Software Engineer, Burner
Web
$150-190k
+ Stock options
App for creating temporary phone numbers
Open for applications
App for creating temporary phone numbers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-190k
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build best-in-class software products that empower millions of customers with better control of their privacy,c communications, and identity.
Role
Who you are
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and ReactJS experience
- Experience with backend systems (Node.js, Go, or Python preferred).Familiarity with frameworks and tools like Vue, Next.js, Vite, Webpack
- Comfortable working on small, highly collaborative teams with lots of autonomy
- Ambition to delight our customers and contribute to the achieving the goals of the business
- Excited about working in a startup environment and growing rapidly in your career
Desirable
- Experience in mobile or telephony applications
- Prior exposure to privacy-focused products
- Startup background and a builder mindset (vs. big-company-only experience)
- Interest and learning mindset around emerging AI development tools and workflows
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a strong frontend focus to join our team. This is a strategic role where you will help lead the development of our Burner Web App, our internal Admin Portal and other web projects
- You’ll be both a hands-on contributor and a mentor, providing technical oversight for other engineers while also pushing forward IC work on high-impact projects
- Building, reviewing, and maintaining features for the Burner Web App
- Leading frontend architecture decisions, ensuring maintainability and scalability
- Adding features and improvements to our Admin Portal, giving it a dedicated engineering owner
- Acting as a team lead for web projects, mentoring and providing oversight of one or more other engineers
- Working cross-functionally with product, design, and backend engineers to deliver great user experiences
Application process
- We believe interviews should reflect the actual work you’ll do here. Expect to meet cross-functional teammates and work through realistic problems. We’re looking for strong technical foundations, clear communication, and genuine enthusiasm for our mission
Our take
Whilst burner phones have an understandably shady reputation, the ability to make and receive calls & texts whilst protecting your personal information has a broad and by-the-book range of use cases. Not only does it promote better security when giving out your number - say for online dating, or putting up Craigslist ads - it also tallies with a broader push towards data protection more generally.
The Burner app, started by Ad Hoc Labs back in 2012, has been offering this service long before data privacy became a hot-button topic. The app reroutes incoming calls to a temporary number purchased by users, and it is then forwarded to their device.
Burner appears to have been growing steadily since launching back in 2012, adding features like the ‘GhostBot’ and inter-app connectivity. It remains one of the go-to burner number apps, in a market that has been growing since its launch. With competitors like Hushed and CoverMe offering more options globally, and Sideline offering its service for free, Burner may have to stay focused on sharpening its offerings to stay ahead.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2013
$2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $2m
Company benefits
- Be Well: Full health and dental coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners
- Invest in Your Future: Get a 401k with a 4% company match
- Develop Your Career: Invest in your future with paid training, conferences, and online learning
- Get Fully Equipped: Apple laptop, test devices, second monitor - get whatever you need to do your best work
- Work in Style: Get a stipend to improve your remote setup, or use our safety-first office space in LA
- Lots More: From parental leave to charitable giving matches, and more
Company HQ
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Greg Cohn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder at Auctions for Change, then joined Yahoo! as the Director of Strategy and Business Development. Moved on to serve as their Senior Director, Global Head of Product for Social Monetization & Games.
Will Carter
(Co-Founder)After working as Director of Technology at iconmobile LLC, they worked as a Senior Researcher at Nokia. They then moved on to the role of Director at Nodesnoop Labs.
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