Frontend Software Engineer, Buf
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Develops protocol buffers for companies building APIs
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Develops protocol buffers for companies building APIs
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To dramatically improve the experience of developing APIs using Protocol Buffers.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated expert-level knowledge from 5+ years of experience architecting and building polished user interfaces and design systems
- Experience designing and implementing maintainable, performant APIs to power the frontend
- Professional experience with Javascript/Typescript and Go
- Excellent communication skills and organizational abilities
- The ability to move quickly and pragmatically while managing trade-offs
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics
Desirable
- Experience with related technologies mentioned in this job description (e.g. React, gRPC, Protobuf)
- Experience working on products that target developers (e.g. dev tools)
What the job involves
- We’re looking to hire an experienced frontend engineer to join our top-notch team of engineers who are responsible for working with designers and product owners to architect, implement and deliver high quality user interfaces and the APIs to support them
- Our team doesn’t just complete tickets we are assigned, throughout the development process our engineers are contributing input and feedback on the product and interacting directly with customers
- Developing new features and and workflows in support of evolving business and product requirements
- Working across the stack to develop performant, scalable solutions that meet customers’ needs
- Engaging with other engineers across the organization to create and maintain reliable APIs
- Delivering projects while maintaining high standards for code quality and design
- Maintaining a set of automated tests and updating the test suite to handle an evolving system
Application process
- Our total interview process is about 5 hours
- Introductory stage
- [30m] Screening interview
- [60m] Hiring manager interview
- Technical screen
- [60m] JS/TS practical coding interview
- Team interviews
- [60m] Go practical coding interview
- [60m] System design interview
- Final conversations
- [30m] VP Eng interview
- [30m] CEO interview
Our take
Currently, developers typically use APIs to allow for communications. Developing these APIs can be a laborious task, with developers stating that it can take up 20% of their development time. Buf streamlines the development process by providing protocol buffers that eliminate a large portion of the code that has to be written.
The company's product has been downloaded by more than one million developers, highlighting how useful this tool can be. It has recently focused on building its paid tool, Buf Schema Registry, with several early customers now testing it out, including major enterprises and public companies.
Buf's competitors include Grafana Labs Inc., and publicly traded Confluent Inc., Elastic NV and HashiCorp Inc. The company plans on using recent funding to focus on hiring more talent, accelerating product development and building up its user base, all in an attempt to ensure they can differentiate themselves from these close competitors.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
106% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$68m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$20.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $94.6m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to join the team in its early days, take on major responsibility, and make meaningful contributions
- Work as part of an international team coming together to solve real-world engineering problems - Buf employees come from all over the world
- Extremely competitive cash compensation and equity grants for all employees - we pay US-level salaries, regardless of which side of the border you are working on
- Professional downtown Toronto office for optimal collaboration. Generous budget for remote employees to travel to Toronto for in-person collaboration and team building
- Canadian immigration support available to all successful candidates and their families, including permanent residency sponsorship when eligible (Toronto office only)
Company HQ
South Core, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Peter Edge
(CEO)Studied computer science and math at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Founded Buf after leaving his previous job at Uber Technologies.
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