Remote (US and Canada)

About this role

Mattermost | Remote (US and Canada) | FT | Multiple rolesMattermost (https://mattermost.com) is an open-core collaboration and workflow automation platform for air-gapped, on-prem and private clouds. Our customers are in defense, intelligence, security and critical infrastructure, including the USAF and NASA. Y Combinator led our Series B, their largest open source investment at the time.
Both openings are full stack on the core platform: Go backend, React/TypeScript frontend, PostgreSQL and Redis. The codebase is public (https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost), so most of what you build is too. We would rather hire people who ship and own complex software end to end than chase an exact stack match, so any systems or backend language and any frontend stack counts. What we look for in both roles: REST and WebSocket APIs with real networking fundamentals (HTTP, connection lifecycle), and relational databases including schema design and query optimization.
We use coding agents daily (Claude Code, Cursor, and others) for scaffolding, refactors, code review and test generation, and we treat that as core craft rather than a shortcut around the fundamentals. If you have a track record…