What is RELAYTO?
RELAYTO transforms customer-facing documents into interactive, visual, and mobile-ready experiences that boost and measure the impact of ideas. There are magic and genius in every person, you just need to share your ideas with the world. We believe everyone from salespeople and marketers to executives and HR can create content with character – all it takes is a great idea and an intuitive tool. We built the tool. Now is the time to unleash your ideas.
RELAYTO/ customers include Hyperloop, Mercedes-Benz, GETT, PwC, Newsweek, International Business Times, Startupbootcamp & CKGSB among others. Our team is TechStars alumni, and is taking part in the PwC & Accenture acceleration programs (Winter 2017).
Built by the Silicon Valley/Stanford team behind Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com and SuccessFactors (sold to SAP for $3.4 billion) - RELAYTO/ runs a distributed team across UK, US, France & South Africa.
RELAYTO/ is looking for a developer (remote as contractor OR at East London / Paris office) to work directly with our founders.
Day to day role
At RELAYTO/, you will be a part of a small international team (UK, Silicon Valley & Paris), operating primarily via Slack & Asana and communicating directly with the CTO & CEO. The position is focused, but not limited to back-end tasks.
On a daily basis, you can expect to be developing REST APIs, integrating open-source libraries, trying to break the existing backend, connecting multiple external services/APIs and growing our server farm. In all your work there would be a constant focus on security and privacy. In addition, you will participate in brainstorming sessions about roadmap, solutions for clients problems, and design exercises. This position requires someone comfortable with working in Agile requirements and participating in planning meetings (with your team/other parts of the business to help explain the technology and define the requirements).
After the deadlines have been met, online & offline team hangouts are encouraged.
What we are looking for
- Experience with PHP 5.6/7, Symfony 2.7+ and Doctrine
- Experience building REST APIs
- Experience architecting scalable software systems
- Experience scaling Apache or Nginx.
- MongoDB & MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Passion for new technologies, such as Docker
- Strict adherence to clean code paradigms
- Used to test driven development
- Experience with lean workflows, git flow
- Permission to work in the UK (East London office or remote)
Additional points:
- Experience with VanillaJS and AngularJS
- UI Design skills via Sketch/Photoshop or similar
The Founders
Alex Shevelenko
- Cloud Pioneer: pre-IPO at SuccessFactors through to exit to SAP for $3.4B.
Stanford MBA, ex-Salesforce and Microsoft (helped launch Office 97 in 1st job) - Consulting: only MBA student awarded by Foundation for Excellence in Management Consulting & Association of Management Consulting Firms in recognition of client work at Mercer Management Consulting / Oliver Wyman
- Creative + Science: contributed to 50 creative/digital awards without "creative/design training" by developing Ideas Science ™ method that leverages behavioral and neuroscience research
Nikita Korotaev
- Founded & built from scratch, Lectrio, the next-generation online learning environment
- Scaled SaaS business to 20+ geographies: By the time he left in 2013, Lectrio was operating in 20+ countries
- Recognized as “Exceptional Talent” by Tech City UK and won a Russian Presidential Award for top computer scientists
Advisors:
We have built a network of world-class Silicon Valley advisors and investors:
- Aaron Au - Co-Founder/CTO of SuccessFactors (now CTO of SAP and head of SAP collaboration business)
- Hiroki Asai, Apple GVP Marketing, who for 15 years lead all comms and 1000-person creative team working directly with Steve Jobs
- Steve King, 5 time CEO including former CEO of Docusign during its pivotal growth phase
- Leading Wharton School Marketing faculty, including Peter Fader, inventor of customer lifetime value
Company DNA & advisors
- Special Forces for startups: check out our values
- Customer-funded by both iconic brands and small businesses
- Distributed team innovates with Silicon Valley DNA, accesses global enterprises via London and designs with French touch
- Supported by leading innovators, Techstars & Startupbootcamp, and consulting powerhouses (PwC and Accenture)
- 100% owned by the founding executives and the team - with commitment to instill bootstrapping DNA for decades to come
- Not actively seeking external investment or tech industry publicity. Keeping low profile until formal launch - while furiously lining us the smartest people in the business as our early customers, partners and team members
Advisors
World-class Silicon Valley advisors, all of whom led their respective companies from 0 to billion+ dollar valuations:
- Aaron Au - Co-Founder/CTO of SuccessFactors (now CTO of SAP and head of SAP collaboration business)
- Renaud Visage - Co-Founder/CTO of Eventbrite
- Sami Inkinen - Co-Founder/President of Trulia
What do I get
We are a location-free startup, currently spanning London, Paris, Johannesburg & San Francisco. We encourage flexibility and opportunity for working virtually or in physical teams, depending on your preference. The primary location for in-person meetings will be in London and Paris, but other locations include: San Francisco, Seattle, Johannesburg and Tokyo.
Once you join, these come in a package:
- Remote work via Slack, Asana & Video Hangouts
- Communications directly with the CEO, CTO & founding team. If you are a Russian speaker (both CTO & CEO are native Russian speakers).
- Professional guidance from advisory board that include CTOs & founders of Eventbrite, Trulia, Tapulous (Disney) & SuccessFactors (SAP)
Ability to have impact on projects of the century including HYPERLOOP & Mercedez-Benz Innovations (both customers)
- Exciting product challenges, in both architecture, product management and user experience.
- A jerk-free culture defined by trust, respect, and empathy.
- Optional personal development in product management & business skills
What's next?
Send your resume/CV/ cover letter to [email protected].
Sign up to start creating on RELAYTO today.
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