Join SimpleX Chat team

SimpleX Chat Ltd is a seed stage startup with a lot of user growth in 2022-2023, and a lot of exciting technical and product problems to solve to grow faster.

We currently have 6 full-time people in the team.

We want to add 2 people to the team.

Who we are looking for

Web designer & developer for a website contract

You will work with the founder and a product marketing expert to convert the stories we want to tell our current and prospective users into interactive experiences.

You are an expert in creating interactive web experiences:

15+ years of web development and design experience.
Passionate about communications, privacy and data ownership.
Competent using PhotoShop, 3D modelling, etc.
Competent in Web tech, including JavaScript, animations, etc.

We will NOT consider agencies or groups – it must be one person working on the project.

Application Haskell engineer

You will work with the Haskell core of the client applications and with the network servers.

You are an expert in language models, databases and Haskell:

expert knowledge of SQL.
Haskell strictness, exceptions, concurrency, STM, type systems.
15y+ of software engineering experience in complex projects.
deep understanding of the common programming principles:
- data structures, bits and bytes, text encoding.
- functional software design and algorithms.
- protocols and networking.

About you

Passionate about joining SimpleX Chat team:
- already use SimpleX Chat to communicate with friends/family or participate in public SimpleX Chat groups.
- passionate about privacy, security and communications.
- interested to make contributions to SimpleX Chat open-source project in your free time before we hire you, as an extended test.
- you founded (and probably failed) at least one startup, or spent more time working for yourself than being employed.
Exceptionally pragmatic, very fast and customer-focussed:
- care about the customers (aka users) and about the product we build much more than about the code quality, technology stack, etc.
- believe that the simplest solution is the best.
- 2-3x faster than the most competent people you worked with.
- focus on solving only today's problems and resist engineering for the future (aka over-engineering) – see The Duct Tape Programmer and Why I Hate Frameworks.
- do not suffer from "not invented here" syndrome, at the same time interested to design and implement protocols and systems from the ground up when appropriate.
Want to join a very early stage startup:
- high pace and intensity, longer hours.
- a substantial part of the compensation is stock options.
- full transparency - we believe that too much autonomy hurts learning and slows down progress.

How to join the team

Install the app, try using it with the friends and join some user groups – you will discover a lot of things that need improvements.
Also look through GitHub issues submitted by the users to see what would you want to contribute as a test.
Connect to us via SimpleX Chat to chat about what you want to contribute and about joining the team.
You can also email jobs@simplex.chat