We work hard, but we do it for a sane number of hours every week. We use our own products obsessively, which means we both understand them in our bones and can get even more done. We provide paid vacation and take federal holidays off to recharge. Everyone does customer support. In September, we took the whole company to Hawaii to step back, get a fresh perspective, and eat our weight in poke.
Our office is in downtown Mountain View, where the weather is always beautiful. Our neighbors are fellow startups, coffee houses (we pick up the tab) and dozens of restaurants with much better food than you can get from a catering company. We're also right next to Caltrain, so driving is 100% optional.
We like jigsaw puzzles, food, Bananagrams, cooperative games, coming up with game show ideas, ridiculous holiday parties, our french press, espresso machine, and Blue Bottle subscription, company-provided laptops and giant monitors, birthday surprises, stuffed animals, and... food! We eat together as a team almost every day.
In addition to having millions of users, we're also profitable. So we get to do things like giving back a portion of our profits to support education in Burma.
So if Lifehacker is your first stop on the Internet in the morning, you have strong opinions (either way) about Inbox Zero, you once wrote an ode to the Pomodoro method, or you've convinced all your friends to use [insert to-do list software or calendar software] or better yet, convinced them all to use Boomerang, we'd love to meet you!
Just like most tech companies, we offer competitive salaries, paid vacation, and a fun office environment. We also help you take care of your teeth and plan for the days when you'll be toothless!
If what you've seen so far sounds fun, here are the positions we're looking for. All positions are full time and based in our office in Mountain View.
iOS Engineers
Boomerang has a thriving presence on Android, but none on iOS. We'd love for you to help us change that! You'll have the opportunity and responsibility to build an amazing experience from the ground up, with an already battle-tested server infrastructure and APIs along with a lot of institutional knowledge about what works well on mobile email.
Building our mobile experience on iOS will provide opportunities to get experience with a ton of different aspects of iOS development - from building gestures to facilitate easy email triage to optimizing layouts to make the app feel snappy and quick to exploring location and geofencing APIs!
Requirements:
Please send your resume, a link to your Github (if available), and a cover letter that includes a paragraph of your thoughts on Boomerang's mobile app (currently available only on Android) to i.want.to.work@baydin.com to apply!
Python Backend Engineers
Email is a never ending stream of exciting, challenging, customer-impacting software problems. We could use your help to solve them!
We have an existing infrastructure that's been through the wars for the last four years, but we're looking to make it much more powerful, make it fully cross-platform, and to make the user experience screaming fast. You'll work with both our web team and our mobile teams to provide the infrastructure to make Boomerang even more powerful.
In addition to interesting scaling problems (we already have millions of users), and instilling a love/hate relationship with IMAP libraries, we'll be doing some experiments with deep learning over the next couple of years. There will be plenty of research and data projects to work on. It should be a blast!
Requirements:
Please send your resume, a link to your Github (if available), and a cover letter that includes a paragraph of your thoughts on at least one of our products to i.want.to.work@baydin.com to apply!
Android Engineer
Boomerang already provides the best email experience available on Android. Now that we've built a mail client that is functional and powerful enough for our customers to use every day, we get to start building the fun stuff - new ways of interacting with our email, features that help new users discover the value of the product, and features that make email so much smarter.
You'll be working with our engineering team to create these new experiences and work on some speculative apps to test out new experiences as well! You'll get experience with all kinds of APIs, from basic networking and layouts to location and geofencing to profiling and performance tuning. And you'll get to do it on an app that's used daily by hundreds of thousands (and soon millions) of users!
Requirements:
Please send your resume, a link to your Github (if available), and a cover letter that includes a paragraph of your thoughts on Boomerang's Android app to i.want.to.work@baydin.com to apply!
Web Frontend Engineers
Mobile is changing the way we use email, but the desktop experience remains the most productive way to handle the majority of our messages. We're going to be building a lot of exciting things over the next few years in this space, and we need talented web developers to help us get things done!
From working on our browser plugins (Boomerang is the most-installed Gmail improvement) to reverse-engineering Gmail to figure out crazy new ideas to helping implement best practices and the latest HTML5 tech in our Email Game, you'll never be bored.
Requirements:
Please send your resume, a link to your Github (if available), and a cover letter that includes a paragraph of your thoughts on at least one of our products to i.want.to.work@baydin.com to apply!
Marketing Mad Scientist
Boomerang is looking to bring on a mad scientist who wants to explore distribution channels, come up will brilliant ways to find new customers, turn those ideas into reality, then measure and track the results.
Driving growth is the hottest skill set in Silicon Valley right now, and we've already got working products that turn visitors into users and users into evangelists and paying customers. We're looking for someone who wants to build distribution skills, armed with a marketing budget, a responsive and technically-savvy team, and products that users love.
If you're a branding guru, already know we could make 5x as much money if we just changed our pricing, or are eager to tell our engineering team what to build the day you walk in the door, we'd like to introduce you to our competitors (they're hiring!) If you're thinking about how to get a million new installs through duct tape, great stories, hard work, and a few bucks here and there, we want to meet you ourselves! In other words, we're looking for someone who wants to go out and do stuff even more than thinking up stuff to do.
Coding skills not required, but you should know your way around Excel.
While a resume and a good cover letter to i.want.to.work@baydin.com is all we can really ask, the job description calls for something with a bit more panache. Surprise us!
Customer Happiness Liaison
Boomerang is looking to add an awesome new team member to its Customer Happiness Team. Working side-by-side with Alison, our current awesome Customer Happiness team member, you will communicate with customers, answering their questions and improving their experience with our products.
You will provide technical and billing support, collect and report on feature requests and improvement ideas, and provide input and assistance to the development team as we improve products.
Organized to a fault (borderline OCD is probably a plus), you should be obsessed with keeping the ship running smoothly, have a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and take satisfaction in getting the details right. Writing clearly and effectively - and enjoying doing it - is a must.
Ideally, you'll have always dreamed about working at a company that's changing the email experience for hundreds of thousands of people every day. That's probably too much to ask, but you should at least like the idea, and you need to have tried our products out.
This is a full time position based in our office in Mountain View. Please email your resume, a writing sample, and what you like about our products to i.want.to.work@baydin.com
Visual Marketing Memeternship
All positions are full time and based in our office in Mountain View. Juniors and seniors only.
Visual storytelling has been a fixture of human communication since an artistic band of Neanderthals painted the first cave walls. With a screen in every pocket, understanding how to communicate effectively with images is more important today than ever before. We'd like to enlist your skills to help us tell stories about how to work more productively in sharable, spreadable, engaging, bite-size visual formats.
Because this position requires so much creativity, we will consider a wide variety of possible visual formats - please consider applying with whatever suits your personal creative talents. We're open to just about anything, as long as the format is primarily images and provides enough depth to teach audiences something meaningful about productivity. Whether you'd like to spread memes, draw a beautiful webcomic series by hand, take breathtaking photographs to make inspirational images, or something we've never even thought about, we're open to it.
This is the perfect internship if you'd like to spend your summer creating fun, quirky productivity-focused educational images and building a community around them.
To apply, send us an email at i.want.to.work@baydin.com. Send us your resume, a note explaining why you're interested in Boomerang specifically, and some examples of content you've made and/or communities you've built to show you are the perfect candidate!