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We’re looking to grow our engineering team with a full-stack engineer to join us on our mission to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. We’re looking for a customer-focused product engineer to work on creating delightful product features for our customers. If you’re an engineer who loves the opportunity to tackle both customer and product orientated problems, we’d love to hear from you!
Buffer is an equal opportunity employer with teammates all around the world. Our team is made up of individuals who hail from startups to the theatre - we value diverse and non-traditional backgrounds, and encourage all those who are interested in joining the Buffer journey to apply.
We're aligned through our values and we celebrate our unique differences. We value creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and are actively working on building a culture where under-indexed groups are truly welcome and can flourish.
We have an open position in our Labs team where you will focus on building new products to help small businesses or ambitious individuals grow their organic reach. The goal of this team is to move fast and experiment with different ideas to find new products with a good market fit.
You will report to an engineering manager and work closely with a team of 3 other engineers supported by a product manager, a designer, customer advocates, and marketing managers.
- You’ll be working within our product engineering team to build new products and new product features.
- Our front-end applications are built using React with GraphQL as the interface to our backend services, written in Node &PHP.
- You will contribute to our engineering standards to continuously improve the consistency and quality of our codebases and processes.
- You will also collaborate with other product engineering teams to facilitate integration of new products and product features into our existing tools.
- We're agile, use continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.
- You will work on bug fixes and improving application performance.
- As you gain context, you’ll provide technical guidance to teammates and insight into technical decisions to product managers.
The engineering team at Buffer is highly collaborative. We try to be“No Ego Doers” and call out our own assumptions. You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team through code reviews as you work to build new features for our customers.
Click here to Take a Peek Behind The Scenes while listening to our hiring manager share what it's like to work with this team and to learn about some of tools we use.
- We work in JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Node &PHP, GraphQL, MongoDB.
- Our infrastructure is built around GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes and Helm.
- We use Slack and Jira for communication and project management.
- Clear communication is really important in a remote culture like ours. Check out our Voice and Tone Guide here.
- You have experience as a full-stack developer working on applications with meaningful production traffic.
- You are product minded and love collaborating closely with both the Design and Product team to build new applications with our product teams.
- You are passionate about writing simple, maintainable code and you take a balanced approach to product engineering, embracing pragmatism over perfection in your work.
- You are keen to write and maintain tests where needed and appreciate the importance of working effectively with legacy codebases.
- You have experience working with React, GraphQL, or Node as well as working with multiple APIs and data sources.
- Experience with any JavaScript frameworks would be helpful but isn’t required. We encourage folks to work across the stack.
- We value the depth and quality of your experience, over counting years. That said, successful applicants typically have 3 years + of development experience.
- Unsure if you meet all these requirements? Please apply anyway! We would love to hear from you.
We hope that you're excited by the possibilities that come with working at Buffer! In addition to our unique culture, we also offer these fun perks and benefits.
Competitive salary: Our salary formula adjusts to your cost of living and experience. For this role, the range is: [$128,265 - $151,000] USD.
Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like! We believe in folks working where they are happiest and most productive.
Health insurance: We offer health insurance for all of our team members, international or US.
Home office setup: Get a laptop + $500 to set up your home office.
Growth mindset fund: Extra money for learning and development.
️ Time to recharge: At least 3 weeks/year of minimum vacation, with no upper limit and currently we're working a 4-day workweek.
401(k): With 3% company match.
Profit sharing: When the company does well, all team members share the profits. We distribute 8-15% of profits annually to the team.
Family leave: 3 months of family leave for all parents, and more is possible.
Retreats: When we can, we meet in person for company get-togethers twice per year.
️ Working smarter stipend: Get some extra cash for a co-working space or coffee shop work.
Free books and Kindle: Get a free Kindle and all the free books - digital, physical, and audio - you like, anytime.
Sabbaticals: Take a 6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer.
Step 1:Submit your application. We’d love to hear from you!
Step 2:Values add. The values screen is a chance for us to get to know you and see if you have potential to be a great addition to the team.
Step 3:Take Home Assessment. We try to keep these short and effective to be mindful of your time.
Step 4:Technical and role fit chat with the hiring manger for this role.
Step 5:Final Chat with our CEO.
Thank you for your interest in Buffer and the Full Stack Engineering role!
Our overall hiring process takes about 4-8 weeks, from the time you are contacted for the first interview. If you feel like this role is calling out to you, we'd love to learn more about you. We're always open to continuing the conversation.