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+**PostHog exists to increase the number of successful products in the world.** 
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+We provide an open source platform for product analytics. The product is new - we launched in February 2020, and have had thousands of deployments organically since we started.
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+This growth has meant we've been able to raise significant investment from the best in the world, such as YCombinator and GV. We are now looking to grow our engineering team and we are looking for **Senior Full Stack Engineers** to join us!
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+**The release schedule is wild**
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+We're up against billion dollar companies, and we're catching up. We will overtake them by being faster.
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+[Comments like this](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22378393) are what we live and die by.
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+We keep cycles very short. There is a roadmap session, [like this](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/1870), every two weeks - each developer suggests what they want to build to have the greatest impact, then they do just that. You choose what you focus on, and you are responsible for tests, user feedback and tracking.
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+**The people here are really, really smart**
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+Every day we feel lucky to have them here!
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+We're all remote, and we raised enough to pay top of market. Combine those things with working on open source, and you have a recipe for hiring the best engineering talent in the world.
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+You'd be working with a combination of former CTOs and YC founders all turned developers, alongside some of the best developers from the world's largest tech companies who have the experience to help us handle scalability.
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+We take bets on people with less experience too - we are as willing to hire an unproven genius straight out of school as we are a seasoned veteran.
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+Our team is tiny but we live in 10 different countries. This [diverse group](/handbook/company/diversity) looks [pretty weird](/handbook/company/team) on paper, but it's magical. Apart from the fact [most of them think pineapple belongs on pizza](https://twitter.com/PostHogHQ/status/1319583079648923648). It doesn't.
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+## We can't do this without you
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+Our users do not use PostHog for the most complex querying of user data imaginable. We aren't going to use { machine learning | AI | blockchain } any time soon.
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+The technical challenge here is designing a highly scalable product right out of the box when deployed on premise, supporting a wide breadth of features that give users super powers, and enabling an ecosystem of contributors and plugins from anyone in the world so PostHog becomes a true platform.
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+Today, PostHog meets simple use cases across a broad part of product development. That reaches from understanding retention, conversion rates, abd feature usage, to feature flags, session recordings, plugins and heatmaps.
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+You would be a key part in us expanding the range of functionality we are offering, or in supporting its use at scale. We'd want you to suggest ideas that you could take from concept to tests and deployment.
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+In particular, those with a very strong background in Django, architecture and databases (we use Clickhouse and Postgres) are going to have fun here - we have even individual clients doing hundreds of millions of events a day, but we are truly open to applications from any engineer that thinks they could deliver exceptional work here.
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+## What we offer in return:
+* Generous [compensation](/handbook/people/compensation)
+* [Unlimited, permissionless vacation](/handbook/people/time-off) with a 25 day minimum
+* Health insurance provided or the cost covered depending on jurisdiction
+* [Generous parental leave](/handbook/people/time-off)
+* Visa sponsorship if needed, for you and your loved ones
+* [Training budget](/handbook/people/training)
+* [$200/month budget towards coworking or café working](/handbook/people/spending-money)
+* Carbon offsetting for work travel with [Project Wren](https://www.wren.co/)
+* [Free books](/handbook/people/training#books)
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+*Please note that benefits vary slightly by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask our team.*
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+## About PostHog:
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+PostHog's engineering culture is best-in-class, and we've had explosive user growth from this alone.
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+We [launched a four week old minimum viable product in February 2020](/handbook/company/story), and since then have been deployed in thousands of places around the world.
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+PostHog's platform makes it easy for software teams to understand their user behavior. This coupled with our fast growth has led to a broad variety of very cool use cases. PostHog is used to help indie game designers make it more fun to defend earth from an alien threat. PostHog is used by multinational organizations running software that powers everything from banks to airlines. PostHog is used by startups disrupting their own industries.
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+We're a company like no other in our space. Our approach is bottom up and that starts by being great for developers to install and use.
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+By being open source, we can be used on any software project throughout the world, for free, forever. Some developers will use the platform on a side project, others at their startup or small business, and others in their Fortune 500. We are building a true platform that can grow from 1 user to many no matter the size or shape of the organization.
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+The core of our approach is to delight end users. It's not about executive dashboards and then a terrible interface for everyone else. It's the sense of power we give to the person on the ground, doing the actual work, every day.
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+## Sold? Apply now
+* [Drop us a line](mailto:[email protected]) and tell us:
+* How you can achieve the above in a few sentences
+* Why you're drawn to us
+* Your resumé and/or LinkedIn
+
+## Not sold? Learn more first
+* [How we hire](/careers#the-process)
+* We ask for your best work, and in return [pay generously](/handbook/people/compensation) and have [exceptional benefits](/careers/#benefits)
+* Learn about [the team you'd be working with](/handbook/company/team)
+* Getting hiring right is key to diversity. Learn about [how we think about this](/handbook/company/diversity)
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+*We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!*