Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)
Buffer (<a href="http://bufferapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://bufferapp.com</a>) - REMOTE (We're a small distributed team of 16 people (5 engineers) across the US, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden and Australia)<p>We'd love for you to come join Buffer for the fun ride. We have over 1.1 million users and our annual run rate is over $2m. There are some super interesting challenges ahead, as we focus on Buffer for Business.
We're looking to expand our engineering team with the following open positions.<p><pre><code>    * Reliability Hacker (Devops engineer) 
    * Happiness (Support) Engineer
    * Backend Hacker
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Here are some key stats about our technology and scale.<p><pre><code>    - we have over 150k monthly active users. 
    - 8000+ API clients. Most popular: Feedly, IFTTT, Pocket, Instapaper 
    - we release changes several times a day - we have an entirely data-driven process, 
      with Einstein and Buffer-Metrics, our custom built a/b testing and 
      metrics tracking framework. 
    - Some of the tech we work with: PHP, Python, MongoDB, AWS (Elastic 
      Beanstalk, Elasticache, SQS), Backbone.js, Grunt.js, Android, iOS.
    - More stats and stack details here:
      http://overflow.bufferapp.com/2013/08/01/scaling-buffer-in-2013/
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We're a small team of driven hackers and happiness heroes (our support people). Just like you, we're excited and passionate about engineering challenges and have some interesting architecture and scaling problems we work on.<p>If you're interested in coming on board, you’ll:<p><pre><code>    - work closely with Sunil on technical architecture and Joel on product. 
    - ship to thousands of users and iterate quickly 
    - work with our metrics team to make smart changes 
    - be friendly and comfortable talking directly to customers on issues and features 
    - be a happy, positive-minded and kind person who has a great approach in dealing 
      with others 
    - be a Buffer user 
    - be anywhere in the world, and if you'd like, you have help and support from us 
      to move to where you want to be 
    - have experience working with another startup or building side projects 
      before (would be awesome, it’s cool if not)
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Some aspects of Buffer culture that makes us a little different:<p><pre><code>    - we are totally transparent. We raised $450k, we currently have over 1.1 
      million users and generate $195k/mo. Ask me anything else! 
    - within the company, all salaries and equity are open and we have a formula 
      for the distribution. 
    - we're all very focused on self improvement 
    - we have daily standups where we discuss our current improvements. This could 
      be waking up earlier, starting public speaking, blogging, exercise, learning 
      a language, etc. 
    - here's our culture deck: http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03
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Salary: 88k-110k depending on location (living costs) and experience. (<a href="http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency" rel="nofollow">http://99u.com/articles/15527/the-age-of-salary-transparency</a>)<p>Equity: 0.5-1%<p>If this sounds fun, let's chat. Send me a note about yourself, why you’re interested in Buffer, and any relevant links (Github profile, projects and background): <a href="http://jobs.bufferapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://jobs.bufferapp.com</a><p>- Email our CTO Sunil thenexthacker@bufferapp.com