Overview

We’re a successful, decade-old, bootstrapped SaaS company that invented the technology behind web-based audience response systems. We enable hundreds of thousands of presenters around the world to ask their audience or classes a live question and watch the responses appear instantly in a chart on stage. We’re used in CEO townhalls, international sales meetings, corporate trainings, and university lecture halls.

Want to see how we work? Check out our playbook!

If you are a developer who wants to use your skills to drive business results in partnership with Marketing and Sales, this role is perfect for you. You’ll work across our product suite, side-by-side with the Director of Growth and the Marketing leadership to learn how our business works, then build highly visible tools, experiments, and processes that will scale with our team.

Want to build something that you can point to for driving revenue? Want to learn to do it with an experienced team of highly motivated self-starters that can guide you and improve together?

Why you?

  • You want to apply your engineering skills across functions to drive measurable business results
  • You want to have a say in what you do, while seeing the impact plainly
  • You enjoy crafting quality code, but you also are comfortable with tradeoffs in release schedules and prototypes

Responsibilities

  • Improve, open source, and maintain our custom customer behavior tracking system, Cutlass
  • Use, learn, and extend fancy new hotness technologies like Elixir and JSON in MySQL
  • Create, implement, and measure improvements to onboarding and acquisition funnels both to drive incremental business gains and to help shape the future of product development. Examples:
  • Add a gaming style tutorial feature for creating a new poll type
  • Create a poll recommendation system for new users to get started without a blank canvas.
  • Drive improvements in our Marketing infrastructure and handle technical requests that drive business. Examples: Update landing page link structures, create scaffolding for a new set of a/b tests on marketing pages
  • Manage the backlog of marketing work for engineering and mentor up-and-coming engineers on HTML, CSS, JS, and Ruby to help them level up. Be open to eventually building up an engineering team in Marketing.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years experience building and deploying web applications in a professional environment
  • Be familiar with basic joins, simple select, update, and deletes. Know what an index is and how to use one
  • Experience with Ruby/Rails, Python/Django or similar frameworks, ORMs, and dynamic languages in a web context
  • 1 or more years of professional use in a dynamic language on a public or large internally facing site
  • JavaScript (We use a few flavors). Be comfortable using JS on the client side in an OOP context with abstractions for data persistence and gathering from a documented API
  • Elixir experience or interest in ElixirSpeaking with users should sound more pleasant than torturous
  • An interest in marketing, entrepreneurship, UX is desirable

Comp

  • Uncapped commission
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with matching
  • Generous PTO

Application Process:

Keep applications brief; we want small resumes with relevant experience. Be prepared to defend any laundry lists of skills. Short but super-personalized cover letters are welcome and always read!

Principals only, please. We aren’t using contingency staffing agencies at the moment. Poll Everywhere is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Good luck!

About Poll Everywhere

We make a popular app that lets audiences use their mobile phones to vote on questions - and have the results show up in the presentation instantly.

It’s been described as magic, kind of like running your own American Idol in PowerPoint. You see us used on TV, in stadiums, schools, concerts, CEO presentations, and little Chloe's kindergarten Idol talent competition (it's thrilling) - wherever an audience can text or tweet.

Our customers include Google, TED, McDonalds, Starbucks, and other assorted badasses large and small (like Chloe). We scare companies that make "Audience Response Systems" or "Clickers".

Poll Everywhere is a group of very real people who rise to do some pretty unreal things - whether that be changing the nature of presentations forever, building the world's largest audience response system, or plotting attacks during a week-long spy game in Sonoma.

We're small, so you solve big problems and take on big responsibilities from day one. And you have a say — in what we build, how we build it, and even what kind of beef jerky is stocked in the kitchen. We get to do that because we only hire bright people, which means you'll work with an equally bright team.

We genuinely like what we do and we genuinely like each other. It's a pretty magical combination that drives us to be better every day, and have an awesome time doing it. Come visit us in San Francisco.