Backend Engineer
Overview
PostHog helps engineers build better products. We are a single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.
Job Description
PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 70,000 companies have installed the platform. We've had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised $27m from some of the world's top investors, and have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth. We're growing quickly but sustainably - we're default alive, averaging 10% monthly revenue growth, with >$10m ARR. We're staying focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic growth as a result.
Responsibilities
- - Capture data, process it reliably at very high scale, and build a workflow/delivery engine
- - Making high-level architecture decisions
- - Optimizing a niche part of our pipeline that massively increases throughput 2x
- - Work directly with customers to build something to help them send data to a 3rd party
Required Skills
- - Experience with TypeScript, Node or Rust
- - Experience building systems that handle high volumes of requests/data
- - Ability to choose sensible architecture quickly and ship it faster than other people think is possible
Benefits
- - Generous, transparent compensation & equity
- - Unlimited vacation (with a minimum!)
- - Two meeting-free days per week
- - Home office
- - Coworking credit
- - Private health, dental, and vision insurance
- - Training budget
- - Access to our Hedge House
- - Carbon offsetting
- - Pension & 401k contributions
- - Company offsites
About the company
PostHog started as open source product analytics. We've grown into a product & data toolkit, used by 70,000+ teams. We launched on Hacker News with our MVP – just 4 weeks after we started writing code. The response was overwhelmingly positive. We had over 300 deployments in a couple of days. 2 weeks later, we'd gone past 1,500 stars on GitHub.