Why are you opening a new office?

We have a lot of big product ambitions and need more great engineers to help us implement them. Opening a new engineering office allows us to hire more great engineers.

Why Vancouver?

• This is our first time opening a separate engineering office and we understand that it will take time and resources to make successful. Being in the same timezone and a short flight away makes collaboration a lot easier.
• There are great engineers in Vancouver that will be a great fit with Streak.
• Both founders (Aleem and Omar) are Canadian and have a bias and affinity towards Canada.
• Canada has a sane immigration system which opens up access to the global talent pool.

What's the plan?

Open the office Q1 this year with 2-3 engineers to start and then get to 10 engineers by the end of the year.

Do you have a presence in Vancouver now?

Not yet, no. We plan on starting out in a coworking space and once the team grows we'll move into our own office.

What are the engineers in Vancouver going to be doing?

The Vancouver office will be a first class distributed office, not just some place we outsource stuff out to. All engineers will be treated the same and as much as possible location won't be used to determine what people are working on.

What's your stack?

Our backend is running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We use Kubernetes and GKE for orchestration. Server code is written in Java and some Kotlin. We make extensive use of GCP's managed services and are always at the forefront of GCP's evolution:

• How Streak built a graph database on Cloud Spanner to wrangle billions of emails
• Streak's Top 6 Tips for App Engine
• Developer Insights: Streak brings CRM to the inbox with Google Cloud Platform

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On the frontend we've built the InboxSDK library (https://www.inboxsdk.com) to power our best-in-class integration with Gmail. We use React as a view layer and Flow for static typing. State and data synchronization is accomplished with a battle tested in-house framework that makes extensive use of streams (https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754).

Anything else I should know?

We will be very competitive with compensation, we're not opening a Vancouver office to get cheap labor.

Our options are extremely valuable as we practice extended exercise (https://zachholman.com/posts/fuck-your-90-day-exercise-window/). From our research we've found this to be very rare in Vancouver.

Read more about how we think of our engineering team and see open positions: www.streak.com/teams/engineering