We are looking to hire several software engineers and interns/co-ops.

You’re awesome; we’re awesome; let’s be awesome together. And we like to have fun.

Toopher is hiring!

Who we are

We’re “invisible multifactor authentication as a service,” and we’re looking for full-time software engineers and interns to join our team in Austin, Texas.

Technically, we’re a Python API built in Django and hosted on Google App Engine. We have mobile apps for iOS and Android and a set of language libraries in a bunch of different languages: right now, it’s Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Java, and C#. We also have a host of service integrations that are built from those libraries.

Who you are

https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/431822158809935872

You’re interested in engineering high-quality software and you hopefully have opinions about what “high-quality software” means. You like the idea of owning projects from conception to deployment and having a lot of flexibility and creative control over them. You enjoy learning and picking up new skills as needed; because you’re joining a small team, you’ll be wearing a lot of hats.

  • We’re looking for a generalist to expand engineering bandwidth. (We’d call this “horizontal scaling,” but we don’t want to imply that you’re commodity hardware.)

  • We’re looking for a user advocate to remind us to zoom out and make sure that we’re engineering with usability in mind. It’s really easy to get attached to code you’ve written!

  • We’re looking for a finisher as described by [Jacques Mattheij][jm], “the person who crosses every t and dots every i in order to get the last 10% … of a project done.”

If any of that seems interesting to you, apply! If you don’t feel like you’re a perfect fit, apply! Our goal is to hire the best people, and the best people can learn new skills.

[jm]: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Starter+the+Architect+the+Debugger+and+the+Finisher

What we offer

Future Toopherarians can expect to receive competitive compensation as salary and equity as well as medical and dental insurance, but there’re also other perks to joining our team, such as:

  • a flexible schedule! Nine-to-fivers are welcome, but we don’t count hours.
  • working from home! We sometimes work completely virtually with Slack.
  • your favorite snacks and drinks!
  • gym access! there’s one in our office building.
  • your favorite extracurricular activity. We often share meals and go off-site for fun and games.

Is something missing? Let us know! This isn’t an exhaustive list. We’re a growing company, so we haven’t figured everything out yet, but employee happiness is super important to us and we want to do everything that we can to make it happen.

Next steps

Send an introduction and a copy of your résumé to jobs@toopher.com and let’s get started!

If you’d like, you can fill out [our online version][survey] of Sijin Joseph’s [Programmer Competency Matrix][pcm] and you’re strongly encouraged to include a short code sample that you’re particularly proud of, preferably with some context: what you did, why you did it, how you’d do it differently, etc.

If we like what we see, we’ll bring you in for an interview. You probably don’t need to spend a lot of time studying for this one—we’re not going to quiz you about easily-googleable algorithmic trivia. We’re more interested in you: how well you’re able to solve problems and communicate their solutions.

[survey]: https://docs.google.com/a/toopher.com/forms/d/1eQTL1lMQyo0kgdZ4_jUQLo6D08AsNZ-cD-2JcNdogmw [pcm]: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

Good luck!

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or corrections, send us a tweet at @toopher or an e-mail at jobs@toopher.com.