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<div><html><head></head><body><h1 id="join-simplex-chat-team" tabindex="-1">Join SimpleX Chat team</h1>
<p>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.</p>
<p>We currently have 6 full-time people in the team.</p>
<p>We want to add 2 people to the team.</p>
<p>SimpleX Chat is a seed stage startup with a lot of user growth in 2022-2025, and a lot of exciting technical and product problems to solve to grow faster.</p>
<p>We currently have 4 people in the team.</p>
<p>We are looking for passionate and creative people to help us!</p>
<h2 id="who-we-are-looking-for" tabindex="-1">Who we are looking for</h2>
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<h3>Web designer &amp; developer for a website contract</h3>
<h3>Mobile application developer</h3>
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</div><div class="job-tab-content"><p>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.</p><p>You are an expert in creating interactive web experiences:</p><ul>
<li>15+ years of web development and design experience.</li>
<li>Passionate about communications, privacy and data ownership.</li>
<li>Competent using PhotoShop, 3D modelling, etc.</li>
<li>Competent in Web tech, including JavaScript, animations, etc.</li>
</ul><p>We will NOT consider agencies or groups it must be one person working on the project.</p></div></div>
</div><div class="job-tab-content"><p>You:</p><ul>
<li>created mobile applications for Android platforms as <strong>your own full-time or side projects</strong>,</li>
<li>expertise with Android APIs, Kotlin and JetPack Compose framework,</li>
<li><a href="https://paulgraham.com/taste.html">a good taste</a> for mobile apps design would be a bonus.</li>
</ul><p>It is not a full time job yet, we have some specific problems to solve in the Android app. If we are happy working together it is likely to evolve into a full-time job offer in 2026.</p><p>Please ONLY apply if you created and released your own apps (not as a job or contract for somebody else).</p></div></div>
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<h3>Application Haskell engineer</h3>
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</div><div class="job-tab-content"><p>You will work with the Haskell core of the client applications and with the network servers.</p><p>You are an expert in language models, databases and Haskell:</p><ul>
<li>expert knowledge of SQL.</li>
<li>Haskell strictness, exceptions, <a href="https://simonmar.github.io/pages/pcph.html">concurrency</a>, STM, <a href="https://thinkingwithtypes.com">type systems</a>.</li>
<li>15y+ of software engineering experience in complex projects.</li>
<li>deep understanding of the common programming principles:
<ul>
<li>data structures, bits and bytes, text encoding.</li>
<li><a href="https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html">functional software design</a> and algorithms.</li>
<li>protocols and networking.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul></div></div>
<h2 id="about-you" tabindex="-1">About you</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Passionate about joining SimpleX Chat team</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>already use SimpleX Chat to communicate with friends/family or participate in public SimpleX Chat groups.</li>
<li>passionate about privacy, security and communications.</li>
<li>interested to make contributions to SimpleX Chat open-source project in your free time before we hire you, as an extended test.</li>
<li>you founded (and probably failed) at least one startup, or spent more time working for yourself than being employed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Exceptionally pragmatic, very fast and customer-focussed</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>care about the customers (aka users) and about the product we build much more than about the code quality, technology stack, etc.</li>
<li>believe that the simplest solution is the best.</li>
<li>2-3x faster than the most competent people you worked with.</li>
<li>focus on solving only today's problems and resist engineering for the future (aka over-engineering) see <a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/">The Duct Tape Programmer</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@johnfliu/why-i-hate-frameworks-6af8cbadba42">Why I Hate Frameworks</a>.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Want to join a very early stage startup</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>high pace and intensity, longer hours.</li>
<li>a substantial part of the compensation is stock options.</li>
<li>full transparency - we believe that too much <a href="https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/851459129830850561">autonomy</a> hurts learning and slows down progress.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="how-to-join-the-team" tabindex="-1">How to join the team</h2>
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<p>Also look through <a href="https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues">GitHub issues</a> submitted by the users to see what would you want to contribute as a test.</p>
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<p><a href="https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1&amp;smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fu2dS9sG8nMNURyZwqASV4yROM28Er0luVTx5X1CsMrU%3D%40smp4.simplex.im%2FKBCmxJ3-lEjpWLPPkI6OWPk-YJneU5uY%23%2F%3Fv%3D1%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAtixHJWDXvYWcoe-77vIfjvI6XWEuzUsapMS9nVHP_Go%253D%26srv%3Do5vmywmrnaxalvz6wi3zicyftgio6psuvyniis6gco6bp6ekl4cqj4id.onion">Connect to us</a> via SimpleX Chat to chat about what you want to contribute and about joining the team.</p>
<p><a href="https://smp4.simplex.im/a#IWCurmcnKDvfOzGrQdqlXjKinqkvO10a2q__nWBVG6c">Connect to us</a> via SimpleX Chat to chat about what you want to contribute and about joining the team.</p>
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<p>You can also email <a href="mailto:jobs@simplex.chat?subject=Join%20SimpleX%20Chat%20team">jobs@simplex.chat</a></p>