Raycast makes it simple, fast and delightful to control your tools. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our small team to extend our suite of productivity tools that are integrated into Raycast to make it the indispensable tool for every Mac.
Raycast is a native Mac application with a significant focus on top-notch UI and interactions. We genuinely care about user experience, performance, privacy and ease of use. We had enough of dealing with slow and clunky tools. Raycast is our attempt to let you enjoy your daily workflows without all the distractions.
The app comes with a set of built-in extensions such as Clipboard History, Window Management, Calendar and more. These extensions are an integral part of daily workflows for thousands of developers and integrate deeply with Apple's operating system. Raycast is the perfect environment to bundle micro productivity tools and we have tons of plans to add new ones. For this, we're looking for engineers who like to work on features from ideation to release, enhance existing features and come up with entire new creative ways to make our users more productive on the Mac.
We're a fully remote company and looking for candidates in the UTC timezone (London, Lisbon, Dakar, ...) ± 3 hours. This position is for a full-time employment.
In this role you will...
- Build complete productivity tools from scratch. You'll work on new productivity tools that are deeply integrated with Raycast. Often these tools solve our own problems. We iterate on them internally to release a polished version. You'll be responsible for rolling out the features and gather feedback from our community to enhance the tools even further.
- Enhance existing features. We have existing features like Floating Notes and Clipboard History that are due for a second iteration. Observe the feedback, work with a designer together to come up with improvements and ship them.
- Co-own the product and work self-directed. We're a small team of individual contributors. Everybody has autonomy and responsibility. You work on features from ideation over release to maintenance and shape the roadmap of the product.
- Improve performance and care about quality. You dogfood your own features with our nightly builds, respond to user feedback in our community and jump into the profiler to make every interaction feel snappy. You automate tedious tasks. At best, directly in Raycast.
- Wear many hats. In such a small startup, we're all generalists. You might add a new page to our Vue.js website, set up an internal endpoint in our Node.js backend or write a blog post about a new feature.
You will be a great fit if...
- You're an Apple platforms enthusiast. You have years of experience working with macOS or iOS. You enjoy writing Swift and are looking forward to every WWDC. Foundation, EventKit and other Apple frameworks are known to you and you have successfully used them in production.
- You're highly productive while writing quality code. We release updates every 1-2 weeks. You can break down big projects in small deliverables. You care about the outcome and take a pragmatic approach to deliver it. You keep things simple and rather write a little bit more code than adopting a third-party dependency. You know when you want a code review or need to write tests.
- You're product-minded. Raycast is designed to keep developers focused. You have a sense for great user experience and feel when something is off. You prefer polishing a feature instead of shipping soul-less pixels. You add analytics to reason about changes in the app and proactively iterate. You don't need to get told what to do and are proactive picking up work yourself.
- You put our users first. Throughout Raycast you find many little details. You pay attention to detail and provide our users a delightful experience. You can't stand bugs and don't shy away from user feedback.
- You're an empathetic communicator. You treat technology as tradeoffs. You may be opinionated but you're not ideological. When disagreeing, you communicate thoughtfully your perspective and compromise when needed. You're thriving in a team environment and hold your colleagues accountable.
Our stack
- Swift for our macOS app. Everything is written in Swift using AppKit with Swift Packages. We don't use SwiftUI because it's too premature for rapid development. We rarely adopt third party dependencies. Some are GRDB for our database, Sentry for crash reporting, Nuke for image fetching and a few C libraries to crank up performance.
- React + Node.js for Extensions API. We use Node.js as a runtime and React as a UI framework for extensions. React components are rendered as native AppKit components, no HTML or CSS involved. The entire API is written in Typescript. The setup is very similar to how React Native works on mobile.
- JavaScript/TypeScript for marketing website. We use Vue.js with Gridsome for raycast.com and deploy it with Vercel.
- Ruby on Rails for backend. We use Ruby on Rails for our Extension Store backend and Heroku for hosting / deployment.
- Modern work tools for everything. Linear for issue tracking, GitHub as source control, Sentry for error reporting, Segment and Amplitude for analytics, Slack for internal communication, Figma for pixels, Notion as knowledge base and a few others. As a team, we enjoy using CleanShot, Bear, Things and more Mac apps.
How to apply?
Now that you know about us, we would like to learn more about you. Send us an engaging message at jobs+macos@raycast.com with information you think is relevant. Tell us why you want to join us, what excites you about the problem we're solving and how you envision your role at Raycast. Read about our application process.