Element | https://element.io/ | Web, Android, iOS, Backend, Product, Designers, SRE | full-time | London UK, Rennes FR or Remote (worldwide)
Element is the startup which employs the core team behind matrix.org - the leading project for secure, open decentralised communication.
Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email - allowing everyone to choose where their data is hosted, enjoy private conversations thanks to advanced encryption, and ultimately be in control of their own communication.
If this all seems familiar, Element and Matrix are regularly discussed here on HN. Here's some recent examples:
If you don't see an obvious role for you, but you think you could make a valuable contribution to our project, please get in touch - we're always interested in interesting people!
If you'd like an informal chat about any of our roles, please reach out to our recruiter Mischa on matrix at @mischawalmsley:matrix.org
Dev teams also benefit a lot from having an async way to discuss bigger issues that require thoughtfulness and long form answers, especially remote teams. There's a reason mailing lists are still somehow alive and well in open source projects that have been remote first for decades.
We're using discourse internally for this (in conjunction with matrix) and it's allowed us to have discussions I don't think we would have otherwise had.
Within Element, new features are developed in cross-functional teams and released in tandem; e.g. Spaces was released on web and mobile at the same time.
On performance - there are definitely some performance issues with matrix clients in general, particularly larger rooms and accounts which are in many rooms. This is an active focus of development, e.g. see work on sync v3, a more efficient matrix sync protocol https://github.com/matrix-org/sync-v3
The information architecture of Spaces as presented in Element isn't perfect, and is at the top of the list of improvements we'd like to make as we iterate on the feature.
Releasing out of beta doesn't mean we intend to stop iterating on Spaces - it simply means we think the feature brings enough value to share it with everyone and open it up to the whole user base for feedback.
Memrise is an award-winning language learning app with a growing user base of over 50 million. By leveraging lots of brain science and plenty of humour, we’re striving to enrich people’s consciousness and help people achieve confident, real-world language skills in just a few short months.
Memrise is an award-winning language learning app with a growing user base of over 50 million. By leveraging lots of brain science and plenty of humour, we’re striving to enrich people’s consciousness and help people achieve confident, real-world language skills in just a few short months.
We're hiring in our platform and web teams. We use Python/Django/Kubernetes and React/Typescript.
Memrise is a great place to work if:
* You're interested in working in a small team on a product with millions of users
* You'd like to work on a largely unsolved problem, like teaching languages efficiently
Element is the startup which employs the core team behind matrix.org - the leading project for secure, open decentralised communication.
Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email - allowing everyone to choose where their data is hosted, enjoy private conversations thanks to advanced encryption, and ultimately be in control of their own communication.
If this all seems familiar, Element and Matrix are regularly discussed here on HN. Here's some recent examples:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969624
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997898
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906336
We're hiring across many roles at present - see https://apply.workable.com/elementio/
If you don't see an obvious role for you, but you think you could make a valuable contribution to our project, please get in touch - we're always interested in interesting people!
If you'd like an informal chat about any of our roles, please reach out to our recruiter Mischa on matrix at @mischawalmsley:matrix.org