Angela Stringfellow

7 Great Examples of Transactional Email Templates

transactional email

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM): What Is It, and How Does It Work?

cloud messaging

What to Look for When Choosing an Email API Service

email notifications

50 Tips for More Effective Web Browser Push Notifications

chrome push notifications

The Expert Guide to Push Notifications

app push notifications

What is a Transactional Email, and Why is It Important?

What is Transactional Email, and Why is It Important?

What is a Notification API, and How Do You Use It?

Push Notifications vs. SMS Text Messages: What's the Difference?

How to Set Up Android Push Notifications

A step-by-step guide on how to implement React Native push notifications with Firebase, including how to send push notifications from FCM. 

How to Implement React Native Push Notifications with Firebase

Learn how Chrome push notifications can boost your business, from converting users to increasing user engagement, increasing retention, and more. 

5 Ways Chrome Push Notifications Can Boost Your Business

notifications

Learn about push notifications, how they differ from pull notifications, how they work, and the benefits of using push notifications. 

What Are Push Notifications? How Do They Work?

web push notifications

Hana Mohan

design

Artists, Shrug Off That Imposter Syndrome! The Tech World Needs You

remote-work

Team Norming Ceremony: Build Effective Remote Collaboration from Day One

Learn about Toast messages for Android and how to display Toast messages in React Native for Android. 

How to Display Toast Messages in React Native for Android

react

Learn about the importance of email validation and how to validate email in Ruby on Rails. 

How to Validate Email in Ruby on Rails

rubyonrails

Allie Dyer Bluemel

Conscious Design: How to Help Your Users Avoid Notification Fatigue

How Alert Fatigue Impacts User Behavior and Retention (and What We Can Do About it)

UX Accessibility: Tips and Tricks for Notification Design

The Challenges of App Accessibility for Notification Systems

Your Go-to Guide to Notification Customization with MagicBell

In-App Notification Design: How to Get Started and Best Practices for Engaging, Effective Notifications

Josue Montano

How to implement web push notifications for your site on your own domain

How Much Code Do You Really Need to Create a Custom Notification Component?

When and How to Use Push Notifications vs. In-app Notifications

What Are Rich Push Notifications and How You Can Create Them for Your Product

Building a React Notification System: What You Need to Know

Why You Don’t Really Need to Build React Web Notifications for Your App

React Browser Notification vs. React Desktop Notification: Choosing the Right One for Your Needs

A Guide to React Notification Badges

The YCombinator Experience - Remote Edition

The Savvy Product Owner's Guide to Building a Frictionless Email Notification System

You Don't Really Need the Best React Notification Library

Your Guide to Selecting the Best Email Notification Template for Your Use Case

The Hidden Costs of Building Your Own React Notification System

Email Notification Design: The Essential Guide to Getting It Right

React Toast Notifications Made Easy

Why You Should Move Away from Email Notification Strategies

Building a Notification System in Angular with MagicBell

how-to

Building a notification system in Ruby on Rails: DB Design

kubernetes

Deploying Rails apps on Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service

docker

Docker for Rails Developers: Containerizing Your App

A Guide to Notification System Design

The Slack Notifications Flowchart Explained

interview

A Quora Designer Breaks Down the Notification Maze

5 Valuable Lessons Learned From Building a B2B SaaS Business

Building a complete notification system is complex. Users need to be notified by email, web, and mobile depending on where they are online. Learn how to it!

How to build a notification system for web, email & mobile

Can you build a complete notification system without breaking a sweat?

We believe that notifications are essential and can be a force for good in our always-connected world.

The legendary investor Marc Andressen considers leaving out payments from the browser as the internet's original sin. Similarly, we believe that notifications are the missing spec of the internet.

We are on a mission to empower all product teams to build relevant notification experiences for their users. 

MagicBell was born out of our personal need
as the creators of multiple B2C & B2B products.

Welcome to MagicBell 

 Collaborative, diverse, and passionate - we’re a globally located, tight-knit group that brings a library of unique skills to our work. 

Nicolas Dessaigne
(Co-founder of Algolia)

Marie Outtier
(Director of Product Management at Twitter)

We are proud and humbled that some of the smartest people believe in our vision.

Let us prove that building a great notification system doesn’t have to take months.

MagicBell is the notification inbox for web & mobile apps.

As consumers of many apps, we have personally experienced the growing volume of notifications - many of which add to our anxiety instead of helping us manage it. MagicBell is on a mission to end this chaos and help every app deliver a stellar notification experience.

We do this by offering a beautifully designed notification inbox that apps can embed in their products in minutes. We do all the heavy lifting related to real-time delivery & syncing, web & mobile push notifications, email notifications, and even notification preference management.

We sit at an interesting intersection of a dev tool & a productivity tool for end-users. We are helping every app make its users more productive! Some of the best startups like Pitch use MagicBell to power their notifications. We are post-revenue and well funded.

MagicBell embraces diversity - one of the founders is a transgender woman, and another a Latino (Hola!). They are experienced programmers and entrepreneurs and have built a successful SaaS business in the past. With a decade of working remotely under their belt, they understand how to work across timezones asynchronously.

We are only accepting applications for the opening(s) below. If you still think you would be a great addition to the team, please help us understand more about you through this form. If you do not fill out this form, then your application will not receive a reply. Thank you.

Skills: JavaScript, React, React Native, Software Architecture

MagicBell is a B2B SaaS startup addressing the products' notification challenges. We graduated from Y Combinator earlier this year and raised $4.5m in seed funding.

Some of the best startups like Pitch use MagicBell to power their notifications. We are post-revenue and growing fast. We pay well and offer meaningful equity with a 10-year exercise window (more on that in the offer).

Our front end is built with React, CSS-in-JS, and TypeScript. We test-drive our code with Jest, and we use Storybook a lot. We offer 4 JavaScript libraries to interact with our Rest API and render notification inboxes in the browser and React Native. These offer users real-time capabilities through WebSockets.

Work with the founding team shoulder to shoulder in building the new standard for notifications:
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Hire, attract, and onboard other smart engineers.

Shape the culture of our company to create the next Stripe, Twilio, or your favorite company.

These requirements have been selected to make sure you'd be successful at the job. Please read them carefully:

Experience in Reactive & functional programming.

Willingness to go above and beyond.
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Enjoy taking on challenging responsibilities (we are a startup, after all!).

Good writing ability as demonstrated by documentation, README, or blog posts you have written.

Excellent communication skills in English. This helps immensely as a remote team.

At least a 3 hours overlap with the EST day time from 9 am to 12 pm.

If you do not match the React requirement, but adhere to everything else. You can apply using this Typeform to give us more background on you and follow us on Twitter for future openings.

Experience building real-time apps that sync across devices.

Respect for other people's time - For example, showing up for meetings on time and not canceling the last minute.

A desire to start your own startup either now or in the future. You'll get hands-on learning of what building an early-stage startup is like. The founders are prolific angel investors.

We know you want to tackle interesting challenges, and we have quite a few for you:

Consider and make suggestions about the UX as you build new features or improve existing ones.

State management across multiple devices with real-time synchronization.

Build robust logging and analytics to help our customers understand the flow of their notifications.

Engineering reliability and performance so we can scale up with our customers.

Work with some of the brightest engineers (our customers) to help them build notifications faster than they ever imagined. We routinely chat with them on our Slack Community.

Hours: Up to 45 hrs/week. Flexible working hours except for the 3 hours overlap with the EST day time from 9 am to 12 pm.

Salary: $90k - $130k (or more if you have a lot more experience than our requirements)

Equity: 0.75% - 1.25% with standard 4 year vesting but an extended 10 year exercise window. Read why this matters.

Time off: 30 days a year (including public holidays/sick days)

Benefits: Healthcare, paid time off (and more as we grow).

***If you read the entire job description, please list out which of the nice-to-haves you possess in the last question of the form.

Here are some technologies on our medium-term radar

Test driven development with Jest, Rspec and Storybooks.

An agile(ish) process for product development

An all-team customer support/success mindset.

Our back end stack is Ruby on Rails with a healthy serving of background processing. We use Sidekiq at the moment, but we’d like to add Kafka to our stack. We deploy to AWS using Docker and Kubernetes and utilize many of their hosted services (like RDS for Postgres). We aren't a standard-issue Rails app. For example, we use gems like interactor, and dry-rb to write high-quality test-driven code. We are always looking for ways to improve the architecture of our back end.

Work with the founding team shoulder to shoulder in building the new standard for notifications:
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6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails (the more, the better).

Experience writing test-driven code with Rspec and an understanding of integration testing.

If you do not match the Ruby on Rails requirement, but adhere to everything else. You can apply using this Typeform to give us more background on you and follow us on Twitter for future openings.

Extensive experience with SQL (and specifically Postgresql).

A good understanding of software architecture & object-oriented design patterns (like SOLID).

Hours: Up to 45 hrs/week. Flexible working hours except for the 3 hours overlap with the EST day time from 9 am to 12 pm. Salary: $90k - $130k (or more if you have a lot more experience than our requirements) Equity: 0.75% - 1.25% with standard 4 year vesting but an extended 10 year exercise window. Read why this matters. Time off: 30 days a year (including public holidays/sick days) Benefits: Healthcare, paid time off (and more as we grow).

If you read the entire job description, please list out which of the nice-to-haves you possess in the last question of the form.

Mission

A force for goood

The internet’s missing spec

Why are we building MagicBell

Meet the team

Hana Mohan

Josue Montano

Dan Feusse

Milena Malik

Sherry Chin

Investors

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