About us
Paloma is the ecommerce platform for social-first selling, taking consumers from comment to checkout without leaving Instagram. Our tools enable business owners to run their entire online business without ever having to build a website.
This is a unique opportunity to be the third full-time team member in an early stage startup, building a new product for a market that's been fully vetted.
Paloma was first started in 2017, working with top-tier D2C and enterprise brands, and has since relaunched in 2023 with a new product & customer base – Social Live Sellers.
$17B was spent during Live Sales in the US last year, but there are no other tools for businesses to automate these orders on social channels like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and more. We launched for this demo with a beta in April, and have processed over $100k in revenue with just our first 5 accounts.
You'll be working alongside Founder & CEO, Kelsey Hunter, with a background in retail, marketing & ecom software, and Krista Triviso, Lead Engineer having previously built messaging and ecom auction tools. We're a seed-funded venture-backed business supported by experts in ecom, fintech and payments.
Read our principles
How we work
We talk to Live Sellers every day, gathering feedback and insights to build an app that works best for their business. Sellers use our self-serve desktop and mobile applications, where they can launch and manage a shop in minutes. And their customers get the ease and reliability of online checkouts, all from their DMs.
What you'll do
- Work directly with the CEO to learn from customer feedback and collaborate to find low effort solutions
- Design, plan, implement, test and validate solutions
- Research and develop integrations with 3rd party platforms such as Meta, Stripe, Shippo and more
- Build on top of the Celery framework to respond to and process thousands of complex, asynchronous events in real-time
- Design data solutions, architect our large-scale production data infrastructure, and contribute to app-wide technical strategy
- Collaborate with our DevOps team, leveraging tools like DataDog and AWS to debug and solve problems
- Support hiring, development, and growth of the engineering team
What we're looking for
A US-based candidate to join our team with:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience designing, implementing, and operating Python applications
- 2+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with front-end implementation
- Excellent communication skills, especially in a remote environment
- Experience building and interating on complex software solutions in a fast-paced startup environment
- An adaptable and growth mindset, and excitement to be involved in the growth of a small company
Not required, but a plus:
- Familiarity with our backend frameworks, Flask, Celery, and Postgresql
- Familiarity with our frontend frameworks, React, Next.js, Tailwind, and React Query
- Experience building e-commerce or payment solutions
What we provide
- Remote work environment
- Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, including One Medical
- Annual salary range of $150-170k
- Generous equity compensation
- Unlimited PTO, unlimited sick days
- $50 monthly stipend to shop from our sellers
Our Public Benefit
Paloma is a Public Benefit Corporation, which means that it's built into our company to give back for public good. Our services are empowering financial independence for small shops and local business across the US – and eventually, around the world.
Our Benefit: Provide resources and technology that improve communication for the advancement of political, social, economic, and environmental good in society.
Shoot us a note if you’d like to chat!
Take a look at our principles first – if this sounds good, send your resume to careers@getpaloma.com and share a little bit about you and why you’re interested in Paloma.
