Enjoy drinking, without the downsides. Build healthier drinking habits and avoid the negative effects of alcohol.
Mission and Vision
Our mission at Sunnyside is to help anyone who drinks alcohol get the most out of life through more mindful habits around their consumption.
Sunnyside is the #1 alcohol moderation platform. Unlike virtually every other service in the alcohol health space, we focus on moderation and mindfulness rather than all-or-nothing sobriety. Our approach creates a much more approachable starting point for anyone seeking to change their relationship with alcohol, creating a massive market opportunity. We’re building a great business with an incredible impact.
We’re leading the mindful drinking movement into the mainstream, propelled by a huge shift in consumer behavior around alcohol consumption. Low- and no-alcohol beverage purchases are skyrocketing, Gen-Z is drinking less than any previous generation, and new science about the impact of alcohol on health is driving millions of people around the world are reconsidering their relationship with alcohol. Sunnyside is becoming synonymous with this global movement.
Our Values
Meet Our Team
Perks and Benefits
Core collaboration hours are 9am-2pm PT.
We have a quarterly mental fitness week where employees get to choose a full day off for mental health. We provide a $150 stipend to go toward each employee's mental fitness day.
Our Tech Stack
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Sunnyside
Enjoy drinking, without the downsides. Build healthier drinking habits and avoid the negative effects of alcohol.
About Us
Sunnyside is the #1 alcohol moderation platform. Unlike virtually every other service in the alcohol health space, we focus on moderation and mindfulness rather than all-or-nothing sobriety. Our approach creates a much more approachable starting point for anyone seeking to change their relationship with alcohol, creating a massive market opportunity. We’re building a great business with an incredible impact.
We’re leading the mindful drinking movement into the mainstream, propelled by a huge shift in consumer behavior around alcohol consumption. Low- and no-alcohol beverage purchases are skyrocketing, Gen-Z is drinking less than any previous generation, and new science about the impact of alcohol on health is driving millions of people around the world are reconsidering their relationship with alcohol. Sunnyside is becoming synonymous with this global movement.
We have a proven product in market with tens of thousands of highly engaged paying customers and a vibrant community that gives us a strong competitive moat. You’d be joining an awesome team anchored by leaders with experience scaling incredible consumer companies like Lyft, Airbnb, Strava and MileIQ (acquired by Microsoft).
We recently closed an $11.5M series A, and are backed by some great investors. Backers include Will Ventures, Uncork Capital, Adjacent VC, Nir Eyal, Mike Lee (founder of MyFitnessPal), and James Park (founder of Fitbit).
We’re perfectly positioned to breakthrough as the category leader in the growing mindful drinking space. We’ll make managing alcohol consumption as common as managing diet and exercise as components of our proactive wellness routines. Help us make it happen.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take our product experience to the next level, support our growing customer base, and develop tools to scale the efficiency of our engineering team. Your work will span the full stack, from backend services and data stores to frontend client experiences and APIs. Our ideal candidate has strong backend expertise, is comfortable working across the entire stack, and would be excited to have the opportunity to build and own new features end-to-end.
This is a unique opportunity to get involved in a startup that is defining a new wellness category in alcohol health, and you will have a direct impact on the overall health and wellness of our customers. You will have the opportunity to grow in your scope of responsibility as the company grows.
About our stack
We primarily use TypeScript on both the backend and frontend. Our tech stack includes:
- NestJS for all backend services
- NextJS for web and mobile web frontend
- React Native for our iOS and Android apps
We host everything on AWS and rely on services including EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Elasticache, and SQS. We don't expect you to have experience with every technology in our stack, but we strongly prefer candidates with JavaScript or TypeScript experience.
About you
You have an entrepreneurial spirit and excellent judgment around what needs to be done now versus what can wait for the future. You thrive in ambiguity and love pushing the boundaries of what's technically possible while keeping sight of the practical need to move quickly and ship quality code. You are excited to help the team get new features out the door, and you bring a customer-centric ownership mindset to your work.
You want to be part a team and company culture that values diversity of perspectives and backgrounds, with a belief that our differences make us stronger. You bring positivity and optimism to your daily work. You don’t shy away from ambitious goals, and you want to be part of a team that comes together collaboratively to accomplish what individuals never could have done alone.
You will be successful in this role by:
- Defining high-level architecture, designing and implementing software solutions, owning deployment and release of your work, and supporting the post-release lifecycle of our products.
- Collaborating closely with our Product, Growth, and Customer Experience teams to ensure that your work meets requirements, and then working with the team to address bugs and issues as they come up.
- Creating platform-level solutions that help scale the efficiency of our team, such as API library wrappers, caching systems, general queue infrastructure, and command-line level automation.
- Collaborating with the Engineering team to own our product's uptime, reliability, performance, and observability. After the first few months of onboarding, you will be expected to share on-call responsibilities as part of our PagerDuty rotation.
- Mentoring and supporting other engineers on our team in your areas of expertise.
We're excited about you because:
- You have 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in a consumer software company.
- You have expertise in scaling production systems and services supporting a large and growing user base.
- You have shipped complete user-facing features end-to-end, from backend to frontend.
- You are comfortable working with infrastructure automation using technologies such as Pulumi or Terraform, and you know your way around build systems and Continuous Integration environments.
- You have experience being on-call and working with observability tooling.
- Bonus: You have experience building frontend experiences and components with React or similar frameworks.
- Bonus: You have early-stage startup experience (Pre-seed, Seed, or Series A).
Useful links:
- Try Sunnyside at https://www.sunnyside.co, the App Store, or the Google Play Store
- Read reviews on the App Store
Be the owner of your days
Rise to any challenge
Brighten the lives of those around you
Let your unique self shine through
Pursue Deliberate Simplicity
Let Curiosity Lead
Own Your Part
Act then adapt
Defy the Ordinary
Go Further Together
Same team
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Give a shit
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Agility
Integrity
We care about each other
We maintain a healthy work-life balance and we always take care of one another.
We're nimble
We're proud to wear many hats and do whatever it takes to get things done. We don't shrug our shoulders or shy away from doing something because it's not part of our job descriptions.
We listen
People First
Maximize Efficiency
Make Your Mark
Ownership
Always share whether we succeed or fail
Make the impact worth the effort
Represent the real world
Make it measurable
Be an owner
Embrace Mistakes
Be Hypothesis-Driven
Practice Self-Reflection
Be Curious
Service
Win together
Bring your best
Embrace the pace
Don't be an asshole | Be a good human
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Gratitude
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Cultivate empowerment and ownership
Community & Open Collaboration
Think Big & Dive Deep
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Committed to Our Purpose: A Future for Everybody.
Inclusion & Diversity
Cultivate empowerment and ownership
Community & Open Collaboration
Think Big & Dive Deep
Curiosity & Rigorous Thought
Committed to Our Purpose: A Future for Everybody.
We believe in the importance of 'Getting Sh!t Done'
We believe In learning and the power of “yet”
We believe starting from first principles gives us the courage to think differently.
We believe being human means recognizing the humanity in ourselves and others.
We believe businesses don’t have problems, people do.
Be Boomi
We show up for each other with empathy, compassion and purpose.
We strive to integrate a more diverse voice for a stronger and smarter team.
We win as One Boomi.
Be You
We lead with integrity.
We bring our whole, unique and authentic selves to our work and relationships with ourselves, our customers, our partners and our communities.
Be Bold
We commit to continuously being better.
We strive to exceed our customers, partners and community's expectations.
Our curiosity drives us to do better.
We are inspired by yesterday, but create for tomorrow.
Direct & transparent
Win together
High agency
Dev love
Ownership
Everyone is an owner at Starburst and has the autonomy to make a significant impact on where we are today and where we are going. Regardless of the role you perform here, we want drivers. If you see something that can be improved, don’t wait for someone else to improve it. Every employee has equity and this is truly your company – and ours.
Competence
As individuals, we are constantly striving to master our craft and give our best as we get things done. While individual contributions are recognized and rewarded, we also work to build an inclusive meritocracy across the entire organization where accountability is key. High performance at Starburst is both an individual and team sport.
Character
As a team, humility, grit, and authenticity are at the core of who we are. As individuals, we care more about what’s best for our company and customers over being right. We also recognize that startups have ups and downs and when we inevitably face hard times, our perseverance helps us stay the course and work harder. Through it all, we are authentic in everything we do and always operate with honesty.
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Insight
Drive
Authenticity
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Always Be Designing
Service to Others, Urgently
Navigate Ambiguity with Data
One Team, Same Dream
Be An Owner
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Integrity
Teamwork
We create solutions
We roll up our sleeves
We put the team and the homeowner first
We create solutions
We collaborate with trust
We execute...with intention
We communicate directly & constructively
Pragmatism
Engineers are empowered to solve problems rather than assigned tasks.
Speed
Professional Growth
One of the worst things about working at a startup is that everyone can do many things.
Everyone on the team is an expert at something(s). When working at a startup it is important for us all to recognize that everyone who is working with us is here to be more.