Sent
messaging infrastructure
DeveloperAdvocate
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“Developer Advocate at Sent. Skills: Developer Advocate, technical content creation, developer engagement, SDK and quickstart developer experience. Produce a steady stream of technical content, code, demos, posts, videos, talks. Engage with developers where they actually hang out: Hacker News, X, Reddit, Discord servers, GitHub”
What You'll Achieve.
build the best infrastructure to replace multi-channel messaging stacks; Publish technical content on a regular cadence; building an audience of developers who care about messaging infrastructure; get builders engaged with the product
Industry & Context.
Show up at developer conferences and meetups
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years working as a developer, at least 1-2 of those years in DevRel, developer marketing, or as a heavily public technical IC, You ship code, build a working integration in a weekend and write up how you did it on Monday, A real portfolio of public technical content: blog posts, repos, talks, videos, or a following you've built yourself, writing, explain a webhook signature flow without making the reader want to die
Nice to Have
Comfort with messaging, telecom, or API infrastructure is a plus but not required
What You'll Do.
Produce a steady stream of technical content
Engage with developers where they actually hang out: Hacker News
Write the tutorial that ranks for "how to send WhatsApp from Node. js."
Build the demo that gets passed around in a Slack channel
Be in the comments when someone asks how Sent compares to Twilio
and you'll have a useful answer ready
Publish technical content on a regular cadence: tutorials
Maintain a personal presence on X and LinkedIn
building an audience of developers who care about messaging infrastructure
Show up at developer conferences and meetups
sometimes running a booth
Own the SDK and quickstart developer experience end to end
and feed friction back to engineering
Partner with marketing on campaigns targeting Twilio and other incumbents
or whatever format works to get builders engaged with the product
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
feed friction back to engineering; Partner with marketing on campaigns
Communication Scope
technical voice of Sent on the internet; writing; explain a webhook signature flow without making the reader want to die
Full Job Description
About Sent Sent is an infrastructure for sending A2P messages across SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS through a single unified API. Our intelligent routing model automates channel selection based on deliverability and cost, ensuring lower cost and global reach without any channel-specific integrations. We've raised over $5M in Seed funding backed by Companyon Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, UIF, and CEAS Investments. We're hiring to build the best infrastructure to replace multi-channel messaging stacks. The Role We're hiring a Developer Advocate to be the technical voice of Sent on the internet. This isn't a customer-facing AM role and it isn't a pre-sales engineer role. The job is to produce a steady stream of technical content, code, demos, posts, videos, talks, and to engage with developers where they actually hang out: Hacker News, X, Reddit, Discord servers, GitHub. You'll write the tutorial that ranks for "how to send WhatsApp from Node.js." You'll build the demo that gets passed around in a Slack channel. You'll be in the comments when someone asks how Sent compares to Twilio, and you'll have a useful answer ready. What you'll do - Publish technical content on a regular cadence: tutorials, comparison posts, deep dives, working demos, sample apps - Maintain a strong personal presence on X and LinkedIn, building an audience of developers who care about messaging infrastructure - Show up at developer conferences and meetups, sometimes speaking, sometimes running a booth, sometimes both - Own the SDK and quickstart developer experience end to end, and feed friction back to engineering - Partner with marketing on campaigns targeting Twilio and other incumbents - Run office hours, livestreams, or whatever format works to get builders engaged with the product What you bring - 4+ years working as a developer, with at least 1-2 of those years in DevRel, developer marketing, or as a heavily public technical IC - You ship code. You can build a working integration in a weeke
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