A bit about us...
Matter is a reading technology company founded in late 2019.
Reading is one of the most important things we do, yet our tools (think: Pocket, Kindle) are relics of the early internet.
We started Matter because we were frustrated by how hard it is to read online. We got tired of sifting through newsletters in our inbox, bumping into paywalls while browsing the web, and avoiding sensationalist headlines on Twitter.
Matter is currently in private beta on iOS. We’re backed by some of the best investors (and most demanding readers) in the world.
As the fourth engineer on the team, you’ll write many pieces of our core technology from scratch and will have a major impact on the trajectory of our product and organization.
You might be a good fit if you...
- Have designed APIs and built backend services for complex, consumer-grade products
- Can own large pieces of work and solve whatever engineering problems come your way
- Are comfortable with Python/Django/SQL/AWS. Languages can be learned, but because we're small and will be counting on you to make big contributions quickly, familiarity with our stack is helpful.
- Are actively seeking a fast-paced early-stage environment where there's more change and less structure compared to a more mature company
- Are highly collaborative and an excellent communicator. (We try to minimize meetings and mostly communicate asynchronously over Slack and in documents.)
- Are an ambitious optimist who gets fired up about doing hard things
Some tech you'll help build
- Article and PDF parsers that use a combination of techniques (eg. NLP, computer vision) to achieve best-in-class performance
- Data ingestion pipelines that consolidate content from disparate sources, including RSS, save-extensions, newsletters, and Twitter
- Scrapers that find and ingest articles by specific writers wherever they occur on the internet
- Audio-to-text transcribers that map audio files to editable transcripts (similar to Descript)
- Subscriptions layer that lets users frictionlessly manage their paid subscriptions to 3rd party publishers
- Integrations with Readwise, Roam, Notion, and other services