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## About Shortwave\n\nWe are a venture-backed startup founded in January 2020 that is building the future of digital communications\non top of the world's most ubiquitous messaging platform โ email. We're on a\n[mission](https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/) to ensure that\neveryone has access to high quality, decentralized, and secure messaging.\n\nWe have an experienced team distributed across the US, with almost half of our team located\nin California. Our CEO Andrew formerly cofounded [Firebase](https://firebase.google.com/) (later acquired by Google), and much of our early team met\nAndrew while working there building the infrastructure behind millions of today's mobile and web apps.\n\nOur first product is a brand new inbox experience for Gmail that keeps your inbox organized by default.\nWe believe that email should prioritize people, not advertising, getting through your inbox shouldn't\nrequire busywork, and sending an email should be as fast as typing a text message. Our product is currently in pre-launch\ntesting with a select group of alpha users.\n\nWe're well-funded by top-tier investors including Union Square Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners.\n\n## About the role\n\nIn this role, you'll help us build and ship new features and improve the quality of our\napplication by contributing across our entire stack.\n\n### You will:\n\n- Work closely with other engineers to design and implement new features\n- Write _and ship_ a lot of code quickly โ we deploy multiple times per day and value rapid iteration with users\n- Contribute to both the backend and frontend of our application, both for web and for mobile\n- Help ensure our service is secure and reliable with tests, monitoring, and by going on-call\n- Wear whatever hats needed to make the business succeed โ we're a small team\n\n## About you\n\nWe're looking for a smart, generalist developer with strong CS fundamentals who's able\nto learn and adapt quickly to solve problems wherever they are in our code.\n\n- Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent demonstrated ability\n- Strong CS fundamentals\n- Fluent in common data structures & algorithms\n- Experience working across the stack on a mobile or web application\n- Good technical communications skills, both verbal and written\n- A willingness to work hard as part of a team and learn new things quickly\n\n#### Bonus points\n\n- Experience building APIs for a high reliability service\n- Experience with PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes\n- Experience with React, React Native, TypeScript, Kotlin, or Swift\n\n## What we offer\n\nWe're looking to hire the best and brightest and are trying hard to provide the best work environment around.\n\n- Competitive compensation, including generous equity grants\n- Medical and dental benefits\n- Flexible work hours and vacation\n- Remote-first team โ you can work from anywhere\n- Regular (every ~2 months) offsites where we get the whole team together, often in fun locations like Hawaii ๐\n- A mission-focused team with fun coworkers (ok, we're biased... but we really are nice people!)\n \n\nPlease mention the word **GAINING** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMTE2LjIzOS4xOTU=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$120,000 — $180,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States
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