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WhatsApp is a growing and profitable startup with millions of users, and we are looking for bright people to help us make world a better place. Our spacious office is located in a lovely downtown Mountain View. Engineers make up 84% of our company — so if you like writing code and hate office politics, talk to us.

Client Engineer

If you enjoy writing code for mobile phones and are passionate about User Experience, keep on reading...

Job Responsibilities:

  • Create new, awesome features used by millions of current WhatsApp users.
  • Ability to work in a very small team.
  • Own release and QA cycles of your code.

Job Requirements:

  • BS in computer science or equivalent. MS or PhD is a plus
  • Strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills
  • Strong Java or C# programming and debugging skills
  • Experience developing native mobile apps is strongly preferred, but not required
  • Startup mindset

Server Engineer

If you like writing server code, optimizing bytes and making things scale, and you want to work on a product that is used by millions of people worldwide, keep on reading...

Job Responsibilities:

  • Write clean, awesome and bug free Erlang, C or C++ server code
  • Develop system monitoring and instrumentation tools
  • Scale Erlang powered servers to handle millions of users
  • Work with multi-node cluster handling live traffic

Job Requirements:

  • BS in computer science or equivalent. MS or PhD is a plus.
  • Strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills.
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP, experience with network programming.
  • Deep understanding of Unix internals (especially FreeBSD and Linux)
  • Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems

Customer Support

If you are looking for a fun full time job, have an Android, Nokia or an iPhone and consider yourself a smartphone gadget geek, keep on reading...

Job Responsibilities:

  • Provide customer support via Email to WhatsApp Messenger users
  • Interface with developers and report bugs
  • Update and evolve product documentation and other marketing text

Job Requirements:

  • Ability to write complete English sentences and know the difference between "your" and "you're"
  • Know the difference between GSM and CDMA
  • Know what a SIM card is
  • Know the difference between Wi-Fi and 3G
  • Passionate about mobile devices and applications
  • Fluent in mutliple languages is a plus

Why come here:

  • Funded and Profitable
  • Small and very engineering driven company
  • Flexible working hours, especially on weekends
  • Spacious office in downtown Mountain View
  • Competitive salary and compensation packages
  • Full healthcare, vision and dental coverage

Interested? Send us your resume: jobs@whatsapp.com — all jobs are located in Mountain View, CA, USA