Signal is hiring a technical support specialist to help make private communication simple. If you’re a self-starter who cares about user experience as much as you care about user privacy, you should fit right in. This role is an opportunity to have an immediate impact while working closely with a talented team to identify friction points and share new features with millions of people.
About you
- Demonstrated technical aptitude - e.g. JavaScript and HTML modifications.
- Previous experience in supporting consumers of a large mobile app or in resolving technical issues with patience and a sense of humor.
- Excitement for problem-solving balanced with building empathy for the user.
- Highly organized, self-starter comfortable with Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.
- Fluency in written English, additional spoken or written languages can be beneficial.
- 5+ years of industry experience.
What we offer
- We’re fully distributed. This means you can work anywhere within US timezones. Whether it’s your favorite coffee shop or your living room or a coworking space we help cover, Signal gives you the flexibility to make your work work for you. And we travel a few times throughout the year so you can get to know your colleagues in person.
- Excellent healthcare, vision, and dental with all premiums covered.
- Our 401(k) plan matches your contributions (without any vesting period) up to $20,500.
- We're stable, well-funded, and driven by our privacy mission, not profit. This means we’re capable of focusing on what is best for users without distractions or compromises.
- Feel good about what you do. Signal is building core infrastructure for truly private digital communications. We don’t participate in the surveillance business model, and we are proud of the integrity and transparency of our work.
- Hourly pay range based on experience: $35-45/hr.
Signal Messenger is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.
At Signal, trust and mutual respect are foundational to our culture, as are empathy and transparency in how we interact as an internal team and with the world around us. We are committed to creating a work environment that is supportive, challenging, and that draws on people from a variety of backgrounds. Diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to delivering on our core purpose of protecting free expression and enabling secure communication around the globe.
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What We Do
Privacy is possible. Signal Messenger makes it easy.
At Signal, our goal is to develop open source privacy technology that protects privacy rights, promotes free expression and enables secure global communication.
We believe that private messaging should be simple and ubiquitous. Signal combines state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption with the features that users expect in a modern messaging application. Millions of people use Signal every day to speak freely, and a growing list of organizations have integrated the open source Signal Protocol into messaging platforms that support billions of users.
Working on Signal is an opportunity to become part of a diverse group of people who are passionate about privacy. As a nonprofit organization, Signal Messenger is uniquely positioned to focus on its mission in an environment where users will always come first. Our team is growing quickly, and we encourage candidates from a diverse set of backgrounds to apply.
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