Job description
Senior Growth Engineer
Company Overview
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. Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently at Buffer.
Job Summary
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. 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Own growth engineering projects end-to-end, from implementing a localization framework for international audiences to building referral program logic, attribution systems, and rebuilding tracking infrastructure.
- Build features on Buffer's marketing site that help people discover and try Buffer, shipping landing pages, interactive tools, and conversion flows.
- Create benchmarks, calculators, and utility content that educate users and make Buffer genuinely useful.
- Shape our marketing platform capabilities by building the systems and frameworks that help the whole team move faster.
- Drive experimentation and optimization, helping the team learn faster through code.
- Strengthen our foundations by maintaining integrations with our marketing technology stack (Segment, GTM, Mixpanel, BigQuery).
- Help shape our engineering culture by pairing with other engineers, reviewing code, and sharing knowledge.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Strong frontend foundations in React, TypeScript, and modern web development.
- Experience writing backend logic, building API routes, and connecting third-party integrations.
- Understanding of growth, SEO, analytics, A/B testing, and conversion optimization.
- Thrive in remote, async environments.
- Experience building AI into user-facing marketing features at scale.
- Personal interest in the world of content creation.
Technology Stack
- Next.js v15+ with React and TypeScript.
- Express middleware, CSS Modules, Motion, Radix UI, Base UI, and Recharts.
- Marketing stack: Segment, Google Tag Manager, Mixpanel, BigQuery.
- Data sources: Ghost CMS, Redash, Notion, Google Sheets.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary ($156.5K – $202.3K) with equity.
- 4-Day workweeks.
- Health insurance for all team members (international or US).
- $1000 home office setup stipend.
- Growth mindset fund.
- New laptop provided.
- Unlimited free books.
- AI tools stipend.
- Flexible time off.
- Savings plan with 3% company match.
- Profit sharing.
- 16 weeks of fully paid family leave.
- Family support fund.
- Working smarter stipend for coworking or coffee shops.
- 6-week paid sabbatical after every 5 years.
Employment Type
Full time
Hiring Process
- Application
- Role Interview (Simon Heaton)
- Code review assignment
- Technical interview
- Leadership Interview (Hailley Griffis)
- Final Interview (Executive Leadership)
- Collaboration Period (2-day paid project)
- Offer
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Buffer, we value diversity of experience, and we understand that comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
