Joy

At Joy, we believe software can help organize and bring people together in the real world. Digital tools can (and should) bring people closer together—online and offline. Joy fosters real relationships and real communication, helping people organize, share, and remember their important life events.

We are building a virtual event planner that aims to help people plan events both large and small. From a concert or a school reunion to a destination wedding on a tropical island. We are starting with one of the biggest life events - the wedding.

Why join us? Launched 2 years back and now already 4% of American weddings signed up for Joy.

Joy has gone viral. Every Joy wedding produces 7 new weddings within an year.

Funded by YC. Founders ex-Microsoft and Adobe who have built both big products and organizations.

Joy gets millions of users a year.

Design and Engineering is the core of the company. Almost 80% of the company works on the product.

Within this short time Joy is already used in more than 120 countries.

ENGINEERING TEAM AND PROCESSES Our engineering team operates on two week cycles. Each cycle begins with a meeting to discuss time estimates for features. We have demo and drinks each week on Friday where everyone showcases the work they have completed.

Engineers work with Designers and if the feature involves multiple Engineers then a PM is involved to handle the coordination too.

We use standard PR model with Git (BitBucket). JIRA is used for bug tracking.

All engineers are empowered to take their features to production, which we do multiple times a week.

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES We are buidling a product which is used in 120 countries by millions of users. Scale and performance is something which we need to very deeply care.

We are also using machine learning that needs to learn a lot of things related to weddings around the world.

PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON Messaging and Communication hub which allows hundreds of thousands of users to communicate with each other on daily basis

iOS and Android apps which will help plan a wedding from engagement to honeymoon

Guest management, invitation and RSVP systems. Think of this as replacing excel sheet, physical invitation cards and things like survey monkey or google forms.