Software Engineer, Fizz
$120-150k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Hyper-local social platform
Job no longer available
Hyper-local social platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$120-150k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges.
Role
Who you are
- We are open to candidates of all experience levels who are passionate about being an early employee and want to help drive our company forward
- Strong fundamentals of CS concepts such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Networking, Operating Systems, Databases
- Strong grasp on product and ability to develop features that college students will use and love
- Ability to articulate and demonstrate common security practices from a developer point of view
- Ability to find appropriate new technologies and tools for our stack
Desirable
- Experience with SwiftUI, TypeScript, Firebase, or Google Cloud Platform
What the job involves
- We are currently in the process of rapidly expanding to all US universities, with the goal of getting there by the end of the 2023-2024 academic school year
- Our team is engineering driven and product first
- In order to maximize our product iteration, we give engineers at Fizz a lot of autonomy and full ownership
- Ideating, designing, and implementing new features from the ground up enhance and transform the way students use and view Fizz
- Designing the systems and processes to facilitate rapid user base expansion
- Building scalable community moderation systems
- Disrupting the social media paradigm
- Architect, design, and develop scalable services that can support high traffic retail facing applications involving user interactions typical of a social network
- Design and implement RESTful APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure
- Setup tools and processes that promote great software development practices
- Imagine, design, deploy, and iterate new product features
Our take
Fizz is a hyper-local social media app that was founded by two Stanford dropouts, designed to facilitate stronger and smaller social communities online. Beginning with US colleges, Fizz hopes to target location-based communities, providing a private and moderated feed of anonymous posts authored by verified members.
Through this approach, Fizz's goal is to create more entertaining and relatable feeds for its users - opposing the relatively un-curated content of most social media apps. The company has raised significant funding to bring its idea to life, with the latest round cited to support an expansion to more colleges throughout the nation.
However, Fizz has not been immune to controversies. Following rival social company Sidechat's allegations that Fizz was compromising customer data, Fizz has filed to sue its competitor. Furthermore, the anonymous social network market in general has been met with resistance from the administrations of the college it has found an audience at. Alongside clampdowns on campuses, worries concerning a rise in cyber bullying and racist content on anonymous social apps is an ongoing debate. It'll be interesting to see how Fizz develops its product and practice to distance itself from the heat.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.3m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Ashton Cofer
(CTO)Previously founded Keep Alert Technologies, an app to detect and predict drowsiness in drivers, as well as non-profit Styro Filter Solutions.
Teddy Solomon
(COO)Co-founded and was Chief Analyst at Dons Insiders. Was also a Staff Writer and Podcast Host for The Stanford Daily.
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