Mobile Engineer - Padlet

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Padlet is building software for a good education. A good education is one that inspires curiosity, creativity, and community. Our software enables that through visual content creation and collaboration in millions of classrooms worldwide. For a majority of the world, the mobile device is their first computer. For many it’s their only computer. We are looking for Mobile Engineers to improve our mobile apps so we can improve the lives of a billion people.

Requirements

• At some point in your life, someone has told you: “you write good code.”
• You know how to copy-paste code from Stack Overflow.
• A good sense of humor is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Building new features for our iOS and/or Android apps.
  • E.g. a voice recorder with audio effects.
• Making apps faster and more reliable.
  • E.g. making network calls more resistant to spotty internet connections.
• Improving how we work.
  • E.g. improving our internationalization pipelines we use to translate our app into 40+ languages.

Tech Stack

• Mobile Apps: React Native (with Swift and Java where necessary.)
• Backend: Ruby (Rails), Typescript, Elixir (Phoenix), and Python.
• Web: VueJS, Tailwind.
• Storage: Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firestore, and Snowflake.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with concurrency problems.
• Experience with internationalization and scale problems.

About Padlet

• Vision: Every child in the world will grow up with Mickey Mouse and Padlet.
• Product: We are making the default way of collecting and sharing thoughts on the Internet. People love the product.
• Impact: We have 40 million users, making Padlet one of the most used apps on the planet.
• Money: We are venture backed AND fiscally responsible. We are built to last one hundred years.
• Team Size: Approximately 60 people.

Joys of Programming at Padlet

• Very few meetings.
• Value keeping you in flow.
• A lot of people use Padlet.
• Solve interesting concurrency problems.
• Users are in over 200 countries, using all kinds of devices and connections, and speaking over 40 languages.
• Solve interesting internationalization problems.
• Process a lot of data real fast.
• Solve interesting scale problems.
• Solve problems creatively instead of just throwing money at them.
• We thrive in constraints, not in the absence of them.
• Ship often.
• Value beautiful code.

Sorrows of Programming at Padlet

• Grew pretty fast last year and our processes are still catching up.
  • E.g. we don't have 100% code coverage yet.
• Our deployment process isn't as painless as it could be.
• This sometimes leads to spending time on things that aren't the most fun.
• Our project management process could be better.
• This sometimes leads to re-speccing in the middle of development, getting in the way of programming flow.