Software Designer, Koyeb
€55-70k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to applicants in France only
More information about location
Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
Job no longer available
Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
€55-70k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to applicants in France only
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the fastest way to run APIs, full-stack apps, and event-driven workloads around the world with high performance and a developer-centric experience.
Role
Who you are
- Have an international mindset and think global
- Are looking for a fast-paced environment
- Are ambitious and believe small teams can have a huge impact
- Are data-driven, you know decisions are more meaningful if they are based on data
- Are working as a team member
- Are autonomous and structured, are able and willing to write specifications/plans before implementing/executing
- Are striving for continuous improvement and learning
- Understand we work to improve the product for our users
- Are passionate about details and think in systems, not just screens
- Have a solid portfolio that shows how you tackle complex user problems, research and validate your assumptions and solutions, and showcase the impact of your work
- Have experience conducting user research and designing based on findings
- Have experience with design tools (like Figma, Sketch, InVision, AdobeSuit, etc.)
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills that allow you to contribute meaningfully to strategy and alignment
- Are intellectually curious, with excellent problem-solving skills
- Are not afraid of getting technical: No prior developer tools experience is required, but you are excited to learn about developer workflows and application deployment
- Have a practical familiarity with the ecosystem of modern dev tools
- Understand developer workflows, you are accustomed to CI/CD, and you have worked with CLIs
- Have a proven track record of designing successful SaaS-based software products and features from scratch in a startup building dev tools or productivity tools
What the job involves
- We are looking for our first Software Designer to help us shape the features we build for our users. This starts from the big picture of how the features operate together as a system, to fine-tuned UI details, all with the goal to create a friction-free developer experience
- We are building the fastest way to deploy applications globally. Concretely, the Koyeb Severless Platform is a completely managed platform used by developers where DX is crucial: ease of use, zero-configuration, and great developer experience are essential to our users’ success and to our success
- Your primary mission will be to design a simple way for developers to deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot full-stack applications
- As the first software designer in the team, you will design an easy-to-use and aesthetic developer experience for all new features in the console and CLI of the Koyeb platform. Our users are developers, the Control Panel and CLI are the first things they interact with and as such, they are crucial to the experience
- You will work with our product team (CPO/product manager), our users, and take into consideration UI/UX/DX to build the fastest way to deploy applications globally
- Turn complex problems into easy-to-understand UIs that deliver a delightful experience
- Own the design process of projects end-to-end: from discovery to ideation, testing, and prototyping of the ideal user experience
- Define, test, and iterate on the interaction design of new and existing features (user-flows, detailed product wireframes, prototypes)
- Participate in user research and testing to guide design decisions
- Work closely with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect execution designs
- Design beautiful visual UI that adheres to our UI design standards
- Influence product and design direction by delivering a clear UX vision to all the stakeholders
- Are striving to deliver value to our users
- You will work directly with the engineering team and with Edouard, our CPO and co-founder
- You’ll succeed if you:
- Continuously improve conversion rates by:
- Deliver a delightful and easy-to-use experience during first-user interactions
- Reduce the amount of time needed by users to perceive the value of the platform and how the product works
- Ease our user's ability to troubleshoot deployments by improving user flows and structuring complex information
- Design the end-to-end experience related to new incoming features like:
- User-defined Health-Checks
- Native Workers
- Autoscaling
- Teams / Multi-User
- Managed Postgres
- Work on existing and future design for all our supports: website, social media, documentation, decks, physical mediums
- Are able to work with an existing design system that will evolve over time and have a tendency to go for simpler UX, fewer features, intentionality over complexity
Application process
- We ask you to send us “something interesting” via the standard application form. Here are some guidelines on what we think is interesting:
- Please explain why you would like to join us, a resume without any explanation is rarely interesting. This is sometimes called a cover letter but just think about it as if you would send an e-mail and explain why you think we should talk. A dozen of lines are sufficient
- An up-to-date LinkedIn/equivalent profile or resume is needed. We need it to have a quick overview of what you’ve done
- Open source projects you’ve worked on
- What we need to understand is how what you've worked on is relevant to what we’re building here at Koyeb. We don’t pay extensive attention to a standardized format and what the theory says but keep in mind that good written communication skills are crucial to working at Koyeb
- If we believe we could work together:
- Richa, our talent lead, will reach out to schedule a first 20 minutes call to make sure this could be a match
- We will continue with a 45 minutes call to discuss your experience, ask a few questions about your software design culture, and review together a project you built in your portfolio
- We will ask you to perform a small software design exercise of typical work you will have to do with us
- We will schedule a call to review the exercise together with our full-stack engineering team
- You will meet our co-founders
- The whole process should take about three weeks
Our take
Specialising in cloud computing, Koyeb empowers developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment process and reducing operational complexities.
Through its innovative serverless platform, Koyeb enables users to run apps, APIs, and workloads across various cloud systems without the need for infrastructure or server management. This approach eliminates the traditional hassles associated with provisioning and managing servers, allowing developers to focus on building and scaling their applications efficiently.
A relatively young company established in 2020, Koyeb has quickly gained traction. It has successfully launched in Paris and provides native load balancing in 250 edge locations. As Koyeb sets its sights on simultaneous deployment in ten core locations worldwide, its potential for growth and expanded reach increase exponentially.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$7m
SEED
Oct 2020
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $8.6m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Yann Léger
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Core Engineer at Free and as a Managing Director/Vice President at Scaleway.
Bastien Chatelard
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Backend Developer at LogSafe. Also worked at Scalway, initially as a DevOps Engineer before becoming the Head of R&D and finally the VP of Site Reliability Engineering.
Edouard Bonlieu
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experienced Software Engineer having previously worked as Logaviv and Total E&P. Also worked at Scaleway as a Cloud Evangelist and VP of Product Marketing.
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