Back-End Engineer, Piano
Publisher analytics and subscription tools
Open for applications
Publisher analytics and subscription tools
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower teams to understand and influence customer behavior.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in Python and/or Perl
- Experience working with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
- Experience with Amazon AWS
- Experience writing asynchronous services at scale
- Experience working with external web API’s and developing backend web services
- Linux Experience (we primarily use Debian)
- Fluent written and oral English is required
What the job involves
- We are looking for intermediate/experienced backend engineers that can innovate rapidly in the changing landscape of social media and join our team onsite in Berlin
- Create scalable APIs and daemons that power social media solutions for the biggest names in media
- Work on software at scale. Our SocialFlow app is used by thousands of social media experts worldwide, our link resolver https://trib.al serves over a billion clicks per month, and our daemons send millions of posts out on social media per month for top publishers
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Piano helps businesses manage subscription, analytics and content personalization to monetize digital experiences. Previously the focus was on traditional publishers like Wall Street Post and CNBC. However, with the declining value of revenue streams like third party cookies, and new platforms like Substack and Clubhouse siphoning off paying customers, the revenue pinch is being felt by a growing spread of digital services.
Piano’s cloud-based offerings run a broad gamut, including experience personalization, paywall management, and data analytics. These are all supported by integrations with various mainstream third-party tools including Google Ad Manager and Apple Pay. This seemingly fragmented approach has not spread Piano thin, however, and it is consolidating its market lead with strategic acquisitions in the publishing space such as AT Internet and SocialFlow.
Following its impressive level of funding and massive growth in revenue since 2019, Piano is developing its product further to provide further publicity and analytics tools for its customers, particularly in newsletters and socials. It is also likely to continue expanding its market share through acquisitions as it builds outs its end-to-end platform for the publishing industry.
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2021
$88m
SERIES C
Jan 2019
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $115.4m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 95% healthcare coverage
- Stock options
- Free daily catered lunches in the office
- Free gym in the office
- $1,500 annual continued education reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Unlimited healthy snacks, coffee, espresso, and soft drinks in the office
- Team events and happy hours
Company values
- Collaboration - Piano is a team sport. Our first tasks must always be to communicate with and support each other
- Craft - We take our responsibility of equipping many of the world’s most important companies with the best tools as a serious responsibility, and strive for excellence in everything we make
- Commitment - We approach our work with energy, enthusiasm and ethos
- Citizenship - We make great software for good purpose and always strive to be a company that makes the world better place
- Courage - We own the confidence to explore new ideas, embrace new experiences, and take calculated risks
Company HQ
Center City East, Philadelphia, PA
Founders
Trevor Kaufman
(CEO)They have an extensive track record of building brands and profitable businesses in media and technology. They have been CEO of Possible Worldwide, Tinypass and Schematic.
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