No-code analytics tool for modern teams
Livedocs is looking for a founding engineer (employee #2) to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with the founder and product team to build a next-generation office suite for modern teams.
This role is for somebody aligned with our vision to build a world-class product that democratizes access to solid data infrastructure, is hungry to earn an above-market equity stake, and can rapidly build at the pace of a quickly-growing startup.
Livedocs is backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, like General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, PJC, Unshackled Ventures, YCombinator, Pioneer, and more.
As a hacker, you have many options. You want to work at Livedocs because you:
We're looking for engineers who enjoy talking to customers, iterating & shipping quickly, and show a strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
Our small teams of engineers broadly define and drive their roadmap and use their product sense to define and ship an MVP. We are a sustained high-performance team.
We are regularly pushed out of our comfort zones. A lot is asked of us: excellence in our work, solving hard challenges, 100% accountability for our actions, and an ownership mentality (often requiring long hours and the infrequent sync on weekends). We rest and recover when needed but make ourselves available if we are the blocker on a key task.
Our team is a low-ego environment, and we are all aligned that we are a humble group of hackers and tinkerers who have set out to build the Vercel for data stacks.
Below is what to expect in our interview process. If you have questions, email Arsalan at a@livedocs.com
This stage is a more informal call to get to know more about the role, and for you to evaluate whether it's a good fit for you. We are looking for people with a strong interest in startups and motivation to help them; this is usually exhibited by past experience working at or starting one yourself.
Lastly, the conversation will cover some light technical discussion about your past projects. Mostly, we want to know that you can code and ship fairly involved systems, and speak to them with clarity on the details. This tends to be a good indication that an engineer had strong ownership and showed autonomy in making a product or technical decisions.
You'll be using your own computer and tools, but working with a minimal codebase we provide you. It's a typescript codebase and a setup aimed to replicate the environment we use in production. We even designed it to be similar to a problem you'd work on frequently at Livedocs.
We will check in over Slack/email every 20 minutes while you are working on this problem (we can also schedule a 30 minute slot if you prefer to ask questions synchronously), and you can submit a solution via a PR by the end of the day.
This is a feature experiment proposal that you will make. Typically this is something you should be able to do by this far in the process. Feel free to use a few slides, or a FigJam, etc to pitch the feature to us.
The discussion will mainly revolve around the implementation, UX, UI, and purpose of the feature, and you may need to ask some questions for more context to the team in the days leading up to this step of the interview.
The typical interview process takes a month from start to finish, but we tend to match your cadence and can move faster or slower based on your availability. We have moved more quickly and look to accommodate candidates who might have a short timeline or competing offers.
After the first two interviews, we sometimes short-circuit the process with a "no-hire." We have found that going through the entire process gives us enough to make a go/no-go decision.
As a builder, you have many options. You want to work at Livedocs because you:
Align with our goal of helping teams be data-driven without writing code or SQL. We believe that we can give teams of any size more data visibility by giving them a no-code interface for instant analytics on top of their existing tools — with the flexibility of a note-taking app.
Want to work in a small team that ships frequently (we ship at a weekly cadence) and be surrounded by the best engineers cranking away at unique problems outside the instruction manual.
Desire the impact and freedom that come with being one of the first few people in the room, with the option of growing into a management or architect role
Know the data engineering space quite well, and know that the current state of the tooling is ripe for positive disruption!
Livedocs is backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, like General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, PJC, Unshackled Ventures, YCombinator, Pioneer, and more.