Software Engineer
Overview
Buffer is hiring software engineers to join their dynamic, lean, and fast-moving engineering team focused on consistent delivery of value to delight customers.
Job Description
Buffer is a company that makes social media and brand building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals, with a mission to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Buffer is a fully distributed team that values transparency, diverse backgrounds, and unique differences, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Responsibilities
- - Enter Buffer’s Talent Pool and join a fully remote and mission-driven team
- - Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, customer advocates, and marketing managers
- - Participate in designing systems through active participation in working groups (guilds or communities of practice)
- - Work on product-led growth strategy, offering a comprehensive free plan and growing through providing enhanced capabilities on paid plans
- - Engage in experimentation and make data-informed decisions for future features or enhancements
Required Skills
- - Experience with core technologies: ReactJS, NodeJS, Typescript, PHP, GraphQL, MongoDB, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, Terraform, Docker, Github Actions
- - Comfortable working across the stack and with multiple APIs and data sources
- - Passionate about writing simple, maintainable code with a balanced approach to product engineering
- - Write and maintain tests, appreciate the importance of working with legacy codebases
- - Product-minded with empathy for customers, passionate about creating delightful customer experiences
- - Experience instrumenting high-quality data for feature usage analysis
- - Strong communication and collaboration skills, enjoy sharing knowledge with teammates
Benefits
- - Competitive salary with cost of living adjustment
- - Work remotely with flexibility
- - 4-day workweeks with a flexible, meeting-free fifth day
- - Health insurance for all team members
- - Home office setup with a laptop and $1000 for setup
- - 'Growth mindset' fund for learning and development
- - Minimum of 3 weeks' vacation per year
- - Savings plan match with 3% company match
- - Profit sharing among team members
- - 16 weeks of fully paid family leave for new parents
- - Free Kindle and all the free books you like
- - Fully paid 6-week sabbaticals after every 5 years with Buffer
About the company
Buffer is a product built to help our customers get off the ground and grow via organic marketing, and the Buffer team is an optimistic and gratitude-filled group of remote workers scattered around the world and dedicated to creating a product our customers will use and love.