Design Engineer, Buffer
Marketing
$147.8-191k
Social media management platform
Job no longer available
Social media management platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$147.8-191k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, helping businesses believe they can succeed and do good along the way.
Role
Who you are
- Create delightful user experiences on buffer.com that attract, engage, and convert website visitors, in collaboration with UX design
- Contribute to the design of buffer.com through prototyping ideas, creating new performant components, and crafting unique animations and experiences. We want you to bring our pages to the next level! ✨
- Lead the technical roadmap for buffer.com; championing iterative improvements to our site’s browser performance, accessibility, and usability
- Contribute to our marketing design system by creating new components to our front-end library on web and mobile responsive web
- Collaborate with Marketing to build various landing pages to support our product launches, growth experiments, and Open Hub that capture Buffer’s product, culture, and brand
- Support our experimentation roadmap by implementing conversion rate optimization tests on buffer.com, while contributing technical improvements to our web experiment process
- Support the implementation of various tools that power the marketing team, including Ghost, Prismic, and Google Tag Manager. Our technical stack consists mainly of Next.js and Typescript
- You bring experience in a similar role(s) where you have obsessed over the details and strived for pixel perfection with your web and mobile experience
- You are passionate about writing simple, maintainable, tested code, and you take a balanced approach to engineering
- You have strong communication and collaboration skills and enjoy sharing knowledge with your teammates
- You have experience with front-end frameworks like Next.js, performance best practices, and using Typescript as your main driver
- We value the depth and quality of your experience over counting years. That said, successful applicants typically have at least 5 years of development experience
- You are comfortable in a high-velocity testing environment and can contribute to testing ideation and workflows
- You are comfortable working with Figma, CMS platforms like Ghost and Prismic, and web tracking software (Google Tag Manager, Segment, etc)
- You have closely collaborated with folks from Marketing and Design in previous roles
- Bonus: If you have engineering experience supporting search engine optimization, web experimentation, and web tracking projects
What the job involves
- You will be the primary engineer working alongside Buffer’s Marketing team. In this role, you’ll directly assist the team with increasing signups, creating a strong brand, and launching new product features
- You will build delightful user experiences on our website through polished pages, unique interfaces, and tasteful animations
- You will write and ship high-quality, tested, and efficient code that contributes to Buffer’s goals
- You will work closely with marketing leadership, designers, and customer advocates to understand the needs of our web visitors and assess the feasibility of various solutions to address these needs
- You will contribute to our front-end engineering standards to improve the consistency and quality of our Marketing codebases and processes
- You will instrument data tracking on the features you develop to help analyze user acquisition, usage, and adoption after release
- This role sits on the Marketing team, where you’ll be the primary engineer
- You’ll collaborate on a variety of Brand, Growth and Product Marketing projects with our full Marketing team
- You’ll partner closely with our Marketing UX Designer to build web and mobile experiences that help people learn about and sign up for Buffer
Our take
Buffer is a social media management platform helping businesses and individuals drive meaningful engagement on their social media accounts. With a suite of products designed for publishing, engagement, analytics, and team collaboration, Buffer is integrated with some of the biggest social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
It acts as an all-in-one stop for social media planning, scheduling and managing, and when comparing the platform to its competitors, Buffer claims to offer the most value for money, making it the perfect platform for creators of all sizes looking to manage their social media and grow their audience without draining their time.
Buffer is a private and independent company that's now been operating for over 14 years. True to their philosophy of doing things a little differently, Buffer has been remote since its early years, it also intentionally maintains a small team of around 75 employees, publishes all employee salaries publicly, and operates on a four-day work week.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2014
$3.5m
SERIES A
Dec 2011
$0.4m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.9m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like!
- 4-Day workweeks: Our schedule is four workdays, with a flexible, meeting-free fifth day for overflow tasks or personal time as you see fit
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance for all of our team members, international or US
- Home office setup: Get a laptop + $500 to set up your home office!
- 'Growth mindset' fund: Extra money for learning and development
- Minimum vacation: At least 3 weeks/year!
- Profit sharing: When the company does well, all team members share the profits!
- Family leave: 16 weeks of family leave for all parents, fully paid
- Retreats: When we can, we meet in person for company get-togethers
- Working smarter stipend: Get some extra cash for a co-working space or a coffee shop work
- Free books and Kindle: Get a free Kindle and all the free books - digital, physical, and audio - you like, anytime
- Sabbaticals: Take a 6-week break, fully paid, after every 5 years with Buffer
- 401(k): With 3% company match
Company HQ
Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joel Gascoigne
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Warwick with a Masters of Engineering and Computing Science.
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