Working hours\n\n🌎 The ideal candidate for this role will reside in San Francisco, California. Regular attendance at weekly Developer and AI events in the city is an essential aspect of this position.\n\nRequired locations:\n\n\n* \n\n\n*  San Francisco, California\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy this job is exciting\n\nAs a Developer Advocate at Sourcegraph, you will be a champion for how developers understand and navigate complex codebases using our platform. You'll be connecting with the developer community and sharing the value of our AI Code Assistant and Code Search platform through written, video, and live engagements. You'll be part of a small but impactful team, representing Sourcegraph and its commitment to improving the developer experience. You'll have the opportunity to help developers at the most successful and sophisticated companies in the world (our customers) implement and scale code AI capabilities. We're looking for someone passionate about driving adoption and empowering engineers through creative story telling and genuine community building.\n\nAs a Developer Advocate, you will spend 25% of your time engaging with Developers at events in-person and 75% of your time creating content and recording videos.\nJob responsibilities\n\n\n* Attend and host 2-5 meet-ups and events in San Francisco monthly\n\n* Represent our user community within Sourcegraph\n\n* Build apps with Sourcegraph in public\n\n* Build integrations on top of Sourcegraph (such as teaching Sourcegraph how to use and gather information from other dev tools, including logging, perf, etc., tools)\n\n* Livestream and record demos of what you build, for Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, etc.\n\n* Be an incredibly helpful and inspirational member of our dev community yourself and help grow it\n\n* Write awesome technical blog posts\n\n* Promote Sourcegraph on social media\n\n* Help connect our user community growth to our product-led growth engine\n\n* Overall, help define what dev advocacy means at Sourcegrapp\n\n\n\nSkills and experience\n\nYour skill-set:\n\n\n* You are intrinsically motivated by Sourcegraph’s mission. \n\n* Experience as a software engineer or prolific coding\n\n* TypeScript, JavaScript, and/or Go skills Able to communicate technical concepts in a simple and engaging way\n\n* Experience creating high-quality technical writing and videos\n\n* Experience working in a high-agency environment that requires ownership\n\n\n\n\n Bonus Points:\n\n\n* You’ve established a strong following on social media platforms\n\n\n\nLevel\n\nThis job is an IC2-IC3.  You can read more about our job leveling philosophy in our Handbook.\nCompensation\n\n💸 We pay you an above-average salary because we want to hire the best people who are fully focused on helping Sourcegraph succeed, not worried about paying bills. As an open and transparent company that values competitive compensation, our compensation ranges are visible to every single Sourcegraph teammate. To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources, along with your location zone, and target the high-end of the range to ensure we’re always paying above market regardless of where you live in the world.  \n\n💰 The target compensation for this role is $130,300 - $159,000 USD (depending on level & location).  \n\n📈 In addition to our cash compensation, we offer equity (because when we succeed as a company, we want you to succeed, too) and generous perks & benefits.\nInterview process \n\nBelow is the interview process you can expect for this role (you can read more about the types of interviews in our Handbook). It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all! \n\nWe expect the interview process to take 4.5 hours in total. \n\n\n\n👋 Introduction Stage - we have initial conversations to get to know you better…\n\n\n[30m] Recruiter Screen with Kelsey Nagel\n\n[60m] Hiring Manager Screen / Resume Deep Dive with Ado Kukic\n\n\n\n\n🧑‍💻 Team Interview Stage - we then delve into your experience in more depth and introduce you to members of the team…\n\n\n* [45m] Cross-functional team collaboration \n\n* [60m] Working Session \n\n\n\n\n🎉 Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round, where you meet cross-functional partners and gain a better understanding of our business and values holistically…\n\n\n[30m] Values Interview\n\n[30m] Leadership Interview with Quinn Slack or Beyang Liu \n\nWe check references and conduct your background check\n\n\n\n\nPlease note - you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process. You can learn more about the team here.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

\nAbout Us\n\n\n#paid is a creator marketing platform that sits at the intersection of brand and creator collaboration. We help direct-to-consumer and Fortune 500 brands like Infiniti, TJX, Unilever, and Sephora, activate creators to drive growth.\nWe are building the platform of record that powers content creation and distribution for brands globally. The better we do that, the better we can serve our creator community and provide them with the best place on earth to do what they love—create.\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\nYou are an experienced software developer, who has worked as part of small to medium-sized teams and participated in planning, designing, and shipping small-to-medium scale applications.\nYou are a team player and contributor to technology decisions and architecture and can balance day-to-day workload, with an eye for future improvements of your team and their work.\nYou will be working as part of a group of developers, product managers, and designers who help each other solve problems across all functions. You will employ best practices in development, security, accessibility, and design to achieve the highest quality of service for our customers.\nWe use a range of technologies to get the job done: JavaScript and Node.js coupled with OpenAPI, React, and other libraries to provide a modern, easy-to-use Javascript toolchain. A RESTful API back-end powers our platform services.\n\n\n\nDay to Day\n* You'll be reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, work together on and own your personal growth and objectives\n* You will work with Product Managers and Software Developers to collaboratively define the roadmap for features and tools\n* You will perform 2-week time-boxed sprints with daily standups\n* You'll clearly communicate with the team through our productivity tools (Slack, Notion and GitHub)\n* You'll champion documentation and knowledge sharing\n* You will contribute to the design of scalable software platforms with performance and security in mind\n* You'll analyze and troubleshoot production issues in a timely fashion\n* You'll assist developers with their assigned responsibilities when required\n* You'll contribute to documentation, functional specifications, design documents and architecture diagrams\n\n\n\nYou're perfect for the role if\n* You live and work within 3 Hours of Eastern Standard Time\n* Proven history of excelling in a team-based, collaborative environment\n* Senior-level knowledge of front-end development (ES2019 JavaScript, React, CSS)\n* Senior-level knowledge of React and key React patterns and libraries (e.g. data fetching, state management, etc.)\n* Senior-level knowledge of client-side tooling such as Webpack, Storybook and testing libraries (we use Tap, and Jest)\n* Experience in mentoring junior team members, contributing to overall code quality & pull request process, and evangelizing best practices\n* Experience reviewing code and giving constructive feedback to peers\n* Eligible for Full-Time employment in Canada\n\n\n\nNice to have\n* Proven Experience in building scalable production services and monitoring performance (we use GCP Monitoring Tools)\n* Experience breaking monolithic services into microservices\n* Senior-level knowledge of back-end development (we use Node.js)\n* Senior-level knowledge of database engines (we use PostgreSQL, Redis)\n* Proven Experience designing and documenting APIs (we use Node.js, Fastify, OpenAPI Spec)\n* Experience designing and load-testing highly available systems\n* Experience with the Docker ecosystem\n\n\n\nInterview Process\n* Application review\n* Two rounds of interviews across two days with four different components.\n* Hiring Manager Interview (60 mins). We want to learn more about your experience and interests at this stage. You will also learn about the engineering team and decide if #paid is the right fit for you.\n* Meet the team (60 mins). You will meet Product, Design and Engineering team members to learn how you collaborate across these disciplines. You will also have an opportunity to ask about our team structure and culture.\n* Project Deep Dive (60 mins). You will meet the architecture team and talk in-depth about a past project or codebase you loved (or hated!). Come prepared to talk about technical topics (architecture, trade-offs and tools) and non-technical details (team structure, project planning, lessons learned and overall business impact). You are welcome to present slides or a codebase, but remember that this interview is a conversation, not a presentation.\n* VP interview (30 mins). Intended to cover your skills in collaboration and communication, as well as to provide a final opportunity for you to ask any lingering questions about the company strategy.\n* Note: this is an outline of interviewing at #paid. The interview process may vary depending on your experience.\n\n\n\nGet to know the role\n* In order to foster skill growth and guide team members to improve themselves and others, we document a set of core skills & competencies that each team member need to have or achieve in order to be effective\n* Take a look at our README on Github\n* Read our blog: Banknotes\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, Docker, JavaScript, API, Junior, Marketing and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto