Full-Time
Senior iOS Engineer
Posted on 7/19/2023
Fizz
51-200 employees
Private social platform for college students
Compensation Overview
$150k - $200k/yr
Senior
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Position requires onsite presence in Palo Alto, CA.
- Experience with Swift, SwiftUI, TypeScript, Firebase, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and experience integrating with backend services.
- Ability to articulate and demonstrate common security practices from a developer point of view.
- Strong grasp on product and ability to develop features that college students will use and love.
- Ability to find appropriate new technologies and tools for our stack.
- Lead the development of new UI features and functionality for Fizz’s iOS app (SwiftUI)
- Design and implement scalable and reliable infrastructure for iOS applications.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to ensure that app features are seamlessly integrated with the backend infrastructure.
- Setup tools and processes that promote great software development practices.
- Imagine, design, deploy, and iterate new product features.
Fizz is a platform that focuses on creating authentic social interactions within college communities. It allows students to connect with each other by posting questions, memes, and polls, as well as chatting directly with other verified students. To use Fizz, students must verify their university email addresses, ensuring that all users are part of the same college community. This verification process helps maintain a safe and inclusive environment, supported by community-based moderation. Unlike other social media platforms that often promote curated content, Fizz aims to foster genuine connections and conversations among students. The goal of Fizz is to redefine social networking by prioritizing authenticity and community engagement.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$42.3M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2020
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Fizz raised $41M to expand its Gen Z-focused social app.
- The rise of Gen Z platforms prioritizing privacy benefits Fizz's growth.
- Fizz's expansion to over 80 campuses shows strong user engagement.
What critics are saying
- UNC's ban on anonymous apps could reduce Fizz's user base.
- Legal battles with Sidechat may harm Fizz's reputation and finances.
- Potential bans from other universities could hinder Fizz's expansion.
What makes Fizz unique
- Fizz uses .edu emails for verified, private student communities.
- Community-based moderation ensures a secure and welcoming environment on Fizz.
- Fizz offers a peer-to-peer marketplace, enhancing its social platform.
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↑ 19%Teddy Solomon, co-founder of Fizz, raised $41 million to develop a community-based social app for Gen Z. Fizz, launched at Stanford, connects students through private, verified communities using .edu emails. The app has expanded to top universities and features full-spectrum sharing and a peer-to-peer marketplace. Despite initial investment offers, Teddy and his team focused on building the platform, leading to significant user engagement and growth.
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Anonymous social apps are in for a reckoning. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President Peter Hans announced a plan to block the use of popular anonymous social apps on campus, including Yik Yak, Fizz, Whisper, and Sidechat. The ban would impact the 16 universities, like UNC Chapel Hill, NCSU, UNC Charlotte, and others, as well as one public residential high school that comprises the UNC system.In remarks shared in a letter with the UNC Board of Governors, Hans explains the reason for the ban, noting that these small, hyper-local platforms have “shown a reckless disregard for the wellbeing of young people and outright indifference to bullying and bad behavior.”The apps also turn a blind eye to other problems, like sexual harassment, racial insults, and drug dealing, he noted.If you’re not familiar with these apps, you’re probably not the target demographic.Anonymous social apps tend to appeal to younger users and are often used for bad behavior like bullying, harassment, and online abuse. Or as Hans colorfully puts it, the apps are “the modern equivalent of scrawling cruel rumors on the bathroom wall, except now with a much larger audience.”Many of the modern versions of the anonymous social set also narrowly target young people by operating within a five-mile radius of a college or university campus. That leads to large adoption among college students but, because of their use case, they’re often overlooked by college administrators
Fizz, the buzzy anonymous social app that’s now being used across more than 80 college campuses, has filed suit against rival Sidechat, alleging unfair competition and a range of abuses, including attempts at disrupting Fizz’s launches, spreading rumors about Fizz having hackers, trademark infringements, sending false spam reports to Instagram and using false pretenses to acquire information on Fizz’s launch strategies, among other things, including paying students to delete Fizz’s app.The case was filed in the Southern District of Court against Sidechat owner, Flower Ave. on October 6, 2023. The complaint demands a jury trial, damages and an injunction against Flower Ave.’s interference and its use of Fizz’s trademark.Sidechat has been relatively press-shy to date; however, TechCrunch previously confirmed involvement from ex-Snap engineer Sebastian Gil and ex-Snap product designer Chamal Samaranayake — both of whom are listed in an SEC filing for Flower Ave. This March, the company acquired another anonymous social app, Yik Yak, which had been operating under new ownership as of 2021 as the original app had shut down by way of an acqui-hire by Square (now Block) in 2017.But with Fizz’s growing traction across Sidechat’s same college campus market, it seems the latter has upped its competitive tactics, if the allegations in Fizz’s filing hold true.For instance, Fizz says that when it launched at Colgate University in January 2023, Flower Ave. launched the same day by setting up a competing station near the dining hall. There, a Flower Ave
Facebook が世界を席巻してから10年以上が経過した今、スタンフォード大学の2人の学生 Teddy Solomon 氏と Ashton Cofer 氏は、Mark Zuckerberg 氏の成功を再現しようと、新たな匿名 SNS アプリ「Fizz」を開発し、大学生を中心に注目を集めている。. Fizz は現在、アメリカの80以上の大学で利用されており、これまでに4,150万米ドルを調達した。. Fizz の特徴は、匿名性ともでレーションできる点だ。ユーザは匿名でのみ投稿・コメントすることができる。また、モデレーション担当を設けることで、ある大学の掲示板ではその大学の学生がモデレーションを行い、プライバシーを強化し、いじめや混乱のリスクを軽減している。