Hi HN - Tim from Mixpanel here. I'm looking for engineers who are a) smart & competent b) sociable and c) passionate. The eng team is only 10 right now, so there's a lot of room for you to make an impact.<p>You can reach me directly at tim@mixpanel.com.<p>---<p>Mixpanel is the most advanced analytics platform ever for mobile and web. We help companies build better products.<p>Our engineering team of 10 is handling 40K requests per second, 400+ servers, and over 20 billion data points per month.<p>The Product Engineering team is composed of full-stack engineers who are responsible for all user-facing parts of Mixpanel: APIs, reporting interfaces, data visualization, and client libraries.<p>Recent projects include Mobile surveys (iOS, Android, JS, Python, C) and Live view (JS, Python, C, Redis).<p>Our engineering culture<p><pre><code> * We do very thorough, line-by-line code reviews using GitHub pull requests. This keeps our code quality high and helps us learn.
* We try to have two people work together on every project (collaborating, not pairing). It's more fun and it results in better code.
* We practice rapid iteration. If it's better than live, we ship. We also build things so they can go live (whitelisted) long before launch day.
* We write tests for things that are mission-critical, prone to failure, or cause paranoia. Think billing and datastore code, not Django views.
* We care about learning. Right now we're reading through Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.
* We are 80% vim, 10% emacs, and 10% IntelliJ.
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What we are looking for<p><pre><code> * at least 2 years of experience in industry
* mastery of at least one programming language
* passion - you have built (and are dying to show us) something you're proud of, outside of work/school
* strong problem solving ability
* attention to detail
* you code as fluently as you speak
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Why join Mixpanel?<p><pre><code> * We are profitable, with millions in monthly revenue and over 1,700 paying customers.
* Mixpanel is still a small company (38), but we are poised for great growth.
* Our product is used by companies like amazon.com, Dropbox, Intuit, OpenTable, and Salesforce.
* We've raised money from top-tier investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator.
* There are a lot of cool people here. You will like the people you work with.
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Want to join?<p>What's the hardest thing you have ever built? Explain it in as much detail as you would like. Email jobs@mixpanel.com with your answer and resume.