zulip/templates/corporate/jobs.html

{% extends "zerver/portico.html" %}
{% set entrypoint = "landing-page" %}

{% set PAGE_TITLE = "Jobs | Zulip" %}

{% set PAGE_DESCRIPTION = "We're hiring! Learn about our openings and how to
  apply." %}

{% block customhead %}
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
{% endblock %}

{% block portico_content %}

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

<div class="portico-landing jobs why-page">
    <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>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#frontend">Senior Frontend Engineer</a></li>
                </ul>
            </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>

                To apply for an open position, please send your <b>resume</b>
                and a brief <b>cover letter</b> (which can be in the body of
                your email) to
                <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</a>. Your cover
                letter should explain what makes you excited about working at
                Zulip in the role you're applying for. Applications without a
                cover letter will not be considered.

                <h2 id="frontend">Senior Frontend Engineer</h2>
                <p>
                    We’re looking for an engineer to join our small
                    core team and help define the future of team chat.
                </p>
                <p>
                    This job is remote, or partially in-person in our San Francisco, CA office.
                </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>
                        Work directly with Zulip’s product and design leads to drive work on a major initiative to <a
                        href="https://github.com/zulip/zulip/labels/redesign">
                        redesign</a> Zulip’s core surfaces.
                    </li>
                    <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 JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and occasionally
                        Python.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h3>Extra credit for any of the following:</h3>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        You have extensive software engineering experience, with
                        deep expertise in frontend development.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You have significant experience as a technical lead for
                        your team, including designing systems and collaborating
                        to get them built, coaching people in writing
                        high-quality code, and other aspects of technical
                        leadership.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        You have experience making complex changes to an
                        actively developed codebase, such as carefully removing
                        legacy dependencies, or executing a major refactoring
                        project.
                    </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 contributed to open-source projects; better
                        yet, maintained a project and helped many people
                        contribute to it.
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>
                    Learn more about <a href="/jobs/#how-we-work">how we
                    work</a>, or apply by sending your resume and a brief cover
                    letter explaining what makes you excited about this role to
                    <a href="mailto:jobs@zulip.com">jobs@zulip.com</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>
</div>

{% endblock %}