Mobile Engineer

PostHog is the open source Product OS - it's a suite of product and data tools, built on the modern data stack. We provide product analytics, session recording, feature flags, A/B testing, event pipelines and a data warehouse. PostHog can be deployed to the cloud, or self-hosted on existing infrastructure, removing the need to send user data to a 3rd party.

PostHog was created as an open source project during Y Combinator's W20 cohort and had the most successful B2B software launch on HackerNews since 2012 - with a product that was just 4 weeks old. Since then, more than 10,000 companies have installed the platform, we've had huge success with our paid upgrades, and we have raised $27m from some of the world's top investors, and have shown strong product-led growth - 97% driven by word of mouth.

Despite the 📉 tech market, we're default alive and doing better than ever!

We've been averaging >20% monthly revenue growth and we didn't raise a huge / now-overpriced round in 2021. While others are focused on layoffs and struggling to grow into huge valuations, we're focusing on an awesome product for end users, hiring (a handful of) exceptional team members, and seeing fantastic increases in revenue as a result.

As a Mobile Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Monitoring team and have the opportunity to not only work on one app but rather tooling that impacts 1000s of others. You will build multiple demo apps with different frameworks (maybe even an open-source PostHog app) in order to feed into our own SDKs and have a chance to get deep into technical challenges that go way past building simple lists.

What you’ll be doing

• Building our SDKs in the open to support product analytics, session recording, feature flags, crash, and error reporting, and much more

• Work on PostHog with full-stack engineers to build a Product OS that is as strong for Mobile engineers as it is for Web engineers

• Take some of our more creative ideas and see which fit in the Mobile space in a way that can empower engineers to do more via PostHog (e.g. Apps like Feedback, Toolbar, etc.)

About our engineering teams

• Engineers work across one of our small teams. Our main product-focused engineering teams are Product Analytics, Monitoring, and Experimentation. We usually hire for all three teams, and then decide where individual people will work the best. We also give people the opportunity to move across teams, to make sure they get to work on different problems and learn new skills.

• We work on a two week sprint basis and we give everyone in the team the opportunity to suggest what they want to build, in order to have the biggest impact on our customers. Engineers are given real ownership of what they want to focus on, and they are responsible for tests, user feedback, and tracking.

• You will be working directly with our customers - we have a weekly support hero, who is in charge of all customer questions and inquiries that week. We also have a thriving user Slack group and we receive PRs from users every week.

• The technical challenge is designing a highly scalable product right out of the box when deployed on premise, supporting a wide breadth of features that give users superpowers, and enabling an ecosystem of contributors and apps from anyone in the world.

What we value

• We are open source - building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to PostHog's strategy.

• We aim to become the most transparent company, ever. In order to enable teams to make great decisions, we share as much information as we can. In our public handbook everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, what our strategy is, and who we have raised money from. We also have regular team-wide feedback sessions, where we share honest feedback with each other.

• Working autonomously and maximizing impact - we don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what is going to have the biggest impact on our customers.

• Solve big problems - we haven't built our defining feature yet. We are all about acting fast, innovating, and iterating.

• Mobile experience in native iOS and/or Android

• An interest in working with both iOS and Android

• A willingness to work on tooling that will be installed in 1000s of Apps rather than working on 1 app.

Nice to have

• An interest in cross-platform frameworks like React Native / Flutter

• Experience building SDKs (Cocoapods, Maven packages) and distributing them

• General web development experience and an interest in getting involved with non-mobile topics

If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Alignment with our values is just as important as experience! 🙏