Chrome Extension Engineer

We are OneText! Sitting at the intersection of payments, AI, and marketing, OneText makes shopping as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. Shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. Fast-growing e-commerce brands use our text-to-buy payments and sales concierge to drive up to 30% more revenue. We replace conventional SMS marketing with two-way conversations that delight shoppers and inspire them to buy more.

We’re backed by rockstars, including Y Combinator, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures, the founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds, and Harry’s, and Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse.

• Jonathan and Daniel - quit PayPal a few years back to found OneText, never looked back

• Around 15 total employees including engineering, sales, and customer success

• Front-end: TypeScript/React/Tailwind/Next.js

• API: Node/TypeScript/Postgres/Redis/Mongo

• Services: Shopify/WooCommerce/Twilio/Telnyx/Infobip/PayPal/Stripe/Authorize.net

• Cloud/Hosting: DigitalOcean

Want to bring a great new technology to the table? Let's talk!

You will be a temporary contractor with a singular project to start: Building a browser extension to help our merchants onboard and set up their connections with other platforms.

More about you:

• You're an expert on Chrome extensions, Typescript, React (node.js is nice to have)

• You're independent and self-motivated

• You communicate proactively and efficiently

• You can start immediately and ramp up quickly

• We don't care where you're located - Outside of the US is fine

This is a part-time, hourly role to start, and there's a path to a full time role if this goes well.

When we chat we don't want it to be a surprise quiz or anything stupid like that. Here are some examples of the things we might ask:

• What was your last/current role, and why do you want to change now?

• What's your ideal next role? If you had carte-blanche, what would the position, responsibilities, engineering culture etc. look like?

• Can you show me some code you wrote or an app or platform or library that you're proud of building, and talk me through how it works?

• What was the most interesting or challenging integration you've done with another platform, or API?

• Do you lean more towards building UX, front-end, apis, working with databases, or do you like to be 'full stack' and go where you're most needed?

• Why a startup/contractor work? Why not join a big corp full time?

• What's your preferred approach to testing, static checks, etc? And do you like TDD?

• Let's pair-code something in the language/framework of your choice. I prefer real-world exercises, so no algorithms. I may ask you to build a small front-end component or write a small helper function, depending on your preference. Ideally let's just do a screen share, if that's ok -- so please come with your favorite IDE ready.

• Do you like to have engineering requirements completely set in stone before you start work, or are you comfortable starting building based on a mostly-formed idea that will evolve over time?

• Tell me about a time you said no to someone in a position of power over you (your boss, a super senior architect, the ceo, etc.)

• Tell me about something you did in the past that ended up being way too complicated, and how you helped simplify it.

• What's YOUR favorite interview question, to pick a good engineer?

• What's something cool you've done with AI recently?

1. 30-45 min screen with Daniel

2. That's it! No multiple rounds.