Missive

Missive is a small, technical team headquartered in Quebec City, Canada with an international team. The company builds an inbox-centric collaboration product used by thousands of teams; see their about page for background.

Engineers work closely with product and design to implement new features from scratch, improve and scale backend code for performance and readability, and lead bug fixes and support-related investigations.

The team ships quickly while prioritizing quality, describes a "zero-ish" meeting culture to protect focused time, and follows a "do more with less" mentality. They dog-food the product by using Missive internally.

Work involves handling large-scale, live collaboration: billions of emails, real-time collaboration and integrations with many email providers and APIs. The job descriptions reference Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL as core backend technologies.

Team members are expected to take ownership, work closely in a compact team, and value technical expertise.

To apply, submit your resume to jobs@missiveapp.com. The posting welcomed applicants located in Europe and North America.

The company looks for candidates with 5+ years of experience and strong Ruby on Rails expertise. They seek engineers who can build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems and who are comfortable debugging, optimizing, and automating workflows that handle large data flows.

They value people who thrive in a small, high-performing team, take ownership, and learn new technologies independently. Nice-to-have skills mentioned include experience with email infrastructure and PostgreSQL performance tuning.

The public job posting included a compensation range, bonus and a benefits package (insurance coverage, telemedicine and five weeks of vacation); the sources do not describe interview stages or timelines.