We are looking for a talented Full-stack Growth Engineer to join our team full-time. In this role, you will be building features, tools, and automations to improve our PLG business, including user acquisition, retention, and monetization. You will help foster a culture of speed, experimentation and data-driven decision making, and define best practices for iterating in increasingly tight feedback loops.
This is a great role for former technical founders and early employees - someone who knows what it takes to grow a startup, and stops at nothing to get the results we're after. It touches all areas of the business and involves a broad spectrum of technologies, hacks, and permanent solutions.
You willJoin the Growth Engineering team and contribute to the development and execution of features, experiments, and automations
Own technical solutions end-to-end, from ideation to iteration based on data and user feedback
Work across the stack from top to bottom, comfortably navigating codebases with different languages and tools
Participate in on-call rotations to handle and resolve critical growth-related issues
5+ years of experience building and growing a SaaS business
A strong sense for estimating project impact and outcomes
Opinions about what makes developers love or hate developer products
Experience in fuzzy / unpredictable environments, and the ability to scope down relentlessly to focus on shipping and learning fast
1+ year experience developing backend systems, ideally in Go
5+ years experience developing Web UI, ideally in Typescript and React
Experience deploying and managing infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Github CI/CD, cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.
Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.
Our TeamWe are a distributed team of 120+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
We are a team built on open source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)
Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Matthias profiles)
We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open-source
We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
We are keen to be a fast-moving, flat org and avoid hierarchical structures
Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, GGV, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.
You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling, ambitious team
You can work 100% remotely: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon, Portugal)
Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We're a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.
Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.
Our TeamWe are a distributed team of 130+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
We are a team built on open-source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, and proactivity)
Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical.
We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Matthias profiles)
We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open-source
We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
We are keen to be a fast-moving, flat org and avoid hierarchical structures
Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
We raised $104 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.
You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon, Portugal)
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