Software Engineer – Frontend / Backend / Fullstack

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

Padlet is building software for a good education. A good education is one that inspires curiosity, creativity, and community. Our software enables that through visual content creation and collaboration in millions of classrooms worldwide.

Exceptional products are exceptional in all dimensions that matter. Take the Dyson vacuum cleaner. Not only is it a good at vacuuming, it’s beautiful, feels good in the hand, is portable, and is easy to use. We are looking for Fullstack Engineers to build exceptional software products for a billion people.

Responsibilities

• Owning and implementing new features that touch multiple layers of the tech stack. E.g. creating a beautiful search experience.

• Creating delight. E.g. through animations and micro UI.

• Making the web apps faster and more reliable. E.g. reducing javascript payload or making network requests more resilient.

• Improving how we work. E.g. improving our component library or tools we use to translate the web app into 40+ languages.

Qualifications

• At some point in your life, someone has told you: “you write good code.”

• You know how to copy-paste code from Stack Overflow.

• Bonus: you have a good sense of humor.

About Padlet

• Vision: Every child in the world will grow up with Mickey Mouse and Padlet.

• Product: We are making the default way of collecting and sharing thoughts on the Internet. People love the product.

• Impact: We have 40 million users, making Padlet one of the most used apps on the planet.

• Money: We are venture backed AND fiscally responsible. We are built to last one hundred years.

• Badassery: We are only 60 odd people. That's over half a million active users per person.

Tech stack

• Mobile apps: React Native (with Swift and Java where necessary.)

• Backend: Ruby (Rails), Typescript, Elixir (Phoenix), and Python.

• Web: VueJS, Tailwind.

• Storage: Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firestore, and Snowflake.

Joys of programming at Padlet

• We have very few meetings. We value keeping you in flow.

• A lot of people use Padlet. We have to solve interesting concurrency problems.

• Our users are in over 200 countries, using all kinds of devices and connections, and speaking over 40 languages. We have to solve interesting internationalization problems.

• We process a lot of data real fast. We have to solve interesting scale problems.

• We try to solve problems creatively instead of just throwing money at them. We are engineers! We thrive in constraints, not in the absence of them.

• We ship often.

• We value beautiful code.

Sorrows of programming at Padlet

• We grew pretty fast last year and our processes are still catching up. E.g. we don't have 100% code coverage yet. Our deployment process isn't as painless as it could be. This sometimes leads to spending time on things that aren't the most fun. We’re working on it!

• Our project management process could be better. This sometimes leads to re-speccing in the middle of development, getting in the way of programming flow. We’re working on it!

Some people you‘d be working with

• Linh Nguyen: At any given point, no one really knows where Linh is. Kind of like an electron. We learn of his existence through pull requests and code reviews. Manager of people, code, and scope creep.

• Colin Teahan: Lives for one-liners. E.g: Colleague: “Wouldn’t it be funny if Iron Man were anemic?” Teahan: “It would be IRONIC.” Single-handedly wrote early versions of our iOS and Android apps.

The office

• Our office is in the middle of Presidio, a beautiful national park. We’re a 5 minute walk from the beach. The WiFi works outdoors. You can work sitting in a lawn overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

• The office itself is designed to be a space for all your interests and hobbies. We have a meditation room, game room, library, art studio, kids room, and full makerspace with 3d printers, presses, laser cutters, sewing machines, and more.

Benefits

• Top tier medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, including One Medical memberships.

• 401(k) with matching.

• Commuter benefits.

• FSA.

• Stock options.

• Catered lunches and dinners. Military grade snacking.

• 20 vacation days. Plus sickness and bereavement days for when life happens.

• Parental leave

• All the gadgetry you need, including a new phone every year.

Special time to join

Because we're small, there's a lot of energy. And because we have tremendous traction, your first commit touches millions. This combination is rare and quite satisfying.