Who we are

Fizz is a private and authenticated platform designed to revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges. After verifying a university email address, students use Fizz to post questions, memes, polls, and chat directly with other verified students, all while maintaining full control of their identity and privacy. Fizz communities are safe, authentic, and inclusive, made possible through community-based moderation.

Launched by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding into colleges all across the US. In a time when social media is plagued by curated highlight reels and lack of authenticity, Fizz is on a mission to redefine the definition of a true social network.

What we’ve done

We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of which use Fizz every day. In July 2023, we raised a 25M Series B and have established ourselves as the dominant community platform at 80+ colleges.

Where we’re going

We are currently in the process of rapidly expanding to all US universities, with the goal of getting there by the end of the 2023-2024 academic school year. Our team is engineering driven and product first. In order to maximize our product iteration, we give engineers at Fizz a lot of autonomy and full ownership. Some of the things you can expect to work on include:

- Ideating, designing, and implementing new features from the ground up enhance and transform the way students use and view Fizz

- Designing the systems and processes to facilitate rapid user base expansion

- Building scalable community moderation systems

- Disrupting the social media paradigm

We are open to candidates of all experience levels who are passionate about being an early employee and want to help drive our company forward.

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and develop scalable services that can support high traffic retail facing applications involving user interactions typical of a social network.
Design and implement RESTful APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure
Setup tools and processes that promote great software development practices.
Imagine, design, deploy, and iterate new product features.

Qualifications

Strong fundamentals of CS concepts such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Networking, Operating Systems, Databases.
Experience as a lead engineer for at least one large scale system that supports at least a million users using a distributed system.
Ability to articulate and demonstrate common security practices from a developer point of view.
Strong grasp on product and ability to develop features that college students will use and love.
Ability to find appropriate new technologies and tools for our stack.

Bonus Points

Experience working with User-Generated Content or a Trust & Safety team.
Experience with SwiftUI, TypeScript, Firebase, or Google Cloud Platform.

Fizz is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant, candidate, or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

Senior Software Engineer

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