Help us to increase the number of successful products in the world!
š Location: We are full-remote and globally distributed! Our current team is distributed between GMT-8 and GMT+2 so we currently only hire in these timezones.
š¤ Interview process: 3 stages across 2-3 weeks: 1) 30min call with Coua (Talent Partner), 2) 30min with Tim (CTO) plus 1hr technical interview with an engineer, and 3) PostHog SuperDay (paid day of work). Read more about our interview process.
š„ļø Team: All engineering teams are hiring.
š¼ Manager: TBC - depends on team.
š° Compensation: Please check our compensation calculator.
š¦ Read more about how we hire and how we think about Diversity & Inclusion.
About PostHog
PostHog helps engineers build better products. We are a single platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features. We give engineers product & web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, a CDP, SQL access, and a data warehouseā¦ and thereās plenty more to come.
PostHog was created as an open-source project during Y Combinatorās W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 70,000 companies have installed the platform. Weāve had huge success with our paid upgrades, raised $27m from some of the worldās top investors, and have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth.
Weāre growing quickly but sustainably - weāre default alive, averaging 10% monthly revenue growth, with >$10m ARR. Weāre staying focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring a handful of exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic growth as a result.
What we value
We are open source - building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to PostHogās strategy.
We aim to become the most transparent company, ever. In order to enable teams to make great decisions, we share as much information as we can. In our public handbook everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, what our strategy is, and who we have raised money from. We also have regular team-wide feedback sessions, where we share honest feedback with each other.
Working autonomously and maximizing impact - we donāt tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what is going to have the biggest impact on our customers.
Solve big problems -we havenāt built our defining feature yet. We are all about acting fast, innovating, and iterating.
About our engineering teams
Engineers work across one of our small teams. Our main product-focused engineering teams are Feature Success, Product Analytics, Replay, Data Warehouse, Web Analytics, Pipeline, and Infrastructure. We usually consider hiring for all teams and then decide where individual people will work the best. We also give people the opportunity to move across teams, to make sure they get to work on different problems and learn new skills.
We work on a two-week sprint basis and we give everyone in the team the opportunity to suggest what they want to build, in order to have the biggest impact on our customers. Engineers are given real ownership of what they want to focus on, and they are responsible for tests, user feedback, and tracking.
You will be working directly with our customers - we have a weekly support hero, who is in charge of all customer questions and inquiries that week. We also have a thriving user Slack group and we receive PRs from users every week.
The technical challenge is designing a highly scalable product right out of the box when deployed on-premise, supporting a wide breadth of features that give users superpowers, and enabling an ecosystem of contributors and apps from anyone in the world.
Requirements
Youāll have full-stack experience with relevant technologies (Python or similar, React or similar, something to do with big data is a bonus)
You have started a project from scratch. You might have led a project, been a founder previously, or built an impressive side project.
You have strong communication skills. We document everything, most of it publicly.
You move fast, have a strong bias for impact and you donāt shy away from stepping on toes.
Nice to have
Youāve worked in a high-growth SaaS company
Extensive experience with Django and/or TypeScript-based React
If this sounds like what youād love to be doing, we canāt wait to hear from you. If youāre not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Alignment with our values is just as important as experience! š
Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if thereās any way we can make the interview process better for you - weāre happy to accommodate!
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Benefits
What we offer in return:
š° Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
š“ Permissionless holiday with a 25-day minimum requirement - the team used 31 days on average in 2022
ā $300/month towards co-working (or a WeWork membership) and $1,500/quarter for meetups
šµ š“ Pension/401k contributions (4% matching)
š¼ 12 weeksā parental leave after your first year at full pay
š Training budget and free books
š§ Spill mental health chat
š¤ $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
šø Weāll be your first investor and biggest cheerleader, if you spend two years at PostHog and leave to start a new company
Generous severance - 4 months from PostHog after youāve been with us for 3 months (but you only need to provide 1 monthās notice)
š« Regular team off-sites with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren
We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. Thatās why we dedicated a page in our handbook to diversity and inclusion. No matter your background, weād love to hear from you!
