**_About PostHog
_** PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform. We provide product-
led teams with everything they need to understand user behaviour, including
funnels, session recording, user paths, multivariate testing, feature flags,
heat maps, and more. PostHog can be deployed to the cloud, or self-hosted on
existing infrastructure, removing the need to send data externally.
PostHog was created as an open source project during Y Combinator's 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 10,000
companies have installed the platform, we've had huge success with our paid
upgrades, and we have raised $27m from some of the world's top investors, and
have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth.
**Despite the tech market, we're default alive and doing better than ever!
** We've been averaging >20% monthly revenue growth and we didn't raised a
huge / now-overpriced round in 2021. While others are focused on layoffs and
struggling to grow into huge valuations, we're focusing on an awesome product
for end users, hiring (a handful of) exceptional team members and seeing
fantastic increases in revenue as a result.
** _About Our Engineering Teams
_** Engineers currently work across three small teams - App East, West, and
Platform. We usually hire for all three 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.
** _What We Value
_** We are open source - building a huge community around a free-for-life
product is key to PostHog's 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 don’t 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 haven't built our defining feature yet. We are all
about acting fast, innovating and iterating.
** _Requirements
_** Experience in at least one of these areas: * UI expert— can lead
development of a design system
* Data systems
* General frontend expert - including testing strategies and architectural sustainability
* You'll have 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 don’t shy away from stepping on toes.
_Nice to have
_
* You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company
* Extensive experience with Django and/or TypeScript-based React
If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from
you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch
anyway. Alignment with our values is just as important as experience!
** _What We Offer In Return
_**
* 💰 Generous, transparent compensation and employee-friendly equity in PostHog
* 🌴 Unlimited time off with a 25 day minimum (in 2021 the team on average took 32 days off)
* 🏥 Private medical insurance, including dental and vision (US and UK only)
* 👵 👴 Pension/401k contributions (4% matching)
* 🍼 Generous parental, bereavement and child loss leave
* 📕 Training budget and free books
* ☕ $200/month budget towards co-working or café working and $250/month for team socials
* 🧠 Spill mental health chat
* 🤝 $100/month budget to provide support to open-source projects
* 💸 We'll be your first investor
* 🛫 Regular team off-sites (we were in Iceland in March) with carbon offsetting for work travel with Project Wren
