First Engineer – Full Stack

last updated May 6, 2026 23:25 UTC

PostHog

HQ: San Francisco, California

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PostHog is open-source, developer-friendly product analytics.

We had the most succesful b2b software HackerNews launch since 2012

, we’ve got 1.7K stars on our repo right now, hundreds of users and deployments at large companies.

This is a super exciting time to be joining PostHog. We’re growing like crazy and we need your help.

Our culture

In reality, as one of our first hires you’ll have a large hand in shaping this, but some keywords:

  • Remote first
  • "Write things down"
  • Prefer making things transparent and public
  • No need for crazy hours. Work hard when you’re working.

Your role As first engineer, you’ll be key to building a lot of the core functionality of PostHog. We encourage you to take a look at our repo (issues and PRs) to see the type of things you’d be doing. Our stack is Django/React/Redux/Postgres.

Hiring process

  • You’ll have a 30 minute phone-call with our CTO Tim
  • You’ll meet our CEO James
  • We’ll pay you a normal contracting rates for anywhere between 1-5 days to do some work on PostHog. This will give you a chance to learn how we’d work with you, and for us to see how you work. You’ll also end up with some open-source contributions.
  • We make a decision.

Our backers

We’re backed by YCombinator, Solomon Hykes (ex-founder/CEO Docker), David Cramer (Founder/CEO Sentry), Adam Goldstein (Founder Hipmunk).

$50000-$85000

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