Senior Software Engineer, Cord

£80-150k

+ equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
GraphQL
Node.js
Postgres
Apollo
Babel
Sequelize
Senior level
London

3-5 days a week in office

Cord

Collaborate experience

Job no longer available

Cord

Collaborate experience

1-20 employees

B2BProductivityCommunicationSaaS

Job no longer available

£80-150k

+ equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
GraphQL
Node.js
Postgres
Apollo
Babel
Sequelize
Senior level
London

3-5 days a week in office

1-20 employees

B2BProductivityCommunicationSaaS

Company mission

To make the internet multiplayer.

Role

Who you are

  • You can balance high quality technical work with pragmatic, startup priorities.
  • You must know whether you'd rather face one horse-sized duck or 20 duck-sized horses in mortal combat.
  • You find checklists like this a bit daft.

What the job involves

  • Getting things done rather than making things perfect
  • Delivering features and seeing how users respond to them
  • Maintaining mastery of your tools (TypeScript, Git, etc. -- whatever tools you use)
  • Working on a team that has Silicon Valley DNA, but European values
  • Creating clarity from ambiguity
  • Finding multiple ways to solve hard problems and always choosing the most pragmatic solution

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Tech solutions for team collaboration have never been in higher demand. The recent global events have fundamentally changed the way many people work, transforming business communications for every employee around the globe. This trend is likely here to stay, with many businesses switching to remote-first policies as a result.

Following this trend, Cord was founded to build a product that allows users to chat, leave voice messages, and start a video call with team members on any page, whilst also offering smart and real-time feedback, enabling teams to increase productivity and establish network effects. However, instead of trying to replace existing communication and teamwork tools, Cord is aiming to empower them all and transform communication in existing SaaS apps.

Top investors behind Notion, Slack, Figma, Canva, and Stripe have invested in the company, and leaders at Google, Twitter, and Tinder have worked closely with Cord to make their vision a reality. The real challenge will be in building its market as competitors, such as Sedna, Fuze, Element, and Blink, also aim to muscle into the space.

Insights

Top investors

46% female employees

Company

Employee endorsements

Challenging work

"Cord is 100% a tech start-up and the work that we have to do here is challenging in all the fun ways. As a startup there is not as much there as at..."

Funding (2 rounds)

Oct 2021

$15m

SERIES A

Dec 2020

$16.6m

SERIES A

Total funding: $31.6m

Company benefits

  • 26 holiday days per year, but no one keeps track of this and we don’t care how many days people take as long as they get good work done
  • Generous parental leave
  • Free healthcare
  • Unlimited snacks; free breakfast on Tuesdays

Company HQ

London, UK

Founders

Before founding Cord, they advised Head of Product at $1B+ startups. They were the Product Manager at Facebook after being acquired in 2013. Their data science and engineering experience span 20 years.

They founded the London Facebook office back in 2009 where they built an engineering team of 450 people.

Diversity & Inclusion at Cord

Daniel Walker  headshot

Daniel Walker (Head of Talent (Previously Senior D&I Manager @ Amazon))

  • Building a strong, diverse team is hard, but it's something we're taking really seriously. At the moment, we're a team of 15 who speak 6 different languages and hail from 7 different countries. In a former life our Head of Talent was a Senior D&I Program Manager for Amazon leading diversity initiatives across EMEA.
  • We deeply value people who can bring more diversity to our team. At the root of our company culture are things: pragmatism, technical excellence, and emotional intelligence. We value them equally
  • Our gender diversity is way better than the industry average at the moment (50/50 in our engineering team!), and we’re always aiming for an even more diverse team

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