Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Paperless Post
$135-160k
+ Equity
Online events & invitations platform
Job no longer available
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$135-160k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in an established codebase, or a reasonable combination of frontend and backend experience
- Empathy for the people who worked on the code base before you
- A passion for solving problems, and building features, for our users
- Proficiency with our core technologies of React, GraphQL, Golang, and Postgresql are all required
- Ability to partner with other engineers and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- A knack for building scalable systems, and experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, and performance analysis
- The ability to think critically about complex challenges and to implement concise solutions that make sense to your peers
- Knowledge of developing RESTful APIs and maintaining SLAs
What the job involves
- Paperless Post is seeking an experienced full-stack software engineer to build and maintain end-to-end product experiences within a streamlined agile software environment. Our flagship application is built on a complex network of over 200M hosts and guests, and receives over 5M unique visitors per month
- In this role, you'll work within a dedicated product team to craft new features and iterate on existing ones. Our frontend stack consists of React, Redux, NextJS. Our backend stack is an SOA mostly written in Golang, with a NodeJS GraphQL and orchestration layer.
- Postgresql is our source of truth, and we deploy into AWS via Kubernetes. Highly qualified candidates will have real production experience with much of our stack, and a healthy appetite to quickly learn the unfamiliar parts
- The PP Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month.
- The team you’ll be joining focuses on the highest priority projects across our product domains and is made up of engineers, product managers, QA, and product designers. We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic yet brave approach to technology
- Collaborate with other engineers to seamlessly develop and maintain new and existing features in our host management platform
- Maintain and implement web-based tools for dynamic webpage creation, used by our users and in-house content team
- Design and develop maintainable, reliable, and scalable enterprise-level, services-based software
- Fully leverage your experience with React, Redux, GraphQL, and Go to extend a stateful web application and underlying services
- Adhere to and develop architectural standards within an SOA environment
- Design and implement consistent, high-throughput, low-latency APIs while balancing trade-offs between consistency and availability
- Deploy regular code releases to production and test environments in Agile release cycles
Our take
Sending invitations to events can be tedious and time-consuming, and outsourcing design can be expensive too. Paperless Post solves this problem with its technology-led, design-first approach.
Paperless Post first launched in 2009, and since then it has become a clear market leader in a field cluttered with fairly simple design and printing tools. Part of its success stems from its early adoption of mobile phones as a platform - while initially optimized for desktop use the company worked hard to develop its platform for mobile users. This has allowed Paperless Post to consolidate its growth in spite of market changes over the years.
Paperless Post is well-positioned to see considerable growth. It will need to continue to develop its partnerships and technology in order to fend off new competitors, however. Its unique designs and partnerships with brands such as Caroline Herrera go some way to achieving this, and its understanding of communication trends: switching to text message notifications rather than email as younger people abandon email as a way to communicate - indicate that the company is still ahead of the curve.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$10m
SERIES E
Apr 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.4m
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
James Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
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