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Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 16 people (5 engineers) 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 over 1.2 million users and our annual run rate is over $3m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business. We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.

    * Android Hacker
    * Reliability Hacker (Devops engineer). 
    * Backend Hacker
    * iOS Hacker
Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.

    - we have over 150k monthly active users.
    - 8500+ 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-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’ll:

    - 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 over 1.1 million users and generate $230k/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)

Equity: 0.1-0.5%

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) 



I love Buffer. I use it everyday to share interesting links to friends and family :)

Sounds like a great job! I don't really have much experience with the tech you're using though. Plus I'm currently half-way through a CS degree.

EDIT: The weekend warrior positions sound really interesting. I would be totally on that if it could be flexible around my studies.

EDIT2: I've sent you an email


Do you have to relocate for the comunity champion job? I still have a semester of my Computer Engineering Degree... and plus I am Europe based, so it is this an opportunity for European Citizens too?


Would you be interested in hiring a skilled developer from India (IST) with required credentials?


The iOS position seems to be missing from your website. I've emailed you.

Keep up the awesome work!




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