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Customer Comes First
Team is Diverse
Committed to Personal Growth
Safe Environment to Fail
Start-to-Finish Ownership
High Quality Code Base
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Feedback
We’re solving a problem we’re intimately familiar with, giving our product and business a unique edge. Traditionally, when deploying applications in production, developers are forced to pick between two extremes: expensive yet simplistic platforms, or complicated, do-it-all-yourself services. Instead, Render takes care of all the laborious work upfront, minimizing the amount of thinking, reading, and clicking Render customers need to do. This makes it easy to get up and running quickly while simultaneously allowing applications to scale and increase in complexity over time, preventing a transition to DIY infrastructure. For example, during the height of the pandemic, many high-growth startups relied on Render to address rapidly changing business needs. And when Heroku ended its free tier, we made it easier than ever to migrate apps over to Render. We’re giving precious time back to our customers so they can focus on what really matters to their business. This clear product-market fit has enabled us to scale quickly – with over 10.5B requests served monthly and 1M+ services created; we’re not slowing down.
We rely heavily on customer feedback and treat Render customers the way we'd like to be treated. We read every tweet, respond to questions from our community, and keep track of what our users need to be successful on Render. Moreover, all our full-stack engineers participate in on-call and support engineering rotations. Customer service is core to UX and a big differentiator in a crowded market like ours.
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Customer Comes First
Safe Environment to Fail
Start-to-Finish Ownership
Promotes from Within
Work/Life Balance
High Employee Retention
Creative + Innovative
Continuous Delivery
As a young child, our CEO and co-founder, Jamie, experienced firsthand how important life insurance is when his father passed away unexpectedly. Thanks to his dad’s planning, his family was able to have financial stability during one of the hardest periods of their lives. At Ladder, we’re on a mission to make life insurance easy, accessible, and empowering with a digital solution. Given the importance of this real-world issue, it’s safe to say that our customers are at the heart of everything we do. In other words, we’re not building for building’s sake. Engineers are encouraged to ask questions, such as “what are we solving for and how does it impact users?” to understand what the higher level intent is behind every decision.
Our roadmap is directly informed by customer needs. For instance, we wanted to reward customers who have healthy lifestyles, and thus a lower mortality risk. This led us to create an iOS App where customers can sync their steps and get a discount for living an active lifestyle.
We also extensively use FullStory, a tool that provides videos of how our customers are interacting with our product. These are shared in our #fullstory Slack channel, where engineers can gain valuable insight into what’s working well, improve pain points, and catch bugs before they become bigger problems. In addition to assigning different engineers to various FullStory videos every day, we also do quarterly week-long on-call rotations so engineers are never far from our end users.
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Flexible Work Arrangements
Work/Life Balance
Safe Environment to Fail
EQ > IQ
Committed to Personal Growth
Open Communication
Impressive Team Members
Ideal for Parents
It’s safe to say we’re pioneers when it comes to building both a successful business and vibrant culture with a fully distributed team. Since day one, co-founders Wade, Bryan, and Mike worked remotely. They recognized the need to help people be more efficient at work and founded Zapier with the mission of automating tasks between apps – no code needed. Despite living in the same city at the time, they had different schedules and were bootstrapping Zapier on the side. Being able to get work done whenever, from wherever, was key. Today, we’re spread across 17 time zones in 40+ countries and are continuing to grow quickly!
We believe you can do your best work from any location and trust you to manage your schedule and workload. Folks who thrive at Zapier have a bias for action, are able to prioritize effectively (focusing on the most impactful tasks), and are thoughtful communicators. We record important meetings and are happy to work around each other’s schedules to make sure everyone’s voice is heard. You can learn more about our top tips for remote work (and how our app is making it easier for thousands of people!) here.
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Bonded by Love for Product
High Quality Code Base
Work/Life Balance
Safe Environment to Fail
High Employee Retention
EQ > IQ
Ideal for Parents
Everyone has felt the pains of poor developer documentation. It causes headaches for makers and users, and this frustration is what ultimately led us to build ReadMe. In fact, the company started when our founder, Gregory, was retreating in Costa Rica. He was supposed to be building another company with his friends, but kept finding himself reimplementing ReadMe’s functionality whenever he had to write documentation. This was in 2014, and we’ve been building ever since.
We love what we do because it’s so much more than just docs. We’re providing tools for teams to create and manage beautiful documentation with ease. We give customers the ability to log in their users via JWT, we support custom variables to create personalized guides, and we have an interactive API Reference section, which allows users to try out APIs in the browser (check out our demo site!).
Documentation edits normally take days to push through, but companies can push out updates in seconds using ReadMe. Technical writers don’t need to learn how to use XML data models or make GitHub pull requests to author content anymore – they can simply make edits in our dash and save. For larger companies with stricter review processes, we have the suggested edits and staging workflows to iterate on updates and deploy when they’re ready.
We serve customers of all sizes and love being able to help teams grow their developer communities by answering their questions and notifying them of changes. We’re currently working on a new product that gives both API creators and API users insights into how their APIs are used.
Here are some of our open source projects we’re proud of!
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Continuous Feedback
Committed to Personal Growth
Safe Environment to Fail
Work/Life Balance
Engages with Community
Rapidly Growing Team
Start-to-Finish Ownership
Cutting-Edge Technologies
We’re committed to bringing on the best talent and fostering employee growth internally. Yes, our postings are “jobs,” but we want them to be in the bigger landscape of a career. To that end, we’ll talk about performance plans as early as the interview and hiring process and be explicit in setting expectations.
Our feedback structures are designed to make sure we’re hearing from you regularly. In addition to stand-ups and weekly all-hands, you can expect weekly or biweekly 1-on-1s to ensure you’re tracking toward your personal and professional goals. More formal 360 reviews via Lattice also allow for feedback in all directions.
As co-founders, we (Fouad Matin and Dan Gillespie) bring a vast amount of experience. Fouad worked on data infrastructure at Segment (he also has experience in recruiting) and Dan was the first non-Googler to manage a Kubernetes release. While our backgrounds are unique, both of us have worked at companies where we felt a lack of empowerment. We’re now determined to make sure that as Indent grows, not only is every employee able to participate, but they are also actively listened to with the same respect as a founder.
Trade-offs: We’d rather get policies in place for SOC 2 that enable us to build deeper trust with our customers than just race to tack on new features. We believe that sustainable progress is only possible through a sustainable process.
Patient engagement platform tailored to underserved people groups
Remote (Global - Requires Overlap with EST)
High Quality Code Base
Work/Life Balance
Team is Diverse
Flexible Work Arrangements
Product-Driven
Continuous Delivery
Actively Practices Inclusion
Ideal for Parents
We’re dedicated to improving health outcomes not just for others, but for ourselves, too. In addition to nine wellness days that can be used for self-care or anything that comes up in life, we also have half-day Fridays year-long. Team members have access to fitness and mindfulness programs, and we believe in actually taking vacation to recharge, which is why we have a company-wide ~5-day mid-year break and a ~5-day end-of-year break. In addition to 15 days PTO and 18 paid holidays, employees are also eligible for a one-month (20 working days) sabbatical after their four-year anniversary. Folks have used this time to travel (one team member who lives in Brazil is taking his daughter to Disney World in Florida), visit loved ones, or take up a new hobby. During the pandemic, we’ve been flexible so that folks who wanted to travel could wait to take their sabbaticals. We even have some team members who are coming up on their second sabbaticals!
Tatiane (Software Engineer, fourth from left) enjoying one of her favorite hobbies Muay Thai.
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