Simple Habit

The best meditation app for your busy life

San Francisco

11 - 25 Employees

< 10 Engineers

$10M - $25M Funding

Pre-Series A

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Simple Habit is a 5-minute meditation app for busy people. We are the Netflix of meditations.

Why join us?

Backed by YCombinator, NEA, and a handful of prominent angel investors
Launched one year ago, Simple Habit is already one of the top grossing health & fitness companies in the App Store, with over a million downloads to date.
We're building the world's largest marketplace for the best meditation teachers and content from around the world.

Engineering at Simple Habit

Engineering team and processes

We have a 2-person engineering team in charge of three platforms as well as the backend APIs and infrastructure. We work closely with our product manager and designer to define the roadmap and spec out the features. Our sprint is normally two-weeks long and will result in a mobile app update or web deployment.

Technical Challenges

Building data pipelines to study user behavior in content consumption and in turn build better recommendation engine to guide user through our vast library of meditations; Revamp web frontend to provide experience tailored to web users; Scale our backend infrastructure to support the tremendous growth of our user base; Optimize the workflow in our mobile apps to help users form habit of meditating daily.

Projects you might work on

Build a recommendation engine and related dashboard to test out various algorithms and visualize the results.
Work with product manager and designer to push the iOS app forward in features and optimizing its workflow.
Study user behavior on web to see how it is different from mobile and use the result to build an unique web experience.

Tech stack

Swift

Kotlin

React

Node.js

Heroku

Express

Python

MongoDB

Git

Working at Simple Habit

We believe awesome companies are built by awesome people. We value people who want to make a difference in the world. People who work hard, take risks and think big. People who are passionate AND compassionate. We prioritize people who want to grow and learn. At Simple Habit, collaboration is key. We empower team members to wear multiple hats and work closely to provide different expertise and perspective. We do not operate with a bottom-up structure. Ideas are fluid and we encourage brainstorms and idea sharing as much as possible. We value people who are excited to put in the work to build a product that will affect change and the future of our company.