Come build the community around you!
We created Jodel to let you instantly connect, share, and engage with
the community around you. We’ve built thriving local communities across
Europe and continue to expand globally. With more than 6 million posts
per day, we are thrilled to have one of the industry’s highest retention
rates. We’ve attracted respected and well-known investors such as
Christophe Maire, Adam d’Angelo, and the Floodgate Fund, and even been
the subject of several academic papers.
We’re now growing our Engineering team around a culture of
sustainability and empowerment. We’re dealing with dynamics such as
being local and signup-lean, which give us new problems to solve, and
we’re literally breaking new ground in the Social Network space.
Data-driven by default, with a bias for quality and code sustainability,
and fostering a solid DevOps and Automated Testing culture, Jodel’s
Engineering team is the place to be if you’re looking for unique
challenges!
What attitude are we looking for?
You’re naturally motivated and proud of doing great work;
Numbers and data are the best way to drive your decisions;
You have a strong personality, sense of ownership and responsibility;
You put people and human interactions above processes and rules;
You understand the value of “measure twice - cut once” and you work by this mantra;
You own your successes and your failures, and constantly seek to improve;
You keep your mind on the product we’re building, and are permanently aware of how each small action influences its success.
What do we value in our Engineering team?
Your studies were in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering;
You’re a problem solver, and you’re eager to experiment and learn new things;
You write code optimizing for clarity and readability;
You value testing very highly;
You write software aiming at reducing the cost of change;
You enjoy pair programming and code reviews, and see your job as a collaborative effort rather than solitary work;
Engineering work is mostly about compromises and so you’re always open to discuss different approaches to problems;
You’re happy to collaborate with your community and industry,
either in open source projects or presenting at meetups and conferences;
Since you’ll be working in the iOS team…
You have experience with Objective-C and Swift;
You have understanding of tools like CocoaPods, Fastlane, etc;
You have in-depth knowledge of common architectural approaches common in iOS;
You keep yourself up to date about tools that make your life easier and reference architectures in your field;
You have experience with acceptance, integration, unit testing;
You have experience with reactive programming;
What do we offer?
An Empowered Team – Engineering owns tech debt
and tech improvement decisions; we collaborate tightly with our product
team but we’re all very mindful not to step on each other’s toes. We own
technical decisions, take responsibility and are accountable for them.
Preventive culture, rather than reactive – While
some of us participate in on call activities, we have a very low amount
of actual production emergencies. A lot of energy goes into fixing root
causes and we are very proud of not having anyone in firefighting mode.
Career building is part of the deal – you don’t
join to just write tests and contribute to the product - you also join
to improve your career. We pay special attention to your personal
development and make sure you’re focusing on the skills that matter the
most to you.
Lean processes – we try hard to cut meetings and
processes to a minimum, to ensure that you’re focusing on being
productive. And we encourage all interactions to be direct and open, not
forcing you to go through any intermediaries to get your work done.
United in diversity – with people from all over
the world, from Tunisia to France, from India to the Poland, we are
multicultural by default and proud to be so. We all come from different
walks of life and cultural backgrounds, and we continue to push for
diversity in our team!
We’re building a team, not just making money –
we solve hard problems together but we also relax and have fun. From
team cooking to going on company trips, from office parties to
go-karting, we’ll make sure you have a good work-life balance.
The future will be amazing – the list of
non-trivial challenges we’ll be dealing with includes developer APIs,
security issues, scaling access to a lot of data (among other things we
can’t tell you about :-) ); all of this with location and anonymity as
their own dimensions in Jodel.
No one else is doing what we’re doing – it’s
that simple. We’re pioneering local communication and since
communication is a basic human need, our work is just very very
exciting. On top of that, we are one of the few large scale European
Social Networks. There’s not that many and we’re very proud to be “Made
in Europe”.
So, would you like to apply?
Here’s what our hiring process looks like:
The first step is very important for us to know that you thoroughly read this Job Ad – apply here.
After you apply successfully, we’ll send you a survey to help us
know you in more detail. This should take you about 15 minutes to
complete.
We’ll then send you a code challenge and once you’re done one of
our Engineers will do a pairing session with you going over the code and
getting to know you better as a future colleague. We’ll give you as
much time as you want to do the code challenge but the pairing session
usually takes up to 2 hours.
The last step is spending half a day with us to meet the team and seeing where we work.
Our hiring process takes some time – but we we’re assuming you want this job, not just any job. For us, having the right attitude from the moment you apply, is as important as having the right skills on your CV.
So if you share this conviction, you already passed the first test!