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title: Join SimpleX Chat team
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# Join SimpleX Chat team
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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.
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We currently have 4 full-time people in the team - all engineers, including the founder.
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We want to add up to 3 people to the team.
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## Who we are looking for
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### Application Haskell engineer
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You are an expert in language models, databases and Haskell:
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- expert knowledge of SQL.
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- exception handling, concurrency, STM.
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- type systems - we use ad hoc dependent types a lot.
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- experience integrating open-source language models.
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- experience developing community-centric applications.
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- interested to build the next generation of messaging network.
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You will be focussed mostly on our client applications, and will also contribute to the servers also written in Haskell.
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### iOS / Mac engineer
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You are an expert in Apple platforms, including:
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- iOS and Mac platform architecture.
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- Swift and Objective-C.
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- SwiftUI and UIKit.
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- extensions, including notification service extension and sharing extension.
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- low level inter-process communication primitives for concurrency.
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- interested about creating the next generation of UX for a communication/social network.
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Knowledge of Android and Kotlin Multiplatform would be a bonus - we use Kotlin Jetpack Compose for our Android and desktop apps.
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## About you
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- **Passionate about joining SimpleX Chat team**:
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- already use SimpleX Chat to communicate with friends/family or participate in public SimpleX Chat groups.
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- passionate about privacy, security and communications.
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- interested to make contributions to SimpleX Chat open-source project in your free time before we hire you, as an extended test.
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- **Exceptionally pragmatic, very fast and customer-focussed**:
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- care about the customers (aka users) and about the product we build much more than about the code quality, technology stack, etc.
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- believe that the simplest solution is the best.
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- 2-3x faster than the most competent people you worked with.
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- focus on solving only today's problems and resist engineering for the future (aka over-engineering) – see [The Duct Tape Programmer](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/) and [Why I Hate Frameworks](https://medium.com/@johnfliu/why-i-hate-frameworks-6af8cbadba42).
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- 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.
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- **Love software engineering**:
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- have 5y+ of software engineering experience in complex projects,
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- great understanding of the common principles:
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- data structures, bits and byte manipulation
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- text encoding and manipulation
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- software design and algorithms
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- concurrency
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- networking
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- **Want to join a very early stage startup**:
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- high pace and intensity, longer hours.
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- a substantial part of the compensation is stock options.
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- full transparency – we believe that too much [autonomy](https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/851459129830850561) hurts learning and slows down progress.
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## How to join the team
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1. [Install the app](../README.md#install-the-app), try using it with the friends and [join some user groups](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat#join-user-groups) – you will discover a lot of things that need improvements.
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2. Also look through [GitHub issues](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues) submitted by the users to see what would you want to contribute as a test.
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3. [Connect to us](https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fu2dS9sG8nMNURyZwqASV4yROM28Er0luVTx5X1CsMrU%3D%40smp4.simplex.im%2FKBCmxJ3-lEjpWLPPkI6OWPk-YJneU5uY%23%2F%3Fv%3D1%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAtixHJWDXvYWcoe-77vIfjvI6XWEuzUsapMS9nVHP_Go%253D%26srv%3Do5vmywmrnaxalvz6wi3zicyftgio6psuvyniis6gco6bp6ekl4cqj4id.onion) via SimpleX Chat to chat about what you want to contribute and about joining the team.
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