Mid Level-Senior Software Engineer, Paperless Post
Front End
$130-150k
+ Equity
Online events & invitations platform
Open for applications
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$130-150k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Paperless Post is reimagining invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in professional software development in the tech industry
- Knowledge and experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience with React, Server-side rendering, CSS/UI processing (CSS-in-JS preferred), and consuming APIs
- Experience in full-stack development preferred – some familiarity in designing APIs, working with Databases, and monitoring application performance will go a long way
- Knowledge of good design and UX
- Empathy for people who worked on the code base before you
- Good communication skills and willingness to learn and collaborate with the team
- Experience in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Golang, or Java are all pluses
- Experience working on e-commerce or consumer-facing products is desirable
What the job involves
- Paperless Post is seeking a software engineer specializing in the frontend to develop our React/NextJS based JavaScript/TypeScript application with more than five million unique visitors per month
- In this role, you’ll work within a dedicated and fully staffed feature team to build and maintain user-facing features and libraries essential for cross-functional development teams
- You’ll use your experience building performant, user-focused web applications to implement the tools and software that allow our users to create best-in-class event pages and greeting cards
- You will work with React, Redux, TypeScript, NextJS, and GraphQL to build a range of functionality that helps users create, send, and manage custom event pages
- Your contributions will make a meaningful impact on a complex consumer product used by millions of users
- This role will primarily focus on our event management platform, responsible for helping event hosts and Paperless Post senders connect with their guests
- Among other features, this includes building tools for tracking invitations, direct messaging, analytics tracking, and group management
- 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
- Develop and maintain our applications with reusable, testable, and resilient components that foster a consistent user experience
- Contribute to the design, development, and testing of React (TypeScript, NextJS), GraphQL, and NodeJS applications
- Ensure code quality and maintainability through participation in code reviews and testing
- Assist in writing user stories for new features
- Troubleshoot and debug software issues
- Work with your team lead and peers to align on and implement best practices
- Actively participate in developing useful API contracts between Front End and Back End
- Implement interfaces and queries between the Front End and Back End using GraphQL
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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Insights
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
Alexa Hirschfeld
(Co-founder)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard.
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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