💖 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