Join us as we create a better employee experience

At Pyn, we help employees thrive by delivering timely and personalized communications. We do this by giving teams the tools and data they need to be proactive, rather than reactive, to employee needs. And we understand that employees need content that is personalized for their circumstances.

Our founders are Jon Williams and Joris Luijke. Jon previously co-founded Culture Amp. Joris helped scale the culture of Atlassian and Squarespace as their Head of People.

Pyn is backed by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz; investors in Slack, Atlassian, Asana, Dropbox, GitHub, Facebook and many more great companies.

Pyn originated in Sydney, Australia. However, we have employees and customers across the globe.

We work remotely and enjoy getting together if and when we can. Ideally, our employees have good overlap with the Australian Eastern or Pacific time zones.

The opportunity

You’ll be joining our founding Product Engineering team as a Software Engineer working across the whole stack. You’ll help us build out our core product by developing high-impact, user-facing features. You’ll collaboratively work across the business and help shape our engineering culture. You’ll regularly talk with our customers and use their feedback to bring new features from ideation to implementation.

In terms of nuts and bolts: The application uses React and GraphQL. The codebase is in TypeScript and deployed on a server-less AWS infrastructure.

As Pyn grows, you’ll grow and be an active voice in shaping our product, processes and culture.

Within 6 months, you will:

• Learn all about Pyn, our mission, our customers and our technical stack.

• Write and ship production code that has meaningful user and business impact.

• Have regular, direct contact with our customers to understand their needs and how they use the product.

• Contribute to our system architecture and engineering culture.

• Exercise your curiosity and grow your technical, product, and people skills.

Within one year, you will:

• Take full ownership of features from ideation to delivery, working closely with Product, Design and the other Engineers.

• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.

• Influence and shape our system architecture and engineering culture.

• Use your experience to mentor and grow other team members.

• Participate in our hiring process to support a growing team of Software Engineers

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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates. Research has also shown that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they fulfill nearly all of the criteria. So, even if you think you don’t tick all the boxes, please apply! We’d love the hear from you.

Who succeeds in this role?

• Someone with solid knowledge in programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, php, python or comparable.

• Someone who enjoys working in a remote working environment - meaning someone who enjoys working autonomously, documenting their work and processes, and can collaborate and communicate proactively in an asynchronous working environment.

• Someone who seeks to collaborate to solve problems together with empathy and creativity.

• Someone with a strong customer orientation.

• Someone who is able to give and receive feedback.

• Someone who consistently works to deliver reliable, performant, clean and well-tested code.

What we offer

At Pyn, we understand that we do not exist in isolation. The company we build, the product we build, and how we build it has impacts that ripple out beyond us. We want to leave the world better than it was.

Therefore, we strive to make a better product and company by investing in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB). We’ve pledged 1% of sales to Pay the Rent. We pay to local, First Nations-led community organizations of the Gadigal people on Eora country, the place Pyn was lucky to be originated (also known as Sydney in Australia).

We seek to build a diverse team and diverse and inclusive practices because we know it will lead to a better product and a better world.

In addition, we offer:

• Flexible working hours in a remote work environment.

• A stipend to set up your home work station.

• 12 weeks parental leave at full pay for primary carers and 6 weeks for non-primary carers (with an additional 8 weeks fully paid for both as they transition back into work part-time).

• Paid miscarriage bereavement leave

• A stipend to spend on coaching, therapy, or mental-health resources.