Employee communication platform reaching frontline and deskless workforces
Firstup builds an employee communication platform on Ruby on Rails, TypeScript and React, backed by a heavy analytics layer — Snowflake, StarRocks, Databricks, Trino, Kafka and Cube.js — that points to embedded, data-driven personalization. Its stack lists HRIS systems like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Dayforce and PeopleSoft, matching job-post focus on HRIS integrations and public APIs, while accelerating hiring splits between engineering and enterprise sales.
Firstup is a privately held software company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with 201–500 employees. It sells a communication platform that helps large organizations reach every employee, including frontline staff without desks, through mobile-first access, personalized content and automated workflows. The platform targets outcomes such as productivity, retention, safety compliance and workforce execution. Firstup sells to enterprise customers and hires across the United States, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar.
Firstup runs Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Node.js and React on AWS with Kubernetes, Docker and Helm, plus a data stack including Snowflake, Databricks, StarRocks, Trino, Kafka, Spark and Airflow.
Yes, hiring is accelerating, led by engineering and sales with marketing, data and support roles, mostly at senior and director levels in the United States, United Kingdom and Gibraltar.
Job posts point to AI integration, public API development, shared platform services, and a digital demand generation and global paid channel strategy.
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