Careers at Paragon
Careers at Paragon
Mission
Mission
Democratize software development by enabling engineers and non-engineers to build products together seamlessly.
Today, every company is a software company - but software developers make up less than 1% of the population. We're building a new visual programming language for anyone to become part of the future of software development.
About Paragon
About Paragon
Product
Paragon is a platform for integrating your product with third-party SaaS apps, providing your customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon provides production-ready integrations that you can connect to your app in minutes with our visual workflow editor, so you can focus on building your core product - not spending months stitching together disparate services or writing integration code.
Company
Brandon and Ishmael started a software agency in 2014, where they built products for companies like Uber and Universal Studios. Brandon later founded Polymail (YC S16), an email app that grew to profitabililty and won Product Hunt's Product of the Year.
Paragon was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, and is backed by other world class investors like Village Global, Soma Capital, and Global Founders Capital.
We're based in beautiful West LA - we'd love to have you stop by and visit our office if you're in town!
Product
Paragon is a platform for integrating your product with third-party SaaS apps, providing your customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon provides production-ready integrations that you can connect to your app in minutes with our visual workflow editor, so you can focus on building your core product - not spending months stitching together disparate services or writing integration code.
Company
Brandon and Ishmael started a software agency in 2014, where they built products for companies like Uber and Universal Studios. Brandon later founded Polymail (YC S16), an email app that grew to profitabililty and won Product Hunt's Product of the Year.
Paragon was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, and is backed by other world class investors like Village Global, Soma Capital, and Global Founders Capital.
We're based in beautiful West LA - we'd love to have you stop by and visit our office if you're in town!


Brandon Foo - CEO
Product, design, office DJ. Former iOS engineer
Brandon Foo - CEO
Product, design, office DJ. Former iOS engineer
Brandon Foo - CEO
Product, design, office DJ. Former iOS engineer
Loves music, sports, gaming
Father to Bowie the Shiba Inu 🐕( Paragon's Chief Doge Officer)
Amateur competitive golfer ⛳️
Loves music, sports, gaming
Father to Bowie the Shiba Inu 🐕( Paragon's Chief Doge Officer)
Amateur competitive golfer ⛳️


Ishmael Samuel - CTO
Engineering, mgmt, ops. Undercover anime nerd.
Ishmael Samuel - CTO
Engineering, mgmt, ops. Undercover anime nerd.
Ishmael Samuel - CTO
Engineering, mgmt, ops. Undercover anime nerd.
Loves reading manga 🤓, martial arts (Muay Thai ✊🏿), and salsa 🕺🏿
Studies jazz guitar / piano but also thinks Gucci Gang is a work of art.
Throws a mean roundhouse kick 🦵🏿
Loves reading manga 🤓, martial arts (Muay Thai ✊🏿), and salsa 🕺🏿
Studies jazz guitar / piano but also thinks Gucci Gang is a work of art.
Throws a mean roundhouse kick 🦵🏿
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Why Join
Have tremendous ownership and impact
As an early team member, you'll be coming in at ground zero and own decisions that impact product architecture, company culture, and everything in between.
Solve challenging technical problems
We aim to solve incredibly complex problems with a beautifully simple product. To make that magic happen, you'll push the boundaries of your abilities as an architect, account executive, marketing guru or engineer almost every day.
Build the future of software development
The way that people build software 10 years from now will look completely different than it does today. You'll be an integral part of shaping what that future looks like for millions of engineers and non-engineers.
Our Values
Our Company Values are intended to provide a framework for decision-making and are directly applicable to our daily work at Paragon. When assessing a project, initiative, or approach - we consider if it aligns with these values.
Customer-centric
We believe that our laser focus on customers allows us to create the most innovative product and solutions
We believe that customer voices matter more than ideals
We deepen our empathy by listening to customers and consider the most direct solution to their problems
High ownership
We align on objectives and give individuals the ownership to determine the best approach and execute
We bias towards action - identifying problems is not enough, we expect individuals to take ownership to solve it
We believe ownership promotes accountability - we own the results, success or fail
We believe in a results-oriented approach to everything; we value output over input
Confidence without ego
“Strong convictions, weakly held”
We execute on our beliefs with determination, but remain open to our assumptions being challenged
We can disagree and commit - if the owner has high conviction, we don’t need consensus to move forward
Iteration
“If it’s perfect, you shipped too late”
We believe in a minimum-viable approach to everything
We approach every opportunity as an experiment and find the fastest path to feedback?
We are not afraid of unknown territory – we have the freedom to fail and learn from our failures
We believe everything at Paragon is a work in progress and should be improved over time
Transparency
We believe in creating a culture of mutual respect that promotes honest and direct communication
We can respectfully disagree and work together to reach the best solution, or disagree & commit
Startups are hard; being transparent about our challenges helps us build a more cohesive and efficient team
We believe that candid feedback accelerates learning and career development
Our Values
Our Company Values are intended to provide a framework for decision-making and are directly applicable to our daily work at Paragon. When assessing a project, initiative, or approach - we consider if it aligns with these values.
Customer-centric
We believe that our laser focus on customers allows us to create the most innovative product and solutions
We believe that customer voices matter more than ideals
We deepen our empathy by listening to customers and consider the most direct solution to their problems
High ownership
We align on objectives and give individuals the ownership to determine the best approach and execute
We bias towards action - identifying problems is not enough, we expect individuals to take ownership to solve it
We believe ownership promotes accountability - we own the results, success or fail
We believe in a results-oriented approach to everything; we value output over input
Confidence without ego
“Strong convictions, weakly held”
We execute on our beliefs with determination, but remain open to our assumptions being challenged
We can disagree and commit - if the owner has high conviction, we don’t need consensus to move forward
Iteration
“If it’s perfect, you shipped too late”
We believe in a minimum-viable approach to everything
We approach every opportunity as an experiment and find the fastest path to feedback?
We are not afraid of unknown territory – we have the freedom to fail and learn from our failures
We believe everything at Paragon is a work in progress and should be improved over time
Transparency
We believe in creating a culture of mutual respect that promotes honest and direct communication
We can respectfully disagree and work together to reach the best solution, or disagree & commit
Startups are hard; being transparent about our challenges helps us build a more cohesive and efficient team
We believe that candid feedback accelerates learning and career development
Life at Paragon
Life at Paragon
Our office is located in downtown Westwood - just a few minutes walk from some of the best food in town.
Bowie keeps watch over the office most of the time, at least when he isn't napping.






While about a quarter of our team works out of our LA office, the rest work remotely around the world.
We're flexible if you prefer to work in the office, fully remote, partially remote, or even want to work-travel for a couple weeks each year.
We host company retreats (our last one was in Cancun) to make sure we all get to spend time together at least annually.
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