Work at TalkJS
Help build chat for products worldwide
At TalkJS, we make it easy for developers to add chat to any product. We’re a small, 100% distributed team with a HQ in Eindhoven, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands. TalkJS is profitable, growing, and not dependent on venture funding.
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About TalkJS
Product driven
We care tremendously about quality.
We want TalkJS to be what every developer thinks of when building chat features—much like Stripe has become for payments. This means the product has to be excellent on all fronts. To make this happen, we hire great engineers and give them the maximum amount of freedom and trust to ship fantastic SDKs, APIs, and features.
Independent people solving challenging problems
When we say “maximum amount of freedom”, we really mean it. At TalkJS, you’re the “product manager” of your own work and you run it all the way—alone or together—from inception until it’s in our customers’ hands. Work flexible hours, from anywhere. No micromanagers, almost no meetings, and lots of collaboration.
Meetups
Although we’re a fully remote team, we make time to meet in person. Our meetups are usually held somewhere in Europe and happen at least once a year, often twice. These gatherings give us a chance to connect face-to-face, share ideas, and have some fun together outside of screens.
Key culture highlights
Because you can't ship great stuff when you're tired and overworked
Because only constructive feedback makes the product better.
Every team member proactively proposes and ships improvements, which lets us skip a lot of project management overhead.
Because a few fast movers can get as much done as four layers of management with hundreds of bureaucracy-shackled team members.
A no-nonsense working culture
To learn more about our culture, here are a couple of blog posts you might be interested in:
Learn more about how we work
Some more background that might interest you:
TalkJS is structured as a typical client-server application. We like new technology and we like to balance it out with proven technology. This is what we use right now, but it's always changing, and we're happy for you to learn on the job.
Core TalkJS Backend infrastructure
- Elixir
- Phoenix Framework
- PostgreSQL
Frontend (prebuilt UI + JavaScript SDK)
- TypeScript (+ a little bit JS left)
- React
- A little bit of NodeJS to prerender the prebuilt UI for faster loading
Website
- NextJS
- Tailwind CSS
Infra/devops
- Elixir/Erlang’s parallel processing keeps our server setup simple—just Docker (Compose) and GitHub Actions.
- Test releases spin up automatically by adding a label to a PR.
- Production and staging use automated blue-green deployments via GitHub Actions.
- SDK updates are automatic, as our NPM package dynamically loads JS from our site (with guaranteed backwards compatibility).
- We don’t do continuous deployment, but we release often—usually a few times a week, sometimes multiple times a day.
- Extensive monitoring with Datadog, AppSignal, LogDNA, Uptime.com, and Erlang’s Observer.
Key tooling
- TalkJS → support via a TalkJS chat widget + custom Slack integration
- GitHub → feature branch/PR workflow, issues for bugs, Discussions for specs/architecture
- Slack → main comms tool (feel free to mute for focus); Huddles for quick calls
- Notion → wiki, docs, drafts, and our jobs page
- Figma → design work
- Gmail & Google Calendar → minimal email use (mostly with customers)