💖 About Heartbeat
Heartbeat is a plug-and-play online community builder. Our goal is to enable a world where anyone can find their tribe & be their true selves on the internet.
On Heartbeat, creators can build a tailored community with all the building blocks they need — threads, chats, voice calls, docs, calendars, user directory, matchmaking, analytics, integrations and more.
We founded Heartbeat a year ago, and used that time to...
build a beautiful, feature-rich product across web, desktop, iOS, and Android
bring on customers that are creating engaging, inclusive, and genuine communities
assemble a world-class team of builders, advisors, and investors with experience crafting billion-dollar products
✅ What you'll do...
Work with the team to scope & prioritize new features
Write maintainable, thoughtful code and documentation
Improve our internal development experience to be stable, efficient & resilient
Monitor our production environment and work with users to identify & resolve bugs
😍 You'll enjoy this role if you...
Enjoy being a generalist and working on different kinds of problems
Want to have a strong influence on the direction of the product
Thrive working in an autonomous environment
Are naturally curious and enjoy learning & experimenting with new technologies
🤔 Some problems we've worked on recently...
Improving type safety across different IDs with opaque types
Efficiently matching community members via max weight matching & linear programming
Implementing lightning-fast deploys, E2E-tests & deploy previews with LayerCI
Creating our initial design system with styled-components
🔨 What you might work on...
Implementing a seamless federated search that allows users to search through discussions, content & events from one place
Building better moderation tools for community admins that allow them to thoughtfully manage their community
Enabling creators to monetize their community in a variety of ways by integrating in-app payments throughout the platform
Establishing our app ecosystem to allow external developers to build custom apps within Heartbeat
And much more!
🔍 What we're looking for...
Experience working with Javascript / Typescript, or experience with a similar language & the ability to pick up new languages quickly
A strong understanding of what well-designed software looks like
Experience working on a large project & developing features across the web stack
Empathy for users and the desire to carefully craft delightful user experiences
Clear communication skills
The ability to balance long-term best practices and iterating & shipping quickly
A love for building & experimenting with products
⭐️ Bonus points if you...
Have experience building realtime applications
Have experience building iOS / Android apps
Have experience building public APIs / SDKs
Founded a company before
🥞 Our Stack
We love Typescript! Our entire stack is type-safe from the initial database call to the last React prop. Developer experience is a priority for us, and we're not afraid to spend time improving internal tooling if it will allow us to ship faster and/or better.
Technologies we use:
NodeJS / Express
React / Redux
React Native
Electron
RethinkDB
Netlify
AWS
Terraform
LayerCI
Cypress
NX
NextJS
Remote restrictions
- Workday must overlap by at least 5 hours with Atlanta, GA, USA