Software Engineers are the
core of our Engineering team at Pusher, working across the stack to
deliver awesome products at massive scale.
Pusher
Pusher is a communication layer for application developers that routes data at scale and in realtime.
The
current core Pusher product is a multi-tenant distributed system that
allows our customers to deliver tens of billions of messages to their
connected users. We operate at mind-boggling scale, and this informs and
affects everything we do.
We want to improve the lives of other
developers by solving hard problems for them, and by freeing them from
operating and maintaining their own infrastructure. We’re passionate
about developer experience and making our APIs as easy to use as we can.
What you will be doing
Pusher
is a challenging but supportive environment. We are still small enough
to be a team of generalist engineers with individual specialisms, so we
want you to get involved with as much of our engineering lifecycle as
possible. Your typical week might involve the following...
Coding
We’re
a polyglot engineering team. We value using the right tool for the job
over sticking to a single technology, although we have focused on Ruby,
Go and Node for concurrent programming, with the occasional use of
functional languages such as Haskell where it makes sense.
We also
believe in using existing technologies wherever we can. We use Redis
and MySQL extensively, and we use ZooKeeper, Consul and Kafka to manage
our distributed platform.
Our engineering team also build and
maintain everything that surrounds the core message bus and makes things
easy for our customers to integrate, understand and use Pusher. This
includes maintaining our open source integration libraries and our customer-facing dashboard (we have friendly front-end engineers to help you with this).
Design
You should expect to spend some of your time at Pusher designing new features and reviewing other people’s ideas.
On
our core product, you will influence how our APIs are designed, and
work with the rest of the team to bring new features to life. You may
also take ownership of some of our integration libraries, and develop
them further.
We also continually work on more exploratory ideas
for new products, where we believe that great things emerge from small
empowered teams unencumbered by too many outside opinions. We make sure
engineers have the tools and time to explore new ideas and focus on
novel solutions.
Operations
Our
engineering team is heavily involved in operations, automation and
testing, and you will be deploying, monitoring and maintaining a large
production system using Puppet and Ansible. You should be intrigued by
the technical challenge of automating processes and testing on a
realtime, distributed, stateful platform.
Requirements
Personal Qualities
- You love to ship high-quality features for real users.
- You show perseverance in the face of tough challenges.
- You are constantly curious about new technology.
- You are pragmatic where necessary, but a perfectionist where it counts.
- You are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
Practical Experience
We look for personal qualities as much as experience, but some of the things that might help are:
- You have worked on distributed systems.
- You’ve built features and products using concurrent programming principles such as event loops or CSP.
- You have experience building web applications in a variety of languages and technology stacks.
- You've built APIs, and you know what makes an API great.
- You have fulfilled a sysadmin or ops role.
- You have an understanding of Computer Science theory and principles.
Bonus Points
- You've used Pusher in the past.
Pusher
is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion
at our company. We welcome people of different nationalities,
backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Benefits
What you get
- Competitive salary
- Based in the heart of trendy Shoreditch
- Flexible hours
- MacBooks for all
- Profitable company
- Team lunches
- Private health insurance
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension plan
- Yoga
- Massages
- Free snacks