💖 About Heartbeat

Heartbeat (heartbeat.chat) is a plug-and-play online community builder. Think “Shopify for online communities”. We’re building a world where anyone can find their tribe & be their true selves on the internet.

Heartbeat allows creators, coaches, & online experts to build a thriving community business — with discussions, courses, payments, events, documents, workflows, matchmaking, and directories — all on their own website.

We’re the core platform powering these businesses all across the globe.

We launched Heartbeat 2 years ago and used that time to...

• build a beautiful, feature-rich product across web, desktop, iOS, and Android

• bring on +5,000 customers who are creating engaging, inclusive, and meaningful communities

• raised funding from a world-class team of builders, advisors, & investors with experience crafting billion-dollar products

✅ What you'll do...

• Work with the team to scope & prioritize new features

• Write maintainable, thoughtful code

• Improve our internal development experience to be efficient & robust

• Monitor our production environment and work with users to identify & resolve bugs

😍 You'll enjoy this role if you...

• Appreciate working with Typescript, type systems & functional patterns. More about our approach

• Enjoy writing high-quality code within the constraints of a rapidly changing product

• Want to have a strong influence on the direction of the product

• Thrive working in an autonomous environment

• Like creating new abstractions (responsibly!)

• Are not afraid to dive into unfamiliar technologies & platforms

🤔 Some problems we've worked on...

• Improving the type safety we get from our database

• Efficiently matching community members via max weight matching & linear programming

• Abstracting our mobile app to allow for custom white-labeling

🔨 What you might work on...

• Reworking our frontend infrastructure to enable our communities to create SEO-indexable content

• Building a new community-centric voice & video call experience

• Optimizing our API server infrastructure and database queries to accommodate usage growth

• Establishing our app ecosystem to allow external developers to build custom apps within Heartbeat

• And much more!

🔍 What we're looking for...

• A strong background working with Typescript or similar typed languages

• Experience with React or similar frontend component frameworks

• Experience scaling backend infrastructure & identifying performance bottlenecks

• Strong opinions about what well designed products feel like

• Intuition for balancing long-term engineering best practices and iterating quickly

• Empathy for users and the desire to carefully craft delightful user experiences

• A love for building & experimenting with products

⭐️ Bonus points if you...

• Founded a company before

• Have experience with React Native

• Have experience building realtime applications

🥞 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. Learn more about our approach here