What Matter does
Matter is a powerful, modern reading app that lets you save media from anywhere, pulls in your newsletters, lets you listen to your articles in a natural voice, and much more.
1 open role
What the role involves
You might be a fit if you: Are an experienced generalist who writes high-quality code. Can own large pieces of work and solve whatever problems come your way. Have designed APIs and built backend services for complex, consumer-grade products. Are comfortable with Python/Django/SQL/AWS. Languages can be learned, but because we're small and will be counting on you to make big contributions quickly, familiarity with our stack is helpful. ML experience a plus. Operate well in an early-stage environment where there's more change and less structure compared to a more mature company. Are highly collaborative and an excellent communicator. Some tech you'll help build: Article and PDF parsers that use a combination of techniques from heuristic frameworks to NLP to computer vision Data ingestion pipelines that consolidate content from disparate sources, including RSS, save-extensions, newsletters, and Twitter Scrapers that ingest content produced by specific individuals wherever it occurs on the internet Data synchronization engine that powers offline interactivity across multiple clients Our Stack Django, Postgres, Redis, Celery in the backend Swift iOS app with Realm for local datastore React for internal tooling Runs entirely on AWS Comfortable dev environment using Git, Docker, automated tests, and continuous deployment GitHub, Slack, Notion, Figma, Linear
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Funding and finances
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