Overview

PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform. We provide product-led teams with everything they need to understand user behaviour, including funnels, session recordings, user paths, multivariate testing and more. PostHog can be deployed to the cloud, or self-hosted on existing infrastructure, removing the need to send data externally.

We started PostHog as part of 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, we raised $27m from some of the world’s top investors, grew the team to over 30 and have shown strong product-led growth.

We’re now looking for a Community Engineer to join the Website and Docs team. We have a community of over 20k+ developers using PostHog, mostly on the open source product, plus a 1,000+ Slack community and over 7,000 GitHub stars. And all of these numbers are going up, fast. We have an unusually well-known brand in open source for such a young company, and this is an opportunity to be the first dedicated Community hire here – you’ll have a ton of influence.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Growth hacking to make our community self-sustaining, e.g. website Q&A and other tools we haven’t thought of yet
  • Add features to the website that enhance community, like profiles, badges etc.
  • Improve the Docs themselves – make them world class
  • Be one of the faces of PostHog in the community, understanding their needs and building solutions for them

What we value:

  • We are open source – building a huge community around a free-for-life product is key to our 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 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.
  • We’re an all-remote company and writing things down is hugely important to us. We use asynchronous communication to reduce time spent in meetings. We are structured for speed and autonomy – we are all about acting fast, innovating and iterating.
  • We are a #LI-remote company, which allows us to hire amazing people from all over the world, and foster an inclusive culture.

Requirements

  • Full stack engineering experience. On the frontend, we use HTML/Sass (of course), Tailwind, Gatsby, Next.js, and React. You don’t need Python or scalability-type experience for this role though.
  • Evidence of scrappiness – the list of projects you’ll be working on will be very broad.
  • You can ship entire features quickly, have a strong bias to action and you don’t shy away from stepping on toes.
  • Enthusiasm and experience contributing to/building tools that enable communities to be more successful.
  • Strong communication skills, especially with users. We document everything, most of it publicly.

Nice to haves:

  • GraphQL or React experience.
  • Past experience working in a growing startup wearing multiple hats.
  • A good eye for design.

Benefits

What we offer in return:

We believe people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product and our company better. That’s why we dedicated a page in our handbook to diversity and inclusion. No matter your background, we’d love to hear from you!

Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you – we’re happy to accommodate!