Location: Brooklyn, New York

Compensation: $175k, 1% equity

About Val Town

Val Town is the most delightful way to get JavaScript running in the cloud. Customers use us to create everything from small automations to full-stack web apps.

Our mission is to spread the joy of programming. We believe everyone should code for the same reasons that everyone should read and write: access to the magical world it opens for you.

We’re a small team in Brooklyn — including Steve Krouse, Tom MacWright, and Brent Jackson — building a product that programmers love. Come join us!

Who we’re looking for

• You love programming, and share our passion for making it delightful and accessible.
• You thrive in a startup environment. You crave responsibility, ownership, and the freedom to do what needs to be done.
• You’re ambitious, humble, reflective, and always striving to grow. You have extremely high integrity.
• You’re a true systems thinker, who loves to build applications end-to-end.
• You enjoy thinking about how to build fast, accessible, reliable web applications — writing efficient queries, structuring forms, adding tests, and refining performance.
• You’re a clear, thoughtful communicator.

What you’ll be doing

At Val Town, product engineers focus on application engineering and have wide latitude in how they work.

Your day-to-day will include adding features in our web app, fixing bugs, crafting our APIs, responding to incidents, and steadily improving performance, reliability, and system stability. We ship to production many times a day and value engineers who can own problems end-to-end – from understanding the customer need to iterating quickly towards a solution.

See our blog for recent product-engineering wins.

Your skills & experience

Must-have

• Modern web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and comfort with TypeScript