a distributed team of 11 people across the US, UK, Hong Kong and Sydney).
I'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 650,000 users and are on a $1.3m+ annual revenue run rate. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we are looking to pass a million users in 2013. We are expecting even faster growth in the coming months through our mobile efforts.
We need help on 2 areas right now:
1. Android:
- Android is our second highest source of signups for Buffer, only
trailing behind Web which was our original platform.
- our users love the app, which has a 4.3 rating on Google Play.
- the app has 100k+ total downloads and 3k daily active users.
- we work with Google Play, Kindle and Blackberry stores.
2. Full stack:
- we get 1,500-2,000 signups per day on the web
- we have 160,000 weekly active users for our Chrome extension
- 4,500 API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper
- we ship to production multiple times a day
- we have a data-driven process, with Einstein, our custom
built a/b testing framework
- ideally, experience in: PHP (Codeigniter)/Python, MongoDB,
Backbone.js Javascript, CSS, HTML
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 Product and Sunil on technical
architecture
- 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 (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
- 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 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 650k users and generate $110k/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.
- culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/joelg2/buffer-culture-01-16707113
Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience.
Equity: 0.5-1%
If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send a note to Sunil (our CTO) about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, Android Apps, projects and background): thenexthacker@bufferapp.com
- Joel (Founder/CEO)
- seferphier 13y agoout of my curiosity, which person in the buffer team is located in hong kong?
- LeonW 13y agoGreat question, the person on our team in Hong Kong is Michelle Sun. She is leading growth and that's her Twitter account: https://twitter.com/michellelsun https://twitter.com/michellelsun
- michelleclsun 13y agoHi seferphier :) Are you based in Hong Kong too?
- HorizonXP 13y agoHonestly, I'd love to write a native BlackBerry 10 app for you guys, if I were given the chance on a part-time/consulting basis.
- Maven911 13y agoWhat about profitability, do you mind sharing either gross or net margins ?
- cpncrunch 13y agoProfitability doesn't matter when you're growing. If they have 11 employees they are presumably spending every penny coming in to grow their business, which is what you would want. The payout will come later. Anyway, it seems a great company.
- LeonW 13y agoGreat question and cpncrunch is exactly correct. We are at 0 (more or less every month) and if there would be any profit we would hire people so we can invest it back into the company. Let me know if I can help answer anything else!