Software Engineer, Braze
SMS
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Plans
Customer engagement platform
Job no longer available
Customer engagement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Plus Employee Stock Purchase Plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power lasting connections between consumers and brands they love.
Role
Who you are
- To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute
- Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success
- If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you
- 2-4 years of full-stack development experience
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
- A self starter with great communication and organizational skills
- Prior experience working in a team environment
Desirable
- Professional experience with any of: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, React, TypeScript
- Professional experience building distributed systems at scale
- Experience with agile processes
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our SMS team, which is responsible for building and scaling Braze’s SMS channel
- This team fully owns the SMS channel within the product, from composition and sending to message responses and analytics. It also owns several supporting services for Chat messaging, including our internal click tracking and link shortening service
- As an engineer on the team, you will work with your teammates to build out new features, improve performance, and provide guidance on key architectural decisions
- You will have the opportunity to tackle significant engineering challenges, such as architecting new iterations of critical components for our systems and optimizing our systems for resilience as they scale
- We greatly value colleagues who help make us better engineers and are excited, in turn, to learn from us. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you!
Our take
Braze was founded out of an opportunity to build a company in the mobile space, inspired by the success of Android. This decision was driven by the belief that technology can help build stronger and more valuable relationships between brands and customers. It is now a leading customer engagement platform that powers connections between consumers and the brands they love.
Braze does this by delivering messaging experiences through push notifications, apps, and emails, built specifically for today's always-connected customers. This replaces badly integrated tools and outdated databases, making customer relationships more personalised through cross-channel messaging, journey orchestration and AI-powered experimentation and optimisation. Through this, Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform.
As a venture-backed company, its clients now include Headspace, Canva, Max, Headspace, Domino's, Peloton and Depop. These clients use Braze to launch more effective messaging campaigns with less effort in the current mobile-first world. No doubt it's placement on the 2024 US News Best Technology Companies To Work For list will draw in more talent, whilst its growth to 10 new offices across North America, APAC regions and Europe indicates promising growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$80m
SERIES E
Aug 2017
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $182.7m
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation Policy: Take the time you need to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best
- Equal Paid Family Services: We offer fertility benefits along with equal paid parental leave, so you can focus your energy on your growing family
- Retirement Planning: We support you as you plan for your future. Braze will begin matching contributions into our retirement plan on your first day of employment
- Talent Development: We support your professional growth through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and our Global Learning Stipend
- Global Presence: Our global presence—15 cities and growing—provides opportunities to work and connect with top talent around the world
- ESPP: We offer an Employee Stock Purchasing Plan to all employees globally.
Company values
- Take Your Seat at the Table: Our community welcomes and respects your unique talents and perspective. Roll up your sleeves and join in - we’re building Braze together
- Don't Ignore Smoke: With constant vigilance, we help each other notice issues before smoke turns to fire. When others come to us, we celebrate the messenger and assist them however we can
- Shape the Future: We believe in the positive trajectory of change. We make investments, take calculated risks, and guide others down the path of our vision for the future
- Embrace Curiosity: We are explorers of details and new horizons. We embrace a growth mindset and pursue our curiosities to acquire new mastery and hone existing skills
- Be a Human: Each of us contributes to the Braze culture through our individuality. We operate with integrity, and above all else, we are kind
- Seek the Truth: We combine intelligence with humility to challenge assumptions and ask thoughtful questions. We make better decisions by deeply understanding our world
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Bill Magnuson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer at Google and Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Braze in 2011.
Jon Hyman
(Co-Founder & CTO)After graduating cum laude in Computer Science at Harvard, Jon joined Bridgewater Associates' Core Technology department and worked on the Forbes Technology Council before co-founding Braze.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Braze
Mel Windley (Director of Global Inclusion and Opportunity)
- Braze takes an inclusion-first approach and holds the philosophy that Global Inclusion and Opportunity must be built into business processes in order to have lasting and meaningful impact. The future we want to shape is one where people from diverse backgrounds and experiences can thrive and have meaningful careers at Braze.
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