Overview

If you’re a developer who wants to learn more about marketing, sales, and business success before launching the next big SaaS company, Poll Everywhere is looking for you. As our Growth Engineer, you’ll work alongside the directors of Growth and Marketing to learn how our business works. You’ll then build highly visible tools, experiments, and processes that scale with our burgeoning team.

Our corporate culture is centered around personal development. Help us thrive, and we’ll do the same for your career. Learn more about our Playbook.

Poll Everywhere is how presenters deliver impactful presentations. Our web-based audience response system lets you embed live, interactive questions directly into your presentation. The audience responds online or via SMS texting, and the results update live for all to see. Poll Everywhere is a top 10 Y Combinator company by revenue, despite having never raised a seed round. Join us and discover what we can create together.

Why you?

  • You want to apply your engineering skills across functions and have a say in what you do while also seeing the impact plainly
  • You enjoy crafting quality code but are also are comfortable with tradeoffs in release schedules and prototypes
  • You are an aspiring leader or entrepreneur that wants to learn SaaS business techniques to round out your technical know-how

Responsibilities

  • Improve our custom customer behavior tracking system: Cutlass
  • Create, implement, and measure improvements to onboarding and acquisition funnels
  • Push improvements to our marketing infrastructure and handle technical requests that drive business
  • Contribute ideas for new experiments when inspiration or curiosity strikes
  • Manage marketing backlog for engineering and mentor up-and-coming engineers on HTML, CSS, JS, and Ruby

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 of a dynamic language on a public or large internally facing site
  • Comfortable using JavaScript on the client side in an OOP context with abstractions for data persistence and gathering from a documented API
  • Experience with Node, Webpack/Brunch, npm, and some of the considerations in maintaining a frontend codebase preferred
  • Speaking with users should sound more pleasant than torturous
  • Interest in web design or UX skills preferred

Comp

  • Competitive salary
  • Medical, dental, vision, and 401K benefits available
  • Stock options negotiable
  • A bunch of office perks

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.

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.