--- title: Join SimpleX Chat team permalink: /jobs/index.html layout: layouts/jobs.html --- # Join SimpleX Chat team SimpleX Chat Ltd is a seed stage startup with a lot of user growth in 2022-2023, and a lot of exciting technical and product problems to solve to grow faster. We currently have 6 full-time people in the team. We want to add 2 people to the team. ## Who we are looking for ### Web designer & developer for a website contract You will work with the founder and a product marketing expert to convert the stories we want to tell our current and prospective users into interactive experiences. You are an expert in creating interactive web experiences: - 15+ years of web development and design experience. - Passionate about communications, privacy and data ownership. - Competent using PhotoShop, 3D modelling, etc. - Competent in Web tech, including JavaScript, animations, etc. We will NOT consider agencies or groups – it must be one person working on the project. ### Application Haskell engineer You will work with the Haskell core of the client applications and with the network servers. You are an expert in language models, databases and Haskell: - expert knowledge of SQL. - Haskell strictness, exceptions, [concurrency](https://simonmar.github.io/pages/pcph.html), STM, [type systems](https://thinkingwithtypes.com). - 15y+ of software engineering experience in complex projects. - deep understanding of the common programming principles: - data structures, bits and bytes, text encoding. - [functional software design](https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html) and algorithms. - protocols and networking. ## About you - **Passionate about joining SimpleX Chat team**: - already use SimpleX Chat to communicate with friends/family or participate in public SimpleX Chat groups. - passionate about privacy, security and communications. - interested to make contributions to SimpleX Chat open-source project in your free time before we hire you, as an extended test. - you founded (and probably failed) at least one startup, or spent more time working for yourself than being employed. - **Exceptionally pragmatic, very fast and customer-focussed**: - care about the customers (aka users) and about the product we build much more than about the code quality, technology stack, etc. - believe that the simplest solution is the best. - 2-3x faster than the most competent people you worked with. - focus on solving only today's problems and resist engineering for the future (aka over-engineering) – see [The Duct Tape Programmer](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/) and [Why I Hate Frameworks](https://medium.com/@johnfliu/why-i-hate-frameworks-6af8cbadba42). - do not suffer from "not invented here" syndrome, at the same time interested to design and implement protocols and systems from the ground up when appropriate. - **Want to join a very early stage startup**: - high pace and intensity, longer hours. - a substantial part of the compensation is stock options. - full transparency - we believe that too much [autonomy](https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/851459129830850561) hurts learning and slows down progress. ## How to join the team 1. [Install the app](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat#install-the-app), try using it with the friends and [join some user groups](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat#join-user-groups) – you will discover a lot of things that need improvements. 2. Also look through [GitHub issues](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues) submitted by the users to see what would you want to contribute as a test. 3. [Connect to us](https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fu2dS9sG8nMNURyZwqASV4yROM28Er0luVTx5X1CsMrU%3D%40smp4.simplex.im%2FKBCmxJ3-lEjpWLPPkI6OWPk-YJneU5uY%23%2F%3Fv%3D1%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAtixHJWDXvYWcoe-77vIfjvI6XWEuzUsapMS9nVHP_Go%253D%26srv%3Do5vmywmrnaxalvz6wi3zicyftgio6psuvyniis6gco6bp6ekl4cqj4id.onion) via SimpleX Chat to chat about what you want to contribute and about joining the team. 4. You can also email [jobs@simplex.chat](mailto:jobs@simplex.chat?subject=Join%20SimpleX%20Chat%20team)