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“We're united by Buffer's values, and we hire and work from all over the world.”
Team members work from all over the world across different time zones.
- Async-first
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- The team travels to work together in person once or twice per year.
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About the role
You will lead engineering for Growth at Buffer across product and marketing surfaces, covering acquisition, activation, and retention. Working closely with Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, you will help shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and stay hands-on with architectural and product details. You will also help guide how the engineering team adopts and builds with AI tools to solve customer problems effectively.
What you'll do
- Support engineers through coaching, regular feedback, and career development conversations
- Shape priorities with Product, Design, and Marketing based on data and customer needs
- Stay close to technical decisions, product details, and architecture to guide shipping speed vs. refinement
- Connect customer insights, product changes, and metrics to evaluate feature effectiveness
- Incorporate AI workflows and systems into engineering practices and team experiments
- Contribute to wider engineering efforts including hiring, standards, and team practices
What you bring
- Demonstrated experience managing engineers and addressing performance and growth
- Strong technical background with comfort in code reviews, prototyping, and architecture decisions
- Deep attention to detail regarding user experience and product workflows
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI in engineering workflows and guiding others to use it well
- Clear written communication and ability to collaborate across disciplines and time zones
- Understanding of how products grow through experimentation and customer acquisition
About Buffer
Buffer creates social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. They operate as a fully distributed team known for radical transparency and rethinking traditional workplace practices.
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