{ Engineering at Privy }
Who we are
Privy is built by a talented engineering team from diverse backgrounds - we have degrees in Political Science, Biology, English, Cognitive Psychology, and Mechanical Engineering. We come from Australia, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. We're builders and we want to work with other builders. Many of us produce music, publish art, maintain open-source libraries, write blogs, found businesses, and build products.
What We're Building
Privy is the leader in ecommerce marketing for small and growing brands. We are trusted by 500,000+ ecommerce businesses to turn website visitors into subscribers and customers, and is the #1 rated marketing app in the Shopify app store. Our easy-to-use website personalization, email, and SMS marketing tools get more than a billion views a month.
Our Culture
Privy is rooted in the idea that every ecommerce business -- no matter how small-- has the ability to get bigger and better through the power of digital marketing. Our engineers craft slick software that our merchants use to grow their email lists, reduce cart abandonment, and drive online sales. We love building a stack that is used by mom and pop shops, household names, and everyone in between, while scaling our product for all that's yet to come. We learn and take risks every day, working together to tackle new challenges for our customers
Your Impact
Owning and building new product features (using Ruby, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and Redis), which hundreds of thousands of customers rely on to grow their businesses. Implementing and maintaining new integrations with third party APIs. Extending and maintaining the Privy platform API, balancing sustainable design and architecture with feature velocity. Contributing to Privy's growth and position within the marketplace as we continue to grow...and believe us, we are growing. Pushing each other to grow, learn, and take risks, with the ultimate goal of improving our team and processes.
Our Core Values
We define our own success by our customers' success.
We seek excellence by taking risks and learning every day.
We treat each other and our customers with honesty and respect.
We believe that life outside the office is just as important as life in the office.
We are building a company and brand that we love.
The Teams
Messaging
Enable merchants to effortlessly build revenue and relationship building messaging campaigns
Example work:
- Create intuitive authoring experiences for emails and text messages that users will actually want to get
- Add new targeting and segmentation capabilities to campaigns
- Build analytics and reporting for merchants on top of AWS serverless technologies and event-driven architecture
Growth
Help merchants build high converting display campaigns with fewer clicks
Example work:
- Improve the merchant firstrun experience with streamlined UI and automatic settings import
- Contribute to the company's internal react component library, and related training and documentation
- Build fast, highly performant, accessible mobile-responsive forms that work on tens of thousands of unique storefronts
- Create delightful, interactive, and dynamic displays like free-shipping bar, spin-to-win, and countdown timers
Platform
Deliver core platform functionality from trial to paid customer, own SaaS infrastructure and
Example work:
- Work with the business teams to launch new pricing strategies
- Measure how well new product initiatives are working through product instrumentation and business intelligence integrations
- Maintain seamless integrations with third-party services
