Senior Growth Engineer

Role details

Location: Remote Employment type: Full time Department: Engineering Compensation: $156.5K – $202.3K • Offers Equity

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Role description

About Buffer

We create social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, we help our customers believe they can succeed and do good along the way. Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently at Buffer. Since the early days, we’ve focused on building one of the most unique and fulfilling workplaces by rethinking a lot of traditional practices. We also default to transparency, so you can read all about our metrics, and our successes and failures along the way on our Transparency Dashboard. We're united by Buffer's values, and we hire and work from all over the world. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we are building a culture where underrepresented groups are welcome and can flourish. Please note that we do travel to work together in person once or twice per year, and those events are highly encouraged to build deeper connections among our small team. As you get to know Buffer and consider joining the journey, feel free to read more from Kirsti and Sabreen as they share their first experiences with Buffer, as well as from Hailley, who captured why she still calls Buffer home after 8+ years.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join Buffer's Growth Marketing team. This is a hands-on engineering role building the web experiences, systems, and infrastructure that help Buffer grow. The work spans building features and pages across buffer.com, interactive tools, referral systems, conversion flows, along with the technical implementation behind them: integrations with marketing tools, analytics and tracking systems, SEO infrastructure, and the backend logic that powers our marketing features. Buffer is on a mission to help the next 200000 creators and small teams build their brands, and this role is central to making that happen. You'll be building the growth systems, experiments, and infrastructure that connect people with Buffer at the right moment,and help them take that first step. This is a chance to shape how we grow not just keep pace with it. We need someone who's comfortable across the full frontend scope,strong with Reactand modern web development,but also capable of diving into backend logic connecting third-party APIs debugging tracking pipelines,and figuring out what they don't know.The team values paceand iteration:we ship quickly learn from real usageand improve as we go.But we also care about craft noticing the UX detailsand maintaining standards while keeping momentum. Working at Buffer is collaborativeand positive thanks to our core values.We try to be "No Ego Doers" who are aware of our assumptions,and joining us means you'll work together as a teamto testand confirm our ideas.

Who you'll work with

This role reports to Kateryna Porshnieva Head of Engineering Operations,and sits on the Marketing team.You'll collaborate on a variety of Brandand Product Marketing projectswiththe full Marketing team partnering closelywith Simon Heaton Director of Growth Marketing,and Hailley Griffis Head of Communicationsand Content. You'll work day-to-daywith most ofthe team in particular Kate Baldrey our Marketing UX Designer,to build web experiences that help people learn aboutandsign up for Buffer.

What you'll do

• Own growth engineering projects end-to-end from implementing a localization framework for international audiencesto building referral program logic attribution systems,

and rebuilding tracking infrastructure for accuracyandreliability.You'll take projects from conceptto launch, partnering closelywith marketing, design, and other engineers alongthe way.

• Build features on Buffer's marketing site that help people discoverand try Buffer,

shipping landing pages, interactive tools, and conversion flows. Create benchmarks, calculators, and utility content that educate usersand make Buffer genuinely useful before someone even signs up.

• Shape our marketing platform capabilities by buildingthe systemsand frameworks that helpthe whole team move faster.

Create A/B testing infrastructure, develop programmatic page generation for SEO AEO, implement content management patterns, and build reusable components that make future projects easierto ship.

• Drive experimentationoptimization,

helpingthe team learn faster through code. Set up experiments, validate results, iterate based on what we discover. You'll balance moving quicklymaintaining quality,because both matter here.

• Strengthen our foundations by maintaining integrations withour marketing technology stack (Segment,GTM,Mixpanel BigQuery),upgrading dependencies optimizing performance ensuring accessibility.You'll also participate inour on-call rotationcontribute ongoing system health,because keeping buffer.com running smoothly isa shared responsibilitywe all take seriously.
• Help shapeour engineering culture by pairing with other engineers,reviewing code sharing knowledge about growth systemsmarketing engineering patterns raising bar for how approach frontend work together at Buffer.

Helpful skills & experience

• You have strong frontend foundations in React, TypeScript, and modern web development, and you're comfortable going beyond frontend when work calls for it - writing backend logic, building API routes, connecting third-party integrations. Our site runs on Next.js, but care more about your adaptability than matching exact stack.
• You understand what it takes grow something. Maybe you've worked marketing or growth team hands-on experience SEO, analytics, A/B testing, conversion optimization. Or maybe you've grown own product, startup, side project learned these things by doing - building referral systems, running experiments, figuring out what converts why. Either way, you know how measure impact motivated numbers moving.
• You think beyond immediate task. You care about how things connect, whether they'll hold up, whether details right - but you also know when ship learn real usage rather polish indefinitely.
• You thrive remote async environments. You communicate clearly, support teammates, don't wait permission make progress. You work effectively across marketing, design, engineering, can explain technical decisions non-technical stakeholders.
• You've built AI into user-facing marketing features scale use AI tools daily multiply own output — want someone shares energy what AI makes possible.*
• You have personal stake world content creation. Maybe you've run newsletter, built audience social media, regularly share own work online. You've used Buffer before care experience planning, creating, publishing content.

Our Tech Stack

• We use Next.js v15+ React TypeScript buffer.com (currently using Pages router planning migrate App router).
• Use Express middleware routing (planning migrate Next.js middleware).
• Cascading Style Sheets Modules Motion animations Radix UI Base UI accessible components (gradually migrating Base UI evolves) data visualizations using Recharts.
• Marketing technology stack includes Segment Google Tag Manager Mixpanel BigQuery tracking analytics.
• Pull content data Ghost CMS (blog) Redash Notion Google Sheets various external APIs.

Interview process

If you believe you're fit this role want join Buffer team we'd love hear about you!

1. Application: — Telling why want join Buffer taking time strong first impression opportunity.
2. First Interview: — A short exploratory conversation Luke Clark Senior Hiring Specialist focused how Buffer works how you work alignment values expectations.

3. Role Interview: — A chat Simon Heaton Director Growth Marketing understand what takes work at Buffer opportunity both sides get know each other determine whether expectations align. 4. Code review assignment: — An asynchronous assignment review pull request help understand how think code communicate technical ideas.

Technical interview: — An interview couple engineers from Buffer focused technical experience approach.

6. Leadership Interview: — A conversation Hailley Griffis Head Communications Content discuss approach leadership how drive value impact cross-functional company really get into how think approaching work collaboration.

Final Interview: — An opportunity meet Executive Leadership team great chance gain deeper understanding Buffer's strategy values work processes.

8. Collaboration Period: — An experimental stage where would work real project over two days fully paid goal see how feels work team both us you.

Offer:—*A wrap-up offer discuss final details align last bits before make part Buffer team 💛"

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