Sonar | Software Engineer and Sr. Software Engineer (Rails) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Sonar is helping businesses build personal relationships with customers through mobile messaging. Most B2C companies are still using antiquated communication channels like email and voice calls to chat with their customers. Those customers are now living in mobile messaging platforms like Whatsapp, Messenger, and SMS. Sonar's platform enables a company to have two-way conversations on channels customers want to actually use, driving engagement and revenue, and vastly improving the experience for the end user.
You'll be joining a small team of smart, collaborative people on a mission to make business communication better. You'll have the opportunity to learn a ton about building a company from the ground up while making products that drive real revenue for real customers. You will get to touch every piece of our stack, including helping us scale, improving our artificial intelligence, and optimizing our eng processes.
Sonar helps companies communicate with their customers on mobile messaging channels such as SMS, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and WeChat. By using text messaging channels rather than legacy channels such as email and phone calls, companies are able to be more efficient and effective while providing a superior customer experience. Imagine you could text Comcast/AT&T to ask questions to a real person instead of being on hold for 45 minutes or sending a support email into a black whole.
Sonar is a seed stage company (plenty of runway), growing quickly, with awesome paying customers ranging from startups to public companies. We have an engineering culture and a very collaborative environment. We work hard and have a lot of fun along the way. We're a mature, diverse group of people who are all passionate about what we're building.
Our stack is RoR, ReactJS, Heroku/AWS, CircleCi, and Sidekiq (standard rails stack). Some of the interesting problems we're solving are scaling our infrastructure, using AI/Machine Learning to make human agents more powerful, and parsing large amounts of data.
We've raised $1.4m and our investors include 500 Startups, QuestVP, TwilioFund, and some amazing angels.
You can check out our current team and values here: https://www.sendsonar.com/about
Our interview process is: phone screen, in-person coffee to get to know each other, technical interview (2+ hours), and then lunch with the team.
Roles we're hiring for: Lead Engineer, Sr. Engineer
Sonar helps companies communicate with their customers on mobile messaging channels such as SMS, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and WeChat. By using text messaging channels rather than legacy channels such as email and phone calls, companies are able to be more efficient and effective while providing a superior customer experience. Imagine you could text Comcast/AT&T to ask questions to a real person instead of being on hold for 45 minutes or sending a support email into a black whole.
Sonar is a seed stage company (plenty of runway), growing quickly, with awesome paying customers ranging from startups to public companies. We have an engineering culture and a very collaborative environment. We work hard and have a lot of fun along the way. We're a mature, diverse group of people who are all passionate about what we're building.
Our stack is RoR, ReactJS, Heroku/AWS, CircleCi, and Sidekiq (standard rails stack). Some of the interesting problems we're solving are scaling our infrastructure, using AI/Machine Learning to make human agents more powerful, and parsing large amounts of data.
We've raised $1.4m and our investors include 500 Startups, QuestVP, TwilioFund, and some amazing angels.
PG - When you say kill Hollywood, who are you talking about exactly? I assume you mean the middlemen of Hollywood - people who add zero value to the entertainment industry. If so, I completely agree.
Startups need to offer content creators a better/cheaper/easier way to distribute their content. Distribution is where startups can really succeed. When I say distribution, what I mean is the method by which people consume content. The problem is the middlemen control the true content creators.
The biggest problem is quality. Youtube is a dead simple way to distribute content but the problem is you'll never see anything on Youtube that rivals the quality of something on NBC, HBO, CBS etc. I believe Netflix has the right idea by funding their own high-quality content to distribute on their own "network." However, Netflix may just end up becoming another NBC, HBO, Warner Bros. over time.
As I mentioned before, the best was to achieve the goal of killing the middleman is by providing high-quality content creators a way to get funding and distribute their work to large audiences without giving up the rights to their work. Additionally, there are plenty of ways to increase margin by using technology to get viewers more involved with the content. We've only just begun to scratch the surface of interactive entertainment.
I've been thinking about this stuff for a while and it's a difficult, complex issue. I'd love to chat with anyone who has thoughts about this, feel free to email me or respond here (email in profile).