zulip/templates/corporate/jobs.html

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{% set entrypoint = "landing-page" %}

{% block title %}
<title>Zulip jobs</title>
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{% block portico_content %}

{% include 'zerver/landing_nav.html' %}

<div class="portico-landing jobs why-page no-slide">
    <div class="hero bg-pycon drone">
        <div class="bg-dimmer"></div>
        <div class="content">
            <h1 class="center">Work with us</h1>
            <p>We're 100% open source, and we're hiring.</p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="open-positions-top">
        <div class="main">
            <div class="padded-content markdown">
                <h1>Open positions</h1>
                <p>
                    All openings are remote, or partially in-person in our San Francisco, CA office.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#designer">Senior Product Designer</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#mobile">Senior Mobile Engineer</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#fullstack">Senior Full Stack Engineer</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#marketing">Marketing/Growth Lead</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#writer">Technical Writer (part-time)</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="how-we-work">
        <div class="main">
            <div class="padded-content markdown">
                <h1 id="how-we-work">
                    How we work
                </h1>
                <p>
                    <strong>Open source.</strong>  The Zulip software is 100% free and
                    open source.  We're <a href="/team/">an open-source project</a> first,
                    and we’re building a sustainable business as a means to support the
                    project's growth and long-term future. We provide the same open-source
                    code to our largest customers as to anyone with <code>git clone</code>.
                    We get paid by enterprises for support, and by smaller companies using
                    our rapidly-growing hosted service.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Open project.</strong> The Zulip project is one where people
                    really do show up through the Internet and start making real changes.
                    That doesn’t happen by accident; it takes work and thoughtfulness.  Most
                    of us work remotely, and we discuss our code and our plans in public, in
                    writing, primarily asynchronously, using Zulip and GitHub.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Inclusive community.</strong> The Zulip community is made up of a
                    mixture of volunteers and professionals from all walks of life. Diversity is
                    one of our strengths, and we strive to be a community that welcomes and
                    supports people of all backgrounds and identities from anywhere in the world.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Globally distributed.</strong> Our company is
                    headquartered in San Francisco, CA, but like our community,
                    we work from around the world. Our roles
                    are open to all applicants without regard for location.
                </p>
                <p>
                    <strong>Maintainable software.</strong>  Great
                    software over time depends on a team’s shared
                    understanding of a system and how to change it, as
                    much as on the code itself. Beyond writing our
                    code so it works today, we put equal effort into
                    writing code, tests, comments, commit history,
                    and <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">documentation</a>
                    clearly, to share with each other and future
                    contributors our understanding of how and why it
                    works, so we can build on it tomorrow.
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="what-were-building">
        <div class="main">
            <div class="padded-content markdown">
                <h1 id="what-were-building">
                    What we're building
                </h1>
                <p>
                    People working together need to communicate with their teammates, and they
                    also need to tune out the conversation to get work done. Teams tired of
                    wasting time in meetings move discussion to email; tired of waiting all
                    day for email replies, move to a team chat like Slack or IRC; and then
                    team chat becomes an always-on meeting, leaving people constantly
                    distracted, missing out on important conversations, or both.
                </p>
                <p>
                    Zulip is reinventing chat so teams can accomplish more together. We've
                    created a place where a conversation can shift seamlessly from the
                    immediacy of chat to the reply-whenever efficiency of email, and back;
                    where you can participate in the conversations that matter to you and
                    efficiently tune out the rest, no matter whether you're there in real
                    time, coming online after a morning hard at work, or returning from a
                    vacation away from it.
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="open-positions">
        <div class="main">
            <div class="padded-content markdown">
                <h1>Open positions</h1>

                <h2 id="designer">
                    Senior Product Designer (full-time or part-time)
                </h2>
                <p>
                    At <a href="/">Zulip</a>, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is ideal for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for <a href="/for/companies/">businesses</a>, <a href="/case-studies/rust/">open-source projects</a>, <a href="/case-studies/tum/">educators</a> and <a href="/case-studies/lean/">communities</a> around the world.
                </p>
                <p>
                    We are looking for an experienced product designer with a
                    strong background in visual design to make our web and
                    mobile applications shine. Our product
                    <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/28/zulip_open_source_chat_collaboration_software/">has
                    been described</a> as “everything Slack is, but smarter and
                    more powerful.” By working to also make Zulip
                    <b>beautiful</b> and <b>easy to learn</b>, you will have the
                    opportunity to have a huge impact on the growth of our
                    product.
                </p>
                <p>
                    This job is remote, or partially in-person in our San
                    Francisco, CA office.
                </p>

                <h3>What you’ll do:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Develop beautiful visual designs for the Zulip web and mobile apps. We are planning a major redesign, and you will have a leading role in developing the vision for a new look and feel for our product.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Work closely with the engineering team to integrate your designs.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Brainstorm, design and implement improvements to the product founded in a deep understanding of user problems, working in a dynamic collaboration with product, engineering, and users.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Refine the look and feel of the Zulip website, so that our message and brand come across loud and clear.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <h3>Essential qualifications:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Your portfolio showcases a track record of designing truly beautiful and functional web and mobile apps. You have been responsible for the overall design of a complex application.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You are excited to think creatively and develop elegant solutions to complex problems.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You communicate with clarity and precision, and are comfortable in a distributed work environment. You thrive in an inclusive culture where ideas are debated openly and everyone is treated with respect.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You will be happy in a startup environment as the only designer on the team.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <h3>
                    We'd especially like to get to know you if:
                </h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        You are comfortable working in CSS to implement your ideas.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You are excited to build an open-source product with a community of contributors from around the world. You know how to use Git to collaborate on a software project, or are happy to learn.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Email us
                    at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a>
                    with your resume and portfolio to apply, or learn more about
                    <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we work</a>.
                </p>
                <br />
                <hr />

                <h2 id="mobile">Senior Mobile Engineer</h2>
                <p>
                    Our mobile app is a critical part of the Zulip experience. We’re looking
                    for an engineer to join our small, growing, core team and help define the
                    future of team chat on mobile.
                </p>

                <h3>We'd especially like to get to know you if:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You love giving a code review, and love receiving one.</strong>
                        We’re an open-source project welcoming contributions from people with
                        a wide range of experience.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You communicate with clarity and precision.</strong>
                        You’ll be doing this a lot in code, comments, code reviews, and chat
                        conversations. We care about this almost as much as your technical
                        skills.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You can empathize with the many different types of users</strong>
                        who rely on Zulip, and see the product from their perspective — and do
                        the same thing for the project's contributors.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h3>You will:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Design new features and subsystems, write design proposals for
                        discussion, and build them.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Diagnose and fix bugs small and large and across several layers of our
                        stack, and resolve questions about the frameworks and libraries we
                        rely on by diving into their source when the documentation doesn't
                        suffice.
                    </li>
                    <li>Share your expertise (both newly-acquired and longstanding) with the
                        rest of the team, through short- and long-form written communication.
                    </li>
                    <li>Write primarily JavaScript using React Native, with some Java, Swift,
                        and backend Python, and learn whichever of those are new to you.
                    </li>
                    <li>Work from our office in San Francisco, or from anywhere in the United
                        States.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h3>Extra credit for any of the following:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>You have 5+ years of software engineering experience in a variety of
                        settings: backend services, or build systems, or desktop GUI software —
                        you name it.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have experience designing systems for other people to build
                        different pieces of, coaching people in writing high-quality code, or
                        other aspects of technical leadership.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have spent time maintaining and debugging long-running systems.</li>
                    <li>You have the UI design skills to spot where a UI can be improved;
                        better yet, to design a better one.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have experience with iOS or Android development.</li>
                    <li>You have experience with React.</li>
                    <li>You have contributed to open-source projects; better yet, maintained a
                        project and helped many people contribute to it.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Email us at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a> with your
                    resume to apply, or learn more about
                    <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we work</a>.
                </p>

                <br />
                <hr />

                <h2 id="fullstack">Senior Full Stack Engineer</h2>
                <p>
                    We’re looking for an engineer to join our small
                    core team and help define the future of team chat.
                </p>

                <h3>We'd especially like to get to know you if:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You love giving a code review, and love receiving one.</strong>
                        We’re an open-source project welcoming contributions from people with
                        a wide range of experience.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You communicate with clarity and precision.</strong>
                        You’ll be doing this a lot in code, comments, code reviews, and chat
                        conversations. We care about this almost as much as your technical
                        skills.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>You can empathize with the many different types of users</strong>
                        who rely on Zulip, and see the product from their perspective — and do
                        the same thing for the project's contributors.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h3>You will:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>Design new features and subsystems, write design proposals for
                        discussion, and build them.
                    </li>
                    <li>Diagnose and fix bugs small and large and across several layers of our
                        stack, including spelunking in third-party dependencies to find the
                        best possible solution.
                    </li>
                    <li>Share your expertise (both newly-acquired and longstanding) with the
                        rest of the team, through short- and long-form written communication.
                    </li>
                    <li>Write primarily Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.</li>
                    <li>Work from our office in San Francisco, or from anywhere in the world.</li>
                </ul>

                <h3>Extra credit for any of the following:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>You have 5+ years of software engineering experience in a variety of
                        settings: backend services, or build systems, or desktop GUI software
                        — you name it.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have experience designing systems for other people to build
                        different pieces of, coaching people in writing high-quality code, or
                        other aspects of technical leadership.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have spent time maintaining and debugging long-running, highly
                        scalable server systems.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have the UI design skills to spot where a UI can be improved;
                        better yet, to design a better one.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have experience doing large codebase migrations in web apps in a way
                        that minimizes regressions.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have contributed to open-source projects; better yet, maintained a
                        project and helped many people contribute to it.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Email us at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a> with your
                    resume to apply, or learn more about
                    <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we work</a>.
                </p>
                <br />
                <hr />


                <h2 id="marketing">Marketing/Growth Lead (full-time or part-time)</h2>
                <p>
                    We’re looking for an experienced leader
                    to accelerate the growth of our business.
                </p>

                <h3>We'd especially like to get to know you if:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>You have prior experience in a marketing or
                        growth leadership role at a B2B startup.  You
                        know what questions to ask, and will figure
                        out how to experiment and innovate to take our
                        business to the next level.
                    </li>
                    <li>You are not afraid to get your hands dirty. If something needs to happen,
                        you will get it done.
                    </li>
                    <li>You are an excellent writer and storyteller.
                    </li>
                    <li>You communicate with clarity and precision,
                        and are comfortable in a distributed work
                        environment.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <h3>You will:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>Work closely with our leadership team to
                        develop growth and marketing strategy, and
                        align it with our product roadmap.
                    </li>
                    <li>Drive the execution of key growth and marketing initiatives.
                    </li>
                    <li>Create high-quality materials for our website,
                        blog, PR and advertising campaigns.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Email us at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a> with your resume to apply, or learn more about
                    <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we work</a>.
                </p>
                <br />
                <hr />

                <h2 id="writer">Technical Writer (part-time)</h2>
                <p>
                    Excellent documentation is a major priority for
                    our project, and we are looking for an experienced
                    technical writer to organize, extend and improve
                    our <a href="https://zulip.com/help/">user</a>
                    and <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">developer</a>
                    docs.
                </p>

                <h3>We'd especially like to get to know you if:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>You have empathy for users of our product, and
                        are able to predict and address their questions
                        and points of confusion.
                    </li>
                    <li>You have excellent attention to
                        detail. Instructions you write are clear,
                        well-tested, and in accordance with
                        our <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/documentation/user.html#writing-documentation">style
                        guidelines</a>; there are no typos or broken
                        links.
                    </li>
                    <li>You are comfortable with using Git to preview
                        new product features and contribute documentation
                        updates, or are happy to learn.
                    </li>
                    <li>You communicate with clarity and precision,
                        and are comfortable in a distributed work
                        environment.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <h3>You will:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Work closely with engineers to create polished
                        documentation for new product features and
                        feature updates.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Create user docs for our mobile app.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Extend
                        our <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/documentation/user.html#writing-documentation">style
                        guide</a> to help developers document the
                        features they build effectively.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Think carefully about how to keep our
                        documentation clear and organized, and
                        restructure it as needed.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Email us at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a> with your
                    resume to apply, or learn more about
                    <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we work</a>.
                </p>
                <br />
                <hr />

                <h2>How to apply for a job</h2>
                <p>
                    You can email us at <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a> with your resume.
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
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